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What happend on 20. August in History
In our data base we found 319 events happened on 20. August:
• 14: Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (b. 12 BC) [category: Deaths]
• 14: Agrippa Postumus, adoptive-son of the late Roman Emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances [category: Events]
• 535: Mochta, Irish disciple of Saint Patrick [category: Deaths]
• 636: Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. [category: Events]
• 917: Constantine Lips, Byzantine admiral [category: Deaths]
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• 917: Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army. [category: Events]
• 984: Pope John XIV [category: Deaths]
• 1000: The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen. Today celebrated as a National Day in Hungary. [category: Events]
• 1083: Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric. [category: Events]
• 1153: Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090) [category: Deaths]
• 1308: Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy. [category: Events]
• 1384: Geert Groote, Dutch preacher, founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340) [category: Deaths]
• 1391: Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order. [category: Events]
• 1467: The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias. [category: Events]
• 1517: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal (d. 1586) [category: Births]
• 1561: Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633) [category: Births]
• 1572: Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador, 1st Governor-General of the Philippines (b. 1502) [category: Deaths]
• 1580: Jerónimo Osório, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) [category: Deaths]
• 1611: Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548) [category: Deaths]
• 1613: Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, German poet and composer (d. 1676) [category: Births]
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• 1625: Thomas Corneille, French playwright (d. 1709) [category: Births]
• 1632: Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher (d. 1704) [category: Births]
• 1639: Martin Opitz, German poet (b. 1597) [category: Deaths]
• 1643: Anne Hutchinson, English spiritual adviser (b. 1591) [category: Deaths]
• 1648: Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague. [category: Events]
• 1680: William Bedloe, English fraudster and informer (b. 1650) [category: Deaths]
• 1701: Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, English playwright (b. 1639) [category: Deaths]
• 1707: Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627) [category: Deaths]
• 1710: Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1710: War of the Spanish Succession: a multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa. [category: Events]
• 1719: Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1720: Bernard de Bury, French composer (d. 1785) [category: Births]
• 1773: Enrique Flórez, Spanish historian (b. 1701) [category: Deaths]
• 1775: The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona. [category: Events]
• 1778: Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader, 2nd Supreme Director of Chile (d. 1842) [category: Births]
• 1779: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848) [category: Births]
• 1785: Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat. [category: Events]
• 1799: James Prinsep, English scholar, orientalist and antiquary (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1823: Pope Pius VII (b. 1740) [category: Deaths]
• 1825: William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral (b. 1753) [category: Deaths]
• 1833: Benjamin Harrison, American politician, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1845: Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1847: Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1847: Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1849: Charles Hubbard, American archer (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1854: Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8th Yokozuna (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1858: Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. [category: Events]
• 1860: Raymond Poincaré, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1862: Jesse Carleton, American golfer (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1865: Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1865: René Thomas, French target shooter [category: Births]
• 1866: President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over. [category: Events]
• 1868: Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1873: Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1879: William Twaits, Canadian footballer (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1881: Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1882: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia. [category: Events]
• 1885: Dino Campana, Italian poet (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1886: Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1887: Phan Khoi, Vietnamese journalist and scholar (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1887: Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1896: Gostha Pal, Indian professional football player (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1897: Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1898: Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1901: Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jack Teagarden, American singer, trombonist, and composer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jean Gebser, German philosopher, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1906: Charles Arnt, American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1907: Alan Reed, American actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1908: Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1909: Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1910: Eero Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, designed the Gateway Arch (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1910: The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) occurred in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2). [category: Events]
• 1912: William Booth, English preacher, co-founder of The Salvation Army (b. 1829) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1914: Pope Pius X (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. [category: Events]
• 1915: Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1917: Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1919: Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1919: Greg MacGregor, English cricketer (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan. [category: Events]
• 1921: Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1923: Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1924: George Zuverink, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1926: Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1926: Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established. [category: Events]
• 1927: Peter Oakley, English video blogger [category: Births]
• 1927: Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1929: Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1930: Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor and pianist [category: Births]
• 1930: Peter Randall, English soldier, George Medal recipient (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1930: Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Don King, American boxing promoter [category: Births]
