August 21

August 21 is the 233rd (two hundred and thirty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 234th in leap years. There are 132 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1192: Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Shōgun and de facto leader of Japan.
• 1415: Battle of Ceuta between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Sultanate Benjamin (now Morocco), one of the first steps of European colonialism in Africa.
• 1520: In Medina del Campo, the troops of Carlos I set fire to the town during the War of the Communities of Castile.
• 1772: Gustavo III of Sweden completes his coup d'état and establishes a new constitution after which he becomes an illustrated despota.
• 1821: Jarvis Island is discovered by the British ship Eliza Francis.
• 1831: In the United States, there is the failed rebellion of Nat Turner.
• 1911: Theft at the Louvre Museum of the famous La Mona Lisa painting, recovered in 1913.
• 1913: In the city of Bilbao, Spain, the Stadium of San Mamés is inaugurated.
• 1923: In Mexico, the Necaxa Football Club is founded.
• 1933: Albertine (asteroid 1290) discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte.
• 1940: in Mexico City, Leon Trotski died after being fatally wounded the day before by Soviet NKVD agent Ramón Mercader.
• 1941: In the small Soviet town of Bila Tserkva, in the framework of the Second World War, the Einsatzgruppe Germans with the help of Ukrainian auxiliaries and members of the Wehrmacht mass murder of the entire Jewish population of the locality, including at least 90 children.
• 1945: at the Los Alamos Laboratory (New Mexico) U.S. physicist Harry Daghlian suffers from a nuclear accident during an experiment. It will die 25 days later, from radiation poisoning. Nine months later a similar accident will happen.
• 1945: In Mexico City, the Spanish Government is constituted in exile, presided by José Giral.
• 1946: In La Rioja, Argentina, the club Andino Sport Club was founded.
• 1959: In Chile, the Television Corporation of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (now Canal 13) opens its doors when it begins its broadcasts.
• 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th (fifth) state of the United States of America.
• 1962: In Spain, Alberto Rabadá and Ernesto Navarro managed to climb the west side of the Naranjo de Bulnes.
• 1965: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 5:43 a. m. (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Ticking, 0.25 kilotons (at 210 m underground). It is the bomb n. 428 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1968: Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
• 1975: in Madrid (Spain) GRAPO begins its activity by killing two dogs of the canine unit of the Guardia Civil.
• 1986: In Cameroon, about 1700 people die poisoned in a volcanic area near Lake Nyos, as a result of a strange geological phenomenon (carbon monoxide emissions) from the Earth's magmatic layer.
• 1989: at the meeting of the Latin American chapter of the International Union of Municipalities and Powers, in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador) representatives of all Latin American countries declare that the village of Greece (in Costa Rica) is the "cleanest city in Latin America".
• 1991: In the Soviet Union, a coup attempt was made against Mikhail Gorbachev and against the measures it had imposed in the former Soviet Union (the Belovezhie Agreement).
• 1991: Latvia is independent of the Soviet Union.
• 1994: Ernesto Zedillo wins the presidential elections.
• 1996: launch of the American auroral observation satellite FAST.
• 1997: The third album of the British band Oasis is published, Be Here Now.
• 2004: Nicolás Massú and Fernando Gonzalez win the first gold medal for Chile at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, after defeating the Germans Rainer Schuettler and Nicolas Kiefer at the end of doubles in the tennis competition.
• 2006: in Villada (Palencia) it discards the Diurno Train No280, causing 6 dead and rooting the pillars of a bridge.
• 2012: Counter Strike: Global Offensive is launched on the market for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation 3, GNU/Linux and Xbox 360 platforms.
• 2015: Disturbed publishes its sixth studio album, Immortalized.
• 2015: Bon Jovi publishes his thirteenth studio album (and first without his historical guitarist Richie Sambora), Burning Bridges.
• 2017: partial and total solar eclipse seen in America. Partial in Mexico and total in the United States.
• 2018: a 7.3 magnitude tremor shakes the east of Venezuela, with epicenter in Sucre.
• 2020: at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne (Germany), the Seville imposed 3-2 on the Inter, consecration of the European League of UEFA.

