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Australian Labor Party | State and territory branches | State and territory branches
The Australian Labor Party is a federal party, consisting of eight branches from each state and territory. While the National Executive is responsible for national campaign strategy, each state and territory are an autonomous branch and are responsible for campaigning in their own jurisdictions for federal, state and local elections. State and territory branches consist of both individual members and affiliated trade unions, who between them decide the party's policies, elect its governing bodies and choose its candidates for public office.
Members join a state branch and pay a membership fee, which is graduated according to income. The majority of trade unions in Australia are affiliated to the party at a state level. Union affiliation is direct and not through the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Affiliated unions pay an affiliation fee based on the size of their membership. Union affiliation fees make up a large part of the party's income. Other sources of funds for the party include political donations and public funding.
Members are generally expected to attend at least one meeting of their local branch each year, although there are differences in the rules from state to state. In practice, only a dedicated minority regularly attend meetings. Many members are only active during election campaigns.
The members and unions elect delegates to state and territory conferences (usually held annually, although more frequent conferences are often held). These conferences decide policy, and elect state or territory executives, a state or territory president (an honorary position usually held for a one-year term), and a state or territory secretary (a full-time professional position). However, ACT Labor directly elects its president. The larger branches also have full-time assistant secretaries and organisers. In the past the ratio of conference delegates coming from the branches and affiliated unions has varied from state to state, however under recent national reforms at least 50% of delegates at all state and territory conferences must be elected by branches.
In some states, the party also contests local government elections or endorses local candidates. In others it does not, preferring to allow its members to run as non-endorsed candidates. The process of choosing candidates is called preselection. Candidates are preselected by different methods in the various states and territories. In some they are chosen by ballots of all party members, in others by panels or committees elected by the state conference, in still others by a combination of these two.
The state and territory Labor branches are the following:
BranchLeader Last state/territory election Status Federal representatives Lower house Upper houseMPsSenatorsYearVotes (%)SeatsTPP (%)Votes (%)SeatsNew South Wales LaborChris Minns202337.154.337.1Victorian LaborJacinta Allan 202236.755.033.0Queensland LaborSteven Miles 202432.646.2align=center colspan=2 Western Australian LaborRoger Cook 202159.169.260.3South Australian LaborPeter Malinauskas202240.054.637.0Tasmanian LaborDean Winter202429.0align=right align=right ACT LaborAndrew Barr202434.5align=right align=center colspan=2 Territory LaborSelena Uibo202428.742.0align=center colspan=2 |
Australian Labor Party | Country Labor | Country Labor
The Country Labor Party, commonly known as Country Labor, was an affiliated organisation of the Labor Party. Although not expressly defined, Country Labor operated mainly within rural New South Wales, and was mainly seen as an extension of the New South Wales branch that operates in rural electorates.
Country Labor was used as a designation by candidates contesting elections in rural areas. The Country Labor Party was registered as a separate party in New South Wales,List of Registered Parties , Electoral Commission NSW. and was also registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for federal elections.Current register of political parties , Australian Electoral Commission. It did not have the same status in other states and, consequently, that designation could not be used on the ballot paper.
The creation of a separation designation for rural candidates was first suggested at the June 1999 ALP state conference in New South Wales. In May 2000, following Labor's success at the 2000 Benalla by-election in Victoria, Kim Beazley announced that the ALP intended to register a separate "Country Labor Party" with the AEC;Country Labor: a new direction? , 7 June 2000. Retrieved 29 September 2017 this occurred in October 2000. The Country Labor designation was most frequently used in New South Wales. According to the ALP's financial statements for the 2015β16 financial year, NSW Country Labor had around 2,600 members (around 17 percent of the party total), but almost no assets. It recorded a severe funding shortfall at the 2015 New South Wales election, and had to rely on a $1.68-million loan from the party proper to remain solvent. It had been initially assumed that the party proper could provide the money from its own resources, but the NSW Electoral Commission ruled that this was impermissible because the parties were registered separately. Instead the party proper had to loan Country Labor the required funds at a commercial interest rate.Near-insolvent Country Labor 'may never repay' $1.68m to party, The Australian, 28 July 2017.
