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August 15 is the 227th (two hundred and twenty-seventh) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 228th in leap years. There are 138 days left to end the year.

On August 15, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is celebrated

Events

717: the second Arab siege begins at Constantinople, one of the largest Islamic campaigns against the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine).
718: In the Byzantine Empire the Site of Constantinople ends, thus stopping the Muslim Expansion; at least 130,000 Arabs of the Omeya Caliphate lose their lives and the entire fleet is destroyed, the product of the Greek fire. The impact on Muslims is such that up to 1453 they will not try to take the city again, considering it unexpugnable.
778: In Roncesvalles, Carlomagno is defeated by the Basques in the battle of Roncesvalles. Die the hero Roldán.
927: In southern Italy, the Saracens conquer and destroy the village of Tarento.
1007: In Yucatan, Mexico, Ah Suytok Tutul Xiu founded the village of Uxmal (according to the Mayan calendar).
1096: formal beginning of the First Crusade, announced by Pope Urban II.
1097: In Consuegra (Toledo) the troops of Alfonso VI are defeated in the battle of Consuegra.
1185: In Georgia, 140 km from the Black Sea, Queen Tamar of Georgia consecrates the monastery of Vardzia, built as a cave on the mountain.
1248: in Cologne (Germany) the foundation stone of the cathedral of Cologne is laid, built to accommodate the relicario of the Three Three Three Three Magi (the Cathedral will be completed in 1880).
1261: In Constantinople (Turkey), Michael VIII Paleologist is crowned Byzantine emperor.
1281: During the second invasion of Japan, the fleet of the Mongol Empire is destroyed by a ‘divine’ (kamikaze) for the second time in the battle of Koan.
1284: Joan I of Navarre married Philip IV of France, for which he would become a queen of France a year later.
1304: In the Mount Taurus, south of Turkey, the Almogavar troops of Roger de Flor beat the Ottomans.
1341: capitulation of the town of Alcalá la Real (Jaén) by the army of Alfonso XI of Castile.
1430: in Italy, Francisco I Sforza, Mister of Milan (Italy), conquers the villa of Lucca.
1461: the Empire of Trebisonda yields to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II (which in 1453 had conquered Constantinople). Some historians consider that this was the true end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later killed.
1466: Enrique IV de Castilla grants powers to the mayors of Guipúzcoa to sentence in cases of witchcraft.
1483: in Rome, Italy, Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1496: south of the island of La Española is founded the city of Santo Domingo, a place conducive to the departure of the gold from the mines of San Cristobal.
1511: On the island of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (1465-1524) founded the village of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa, one of the first localities founded by Spanish in America. On November 27, 1492, Christopher Columbus described it as "the most beautiful thing in the world."
1511: Afonso de Albuquerque de Portugal conquers the city of Malaca, the capital of the sultanato de Malaca.
1514: In the face of the abuses to which the Indians are subjected, Bartolomé de las Casas renounces the enslaved slave who had been assigned to him in La Española and returns to Spain.
1519: Pedrarias Dávila founded the city Our Lady of the Assumption of Panama.
1532: in the Viceroy of Peru Francisco Pizarro founded San Miguel de Piura.
1534: In what is today Ecuador (within the Viceroy of Peru), Sebastián de Belalcázar and Diego de Almagro founded the city of Santiago de Quito, today Santiago de Guayaquil.
1537: in the Viceroy of Peru, Juan de Salazar founded Asunción del Paraguay.
1539: In the Virreinate of Peru is founded the Very Noble and Leal City of the Knights of León of Huánuco (current Huánuco).
1540: In the Virreinato del Perú Garci Manuel de Carbajal founded the Villa de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora del Valle Hermoso de Arequipa (currently Arequipa, in southern Peru).
1620: in England, the ship Mayflower part of the port of Southampton.
1684: in Regensburg (Ratisbona), the Spain of Charles II and the Holy Roman German Empire of Leopoldo I of Habsburg sign a twenty-year truce with the France of Louis XIV, which ends with the so-called War of Meetings, but which would last until 1688, when the war of the League of Augsburg began.
1702: An Anglo-Dutch squad will plunder the Spanish ports of Rota and the Port of Santa Maria.
1761: In Versailles (France), the Spanish ambassador Marquis of Grimaldi signed the Third Family Treaty between Spain and France.
1805: on Mount Sacro (Rome), the future Venezuelan Liberator Simon Bolivar, before Simon Rodríguez, his former teacher and guardian, swears the freedom of his homeland and of all America.