Births

• 1165: Philip II of France, French king (f. 1223).
• 1481: Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coímbra (f. 1550).
• 1535: Shimazu Yoshihiro, samurai Japanese (f. 1619).
• 1567: Francis of Sales, religious and holy French (f. 1622).
• 1583: Leonor de Prussia, German noble (f. 1607).
• 1609: Jean Rotrou, French writer (f. 1650).
• 1660: Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (f. 1737).
• 1665: Giacomo F. Maraldi, Italian French astronomer (f. 1718).
• 1670: James Fitz-James, aristocrat and French military (f. 1734).
• 1689: José Pradas Gallén, Spanish Baroque composer (f. 1757).
• 1698: Giuseppe Guarneri, lutier italiano (f. 1744).
• 1725: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (f. 1805).
• 1739: Mariano Salvador Maella, a Spanish painter (f. 1819).
• 1765: William IV, British king between 1830 and 1837 (f. 1837).
• 1789: Augustin Louis Cauchy French mathematician (f. 1857).
• 1793: Christian Friedrich Hornschuch, German botanist (f. 1850).
• 1798: Jules Michelet, French writer (f. 1874).
• 1816: Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, a French chemist (f. 1856).
• 1823: José Ravest and Bonilla, a Chilean lawyer and writer (f. 1900).
• 1826: Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (f. 1903).
• 1836: Joaquina Cabrera, Guatemalan woman, mother of dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera (f. 1910).
• 1843: William Pepper, American doctor (f. 1898).
• 1847: Francisco Piria, alchemist and Uruguayan businessman (f. 1933).
• 1858: Rodolfo de Habsburg, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1889).
• 1862: Emilio Salgari, Italian writer and journalist (f. 1911).
• 1867: Luis Linares, Argentine politician (f. 1955).
• 1871: Leonid Andréyev, Russian writer (f. 1919).
• 1872: Aubrey Beardsley, British illustrator (f. 1898).
• 1884: Bohumil Kubišta, Czech painter (f. 1918).
• 1890: Ethel Ronzoni Bishop, American biochemistry (f. 1975).
• 1891: Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine painter and painter (f. 1959).
• 1895: Dyonélio Machado, Brazilian writer, journalist and psychiatrist (f. 1985).
• 1904: Count Basie, director of orchestra and American jazz pianist (f. 1984).
• 1904: Serguéi Biriuzov, Soviet military (f. 1964).
• 1906: Friz Freleng, cartoonist, director and producer (f. 1995).
• 1906: Joaquim Homs, Spanish composer (f. 2003).
• 1906: Braulio Aurelio Moyano, Argentine neurobiologist (f. 1959).
• 1911: Golbery do Couto e Silva, Brazilian military and geopolitical (f. 1987).
• 1915: Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (f. 1998).
• 1916: Consuelo Velázquez, pianist and Mexican composer (f. 2005).
• 1917: Leonid Hurwicz, US economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007 (f. 2008).
• 1918: Bruria Kaufman, Israeli theoretical physics (f. 2010).
• 1920: José Cerviño Cerviño, Spanish bishop (f. 2012).
• 1920: Christopher Robin Milne, British writer (f. 1996).
• 1921: Samuel Kunz, German military of Soviet origin (f. 2010).
• 1921: Gertrudis de la Fuente, Spanish biochemistry (f. 2017).
• 1923: Mario Laserna Pinzón, was an educator, diplomat, philosopher, mathematician, humanist, writer and politician born in France. (f. 2013).
• 1924: Jack Weston, American actor (f. 1996).
• 1926: Jaymala Shiledar, singer and Indian theatre actress (f. 2013).
• 1927: Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader (f. 2018).
• 1927: Juan Hamilton, a Chilean lawyer and politician (f. 2008).
• 1927: Fina de Calderón, writer and Spanish music (f. 2010).
• 1930: United Kingdom Margarita, British aristocrat (f. 2002).
• 1930: Frank Perry, American composer, producer and filmmaker (f. 1995).
• 1934: John L. Hall, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005.
• 1936: Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (f. 1999).
• 1937: Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, president of Ecuador between 2000 and 2003 (f. 2021).
• 1937: Donald Dewar, British chief and political minister (f. 2000).
• 1937: Ramón Mestre, an Argentine politician (f. 2003).
• 1938: Kenny Rogers, American musician (f. 2020).
• 1939: James Burton, American guitarist.
• 1939: Festus Mogae, President of Botswana.
• 1939: Clarence Williams III, American actor.
• 1943: Lucius Shepard, American writer (f. 2014).
• 1943: Hugh Wilson, American actor, writer and filmmaker.
• 1944: Perry Christie, Bahamian Prime Minister.
• 1944: Jairo Pinilla, Colombian filmmaker.
• 1944: Peter Weir, Australian filmmaker.
• 1945: Gerard Manset, singer, painter, photographer and French writer.
• 1945: Basil Poledouris, American composer of Greek origin (f. 2006).
• 1946: María Uriz, Spanish soprano.
• 1949: Loretta Devine, American actress.
• 1949: Alberto Rodríguez Saá, Argentine politician, governor of San Luis.
• 1950: Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer (f. 2021).
• 1951: Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician.
• 1951: Karekin II, Patriarch of the Armenian Church.
• 1952: Joe Strummer, British musician and singer of Turkish origin, from the band The Clash (f. 2002).
• 1952: Glenn Hughes, British musician, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath bands.
• 1955: Aladdin, Ecuadorian singer.
• 1956: José Julián Sacramento Garza, Mexican engineer and politician.
• 1956: Kim Cattrall, American actress.

