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What happend on 22. August in History
In our data base we found 356 events happened on 22. August:
• 392: Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
• 408: Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359) [category: Deaths]
• 476: Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops. [category: Events]
• 564: Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. [category: Events]
• 851: Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. [category: Events]
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• 1138: Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. [category: Events]
• 1155: Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139) [category: Deaths]
• 1188: Ferdinand II of León (b. 1137) [category: Deaths]
• 1241: Pope Gregory IX, (b. 1143) [category: Deaths]
• 1280: Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216) [category: Deaths]
• 1304: John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247) [category: Deaths]
• 1350: Philip VI of France (b. 1293) [category: Deaths]
• 1358: Isabella of France (b. 1295) [category: Deaths]
• 1412: Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1464) [category: Births]
• 1456: Vladislav II of Wallachia [category: Deaths]
• 1485: Richard III of England (b. 1452) [category: Deaths]
• 1485: The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. [category: Events]
• 1553: John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (b. 1504) [category: Deaths]
• 1559: Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy. [category: Events]
• 1572: Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528) [category: Deaths]
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• 1584: Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet (b. 1530) [category: Deaths]
• 1599: Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (b. 1553) [category: Deaths]
• 1601: Georges de Scudéry, French author and poet (d. 1667) [category: Births]
• 1607: Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572) [category: Deaths]
• 1609: Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Polish mystic and philosopher (b. 1525) [category: Deaths]
• 1624: Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701) [category: Births]
• 1639: Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. [category: Events]
• 1642: Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins. [category: Events]
• 1647: Denis Papin, French physicist, mathematician, and inventor, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1652: Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (b. 1583) [category: Deaths]
• 1654: Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. [category: Events]
• 1679: Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French archbishop (d. 1758) [category: Births]
• 1680: John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613) [category: Deaths]
• 1701: John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English statesman (b. 1628) [category: Deaths]
• 1711: Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (b. 1644) [category: Deaths]
• 1711: Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition founders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River. [category: Events]
• 1717: Spanish troops land on Sardinia. [category: Events]
• 1752: William Whiston, English mathematician (b. 1667) [category: Deaths]
• 1760: Pope Leo XII (d. 1829) [category: Births]
• 1764: Charles Percier, French architect and designer (d. 1838) [category: Births]
• 1770: James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III. [category: Events]
• 1771: Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831) [category: Births]
• 1773: Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (d. 1858) [category: Births]
• 1773: George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, English politician (b. 1709) [category: Deaths]
• 1777: American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements. [category: Events]
• 1779: James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1780: James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). [category: Events]
• 1791: Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. [category: Events]
• 1793: Cäcilia Weber, German mother of Constanze Mozart (b. 1727) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Louis de Noailles, French marshal (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724) [category: Deaths]
• 1798: French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. [category: Events]
• 1800: Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian scholar (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1800: William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1806: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (b. 1732) [category: Deaths]
• 1811: William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1818: Warren Hastings, English politician, 1st Governor-General of India (b. 1732) [category: Deaths]
• 1827: Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1827: José de la Mar becomes President of Peru. [category: Events]
• 1828: Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist(b. 1758) [category: Deaths]
• 1831: Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising. [category: Events]
• 1834: Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1836: Archibald Willard, American painter (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1845: William Lewis Douglas, American politician, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1846: The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established. [category: Events]
• 1848: Melville Elijah Stone, American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1848: The United States annexes New Mexico. [category: Events]
• 1849: The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. [category: Events]
• 1850: Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1851: The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America. [category: Events]
• 1854: Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1857: Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1860: Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1860: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1861: Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831) [category: Deaths]
• 1862: Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1864: 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed. [category: Events]
• 1867: Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1873: Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1874: Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1875: The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. [category: Events]
• 1880: George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1880: Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1885: Thomas Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1887: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1888: Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian politician (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-American sculptor (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1891: Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Dorothy Parker, American poet and writer (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1893: Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1895: László Almásy, Hungarian pilot (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1895: Paul Comtois, Canadian politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1900: Sergey Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1902: Edward Rowe Snow, American author and historian (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1902: Leni Riefenstahl, German director (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1902: Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1902: Cadillac Motor Company is founded. [category: Events]