• 1932: Anthony Ainley, English actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1932: Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1932: Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1933: George J. Mitchell, American politician [category: Births]
• 1934: Armi Kuusela, Finnish model, Miss Universe 1952 [category: Births]
• 1934: Tom Mangold, German-English journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1935: Ron Paul, American physician, author, and politician [category: Births]
• 1936: Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1937: Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director [category: Births]
• 1937: El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1937: Jim Bowen, English comedian and television host [category: Births]
• 1937: Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer [category: Births]
• 1938: Alain Vivien, French politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands. [category: Events]
• 1939: Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1940: Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1940: Rubén Hinojosa, American politician [category: Births]
• 1940: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few". [category: Events]
• 1940: In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day. [category: Events]
• 1941: Dave Brock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hawkwind) [category: Births]
• 1941: Jo Ramirez, Mexican race car manager and author [category: Births]
• 1941: Rich Brooks, American football player and coach [category: Births]
• 1941: Robin Oakley, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1941: Slobodan Milošević, Serbian politician, 3rd President of Serbia and Montenegro (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1942: Fred Norman, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1943: Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Graig Nettles, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1944: Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive. [category: Events]
• 1946: Connie Chung, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1946: Henryk Broder, Polish-born German journalist, author and TV personality [category: Births]
• 1946: N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman, co-founded Infosys [category: Births]
• 1946: Ralf Hütter, German singer and keyboard player (Kraftwerk and Organisation) [category: Births]
• 1947: Alan Lee, English illustrator and designer [category: Births]
• 1947: James Pankow, American trombone player and songwriter (Chicago) [category: Births]
• 1947: Albert Henderson, Canadian soccer player (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: John Noble, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter (Led Zeppelin, Band of Joy, The Honeydrippers, and Page and Plant) [category: Births]
• 1949: Alan Hardwick, English journalist, actor, and producer [category: Births]
• 1949: Katiana Balanika, Greek actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1949: Nikolas Asimos, Greek singer and composer (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1949: Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1949: Patrick Kilpatrick, American actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Phil Lynott, Irish singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Thin Lizzy, Skid Row, and Grand Slam) (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1950: Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Naktong River and assault the city of Taegu. [category: Events]
• 1951: Greg Bear, American author [category: Births]
• 1951: Marcel Dadi, Tunisian-French guitarist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1951: Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, 5th President of Egypt [category: Births]
• 1952: Doug Fieger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Knack and Sky) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1952: John Emburey, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1952: John Hiatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1953: Gerry Bertier, American football player and wheelchair athlete (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1954: Al Roker, American weatherman, actor, and author [category: Births]
• 1954: Don Stark, American actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Quinn Buckner, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1954: Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1955: Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author [category: Births]
• 1955: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals. [category: Events]
• 1956: Alvin Greenidge, Barbadian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1956: Joan Allen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player [category: Births]
• 1958: David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1958: John Stehr, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1958: Patricia Rozema, Canadian director and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1960: Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence. [category: Events]
• 1961: Greg Egan, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1961: Joe Pasquale, English comedian and game show host [category: Births]
• 1961: Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: James Marsters, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Song Dong-Wook, South Korean tennis player [category: Births]
• 1962: Sophie Aldred, English actress [category: Births]
• 1962: The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. [category: Events]
• 1963: Uwe Bialon, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Azarias Ruberwa, Congolese politician [category: Births]
• 1964: Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1965: KRS-One, American rapper, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1965: George Oliver, American golfer (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Jonathan Daniels, American activist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: David Rees Snell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist and songwriter (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1967: Andy Benes, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Colin Cunningham, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Terri Poch, American bodybuilder and wrestler [category: Births]
• 1968: Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1968: Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. [category: Events]
• 1969: Billy Gardell, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1970: Els Callens, Belgian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1970: Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter and director (Limp Bizkit) [category: Births]
• 1970: John D. Carmack, American game programmer, co-founded Id Software [category: Births]
• 1971: David Walliams, English comedian, actor, and author [category: Births]
• 1971: Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese-American actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Steve Stone, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Rashid Minhas, Pakistani pilot (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Chaney Kley, American actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1973: Todd Helton, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Amy Adams, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1974: Andy Strachan, Australian drummer and songwriter (The Living End and Pollyanna) [category: Births]