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• 1961: Stephen Hillenburg, American animator, producer and biologist, creator SpongeBob (f. 2018).
• 1961: Mara Dierssen, Spanish neurobologist
• 1962: Gilberto Santa Rosa, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1963: Mohamed VI, Moroccan king.
• 1964: Esteban González Pons, Spanish politician.
• 1965: Silvia Tcherassi, Colombian fashion designer and entrepreneur of international career.
• 1965: Daniel Barone, director of Argentine television.
• 1967: Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress.
• 1967: Serj Tankian, Lebanese-American musician, from the System of a Down band.
• 1968: Antonio Benarrivo, Italian footballer.
• 1970: Douglas, Chilean singer.
• 1970: Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist.
• 1971: Liam Howlett, British musician, The Prodigy band.
• 1973: Serguéi Brin, computer scientist and American Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google.
• 1974: Alberto Caballero, Spanish television writer and producer.
• 1975: Alicia Witt, American actress.
• 1977: Jorge Bontemps, Argentine footballer (f. 2010).
• 1977: Veljko Paunović, Serbian footballer.
• 1978: Bhumika Chawla, actress and Indian exmodel.
• 1979: Kelis, American singer.
• 1979: Florian Bruns, German footballer.
• 1980: David Malo Azagra, Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Silvio Spann, footballer trinitense.
• 1982: Jorge De Olivera, Argentine soccer player.
• 1982: Germán Hornos, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1983: Aaron Bueno, Spanish footballer.
• 1984: Alizée, French singer.
• 1984: Eve Torres, American professional fighter.
• 1984: Tammy Schneider, Canadian curling player.
• 1984: Francesca Quondamcarlo, Italian fag.
• 1985: Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player.
• 1986: Usain Bolt, a Jamaican athlete.
• 1986: Noelia López, Spanish model.
• 1987: Megan Montaner, Spanish actress.
• 1987: J.D. Martínez, American baseball player.
• 1988: Kacey Musgraves, American country singer.
• 1988: Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer.
• 1988: Kiros Stanlley Soares Ferraz, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Ivan Fatić, Montenegrin footballer.
• 1988: Gaetano Berardi, Swiss footballer.
• 1989: Hayden Panettiere, American actress.
• 1989: Giuseppe Bellusci, Italian footballer.
• 1990: Alain Wiss, Swiss footballer.
• 1991: Cory Chettleburgh, New Zealand footballer.
• 1991: Raquel Pélissier, Haitian model.
• 1991: Jesse Rutherford, American band vocalist: The Neighbourhood.
• 1992: Brad Kavanagh, British actor and singer.
• 1992: R. J. Mitte, American actor.
• 1993: Joakim Lindberg, Swedish penguinist.
• 1996: Igor Carioca, Brazilian footballer.
• 1996: Sofyan Amrabat, Dutch-Marrochi footballer.
• 1997: Uriel Antuna, Mexican footballer.
• 1998: Greta Varlese, Italian model.
• 1998: Fredrik André Bjørkan, Norwegian footballer.
• 1999: Kacper Kostorz, Polish footballer.
• 2000: Artem Bondarenko, Ukrainian footballer.
• 2000: Abel Bretons, Spanish footballer.
• 2001: Samuele Ricci, Italian footballer.
• 2001: Brooks Jensen, American fighter

