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What happend on 7. August in History
In our data base we found 323 events happened on 7. August:
• 317: Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361) [category: Births]
• 1106: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050) [category: Deaths]
• 1282: Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316) [category: Births]
• 1420: Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence. [category: Events]
• 1427: The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River. [category: Events]
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• 1461: The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1485: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454) [category: Deaths]
• 1533: Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595) [category: Births]
• 1560: Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614) [category: Births]
• 1571: Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player (d. 1627) [category: Births]
• 1574: Robert Dudley, English explorer and writer (d. 1649) [category: Births]
• 1598: Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (d. 1672) [category: Births]
• 1613: Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544) [category: Deaths]
• 1616: Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548) [category: Deaths]
• 1635: Friedrich Spee, German writer (b. 1591) [category: Deaths]
• 1639: Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605) [category: Deaths]
• 1661: Jin Shengtan, Chinese writer, editor, and critic (b. 1608) [category: Deaths]
• 1679: The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. [category: Events]
• 1714: The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy. [category: Events]
• 1726: James Bowdoin, American politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790) [category: Births]
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• 1734: Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (d. 1776) [category: Births]
• 1742: Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786) [category: Births]
• 1751: Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1779: Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859) [category: Births]
• 1779: Louis de Freycinet, French explorer (d. 1842) [category: Births]
• 1782: George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart. [category: Events]
• 1783: Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810) [category: Births]
• 1789: The United States Department of War is established. [category: Events]
• 1791: American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War. [category: Events]
• 1794: U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. [category: Events]
• 1817: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739) [category: Deaths]
• 1819: Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. [category: Events]
• 1834: Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752) [category: Deaths]
• 1844: Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779) [category: Deaths]
• 1855: Mariano Arista, Mexican politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802) [category: Deaths]
• 1860: Alan Leo, English astrologer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1862: Victoria of Baden (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1864: Li Xiucheng, Chinese general (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 1867: Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1868: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1876: Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1877: Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1879: Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1879: The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England. [category: Events]
• 1884: Billie Burke, American actress (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American activist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1890: Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder. [category: Events]
• 1893: Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Ann Harding, American actress (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1903: Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1904: Ralph Bunche, American diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1904: Louis Dutfoy, French target shooter (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1909: Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. [category: Events]
• 1911: István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1911: Nicholas Ray, American director and scenarist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1912: François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss scientist (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1917: Budd Lynch, Canadian sportscaster (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1917: Edwin Harris Dunning, English pilot (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: C. Buddingh', Dutch poet (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1918: Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1921: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist [category: Births]
• 1925: Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1925: M. S. Swaminathan, Indian scientist [category: Births]
• 1926: Géza Kádas, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1926: Stan Freberg, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1927: Art Houtteman, American baseball player (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Carl Switzer, American actor (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1927: Edwin Edwards, American politician [category: Births]
• 1927: The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. [category: Events]
• 1928: Betsy Byars, American author [category: Births]
• 1928: James Randi, Canadian-American magician [category: Births]
• 1928: Romeo Muller, American screenwriter (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1929: Don Larsen, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1930: The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed. [category: Events]
• 1931: Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author [category: Births]
• 1932: Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1932: Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1932: Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist [category: Births]
• 1932: Rien Poortvliet, Dutch draughtsman and painter (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1933: Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1933: Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist [category: Births]
• 1933: The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day. [category: Events]
• 1934: Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1936: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1937: Don Wilson, England cricketer [category: Births]
• 1937: Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1938: Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins. [category: Events]
• 1939: Anjanette Comer, American actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician [category: Births]
• 1940: World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich. [category: Events]
• 1941: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: B. J. Thomas, American singer [category: Births]
• 1942: Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1942: Carlos Monzón, Argentine boxer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1942: Garrison Keillor, American writer and radio host [category: Births]
• 1942: Tobin Bell, American actor [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: the Battle of Guadalcanal begins – United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. [category: Events]
• 1943: Alain Corneau, French director {d. 2010} [category: Births]
• 1943: Lana Cantrell, Australian-American singer and lawyer [category: Births]
• 1944: David Rasche, American actor [category: Births]
• 1944: John Glover, American actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Robert Mueller, American attorney, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [category: Births]
• 1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). [category: Events]
• 1945: Alan Page, American football player and jurist [category: Births]
• 1945: Yi Wu, Korean prince (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Ed Seykota, American financier [category: Births]
• 1946: George Wilkinson, English water polo player (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1947: Suthivelu, Indian actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1947: The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). [category: Events]
• 1947: Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000 kilometres journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America. [category: Events]
• 1948: Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach [category: Births]
• 1948: Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author [category: Births]
• 1948: Charles Bryant, English actor and director (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Alan Keyes, American diplomat and activist [category: Births]
• 1951: Joachim Thiel, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1952: Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author [category: Births]
• 1952: Kees Kist, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1953: Anne Fadiman, American author [category: Births]
• 1953: Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Jonathan Pollard, Israeli-American spy [category: Births]
• 1955: Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian [category: Births]
• 1955: Diane Downs, American convicted murderer [category: Births]
• 1955: Greg Nickels, American politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Gregoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director [category: Births]
• 1955: Vladimir Sorokin, Russian writer [category: Births]
• 1955: Wayne Knight, American actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. [category: Events]
• 1956: Sharon Isbin, American guitarist [category: Births]
• 1957: Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast [category: Births]
• 1957: Caroline Aaron, American actress [category: Births]
• 1957: Daire Brehan, Irish journalist and actress (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1957: Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Alberto Salazar, American runner [category: Births]