• 1974: Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1974: Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist and conductor [category: Births]
• 1974: Misha Collins, American actor and producer [category: Births]
• 1974: Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Mac Tonnies, American author (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1975: Marcus Mastin, American author [category: Births]
• 1975: Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. [category: Events]
• 1976: Chris Drury, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player [category: Births]
• 1977: James Ormond, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1977: Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player [category: Births]
• 1977: Mayra Verónica, Cuban model and actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Wayne Brown, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Ívar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. [category: Events]
• 1979: Cory Sullivan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Haha, South Korean singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Jamie Cullum, English singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1979: Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Corey Carrier, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Langhorne Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1980: Rochelle Gadd, English actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Samuel Dumoulin, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1980: Joe Dassin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Ben Barnes, English actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Bernard Mendy, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Byron Saxton, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1982: Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1982: Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Meghan Ory, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Andrew Garfield, American-English actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Brian Schaefering, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Jamie Hoffmann, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Rachelle Leah, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Tommy Speer, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1984: Tsokye Tsomo Karchung, Bhutanese model and actress, Miss Bhutan 2008 [category: Births]
• 1985: Brant Daugherty, American actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Josh Flagg, American real estate agent [category: Births]
• 1985: Álvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Daniele Donato, American reality contestant on Big Brother [category: Births]
• 1986: Letizia Ciampa, Italian voice actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Robert Clark, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Ryo Katsuji, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. [category: Events]
• 1987: Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1987: Kristina, Slovak singer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1988: Jerryd Bayless, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Naathan Phan, Scottish magician and actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Nikki SooHoo, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Sarah R Lotfi, American director [category: Births]
• 1988: Black Saturday of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park [category: Events]
• 1988: Iran–Iraq War: a ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war. [category: Events]
• 1988: Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. [category: Events]
• 1988: The Troubles: Eight British Army soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by a Provisional Irish Republican Army roadside bomb in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (see Ballygawley bus bombing). [category: Events]
• 1989: The O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, the world's longest guided busway, opens. [category: Events]
• 1989: The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed. [category: Events]
• 1990: Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1991: Marko Djokovic, Serbian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. [category: Events]
• 1991: Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of her pre-World War II statehood. [category: Events]
• 1992: Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Matej Delač, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month. [category: Events]
• 1995: Liana Liberato, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (Ton Steine Scherben) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Léon Dion, Canadian political scientist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped. [category: Events]
• 1998: The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. [category: Events]
• 1998: U.S. embassy bombings: the United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. [category: Events]
• 2000: Fátima Ptacek, American actress [category: Births]
• 2001: Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. [category: Events]
• 2005: Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (Vader and Dies Irae) (b. 1970) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bryan Budd, Irish soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross(b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Claude Blanchard, Canadian singer and actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Larry Hartsell, American martial artist and author (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Leona Helmsley, American businesswoman (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Ed Freeman, American helicopter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Gene Upshaw, American football player (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Hua Guofeng, Chinese politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, and 8 more die later. Only 18 people survive. [category: Events]
• 2009: Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (Bread) (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Dang Phong, Vietnamese historian (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Daryl Hine, Canadian poet (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dom Mintoff, Maltese journalist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Kapu Rajaiah, Indian painter (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Len Quested, English footballer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian politician, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mika Yamamoto, Japanese journalist (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Phyllis Diller, American actress (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Virginia Dwyer, American actress (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas kills at least 20 people. [category: Events]
• _: August 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Bernard of Clairvaux [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Father's Day (Nepal) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Feast of Asmá’ (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Indian Akshay Urja Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Oswine of Deira [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Philibert of Jumièges [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Restoration of Independence Day, re-declaration of the independence of Estonia from the Soviet Union in 1991. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Revolution of the King and People (Morocco) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary) [category: Holidays and observances]