Deaths

• 672: Kōbun Tennō, 39th Japanese emperor (n. 648).
• 1131: Bedouin II, king of Jerusalem (n. ~1075)
• 1157: Alfonso VII de León, king of Leon and Imperator totius Hispaniae (n. 1105).
• 1293: Pierre d'Abernon, an Anglo-Normando poet (n. c. 1250).
• 1568: Jean Parisot de la Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem (n. 1494).
• 1614: Erzsébet Báthory, "La Señora Infame", a Hungarian aristocrat, serial killer (n. 1560).
• 1622: Count of Villamediana, aristocrat, major mail and Spanish poet (n. 1582).
• 1752: Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (n. 1682).
• 1762: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, aristocrat and British writer (n. 1689).
• 1814: Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (n. 1748).
• 1814: Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (n. 1753).
• 1838: Adelbert von Chamisso, a German writer (n. 1781).
• 1842: Leone Vicario, insurgent of Mexican independence (n. 1789).
• 1860: José MacCrohon and Blake, Spanish politician and military (n. 1803).
• 1867: Juan N. Álvarez, Mexican military (n. 1790).
• 1876: Ildefonso Cerdá, urbanist and Spanish political engineer (n. 1815).
• 1933: Francisca Saperas, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1851).
• 1940: Leon Trotsky, Soviet political and revolutionary theorist (n. 1879).
• 1943: Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1917 (n. 1857).
• 1944: Eugène Dieudonné, a French anarchist (n. 1884).
• 1947: Ettore Bugatti, Italian businessman (n. 1881).
• 1948: Carmen Serdan, a Mexican revolutionary (n. 1875).
• 1951: Constant Lambert, director of British orchestra and composer (n. 1905).
• 1956: Juan José de Amézaga, president of Uruguay (n. 1881).
• 1964: Palmiro Togliatti, Italian politician (n. 1893).
• 1977: Pedro López Lagar, an Argentine actor of Spanish origin (n. 1899).
• 1978: Charles Eames, American architect and designer (n. 1907).
• 1978: Gordon Matta-Clark, American architect and artist, son of Chilean painter Roberto Matta (n. 1943).
• 1979: Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (n. 1910).
• 1980: Absalón Argañarás, Argentine plastic artist (n. 1903).
• 1983: Bobby Deglané, Chilean radio announcer (n. 1905).
• 1986: Alexandre O'Neill, Portuguese poet (n. 1924).
• 1986: Bata, Spanish footballer (n. 1908).
• 1989: Raúl Seixas, Brazilian musician (n. 1945).
• 1992: Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (n. 1894).
• 1992: Isidro Lángara, Spanish footballer (n. 1912).
• 1995: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, American astrophysicist of Indian origin, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 (n. 1910).
• 1995: Anatole Fistoulari, director of orchestra and British musician of Ukrainian origin (n. 1907).
• 1996: José Soriano Izquierdo, designer and Spanish historietist (n. 1908).
• 1997: Misael Pastrana, a Colombian politician (n. 1923).
