August 31

August 31 is the 243rd (two hundred and forty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 244th in leap years. There are 122 days left to end the year.

The month of August had 30 days until Caesar Augustus made it have 31 days, like July.

Events

• 1056: In Constantinople, the Empress Theodora Porfirogeneta (75) suddenly dies without leaving an heir. It ends the Macedonian Dynasty.
• 1158: In Castilla (now Spain) a civil war begins because of the successor problems that arise after the death of Sancho III.
• 1217: In Castile, Queen Berenguela yields the throne to her son Fernando III.
• 1302: In present Italy, Fadrique II (the reign of Sicily) and Carlos II de Anjou (the reign of Naples) sign the peace of Caltabellota.
• 1451: in Inca (the Balearic Islands), the citizen oligarchy – with the support of Italian mercenaries – defeats the Forans.
• 1808: in the framework of the Napoleonic Wars, after English troops in the command of Wellington defeated Jean-Andoche Junot in the battle of Vimeiro. Portugal (21 August), the Sintra Convention is signed.
• 1811: In Spain, the Courts of Cadiz create the Laureate Cross of San Fernando to reward acts of heroic value in times of war.
• 1813: In Spain—in the framework of the Napoleonic Wars—the city of San Sebastian (Spain) is burned and destroyed by the Anglo-Portuguese troops who came to liberate it.
• 1813: In Irún, Spain, the Spanish Army backs the French in the battle of San Marcial following the offensive of the allied forces of the Duke of Wellington. It was the end of the French occupation in the Basque Country and Navarre.
• 1823: in the Bay of Cadiz, the French forces led by Luis Antonio de France (duke of Angulema) take over the fort of Trocadero in the Battle of Trocadero.
• 1834: In Madrid the Normal School of Primary Education was opened for the training of national teachers.
• 1839: in Oñate (Guipuzcoa) the Israeli general Baldomero Espartero and the Carlist general Rafael Maroto hugged before their armies (Abrazo de Vergara), which put an end to the first Carlist War (of the three Carlist Wars of the nineteenth century) or War of the Seven Years (1833-1840).
• 1848: In Austria the Constituent Assembly, after suppressing the dependence of the peasants of the lords, declares its territorial properties free.
• 1848: Costa Rica is independent of the Federal Republic of Central America.
• 1864: In the framework of the U.S. Civil War, in the Atlanta Campaign, unionists force General William T. Sherman to launch the assault on Atlanta (Batalla de Jonesborough)
• 1876: Ottoman sultan Murat V is overthrown by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
• 1878: In Miskolc (Hungary), a flood occurs. The river Sajó climbs one meter per minute, preventing the escape of most of the population. About 500 people die drowned. There had already been several serious floods in 1691, 1788, 1813, 1845 and 1853, but this was the worst.
• 1883: In Jujuy, Argentina, by provincial law, the foundation of a town was arranged with the name of "Siberia Argentina", in the place known as Abra Pampa.
• 1886: in Charleston (South Carolina), an earthquake kills 100 people.
• 1888: In London, Jack the Ripper murders his first victim, Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols.
• 1897: In the United States, Thomas Edison patents the kinetoscope, the first film projector.
• 1901: in Guipuzcoa, the writing of Mail of Guipúzcoa It's assaulted by war sailors.
• 1901: In Chile, Germán Riesco is proclaimed president.
• 1905: astronomers from all over Europe travel to Burgos (Spain) to observe the total eclipse of Sol.
• 1907: Count Aleksandr Izvolski and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Entente Anglo-Russiana, whose result is the Entente Triple.
• 1909: More than a thousand people die in Mexico because of the catastrophic floods.
• 1915: Germany and Austria divide Poland into two districts: Warsaw for the Germans, and Kielce for the Austrians.
• 1918: In Moscow, the British consul Bruce Lockhart is arrested and charged with plotting against the Soviet Government.
• 1919: in Hungary, the economic failure and invasion of the Romanian troops caused the fall of the Hungarian dictator Bela Kun.
• 1920: In the Polish-Soviet War, the Battle of Komarów begins; the 1st Cavalry Army in command of Semion Budionni will be defeated by Polish forces during the siege of Lvov.
• 1923: in Greece, Italians occupy the island of Corfu.
• 1925: in Algeciras—in the framework of the Moroccan war—French General Philippe Petain and Spanish General Miguel Primo de Rivera draw a joint action plan against Abd el-Krim.
• 1925: U.S. Marines leave Haiti after ten years of occupation.
• 1926: In Argentina the Club Atlético Porvenir Talleres is founded.
• 1927: Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth discovers the asteroid Amaryllis (1085).