1806: Liechtenstein is independent of the Sacro Germanic Roman Empire (disbanded on 6 August).
1812: The Constitution promulgated by the Courts of Cadiz is proclaimed in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid (Spain).
1869: Through surrender agreements at the end of the Boshin War, the Japanese Empire renames the territory of the Republic of Ezo as Hokkaido (this is the current name of the island of Japan).
1880: In Illapel (Chile) an earthquake of 8.8 M_LLeave 25 dead. See Illapel Earthquake of 1880.
1884: In Paris, the Academy of Medicine approves the Pasteur method of healing rabies.
1885: The first power station in Germany for private supply is operational in Berlin.
1892: In Chile the sports club Santiago Wanderers, the oldest football team in that country is founded.
1898: In Palermo is founded the Club Atlético Students football club.
1902: Uruguay founded the football club Montevideo Wanderers Football Club.
1904: In Villa Crespo (Buenos Aires) the football club Argentinos Juniors is founded.
1906: Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Gravissimo officiiagainst the Law of Separation of the Church and the State promulgated in France.
1908: In Prussia women are allowed to enter universities.
1912: Austrian-Hungarian Foreign Minister Leopold Berchtold proposes a conference of the great powers in order to avoid a war in the Balkans.
1914: in Panama, with the first voyage of a commercial line ship; the American passenger and cargo steam Ancon, traffic starts through the Panama Canal
1914: In present Germany—in the framework of the First World War—the first army of the Russian Empire, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914: the battle of Cer begins, the first victory of the Allies in the First World War.
1914: In Spring Green (Wisconsin), Julian Carlton, servant of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, burns this house and kills seven people (including Wright's lover).
1915: in New York, United States, an article of the newspaper New York World It reveals that the German government bought two million dollars of phenol from the American businessman Thomas Edison, so that the German factory Bayer manufactures aspirin; otherwise that phenol would have sold to Britain to manufacture explosives for the World War.
1916: In England—in the framework of World War I—the German planes bomb Dover, London and Folkestone.
1917: In Virginia (United States) the first wireless and radio communication between a plane and the tracking station is achieved, as well as between two planes.
1922: The German Government finds itself unable to pay the war repairs it owes and proposes to reduce them to a quarter.
1923: In Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus School of Art and Architecture is installed.
1926: in Spain the reform of the Bachelor's Plan is approved.
1932: In New York, the CBS television station, which broadcasts the first series of the world, begins to operate: World magazine.
1934: Former Chancellor Franz von Papen surrenders to Adolf Hitler the political will of Paul von Hindenburg, who was killed on August 2.
1938: the British ship Queen Mary conquer the “blue belt” on the Atlantic crossing.
1938: Mexico holds the first International Congress of the Teaching of Ibero-American Literature.
1938: the magazine was founded in Spain North, socialist theoretical question.
1939: In the cave of the Bats, near Jumilla (Murcia), cave paintings are discovered.
1939: in Mexico, Manuel Ávila Camacho is elected president.
1939: in Neuhammer, Germany, thirteen Stuka planes crashed on the ground during an air synchronization practice. No survivors.
1940: in the port of the island Tinos, in the waters of the Aegean sea, an Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks to the Greek cruise Elli. This is the greatest Italian provocation before the beginning of the Greek-Italian War (28 October 1940-23 April 1941).
1943: In Marin, Pontevedra, the Military Naval School is inaugurated.
1943: the village Asquerosa (Spain) changes its name by the village of Valderrubio, as it produces the best ruby tobaccos of the vega of that province.
1945: in Japan—in the framework of the Second World War— Emperor Hirohito announces the Japanese capitulation, ending the war.
1945: the two Koreas are independent.
1947: The United Kingdom grants India and Pakistan the status of Independent States associated with the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947: in Ecuador, the Assembly elects Carlos Arosemena as Acting President.
1948: in South Korea, a constituent assembly proclaims the republic.
1950: Pope Pius XII proclaims the dogma of the Assumption of the Virgin.
1950: Indonesia becomes a unitary state.
1950: An 8.6 earthquake in the Indian state of Assam and the Chinese region of Tibet leaves 4800 dead.
1954: In Paraguay, Alfredo Stroessner assumes as president of Paraguay, and as such he will remain in successive elections until February 3, 1989.
1960: After 82 years of British rule, Cyprus is proclaimed independent.
1960: In Africa, the People ' s Republic of the Congo is independent of the French Empire.
1962: in the United States the magazine is sold Amazing Fantasy No. 15, showing the first appearance of the teenage hero Spider-Man, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
1963: in Chile the group The High & Bass (known later as Los Jaivas) make their first live presentation at the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar.