The Country Labor Party was de-registered by the New South Wales Electoral Commission in 2021. |
Australian Labor Party | Australian Young Labor | Australian Young Labor
Australian Young Labor is the youth wing of the Australian Labor Party, where all members under age 26 are automatically members. It is the peak youth body within the ALP. Former presidents of AYL have included former NSW Premier Bob Carr, Federal Leader of the House Tony Burke, former Special Minister of State Senator John Faulkner, former Australian Workers Union National Secretary, current Member for Maribyrnong and former Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten as well as dozens of State Ministers and MPs. The current National President is Manu Risoldi. |
Australian Labor Party | Networks | Networks
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) includes a variety of networks and associations that connect members, advocate for issues, and contribute to the partyβs policy development. The national platform currently mandates or encourages state branches to formally establish these groups along with calling for generalised interest groups known as policy action caucuses. Examples of such groups include the Labor Environment Action Network, the LGBTQ wing Rainbow Labor, Labor For Choice, the women's wing Labor Women's Network, Labor for Drug Law Reform Labor for Refugees, Labor for Housing, Labor Teachers Network, Aboriginal Labor Network, and recently, Labor Enabled β the action group for Disability Advocacy
These groups operate under different names across states and territories and are categorized into equity groups, which focus on representation based on identity or shared characteristics, and policy-focused groups, which emphasize thematic advocacy. In Queensland, these networks are formally referred to as Equity Groups and Associations, which are distinct entities. Other states use terms such as forums, caucuses, or committees.
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Australian Labor Party | Ideology and factions | Ideology and factions
Labor's constitution has long stated: "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields". This "socialist objective" was introduced in 1921, but was later qualified by two further objectives: "maintenance of and support for a competitive non-monopolistic private sector" and "the right to own private property". Labor governments have not attempted the "democratic socialisation" of any industry since the 1940s, when the Chifley government failed to nationalise the private banks, and in fact have privatised several industries such as aviation and banking. |
Australian Labor Party | Factions | Factions
The Labor Party has always had a left wing and a right wing; however, since 1989, it has been organised into formal factions.
The two largest factional groupings are the Labor Left, who are supportive of democratic socialist ideals, and the Labor Right who generally support social democratic traditions. The national factional groupings are themselves divided into formal factions, primarily state-based such as Centre Unity in New South Wales and Labor Forum in Queensland.
Some trade unions are affiliated with the Labor Party and are also factionally aligned. Important unions supporting the right faction are the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) and the Transport Workers Union of Australia (TWU). Important unions supporting the left include the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), United Workers Union, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) and the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). |
Australian Labor Party | Election results | Election results |
Australian Labor Party | House of Representatives | House of Representatives