• 1928: Turkey agrees to adopt the Latin alphabet and abandon the Arab.
• 1928: in Germany the "normal year" of the Dawes Plan begins, during which the obligations of the Reich increase to 2500 million frames.
• 1928: in Berlin the Opera of the three cents by Bertolt Brecht, with music by Kurt Weill.
• 1928: In Berlin, the Radio Exhibition presents the television of Dénes von Mihály, with a resolution of 30 lines.
• 1929: At The Hague, the conference on war reparations (WWII) ends with the adoption of the Young Plan.
• 1931: in Coquimbo (Chile), the marines of the Navy ships are mutinied, starting the Squad uprising.
• 1931: In China, the waters of the Yangtse River flood most of the Kuang region and cause the death of 250 000 people.
• 1931: in Sinaloa, Mexico, the weekly newspaper begins to be published North Voicedirected by Rodolfo Uranga.
• 1935: in Washington D.C. (United States), President Franklin D. Roosevelt promulgates the first Neutrality Act (‘The Neutrality Act’), which prohibits the Government from supporting or censoring any country in a belligerent situation.
• 1936: In the context of the Spanish civil war, he is shot at the Cemetery of the Almudena of Madrid Joaquín Milans del Bosch, the civilian governor of Barcelona.
• 1936: the British transatlantic Queen Mary wins the victory in the informal speed competition known as the Blue Band.
• 1937: in Bolivia the National Council for Economics is established.
• 1939: In Germany, the Nazi media claim that Polish soldiers attack the radio station in Gleiwitz. That gives the excuse to Adolf Hitler to invade Poland the next day, which will start World War II.
• 1941: Second World War: Serbian paramilitary forces (chetniks) defeat the Germans in the battle of Loznica.
• 1942: In Ternopil, Ukraine, an SS brigade organizes the first deportation of Jews from the ghetto of Ternopil to the camp of extermination in Belzec.
• 1944: In Romania, Soviet troops enter the capital, Bucharest, and, without fighting, the Third Reich loses its most valuable ally he had since the beginning of World War II.
• 1945: In Australia, Robert Menzies founded the Australian Liberal Party.
• 1947: In Hungary, the Communists win in the elections.
• 1948: In the United States, actor Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) is arrested for possession of marijuana (indictional cannabis)and he will be sentenced to 60 days in prison.
• 1950: Mexico opens Channel 4 (XHTV-TV), which means the formal start of Mexican television.
• 1951: the German company Deutsche Grammophon presents the first LP in English long play), long-lasting vinyl disk.
• 1953: In Santander, Spain, the airport is opened.
• 1954: in Mao (Dominican Republic) the highest temperature is recorded in the history of that country: 43 °C (109.4 °F).
• 1955: in the Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires), the constitutional president Juan Domingo Perón pronounces his last speech before the bloody coup d’état and exile.
• 1957: Malaysia is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1957: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 44 kiloton Smokey atomic bomb to 210 m. It is the 107th bomb of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1961: Spain withdraws its last troops from Morocco.
• 1962: Trinidad and Tobago is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1964: In Venezuela, the Canine Mucuchí race is declared by decree by the National Dog of this country.
• 1967: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 80:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 20 kiloton Door Mist atomic bomb to 436 m underground. It's the bomb number 518 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1967: Argentina and Chile resolve to suspend all fishing activities east of Meridiano 68-36, in the Beagle channel.
• 1970: in Peru, President Velasco Alvarado nationalizes the main banks.
• 1971: South Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia.
• 1971: Presidents Misael Pastrana (of Colombia) and Salvador Allende (of Chile) subscribe to a joint statement affirming respect for ideological diversity.
• 1975: El Salvador violates the ceasefire with Honduras, following the agreement signed in Guatemala.
• 1978: in the area of atomic testing in Nevada (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 8 kiloton Panir atomic bomb to 681 m underground. It is the 913 of the 1129 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1979: The joint action of hurricanes David and Frederic caused an unprecedented catastrophe in the Caribbean area.
• 1981: in Spain, Francisco Fernández Ordóñez resigns as Minister of Justice.
• 1985: in France, near Argenton-sur-Creuse, 46 people die when they derail a train.