• 1902: Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. [category: Events]
• 1903: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and diplomat (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1904: Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1908: Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1909: Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1909: Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1909: Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1909: Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. [category: Events]
• 1913: Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1913: Leonard Pagliero, English businessman and pilot (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1914: Connie B. Gay, Music executive and founder of the Country Music Association (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1914: Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian bishop (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war. [category: Events]
• 1915: David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1915: Edward Szczepanik, Polish politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1915: Hugh Paddick, English actor (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1915: James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist and inventor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1918: Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1918: Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Denton Cooley, American surgeon [category: Births]
• 1920: Ray Bradbury, American author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1921: Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1921: Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1921: Tony Pawson, English cricketer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1922: Micheline Presle, French actress [category: Births]
• 1922: Roberto Aizenberg, Argentine painter and sculptor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1922: Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1922: Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1925: Honor Blackman, English actress [category: Births]
• 1925: James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1926: Charles William Eliot, American academic, 21st President of Harvard University (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa. [category: Events]
• 1928: Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1928: Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and activist [category: Births]
• 1929: Ulrich Wegener, German police officer, founded GSG 9 [category: Births]
• 1930: Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1932: Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1932: The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.) [category: Events]
• 1933: Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Donald McIntyre, New Zealand opera singer [category: Births]
• 1934: Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1934: Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. [category: Events]
• 1935: Annie Proulx, American author [category: Births]
• 1936: Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1936: Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1936: John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1936: Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster [category: Births]
• 1938: Paul Maguire, American football player and sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1939: Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1939: George Reinholt, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Bill McCartney, American football player and coach, founded Promise Keepers [category: Births]
• 1940: Valerie Harper, American actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Oliver Lodge, English physicist (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Bill Parcells, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1941: Hannspeter Winter, Austrian physicist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1941: World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. [category: Events]
• 1942: Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1942: Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. [category: Events]
• 1943: Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist, co-designed the Intel 4004 [category: Births]
• 1944: Peter Hofmann, Czech-German tenor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1945: David Chase, American screenwriter, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician [category: Births]
• 1945: Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents) [category: Births]
• 1946: Döme Sztójay, Hungarian soldier and diplomat (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Cindy Williams, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band) [category: Births]
• 1948: David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys) [category: Births]
• 1948: Eleonora Brown, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Diana Nyad, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1949: Doug Bair, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1949: Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic poet and author [category: Births]
• 1949: Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake [category: Events]
• 1950: Ray Burris, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1950: Scooter Libby, American lawyer and political adviser [category: Births]
• 1950: Kirk Bryan, American geologist (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis. [category: Events]
• 1951: Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1952: The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. [category: Events]
• 1953: Paul Ellering, American weightlifter and wrestling manager [category: Births]
• 1953: Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Chiranjeevi, Indian actor and politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Gordon Liu, Chinese martial arts film actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Will Shetterly, American author [category: Births]
• 1956: Paul Molitor, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Steve Davis, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1958: Colm Feore, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Lash Huffman, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1958: Vernon Reid, American guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour) [category: Births]
• 1958: Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ratt and Dokken) [category: Births]
• 1959: Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1959: Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician [category: Births]
• 1960: Holger Gehrke, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Andrés Calamaro, Argentine singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los Rodríguez) [category: Births]
• 1961: Debbi Peterson, American singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit) [category: Births]
• 1961: Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate) [category: Births]
• 1961: Ida Siekmann died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. [category: Events]
• 1962: An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails. [category: Events]
• 1963: Terry Catledge, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter and producer (Y Kant Tori Read) [category: Births]
• 1963: Augustus Goessling, American water polo player and swimmer (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi). [category: Events]
• 1964: Andrew Wilson, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1964: Diane Setterfield, English author [category: Births]