1965: In Santiago de Chile the Revolutionary Left Movement was founded, a revolutionary organization that had among its ranks fighters like Miguel Enríquez, Bautista van Schouwen and Clotario Blest.
1965: in New York, United States, the British band The Beatles performs a recital to 60,000 people at Shea Stadium. It is considered that this event was the beginning of the “stagerock”
1968: in Montevideo (Uruguay), a quarter of a million people go to the streets for the murder of the student Líber Arce (deceased the day before), against the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco.
1969: In the village of Bethel (United States) begins the Woodstock festival, which with an influx of 400-500 thousand spectators became a milestone for contemporary culture.
1971: Baréin is independent of the British Empire.
1971: In the United States, President Richard Nixon finished the gold pattern by announcing the suspension of the metal convertibility of the US dollar (Nixon Shock).
1973: As part of the Vietnam War, the United States ended the bombing of civilians in Cambodia.
1975: In Bangladés, the Army gives a coup and shoots the president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family.
1976: between Quito and Cuenca (Ecuador) SAETA Flight 011 disappears with 59 people on board.
1977: The Big Ear radio telescope (Ohio State University Observatory Radio) captures the so-called "WOW Sign", a possible extraterrestrial radio communication.
1978: In Bolivia, the DNA (Nationalist Democratic Action) party was founded, formed by the followers of the head of State, Hugo Bánzer Suárez.
1981: Boca Juniors with Racing Club for 1-1 and crowns champion of the Metropolitan Championship with the top figure of Diego Maradona.
1985: in Barcelona the Hispanic American Bank is stolen, with a loot of more than one billion pesetas.
1986: The IMF (International Monetary Fund) suspends its credits to Peru.
1988: ECE (European Economic Community) establishes diplomatic relations with East Germany.
1989: in Ecuador, General Villamil is elevated to canton of the Province of Guayas.
1990: the Government of Mozambique, after abandoning Marxism-Leninism, legalizes multipartyism.
1991: The UN Committee on Decolonization reaffirms Puerto Rico ' s right to self-determination of independence.
1993: In Stuttgart, Germany, Valentí Massana wins the gold medal in the 20 km march.
1993: in Paraguay, Juan Carlos Wasmosy took office as president.
1994: in Sudan, French forces captured the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos el Chacal (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez).
1998: In the small northern Irish town of Omagh, the IRA Authentic terrorist gang carried out a car bomb attack that left a balance of 29 dead.
1998: In Moscow, Russia, Anatoli Chubistes (Russian foreign debt negotiator), Serguéi Dubinin (president of the Central Bank of Moscow) and Serguéi Kiriyenko (Russian prime minister) meet to avoid the devaluation of the ruble.
1998: In Paraguay, Raúl Cubas Grau assumes as president.
2002: The damaged area of the Pentagon due to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 is reopened.
2003: in Paraguay, Nicanor Duarte Frutos assumes as president.
2003: In Puertollano (Spain) a fire is produced at the Repsol refinery, which leaves three dead.
2003: Libya officially recognizes its responsibility in the Lockerbie (Scotland) attack, in which 270 people died on a Pan Am plane crashed in 1988.
2004: In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez wins the presidential referendum against him with 58% of the votes.
2004: At the Athens Olympic Games, the American basketball team—before Puerto Rico—shows its first Olympic defeat since it is made up of NBA players.
2004: the magazine Pediatric Research publishes the identification of 9 genes involved in the sudden death of the infant.
2005: the Indonesian government and the separatist guerrillas of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) sign a historic peace agreement after 30 years of confrontation.
2007: In the Peruvian sea, in front of the city of Pisco there is an earthquake of magnitude 8 in the scale of the moment.
2008: Liechtenstein founded the first and only television channel in that country, 1 FLTV.
2008: in Paraguay, the former bishop Fernando Lugo assumes the presidency, leaving behind more than 60 years of government of the Colorado Party—which included the dictatorship (between 1954 and 1989) of the coloured general Alfredo Stroessner—.
2013: In Paraguay he assumes the presidency Horacio Cartes, presidential candidate of the Colorado Party, who re-rules. Cartes is the successor in the position of Federico Franco, whose successor was Fernando Lugo.
2013: in the south of Beirut, Lebanon, near a house used by the Lebanese group Hezbollah, explode a bomb. At least 27 people die and 226 are injured. In an online video, an unknown Sunni terrorist group is responsible for the attack.
2013: In the United States, the Smithsonian Institute announces the discovery of the olinguitus, the first carnivorous species discovered on the American continent in 35 years.