• 1986: In the American city of Cerritos (Los Angeles), a Douglas DC-9 aircraft from the Aeromexico company crashes into the air with a Piper Cherokee. 82 people die.
• 1986: In the Black Sea, the Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov sinks after colliding with the cargo ship Pyotr Vasev. 423 of 1,234 people on board die.
• 1987: In the United States, singer Michael Jackson releases Bad, his third album, and becomes the first and only artist to have had 5 singles in the number one of the Billboard list.
• 1989: Libya and Chad sign an agreement on the Auzu strip, ending more than 15 years of border dispute between the two countries.
• 1990: the Federal Republic of Germany (of a neoliberal tendency) and the German Democratic Republic (of a socialist tendency) sign the Agreement for the Reunification of Germany.
• 1991: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are independent of the Soviet Union.
• 1992: in the Republic of the Congo, Pascal Lissouba is appointed president.
• 1993: After more than 50 years of occupation, the last Russian soldiers leave Lithuania.
• 1994: In Ireland, the Provisional IRA declares the ceasefire.
• 1994: at the Morumbí Stadium (São Paulo), the Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield (of Argentina) is held champion of the Copa Libertadores de América by beating the São Paulo Futebol Clube (of Brazil).
• 1996: The peace agreement was signed in Khasavyurt (Daguest) after 20 months of war in Chechnya
• 1997: in Paris, France, Diana Spencer (Lady DI), Princess of Wales, dies in a car accident.
• 1997: delegates from over one hundred countries meet in Oslo at an international conference on the ban on anti-personnel mines.
• 1998: North Korea launches KwangmyongsongYour first satellite.
• 1998: The Russian crisis causes the collapse of the New York stock market, which after an hour of dizzying fall loses at the close of 512,61 points.
• 1999: A Boeing 737-200 starred at the Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, dying sixty-five people.
• 2000: the value of the euro is deplored after the elevation of interest rates by the European Central Bank.
• 2001: at least 44 people die and dozens are injured as a result of a strong explosion in a leisure area in central Tokyo.
• 2001: in Spain, the General Directorate of Pharmacy decrees the precautionary immobilization of a dialectist marketed by the multinational Baxter, after the death of twelve patients subjected to hemodialysis in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona.
• 2003: in Baghdad, Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Shiites attend the funeral of their religious leader, Mohammad Baquer al Hakim.
• 2003: The Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to distribute hachís (a derivative of marijuana) in therapeutic pharmacies.
• 2004: an Iraqi armed group murders twelve Nepalese who were kidnapped, and shows a video of the massacre on the Internet.
• 2004: In the city of Beerseva, Israel, two terrorists blow up bombs on six buses; 16 people die, and 84 others are injured.
• 2005: in Baghdad the stampede on the Al-Ayma Bridge takes place.
• 2005: in Bogotá the Superstation transmissions cease in the FM dial 88.9, being replaced a month later by Radio Uno de RCN Radio.
• 2006: The scream and The Madonna of Edvard Munch—who had been stolen on 22 August 2004—are recovered by the Norwegian police after a raid.
• 2006: the deadline for Iran to communicate its decision on the proposal of the international community on its uranium enrichment programme.
• 2007: launch of the voice bank of the VOCALOID Hatsune Miku program.
• 2009: Jalisco New Generation Cartel founded
• 2012: In Spain, the Royal Decree-Law 24/2012 of Restructuring and Resolution of Credit Entities, which regulates the popularly known as a bad bank, enters into force.
• 2012: in Lahore (Pakistan), Pakistan International Airlines flight 653 runs off track while landing at Lahore airport.
• 2015: in Zaragoza, Spain, they operate the facilities of Pirotecnia Zaragozana, one of the most important companies in Europe in the sector. Leave 6 dead, and 6 seriously injured.
• 2016: In Brazil, after a process of dismissal, Dilma Rousseff is finally dismissed, assuming the presidency of the country Vice President Michel Temer.
• 2018: In Donetsk (Ukraine), Aleksandr Zajárchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, dies for an explosion in a cafeteria
• 2020: The scientific journal PNAS publishes that the singer dog of New Guinea is not extinct, as it was believed, according to scientists, and the finding will serve to study human vocal disorders.
• 2022: In Argentina, a man pointed and gatilated the face of the Vice-President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in an attempt to magnicidio. He shot, he didn't come out and the man was arrested immediately by the police.