• 1958: Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey [category: Births]
• 1959: Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1959: Koenraad Elst, Belgian writer and orientalist [category: Births]
• 1959: Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. [category: Events]
• 1959: The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008. [category: Events]
• 1960: David Duchovny, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Jacquie O'Sullivan, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1960: Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent. [category: Events]
• 1961: Brian Conley, English comedian, actor, and singer [category: Births]
• 1961: Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast [category: Births]
• 1962: Alain Robert, French climber [category: Births]
• 1962: Alison Brown, American musician, songwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1962: Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1963: Harold Perrineau, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Marcus Roberts, American pianist [category: Births]
• 1963: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, American son of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1964: John Birmingham, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1964: Michael Weishan, American television host [category: Births]
• 1964: Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down. [category: Events]
• 1964: Vietnam War: the U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces. [category: Events]
• 1965: The infamous first Reyes party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels. [category: Events]
• 1966: Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founded Wikipedia [category: Births]
• 1966: Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1966: Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan. [category: Events]
• 1967: Jason Grimsley, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Vietnam War: China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. [category: Events]
• 1968: Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1969: Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1969: Joseph Kosma, French composer (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1970: Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Jonathan P. Jackson, bodyguard and negotiator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. [category: Events]
• 1971: Dominic Cork, England cricketer [category: Births]
• 1971: Rachel York, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1971: Sydney Penny, American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Greg Serano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Danny Graves, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Kevin Muscat, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Zane Lowe, New Zealand radio and television host [category: Births]
• 1973: Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Andrejs Štolcers, Latvian footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Chico Benymon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Michael Shannon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air. [category: Events]
• 1975: Charlize Theron, South African model and actress [category: Births]
• 1975: David Hicks, Australian alleged terrorist [category: Births]
• 1975: Edgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Gaahl, Norwegian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1975: Hans Matheson, Scottish Actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Kargo) [category: Births]
• 1975: Vanessa Stacey, New Zealand actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Shane Lechler, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. [category: Events]
• 1977: Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1977: Samantha Ronson, English DJ and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1978: Alexandre Aja, French director [category: Births]
• 1978: Cirroc Lofton, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1978: Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Shirley Yeung, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Vanness Wu, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1978: U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been negligently disposed of. [category: Events]
• 1979: Birgit Zotz, Austrian writer and anthropologist [category: Births]
• 1979: Eric Johnson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Nicole Tubiola, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Wendy van der Plank, English actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities. [category: Events]
• 1980: Anomie Belle, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer [category: Births]
• 1980: Aurélie Claudel, French model [category: Births]
• 1980: Carsten Busch, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Randy Wayne, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. [category: Events]
• 1982: Abbie Cornish, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Brit Marling, American actress, screenwriter, producer, and director [category: Births]
• 1982: Edwin Dewees, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1982: Jasmin Mäntylä, Finnish model and singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player [category: Births]
• 1982: Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1982: Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1982: Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer [category: Births]
• 1982: Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1982: Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Andriy Hryvko, Ukrainian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1983: Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor (RBD) [category: Births]
• 1983: Tina O'Brien, English actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model [category: Births]
• 1984: Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. [category: Events]
• 1986: Altair Jarabo, Mexican actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1986: Nancy Sumari, Tanzanian model, Miss World Africa 2005 [category: Births]
• 1986: Paul Biedermann, German swimmer [category: Births]
• 1986: Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Mimi Paley, American actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Mustapha Dumbuya, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1987: Camille Chamoun, Lebanese politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Beanie Wells, American football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Christoph Watrin, German singer and dancer (US5) [category: Births]
• 1988: Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Liz Cochran, American model, Miss Alabama 2009 [category: Births]
• 1988: Melody Oliveria, American blogger [category: Births]
• 1989: DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. [category: Events]
• 1990: Helen Flanagan, English actress [category: Births]
• 1991: Mike Trout, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1991: Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian and actor (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Liam James, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1996: Tessa Allen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1998: Emily Anderson, Graphic designer [category: Births]
• 1998: The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. [category: Events]
• 1999: Brion James, American actor (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan. [category: Events]
• 2003: Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Mary Anderson Bain, American politician (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Hal Fishman, American journalist (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run. [category: Events]
• 2008: Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Georgia launches a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia, in an attempt to reclaim the territory from Russia, starting the 2008 South Ossetia war. [category: Events]
• 2009: Louis E. Saavedra, American politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter and musician (New Lost City Ramblers) (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Nelder, British statistician (b.1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mark Hatfield, American politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English war agent (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Anna Piaggi, Italian writer (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Hans Hammond Rossbach, Norwegian politician (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Joseph Swaine, Hong Kong politician (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Judith Crist, American critic (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marvin Lee Wilson, American convicted murderer (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Mayer Zald, American sociologist [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Veljko Rogošić, Croatian swimmer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Vladimir Vasilyevich Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: 3 gunmen kill 19 people in a church near Okene, Nigeria. [category: Events]
• 322_bc: Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon. [category: Events]
• 461: Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420) [category: Deaths]
• 461: Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer. [category: Events]
• 479: Emperor Yūryaku of Japan [category: Deaths]
• 626: The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople. [category: Events]
• 936: Coronation of King Otto I of Germany. [category: Events]
• _: Albert of Trapani [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Assyrian Martyrs Day (Assyrian community) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cajetan of Thienna [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Carpophorus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Commemoration of The Name of Jesus (Anglicanism) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dometius of Persia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Donatus of Arezzo [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Sixtus II [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Republic Day (Côte d'Ivoire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Youth Day (Kiribati) [category: Holidays and observances]