2021: In the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban take Kabul, the capital of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, self-proclaiming the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and ending the war.

Births

1001: Duncan I, Scottish king (f. 1040).
1171: Alfonso IX de León, king of Leon (f. 1230).
1195: Antonio de Padua, theologian and Holy Portuguese Catholic (f. 1231).
1250: Matthew I Visconti, aristocrat milanes (f. 1322).
1432: Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (f. 1484).
1488: Hernando Colón, humanist and Spanish cosmographer (f. 1539).
1527: Fray Luis de León, Spanish Augustinian poet and religious (f. 1591).
1575: Bartol Kašić, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (f. 1650).
1613: Gilles Ménage, lawyer, philologist and French scholar (f. 1692).
1645: Carlos de Sigüenza and Góngora, priest, literate, astronomer and novohispanic scientist (f. 1700).
1688: Federico Guillermo I, Prussian king (f. 1740).
1736: Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer (f. 1803).
1762: José Ignacio Thames, Argentine priest (f. 1832).
1769: Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military and ruler (f. 1821).
1771: Walter Scott, British writer (f. 1832).
1772: Johann Mäzel, mechanic and Austrian inventor (f. 1838).
1779: Wilhelm Achtermann, German sculptor (f. 1884).
1785: Thomas de Quincey, a British journalist and writer (f. 1859).
1798: Joaquín María López, a Spanish politician (f. 1855).
1803: Domingo Nieto, militar, politician and Peruvian president (f. 1844).
1807: Jules Grévy, French politician, 4th President of the French Republic (f. 1891).
1824: John Chisum, American businessman (f. 1884).
1857: Albert Ballin, German businessman (f. 1918).
1860: Kolë Idromeno, the Albanian sculptor (f. 1939).
1862: Blanca de los Ríos, a Spanish writer and painter (f. 1956).
1865: Mikao Usui, Japanese religious leader, creator of Reiki (f. 1926).
1866: Italo Santelli, an Italian teacher (f. 1945).
1872: Sri Aurobindo, politician, poet and Indian yogi (f. 1950).
1873: Ramaprasad Chanda, archaeologist and Indian historian (f. 1942).
1875: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, pianist, violinist and British composer (f. 1912).
1877: Eugenio Baroffio, Uruguayan architect (f. 1956).
1878: Francisco Pujol, Spanish composer (f. 1945).
1879: Ethel Barrymore, American actress (f. 1959).
1883: Ivan Meštrović, sculptor and Croatian architect (f. 1962).
1885: Alberto Álvarez de Cienfuegos, a Spanish writer (f. 1957).
1885: María Luisa Garza "Loreley", a Mexican writer and journalist (f. 1980).
1888: Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) military, archaeologist and British writer (f. 1935).
1888: Julio Rey Pastor, Spanish mathematician (f. 1962).
1890: Jacques Ibert, French composer (f. 1962).
1892: Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929 (f. 1987).
1892: Ivan Boldin, Soviet military (f. 1968)
1895: Ignacio Anaya García, Mexican chef, creator of nachos (f. 1975).
1896: Gerty Cori, Czech biochemistry and physiologist, Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology (f. 1957).
1901: Arnulfo Arias Madrid, Panamanian president (f. 1988).
1905: Joachim Mrugowsky, German physician member of the National Socialist Party (f. 1948).
1907: Eduardo Chibás, a Cuban politician (f. 1951).
1907: Carmen Conde, Spanish poet (f. 1996).
1907: Manuel Casanueva Ramírez, acronym and Chilean politician (f. 1984).
1908: Jesús Rubio García-Mina, Spanish politician (f. 1976).
1912: Julia Child, American chef and writer (f. 2004).
1912: Wendy Hiller, British actress (f. 2003).
1912: Elizabeth Kerr, American actress (f. 2000).
1912: Amir Khan, Indian singer (f. 1974).
1914: Paul Rand, American graphic designer (f. 1996).
1917: Jack Lynch, Irish politician, 5th Taoiseach of that country (f. 1999).
1917: Óscar Romero, arzobispo salvadoreño (f. 1980).
1918: Tránsito Cocomarola, musician and Argentine folklorist (f. 1974).
1919: Huntz Hall, American actor and singer (f. 1999).
1921: Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, an Argentine businessman (f. 2012).
1922: Sabino Barinaga, footballer and Spanish coach (f. 1988).
1922: Leonard Baskin, American sculptor and drawer (f. 2000).
1922: Marina Chechneva, Soviet military pilot, Heroin of the Soviet Union (f. 1984).