Births

• 12: Caligula, Roman emperor (f. 41).
• 161: Comfortable, Roman emperor (f. 192).
• 1529: Bernardo Davanzati, an Italian economist (f. 1606).
• 1569: Yajanguir, Indian Mogol emperor (f. 1627).
• 1602: Amalia de Solms-Braunfels, German aristocrat, Princess Consort of Orange (f. 1675).
• 1663: Guillaume Amontons, physicist and French inventor (f. 1705).
• 1686: Carlos de Berry, French aristocrat (f. 1714).
• 1749: Aleksandr Radíshchev, Russian writer (f. 1802).
• 1786: Michel Eugène Chevreul, a French chemical (f. 1889).
• 1797: Ramón Castilla, Peruvian military and political president of Peru (f. 1867).
• 1798: Georg Friedrich Puchta, German jurist (f. 1846).
• 1821: Hermann von Helmholtz, German physicist (f. 1894).
• 1834: Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (f. 1886).
• 1843: Georg von Hertling, German chancellor (f. 1919).
• 1850: Federico Villarreal, mathematician, engineer, physicist and Peruvian polyglot (f. 1923).
• 1866: Elizabeth von Arnim, British writer (f. 1941).
• 1869: Juan Torrendell Spanish writer (f. 1937)
• 1870: Maria Montessori, Italian educator (f. 1952).
• 1874: Juan Rof Codina, Spanish veterinarian (f. 1967).
• 1874: Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (f. 1949).
• 1878: Frank Jarvis, American athlete (f. 1933).
• 1879: Alma Mahler, Austrian composer (f. 1964).
• 1879: Yoshihito, 123rd Japanese emperor (f. 1926).
• 1879: Isidro Ayora, Ecuadorian politician (f. 1978).
• 1880: José Riquelme and López-Bago, a Spanish military officer (f. 1972).
• 1880: Guillermina I, Dutch queen (f. 1962).
• 1883: Ramón Fonst, a Cuban farmer (f. 1959).
• 1887: Zenobia Camprubí, writer, translator and linguist, pioneer in Spanish feminism (f.1956).
• 1888: Ramón de Basterra, Spanish writer (f. 1928).
• 1895: José Puche Álvarez, a Spanish doctor (f. 1979).
• 1895: Joseph Schillinger, Russian-Ukrainian composer and theorist (f. 1943).
• 1897: Fredric March, an American actor (f. 1975).
• 1897: Silverio Izaguirre, Spanish footballer (f. 1935).
• 1899: Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (f. 1992).
• 1905: Julio Meinvielle, Argentine priest (f. 1973).
• 1907: Ramón Magsaysay, Filipino president (f. 1957).
• 1908: Ricardo Gullón, Spanish writer and essayist (f. 1991).
• 1908: William Saroyan, American novelist (f. 1981).
• 1910: Raoul Ubac, Belgian artist (f. 1985).
• 1911: Arsenio Rodríguez (Arsenio Travieso Scull), a Cuban musician who is considered one of the architects of the son of Havana, the mambo and the salsa (f. 1970).
• 1911: Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi, Japanese military physician (f. 1943).
• 1912: Ramón Vinay, Chilean opera singer (f. 1996).
• 1913: Ambrós, historietista español (f. 1992).
• 1914: Franz Rosenthal, German Orientalist (f. 2003).
• 1916: Ramón Salas Larrazábal, Spanish historian (f. 1993).