Election Leader Votes % Seats Β± Position Status1901 None 79,736 15.8 14 3rd 1903 Chris Watson 223,163 31.0 7 3rd 1906 348,711 36.6 4 1st 1910Andrew Fisher 660,864 50.0 16 1st 1913 921,099 48.5 5 2nd 1914 858,451 50.9 5 1st 1917Frank Tudor 827,541 43.9 20 2nd 1919 811,244 42.5 4 2nd 1922Matthew Charlton 665,145 42.3 3 1st 1925 1,313,627 45.0 6 2nd 1928James Scullin 1,158,505 44.6 8 1st 1929 1,406,327 48.8 15 1st 1931 859,513 27.1 32 3rd 1934 952,251 26.8 4 2nd 1937John Curtin 1,555,737 43.2 11 1st 1940 1,556,941 40.2 3 1st 1943 2,058,578 49.9 17 1st 1946Ben Chifley 2,159,953 49.7 6 1st 1949 2,117,088 46.0 4 2nd 1951 2,174,840 47.6 5 1st 1954H. V. Evatt 2,280,098 50.0 5 1st 1955 1,961,829 44.6 10 2nd 1958 2,137,890 42.8 2 2nd 1961Arthur Calwell 2,512,929 47.9 15 1st 1963 2,489,184 45.5 10 2nd 1966 2,282,834 40.0 9 2nd 1969Gough Whitlam 2,870,792 47.0 18 1st 1972 3,273,549 49.6 8 1st 1974 3,644,110 49.3 1 1st 1975 3,313,004 42.8 30 2nd 1977 3,141,051 39.7 2 2nd 1980 Bill Hayden 3,749,565 45.2 13 2nd 1983Bob Hawke 4,297,392 49.5 24 1st 1984 4,120,130 47.6 7 1st 1987 4,222,431 45.8 4 1st 1990 3,904,138 39.4 8 1st 1993Paul Keating 4,751,390 44.9 2 1st 1996 4,217,765 38.7 31 2nd 1998Kim Beazley 4,454,306 40.1 18 1st 2001 4,341,420 37.8 2 2nd 2004 Mark Latham 4,408,820 37.6 5 2nd 2007 Kevin Rudd 5,388,184 43.4 23 1st 2010 Julia Gillard 4,711,363 38.0 11 1st 2013 Kevin Rudd 4,311,365 33.4 17 2nd 2016Bill Shorten 4,702,296 34.7 14 1st 2019 4,752,110 33.3 1 1st 2022 Anthony Albanese 4,776,03032.6 9 1st |
Australian Labor Party | Donors | Donors
In 2023/24, state and federal branches of Labor reported $67.5 million in donations. Labor's largest donation was $1m from Anthony Pratt. Other large donors were unions and gambling companies.
The Labor Party also receives undisclosed funding through several methods, such as "associated entities". John Curtin House, Industry 2020, IR21 and the Happy Wanderers Club are entities which have been used to funnel donations to the Labor Party without disclosing the source.
A 2019 report found that the Labor Party received $33,000 from pro-gun groups during the 2011β2018 periods compared to $82,000 received by the Coalition. |
Australian Labor Party | See also | See also
Australian labour movement
Labor Against War
Socialism in Australia
Third Way
Tasmanian LaborβGreen Accord (1989-1990)
Australian Capital Territory LaborβGreens coalition (2012β2024) |
Australian Labor Party | Further reading | Further reading
Ormonde, Paul (1982). A Foolish Passionate Man: a biography of Jim Cairns. Ringwood, Vic, Australia: Penguin Books. .
Ormonde, Paul (1972). The Movement. Sydney: Thomas Nelson.
Charlesworth, M. J. (2000) Ormonde, Paul (Ed). Santamaria : the politics of fear : critical reflections. Richmond, Vic.: Spectrum Publications. |
Australian Labor Party | Notes | Notes |
Australian Labor Party | References | References |
Australian Labor Party | Bibliography | Bibliography
Bramble, Tom, and Rick Kuhn. Labor's Conflict: Big Business, Workers, and the Politics of Class (Cambridge University Press; 2011) 240 pages.
Calwell, A. A. (1963). Labor's Role in Modern Society. Melbourne, Lansdowne Press.
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Australian Labor Party | External links | External links
Australian Labor Party Victorian Branch Rules, April 2013
Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party, 1892 β UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register
125th anniversary of the Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party β John Oxley Library Blog, State Library of Queensland.
OM69-18 Charles Seymour Papers 1880β1924 β Collection record, State Library of Queensland
Charles Seymour Papers 1880β1924: Treasure collection of the John Oxley Library β John Oxley Library Blog, State Library of Queensland.
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Australian Labor Party | Table of Content | Short description, Name and spelling, History, Early decades at the federal level, World War II and beyond, National platform, Party structure, National executive and secretariat, Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Federal parliamentary leaders, State and territory branches, Country Labor, Australian Young Labor, Networks, Ideology and factions, Factions, Election results, House of Representatives, Donors, See also, Further reading, Notes, References, Bibliography, External links |
August 18 | Redirect | |
August 18 | Events | Events |
August 18 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
684 β Battle of Marj Rahit: Umayyad partisans defeat the supporters of Ibn al-Zubayr and cement Umayyad control of Syria.