1923: Rose Marie, American actress and singer (f. 2017).
1924: Werner Abrolat, German actor (f. 1997).
1924: Robert Bolt, British playwright and screenwriter (f. 1995).
1924: Phyllis Schlafly, American lawyer and activist (f. 2016).
1925: Mike Connors, American actor and producer (f. 2017).
1925: Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (f. 2007).
1925: Leonie Ossowski, German writer (f. 2019).
1926: John Silber, American philosopher and scholar (f. 2012).
1926: Konstantinos Stefanopulos, Greek politician, president between 1995 and 2005 (f. 2016).
1928: Nicolas Roeg, British filmmaker (f. 2018).
1929: Yeoryios Rubanis, a Greek athlete.
1930: José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer (f. 2012).
1931: Janice Rule, American actress (f. 2003).
1931: Richard Heck, American chemical (f. 2015).
1932: Juan José Catalán, Argentine lawyer and politician, collaborator with the dictatorship of Videla (f. 2013).
1933: Bobby Helms, American singer and guitarist (f. 1997).
1934: Bobby Byrd, American musician (f. 2007).
1935: Agustín Alezzo, actor and director of Argentine theatre (f. 2020).
1935: Régine Deforges, writer, playwright and French director (f. 2014).
1938: Stephen Breyer, American jurist.
1938: Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (f. 1985).
1940: Gudrun Ensslin, a German terrorist, founder of the Red Army (f. 1977).
1941: Jim Brothers, American sculptor (f. 2013).
1942: Héctor Alarcón Correa, Colombian teacher and farmer (f. 2012).
1944: Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (f. 2007).
1944: Sylvie Vartan, French singer and actress.
1945: Alain Juppé, a French politician.
1945: Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister.
1946: Tony Robinson, British actor, producer and screenwriter.
1946: Jimmy Webb, American singer-songwriter and pianist.
1947: Juan Carlos Eguillor Uribarri, historietist, Spanish painter and engraver (f. 2011).
1950: Tommy Aldridge, American drummer, Motörhead and Whitesnake.
1950: Anna of England, British royal princess.
1951: Bobby Caldwell, American singer-songwriter.
1951: Ada Maza, Argentine policy.
1952: Francisco Javier Varela, Spanish military, chief of staff of the Earth Army.
1953: Paulo Laserna Phillips, journalist, political scientist, television presenter and Colombian businessman.
1953: Hamilton Mourão, Brazilian military.
1953: Rigoberto Cisneros, Mexican footballer.
1953: Mark Thatcher, British businessman, Margaret Thatcher's son.
1953: Alberto Noya Sanmartín, Payaso Chilean-colombiano (f. 2019).
1954: Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer (f. 2004).
1956: Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, painter, muralist and Mexican priest.
1957: Željko Ivanek, Slovenian actor.
1957: Bill Simpson, British bassist, The Skids band.
1958: Simon Baron-Cohen, psychiatrist and Anglo-Canadian writer.
1958: Rondell Sheridan, American actor and director.
1959: Jesús López-Medel, Spanish jurist and politician.
1959: Fabio Restrepo, Colombian actor (f. 2022).
1960: Alejandro Müller, Argentine actor.
1961: Fernando Peralta, Spanish footballer.
1962: Tatiana Capote, a Venezuelan model and actress of Cuban origin.
1963: Alejandro González Iñárritu, cineasta, producer and Mexican screenwriter.
1963: Lady Miss Kier, American singer-songwriter and producer.
1963: Valeri Levonevski, activist, political expression and Belarusian entrepreneur.
1964: Melinda French Gates, American businesswoman, former wife of Bill Gates.
1964: Debi Mazar, American actress.
1966: Mariana Arias, actress and Argentine model.
1968: Debra Messing, American actress.
1969: Bernard Fanning, Australian singer-songwriter, Powderfinger band.
1969: Carlos Roa, Argentine soccer player.
1970: Anthony Anderson, American actor and comedian.
1970: Iván Ferreiro, Spanish musician.
1971: María Patiño, a Spanish journalist.
1972: Ben Affleck, American actor and filmmaker.
1972: Manuel Medina, Mexican actor.
1973: Juan Gil Navarro, Argentine actor.
1973: Atom Willard, American drummer, The Offspring bands, Danko Jones, and The Special Goodness.
1973: Sami Wolking, American musician, Lordi and Naked Idol bands.
1974: Daniel Samper Ospina, is a journalist, writer, and Colombian YouTuber.
1974: Gry Bay, Danish actress and singer.