• 1964: Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1964: Tom Gibis, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Chen Liping, Singaporean actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Courtney Gains, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Brooke Dillman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1966: GZA, American rapper and songwriter (Wu-Tang Clan) [category: Births]
• 1966: Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers. [category: Events]
• 1967: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Bill Welke, American baseball umpire [category: Births]
• 1967: Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (Alice in Chains and Class of '99) (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1967: Ty Burrell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1967: Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1968: Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and writer [category: Births]
• 1968: Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1968: Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Newsboys and Paul Colman Trio) [category: Births]
• 1968: Rich Lowry, American columnist and editor [category: Births]
• 1968: Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. [category: Events]
• 1970: Charlie Connelly, English author and broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1970: George Canyon, Canadian singer, guitarist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author [category: Births]
• 1970: Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer [category: Births]
• 1970: Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller) [category: Births]
• 1971: Richard Armitage, English actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Rick Yune, American actor [category: Births]
• 1971: J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. [category: Events]
• 1972: Max Wilson, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1972: Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter [category: Births]
• 1972: Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox Twenty and The Break and Repair Method) [category: Births]
• 1972: Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1972: Steve Kline, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1972: Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. [category: Events]
• 1973: Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys) [category: Births]
• 1973: Kristen Wiig, American comedian, actress, and writer [category: Births]
• 1973: Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. [category: Events]
• 1974: Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player [category: Births]
• 1974: Brimstone, American wrestler, actor, and author [category: Births]
• 1974: Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist and animator [category: Births]
• 1974: Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Clint Bolton, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Davor Krznarić, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Sheree Murphy, English actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Randy Wolf, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Jenna Leigh Green, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Ed Petrie, English comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Jeff Stinco, Canadian guitarist (Simple Plan) [category: Births]
• 1978: Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua. [category: Events]
• 1979: Brandon Adams, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Matt Walters, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter [category: Births]
• 1980: Roland Benschneider, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: James Smith McDonnell, American businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Alex Holmes, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Jang Hyun-Kyu, South Korean footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1981: Takumi Saito, Japanese actor and model [category: Births]
• 1982: Rodrigo Nehme, Mexican actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Jahri Evans, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Justin Buchholz, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1983: Laura Breckenridge, American actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1984: Lawrence Quaye, Qatari footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Lee Camp, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Missy Monroe, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Cindy Hope, Hungarian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Kether Donohue, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Luke Russert, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1985: Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport. [category: Events]
• 1986: Erika Hebron, American model, Miss Missouri 2010 [category: Births]
• 1986: Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Lacie Heart, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Dan Weekes-Hannah, New Zealand actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Karlie Simon, English porn actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Sarah Major, New Zealand actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Chariz Solomon, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Chea Courtney, American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Georgina Moffat, English actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. [category: Events]
• 1990: Randall Cobb, American football player [category: Births]
• 1990: Syque Caesar, Bangladeshi gymnast [category: Births]
• 1991: Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1991: Federico Macheda, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. [category: Events]
• 1994: Gilles Groulx, Canadian director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Lulu Antariksa, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Shannon Flynn, English actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy [category: Events]
• 1999: Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 2003: Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating coach (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Generosa Ammon, American wife of Ted Ammon (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. [category: Events]
• 2004: Al Dvorin, American bandleader and talent agent (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Angus Bethune, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. [category: Events]
• 2005: Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. [category: Events]
• 2007: The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day [category: Events]
• 2007: The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. [category: Events]
• 2008: Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Elmer Kelton, American novelist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer and manager (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Gudrun Berend, German hurdler (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ashford & Simpson) (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: András József Szennay, Hungarian priest and clergyman (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Davidson, American politician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Martin Shikuku, Kenyan politician (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Nina Bawden, English author (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal and bishop (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese military leader and politician [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths. [category: Events]
• _: August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August. (Philippines) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flag Day (Russia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Immaculate Heart of Mary [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Queenship of Mary [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Symphorian and Timotheus [category: Holidays and observances]