• 1998: Luis Dávila, an Argentine actor (n. 1927).
• 2001: Juan Antonio Villacañas, Spanish poet (n. 1922).
• 2002: Benjamin C. Thompson, American architect (n. 1918).
• 2004: Cacho Espíndola, an Argentine actor (n. 1940).
• 2005: Robert Moog, American synthesizer inventor (n. 1934).
• 2006: Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (n. 1913)
• 2007: Rose Bampton, American opera singer (n. 1907).
• 2007: Qurratulain Haider, Indian writer (n. 1927).
• 2007: Haley Paige, Mexican-American porn actress (n. 1981).
• 2008: Oscar Ferrari, Argentine tango singer (n. 1924).
• 2008: Jerry Finn, American producer (n. 1969).
• 2009: Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and writer (n. 1930)
• 2010: Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz, Peruvian locutor (n. 1924).
• 2010: Rodolfo Fogwill, writer, teacher and Argentine sociologist (n. 1941).
• 2010: Christoph Schlingensief, German film, theatre and opera director (n. 1960).
• 2011: Julio Romero, Argentine politician (n. 1916).
• 2012: William Thurston, American mathematician and teacher (n. 1946).
• 2014: Albert Reynolds, Irish politician (n. 1932).
• 2014: Robert Hansen, American serial rapist and murderer (n. 1939).
• 2014: Tehua, Mexican singer (n. 1942).
• 2015: Daniel Rabinovich, Argentine comic (n. 1943).
• 2018: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (n. 1975).
• 2019: Celso Piña, Mexican singer and musician (n. 1953).
• 2020: Ken Robinson, British writer and lecturer (n. 1950).
• 2021:
  • Don Everly, American rockabilly singer and guitarist (n. 1937).
  • Mary Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Consort Princess of Liechtenstein from 1989 to 2021 (n. 1940).
• 2022: Zalo Reyes, Chilean singer (n. 1952).
• 2022: Anabel Gutiérrez, Mexican actress (n.1932).

Celebrations

• International Day of Commemoration and Tribute to Victims of Terrorism.
• Argentina: Day of Romandeh
• Argentina: Football Day.
• Chile: National Trap Day.
• Spain: Arjona (Jaén) patronal party in honor of San Bonoso and San Maximiano.
• Mexico: National Day of Social Work.

Catholic saints list

Source:

San Pio X

• St. Pius X (memorial).

Marian devotions

• Our Lady of Knock.

Saints

• Saint Abraham of Smolensk
• Agathonic San of Tracia
• San Anastasio Corniculario
• Santa Aria
• San Avito
• San Bernardo de Alziva
• Santa Basa and her three children
• Bonoso and Maximiano
• San Cameron
• Santa Ciriaca
• San Cuadrato de Útica
• San Euprepio de Verona
• San Hardulfo
• San José Dang Dinh Viên
• San Leoncio
• San Luxorio de Sardinia
• San Natale de Casale Monferrato
• San Paterno
• Private
• San Sidonio Apollina
• San Zótico.

Blessed

• Beata Beatriz de Roelas
• Beato Bruno Zembol
• Beato Gilberto de Valenciano
• Beato Ladislao Findysz
• Beato Ramón Peiró Victorí
• Blessed Salvador Estrugo Solves
• Beata Victoria Rasoamanarivo.