1974: Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress.
1975: Kara Wolters, American basketball player.
1975: Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer.
1976: Abiy Ahmed Ali, Ethiopian politician, Nobel Peace Prize 2019.
1976: Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch footballer.
1976: Dante Poli, Chilean footballer.
1978: Tim Foreman, American bassist, of the Switchfoot band.
1978: Lilia Podkopaieva, Ukrainian gymnast.
1978: Yoo Kyoung-youl, South Korean footballer.
1979: Carl Edwards, American racing pilot.
1980: Giampaolo Caruso, Italian cyclist.
1981: Brendan Hansen, American swimmer.
1982: Natalia Pastorutti, Argentine singer.
1982: David Cuevas, Spanish journalist.
1983: Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (f. 2013).
1983: Leopoldo Minotti, actor, director and Argentine playwright.
1983: Timati, rapper, producer and Russian actor.
1984: Quinton Aaron, American actor.
1984: Matías Caruzzo, Argentine soccer player.
1985: Emily Kinney, American actress and singer.
1985: Santiago Stieben, Argentine actor and producer.
1986: Natalia Kills, British singer.
1986: Besik Kudujov, Russian fighter (f. 2013).
1986: Montserrat Ballarín, Chilean actress.
1987: Michel Kreder, Dutch cyclist.
1988: Oussama Assaidi, Moroccan footballer.
1989: Joe Jonas, American singer, Jonas Brothers.
1989: Carlos Pena, Jr., American actor and singer, Big Time Rush band.
1989: Belinda Peregrín, Mexican singer and actress of Spanish origin.
1990: Jennifer Lawrence, American actress.
1990: Diana Amarilla, Argentinean actress and singer.
1992: Laura Luís, Portuguese footballer.
1992: Jordan Kerby, New Zealand cyclist.
1993: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, British footballer.
1994: Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer.
1994: Romario Williams, Jamaican footballer.
1996: Samuel Röthlisberger, Swiss basketball player.
1997: Adrián Mora Barraza, Mexican footballer.
1997: Olivier Mbaizo, Cameroonian footballer.
1997: Nicoline Sørensen, Danish footballer.
1997: Catalina Castelblanco, Chilean actress.
1997: Arianna Castiglioni, Italian swimmer.
1997: Sebastian Kabas, Austrian remero.
1998: Gulliver McGrath, Australian actor.
1998: Ndifreke Udo, Nigerian footballer.
1998: Jari Vlak, Dutch footballer.
1998: Yang Jiaxing, Chinese art gymnast.
1999: Leonardo Aguilar, Mexican singer.
1999: Ryo Saito, Japanese footballer.
2000: Alan Rodriguez, Paraguayan soccer player.
2000: Erick Perleche, Peruvian footballer.
2000: Laurens Devos, Belgian tennis player.
2000: Runa Imai, Japanese swimmer.
2000: Umi Garrett, American pianist.
2003: Juan Luis Sánchez Velasco, Spanish footballer.

Deaths

605 B.C.: Nabopolasar, Chaldean king of Babylon, founder of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and creator of the fall of the Assyrian Empire. (n. 658 B.C.).
465: Libio Severo, Roman emperor (n. 420).
874: Altfrid, German bishop (n. 800).
1063: Ibn Hazm, philosopher, theologian and Spanish-Arab poet (n. 994).
1118: Alejo I Comneno, Byzantine emperor (n. 1048).
1274: Robert de Sorbón, French religious, founder of La Sorbonne (n. 1201).
1315: Margaret of Burgundy, queen consorte navarra and french (n. 1290).
1369: Felip of Henaus, queen consort English (n. 1314).
1568: Kostka Stanislaus, Polish saint (n. 1550).
1621: John Barclay, Scottish writer (n. 1582).
1666: Johann Adam Schall von Bell, a German missionary and astronomer (n. 1591).
1714: Constantin Brâncoveanu, aristocrat Romanian (n. 1654).
1728: Marin Marais, French composer and violist (n. 1656).
1758: Pierre Bouguer, mathematician, geophysical and French astronomer (n. 1698).
1799: Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (n. 1729).
1852: Johan Gadolin, a chemist, physicist and Finnish mineralogist (n. 1760).
1860: Juliana of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld, German aristocrat (n. 1781).
1860: José Ignacio Pavón, Mexican politician (n. 1791).
1867: Manuel Antonio Tocornal, a Chilean lawyer and politician (n. 1817).
1907: Joseph Joachim, director of orchestra, violinist and Hungarian composer (n. 1831).