• 1918: Ana María González, Mexican singer and actress (f. 1983).
• 1918: Alan Jay Lerner libretist, litrist and American scriptwriter (f. 1986).
• 1920: Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (f. 2009).
• 1923: José Luis García Rúa, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist philosopher (f. 2017).
• 1925: Maurice Pialat, French filmmaker (f. 2003).
• 1928: James Coburn, American actor (f. 2002).
• 1928: Miguel Ors, a Spanish journalist (f. 2020).
• 1929: León Londoño Tamayo, Colombian businessman and sports leader, president of the Colombian Federation of Football (f. 2012)
• 1929: Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Peruvian writer (f. 1994)
• 1933: Susy Leiva, singer of Argentine tangos (f. 1966).
• 1934: Susana Campos, an Argentine actress (f. 2004).
• 1935: Eldridge Cleaver, American writer and activist (f. 1998).
• 1935: Frank Robinson, American baseball player (f. 2019).
• 1936: Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish politician (f. 1998).
• 1938: Alberto Cormillot, Argentine physician.
• 1942: Pedro Solbes, Spanish politician.
• 1945: Van Morrison, Irish singer and composer.
• 1945: Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist.
• 1947: Mariano Venancio, Spanish actor.
• 1948: Harald Ertl, Austrian test pilot (f. 1982).
• 1948: Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist, Scorpions band.
• 1949: Richard Gere, American actor.
• 1949: H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004.
• 1951: Rebeca González, Venezuelan actress (f. 2019).
• 1953: Miguel Angel Guerra, Argentine racing pilot.
• 1954: Caroline "Tula" Cossey, English actress and model, first transgender woman to pose for Playboy and to be a Bond girl
• 1955: Edwin Moses, American athlete.
• 1956: Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese politician and lawyer. President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2016.
• 1958: Serge Blanco, French rugby player.
• 1958: Julie Brown, American actress.
• 1959: The Drugs, Spanish musician, of the Barricada band.
• 1960: Hasan Nasrallah, a Lebanese politician.
• 1963: Reb Beach, American guitarist, Winger and Whitesnake bands.
• 1965: Terelu Campos, a Spanish journalist.
• 1965: Alvaro García, Spanish poet.
• 1965: Pablo Motos, TV presenter, radio announcer and Spanish humorist.
• 1966: Luboslav Penev, Bulgarian footballer.
• 1966: Marcos Winter, Brazilian actor.
• 1967: Boris Quercia, actor, director and Chilean screenwriter.
• 1968: Jorge Amaro, musician, producer and Mexican composer.
• 1969: Fabián Corrales, Colombian singer of Vallenata music.
• 1970: Leo García, Argentine singer.
• 1970: Deborah Gibson, American singer.
• 1970: Rania of Jordan, Jordanian queen.
• 1971: Silvio Carrario, Argentine footballer.