1909: Euclides da Cunha, a Brazilian sociologist and journalist (n. 1866).
1921: Tomás Morales Castellano, a Spanish poet (n. 1884).
1935: Will Rogers, American actor, singer and screenwriter (n. 1879).
1935: Paul Signac, French painter (n. 1863).
1936: Grazia Deledda, writer, poet and Italian playwright, nobel prize of literature in 1926 (n. 1871).
1936: Federico Landrove López, Spanish politician (n. 1909).
1939: Federico Gamboa, journalist, narrator and Mexican dramatic author (n. 1864).
1951: Artur Schnabel, Polish composer and pianist (n. 1882).
1953: André Georges Corap, French military (n. 1878).
1953: Ludwig Prandtl, a German physicist and engineer (n. 1875).
1962: Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (n. 1940).
1963: Alberto Rabadá, Spanish climber (n. 1933).
1963: Ernesto Navarro, Spanish climber (n. 1934).
1964: Eino Kettunen, Finnish composer (n. 1894).
1964: Gerardo Murillo ("Dr. Atl"), Mexican painter and writer (n. 1875).
1967: Luis Antonio Eguiguren Escudero, journalist, politician, lawyer and Peruvian historian (n. 1887).
1965: July Esteban Suárez "Peloduro", cartoonist, historietist and Uruguayan journalist (n. 1909).
1966: Benito Villamarín, Spanish industrialist, president of Real Betis Balompié (n. 1916).
1967: René Magritte, Belgian painter (n. 1898).
1967: Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Peruvian politician, president of Peru between 1939-1945 and 1956-1962 (n. 1889).
1968: Luis Gianneo, Argentine composer and pianist (n. 1897).
1970: Duane Thompson, American actress (n. 1903).
1971: Javier Barros Sierra, Mexican engineer and official, rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1966 to 1970 (n. 1915).
1971: Paul Lukas, Hungarian actor and singer (n. 1895).
1975: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1.or President of his country (n. 1920).
1975: Clay Shaw, American businessman (n. 1913).
1980: Pau Vila, Hispanic-Venezuelan geographer, Catalan Letters Award in 1976 (n. 1881).
1982: Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (n. 1905).
1982: Axel HugoTheorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1955 (n. 1903).
1989: Minoru Genda, Japanese pilot, general and political (n. 1904).
1990: Viktor Tsoi, Russian singer-compositor of the Kino band (n. 1962).
1990: Paulino Vicente, a Spanish painter (n. 1900).
1991: Eduardo Herrera (Herrerita, Spanish footballer (n. 1914).
1993: Nathan Pinzón, Argentine actor and screenwriter (n. 1917).
1993: Carmelo Santiago, journalist, author, producer, screenwriter and Argentine filmmaker (n. 1915).
1994: Paul Edward Anderson, American strongman (n. 1932).
1994: Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (n. 1929).
2003: Luis Fernández Martín, Jesuit priest and Spanish historian (n. 1908).
2004: Sune Bergström, Swedish scientist, nobel prize for medicine and physiology in 1982 (n. 1916).
2006: Te Atairangi Kaahu, Maori queen (n. 1931).
2006: Faas Wilkes, a Dutch footballer (n. 1923).
2007: Silvia Bleichmar, psychoanalyst and Argentine writer (n. 1944).
2008: Jerry Wexler, American journalist and producer (n. 1917).
2011: Bernardo Tobón de la Roche, Colombian radio producer (n. 1919).
2011: Hugo Perié, an Argentine politician (n. 1944).
2012: Bob Birch, US bassist and saxophoneist (n. 1956).
2012: Altamiro Carrilho, flautist and Brazilian composer (n. 1924).
2012: Biff Elliot, American actor (n. 1923).
2013: Bert Lance, American businessman and official (n. 1931).
2013: Rosalía Mera, Spanish entrepreneur, co-founder of Inditex and its brands Zara, Massimo Dutti... (n. 1944).
2013: Sławomir Mrożek, writer and playwright Francopolaco (n. 1930).
2013: August Schellenberg, Canadian-American actor (n. 1936).
2013: Marich Man Singh Shrestha, Nepalese politician (n. 1942).
2013: Jacques Vergès, a French-speaking lawyer (n. 1925).
2014: Licia Albanese, a soprano and an Italian American actress (n. 1909).
2015: Rafael Chirbes, Spanish writer (n. 1949).
2017: Miguel Alfonso Murillo, was a Colombian actor in film, theatre and television. (n. unknown).
2020: Robert Trump, American real estate developer (n. 1948).
2021: Gerd Müller, German footballer (n. 1945).