• 1971: Alicia Villarreal, singer, composer and Mexican actress.
• 1971: Chris Tucker, American actor and humorist.
• 1973: Gustavo Cañizares, Spanish footballer.
• 1974: Andrei Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player.
• 1975: Sara Ramírez, American actress.
• 1976: Romain Larrieu, French footballer.
• 1976: Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer.
• 1977: Jeff Hardy, American professional fighter.
• 1977: Craig Nicholls, Australian musician, The Vines band.
• 1977: Luca Fusco, Italian footballer.
• 1978: Philippe Christanval, French footballer.
• 1979: Noelia, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1979: César Ritter, Peruvian actor.
• 1979: Mickie James, American professional fighter.
• 1979: Peter Luczak, Australian tennis player.
• 1979: Hiroyuki Ishida, Japanese footballer.
• 1980: Joe Budden, American rapper.
• 1980: Flex, Panamanian singer.
• 1981: Florentino Primera, Venezuelan singer.
• 1981: Lars Jungnickel, German footballer.
• 1982: Pepe Reina, Spanish footballer.
• 1982: Chris Duhon, American basketball player.
• 1982: Oscar Ahumada, Argentine footballer.
• 1982: Patrick Nuo, composer, singer and Swiss model.
• 1982: Łukasz Mierzejewski, Polish footballer.
• 1983: Milan Biševac, Serbian footballer.
• 1984: Ted Ligety, American skier.
• 1984: Matti Breschel, Danish cyclist.
• 1984: Efraín Ruales, actor, model and Ecuadorian musician (f. 2021).
• 1985: Mohamed bin Salman, chief substitute heir and Minister of Defence of Saudi Arabia.
• 1985: Benjamin Behrla, German york.
• 1985: Esmeralda Moya, Spanish actress and model.
• 1986: Manon Melis, a Dutch footballer.
• 1986: Vicente Pascual Collado, Spanish footballer.
• 1987: Xavier Annunziata, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: David Ospina, Colombian footballer.
• 1988: Pedro Tiba, Portuguese footballer.
• 1988: Julio Ruiz, Panamanian footballer.
• 1988: Jefferson Lopes, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Vicente Gómez Umpiérrez, Spanish footballer.
• 1989: Stipe Plazibat, Croatian footballer.
• 1989: Landry Allbright, American film and television actress.
• 1990: Felix Ramón Melgarejo, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1991: Jakub Słowik Polish footballer.
• 1992: Nicolás Tagliafico, Argentine footballer.
• 1992: Hayato Mine, Japanese footballer.
• 1993: Pablo Marí Villar, Spanish footballer.
• 1993: Jairo Henríquez, Salvadoran footballer.
• 1994: Takahiro Iida, Japanese footballer.
• 1995: Martijn Budding, Dutch cyclist.
• 1995: Giovanni Carboni, Italian cyclist.
• 1996: Fabio Jakobsen, Dutch cyclist.
• 1997: Maximilian Göppel, a footballer from Tunisia.
• 1997: Arkadiusz Moryto, Polish basketball player.
• 1997: Brandon Childress, American basketball player.
• 1997: Avalon Wasteneys, Canadian shirt.
• 2017: Gabriel, Prince of Sweden.

Deaths

• 1057: Theodora Porfirogeneta, Byzantine empress (n. 981).
• 1158: Sancho III of Castile, king of Castile (n. 1133/1134).
• 1234: Go-Horikawa, Japanese emperor (n. 1212).
• 1240: Ramon Nonato, a Spanish saint (n. 1204).
• 1250: Dominguito del Val, an assassinated zaragozano child, decanned in 1969 (n. 1243).
• 1422: Henry V of England (n. 1387).
• 1654: Olaus Wormius, Danish physicist (n. 1588).
• 1688: John Bunyan, British writer (n. 1628).
• 1724: Louis I, king of Spain (n. 1707).
• 1795: François-André Danican Philidor, a chess player and French composer (n. 1726).
• 1816: José Joaquín Camacho, lawyer, journalist and Colombian teacher (n. 1766).
• 1840: Pedro María de Alcántara Salvadores, militar y periodista argentina (n. 1802).
• 1864: Ferdinand Lassalle, German socialist lawyer and politician (n. 1825).
• 1867: Charles Baudelaire, French poet (n. 1821).
• 1905: Francesco Tamagno, Italian tenor (n. 1850).
• 1920: Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (n. 1832).
• 1941: Marina Tsvetáyeva, a Soviet poet (n. 1892).
• 1943: Nina Sosnina, Soviet partisan and Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1923).
• 1952: Belisario de Jesús García, militar, musician and Mexican composer (n. 1892)
• 1963: Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (n. 1882).
• 1965: Pedro Laxalt, Argentine actor (n. 1900).
• 1967: Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez, a peasant and a Cuban guerrilla, murdered in Bolivia (n. 1925).
• 1967: Tania Bunke, Argentine guerrilla and folklorist; murdered in Bolivia (n. 1937).
• 1967: Iliá Ehrenburg, Soviet writer and journalist of Jewish family (n. 1891).
• 1969: Rocky Marciano, American boxer (n. 1923).
• 1971: Louis Armand, engineer and senior French official (n. 1905).
• 1973: John Ford, American filmmaker (n. 1894).
• 1979: Alberto Martín-Artajo Álvarez, Spanish politician (n. 1905).
• 1979: Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (n. 1904).
• 1985: Luis Arturo Gardeweg Villegas, Chilean politician (n. 1897).
• 1985: Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist (n. 1899).
• 1985. Boris Kovzan, Soviet combat pilot (n. 1922).
• 1986: Jorge Alessandri, Chilean politician, president between 1958 and 1964 (n. 1896).
• 1986: Urho Kekkonen, Finnish President (n. 1900).
• 1986: Henry Moore, British sculptor (n. 1898).
• 1992: Florencio Escardó, Argentine physician (n. 1904).
• 1992: Wolfgang Güllich, German climber (n. 1960).
• 1994: Lucila Palacios, a Venezuelan writer (n. 1902).
• 1997: Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (n. 1955).
• 1997: Lady Di (Diana Spencer), aristocrat and British philanthropist (n. 1961).
• 1997: Guillermo Brizuela Méndez, locutor and presenter of Argentine television (n. 1922).
• 1999: Irina Yanina, Russian Nurse, Medical Sergeant and Hero of the Russian Federation (n. 1966)
• 2002: Lionel Hampton, American jazz musician (n. 1908).
• 2002: Martin Kamen, American scientist, carbon discoverer 14 (n. 1913)
• 2002: George Porter, British chemist (n. 1920).
• 2004: Aldo Bigatti, Argentine actor (n. 1918).
• 2005: Eladia Blázquez, singer and composer of Argentina (n. 1931).
• 2005: Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist (n. 1908).
• 2005: Nina Ulianenko, Soviet Military Aircraft and Heroin of the Soviet Union (n. 1923)
• 2009: Barry Flanagan, British sculptor (n. 1941).
• 2010: Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (n. 1960).
• 2010: Mauricio Peña Almada, Mexican footballer (n. 1959).
• 2012: Serguéi Sokolov, Russian military (n. 1911).
• 2012: Norbert Walter, German economist (n. 1944).
• 2012: Carlo Maria Martini, Italian Jesuit Cardinal (n. 1927).
• 2014: Jimi Jamison, American singer (n. 1951).
• 2015:
  • Cipe Lincovsky, an Argentine actress; cardiac arrest (n. 1929).
  • Vera B. Rison, American politics (n. 1939).
• 2018: Alexandr Zajárchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk
• 2019: Anthoine Hubert, a French motor racing driver (n. 1996).
• 2020:
  • César Cigliutti, Argentine activist and president of the Argentine Homosexual Community (n. 1957)
  • Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician, president of India between 2012 and 2017 (n. 1935).
• 2021: Francesco Morini, Italian footballer (n. 1944).

Celebrations

• International Day of Solidarity
• International Day for People of African Descent

El SalvadorEl Salvador:

• Auditor's day.
• Celebration of the Nejapa Fire Balls.

MalaysiaMalaysia

• Independence Day.

Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago

• Independence Day.

Catholic saints list

• San Aidan
• San Dominguito de Val
• Saint Joseph of Arimathea and Saint Nicodemus, disciples of the Lord.
• San Ramón Nonato
• San Paulino de Tréveris
• San Wala