Celebrations

World Relaxation Day

North Korea: Independence Day.
South Korea: Independence Day.
Costa Rica: Mother's Day.
India: Independence Day.
Italy: Ferragosto.
Liechtenstein: National Party.
Peru, Arequipa: Arequipa Day, anniversary of the foundation.
The Catholic Church celebrates this day the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, which is traditionally a national holiday in all Hispanoamérica and Spain, although due to secularization, many Spanish American countries have decided to have a single day to honor the Virgin, some like Argentina, Nicaragua, Peru and Panama decided to suppress this fair by keeping on December 8, the day of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, In Chile, although it is a national holiday, it is not a Marian party that calls masses, as if it are the other two existing ones: 16 July, Day of the Virgin of Carmen and 8 December, Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, so perhaps it is no longer festive in the future, it is limited to having a Mass and a day of rest.
Paraguay, Asunción: Fiestas patrones Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción.
Guatemala, Guatemala City: Virgin of the Assumption, patron of the city.
Mexico, Aguascalientes: Festivals patronales de la Virgen de la Asunción, patrona del Estado
Spain:
- Bagüés (Spain) (Zaragoza, Aragon): Patronal feasts of the Virgin of the Paruela.
- Baeza (Andalucía, Jaén): Patron Festivals of Our Lady of the Alcazar.
- Cantillana (Sevilla).
- Ruidera (province of the Royal City): Patrons in honor of the Virgin of the White
- Elche (province of Alicante): Mystery of Elche, Patrons of Our Lady of the Assumption
- Murcia (Region of Murcia): Patrons of Our Lady of the Assumption
- Guijuelo (Salamanca).
- Hinojal: patron saint of Our Lady of Assumption
- Jasa (Huesca).
- Orol (Lugo).
- Rábade (Lugo).
- Lagunilla (province of Salamanca).
- Mazarrón (province of Murcia).
- Obón (province of Teruel).
- Orders (La Coruña province).
- Padiernos (Avila Province).
- Peñafiel (Valladolid).
- Villaralbo-Zamora: Festivals of Our Lady of the Assumption
- Villasur de Herreros (Burgos).
- Ohanes (Almeria): Romeria to the sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolation of Tices.
- Almuñécar (Granada): Patron Festivals of Ntra. Sra. de la Antigua Coronada
- Pinos del Valle (Granada): Patronales parties continue
- Benia de Onís (Asturias): Patrons of Benia, Our Lady of Castru
- Motril (Granada): Patrons of Our Lady of the Crown Head
- Albuñuelas (Granada): Our Lady of the Angustia.
- Gijón: Big Week of Gijón, Begoña Day (the patron saints of Our Lady of Begoña).
- Ciudad Real: Festivals of Our Lady of the Prado
- Moral de Calatrava (Ciudad Real): Patrons of Our Lady of the Sierra
- Badajoz: Festivals of Our Lady of Montevirgen
- Lepe (Huelva): Patron Festival in honor of the Virgin of Beauty.
- Bilbao: Patron Festivals, Big Week, Begoña Day (Our Lady of Begoña).
- Leganés, Madrid: Festival of Our Lady of Butarque
- Passion of the Vera (province of Cáceres): The Patron of Our Lady of the White.
- Canary Islands: Patronship party in honor of Our Lady of the Candelaria (Patrona of the Islands).
- Madrid: the festivals in honor of the Virgen de la Paloma.
- Seville: celebration of the Assumption of "Our Lady" with the procession of the Virgin of the Kings
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Province of Cadiz): Our Lady of Charity Festival
- Cee (La Coruña Province): Patronal Feast of Our Lady of the Junquera
- Quintanar de la Orden (province of Toledo): Patronal Feast of Our Lady of Piedad
- Quirós (Asturias): Festivals of the Virgin of the Alba
- Membrío (province of Cáceres): Feasts of Our Lady of Grace
- Seron (Almeria) Virgin of the Remedies.
- Torrelavega (Cantabria): Feasts of La Virgen Grande
- Holy Mary of Guide: Our Lady of Guide
- Balisa: Fiesta de la Virgen del Otero
Bolivia, Quillacollo: Fiesta de la Virgen María de Urkupiña.
Venezuela, Táriba: Virgin of Consolation, patron of the Táchira State.
The Anglican Church celebrates the feast of Holy Virgin, main feast of the Mother of God, in that confession.
The Orthodox Churches celebrate the feast of the Dormition of Theotokos, which commemorates death, subsequent resurrection and assumption to the heavens of the Virgin Mary.