707 β Princess Abe accedes to the imperial Japanese throne as Empress Genmei.
1304 β The Battle of Mons-en-PΓ©vΓ¨le is fought to a draw between the French army and the Flemish militias.
1487 β The Siege of MΓ‘laga ends with the taking of the city by Castilian and Aragonese forces.
1492 β The first grammar of the Spanish language (GramΓ‘tica de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1572 β The Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre marries the Catholic Margaret of Valois, ostensibly to reconcile the feuding Protestants and Catholics of France.
1590 β John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted. |
August 18 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1612 β The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
1634 β Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1721 β The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
1783 β A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1809 β The Senate of Finland is established in the Grand Duchy of Finland after the official adoption of the Statute of the Government Council by Tsar Alexander I of Russia.Titus Hjelm & George Maude: Historical Dictionary of Finland, p. 296.
1826 β Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
1838 β The Wilkes Expedition, which would explore the Puget Sound and Antarctica, weighs anchor at Hampton Roads.
1848 β Camila O'Gorman and Ladislao Gutierrez are executed on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
1864 β American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
1868 β French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 β Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
1877 β American astronomer Asaph Hall discovers Phobos, one of Marsβs moons. (Table II, p. 220: first observation of Phobos on 18 August 1877.38498)
1891 β A major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead. |
August 18 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1903 β German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1917 β A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece, destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
1920 β The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1923 β The first British Track and Field championships for women are held in London, Great Britain.
1933 β The VolksempfΓ€nger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the βeighth great powerβ.
1937 β A lightning strike starts the Blackwater Fire of 1937 in Shoshone National Forest, killing 15 firefighters within three days and prompting the United States Forest Service to develop their smokejumper program.
1938 β The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940 β World War II: The Hardest Day air battle, part of the Battle of Britain, takes place. At that point, it is the largest aerial engagement in history with heavy losses sustained on both sides.
1945 β Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country's declaration of independence the previous day.
1945 β Soviet-Japanese War: Battle of Shumshu: Soviet forces land at Takeda Beach on Shumshu Island and launch the Battle of Shumshu; the Soviet Unionβs Invasion of the Kuril Islands commences.
1949 β 1949 Kemi strike: Two protesters die in the scuffle between the police and the strikers' protest procession in Kemi, Finland.
1950 β Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, is assassinated. The Party newspaper blames royalists and Rexists.
1958 β Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1958 β Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors.
1963 β Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 β Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
1966 β Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in PhΖ°α»c Tuy Province.
1971 β Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1973 β Aeroflot Flight A-13 crashes after takeoff from Baku-Bina International Airport in Azerbaijan, killing 56 people and injuring eight.
1976 β The Korean axe murder incident in Panmunjom results in the deaths of two US Army officers.
1976 β The Soviet Unionβs robotic probe Luna 24 successfully lands on the Moon.
1977 β Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa. He later dies from injuries sustained during this arrest, bringing attention to South Africa's apartheid policies.
1983 β Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1989 β Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos GalΓ‘n is assassinated near BogotΓ‘ in Colombia.
1993 β American International Airways Flight 808 crashes at Leeward Point Field at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in GuantΓ‘namo Bay, Cuba, injuring the three crew members.
2003 β One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.After Canadian mother killed herself and their only grandchild, U.S. couple started 10-year fight to change Canada's bail laws | National Post
2005 β A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java; affecting almost 100 million people, it is one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.
2008 β The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
2008 β War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
2011 β A terrorist attack on Israel's Highway 12 near the Egyptian border kills 16 and injures 40.
2017 β The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.
2019 β One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for OkjΓΆkull glacier, which has completely melted after having once covered six square miles (15.5Β km2). |
August 18 | Births | Births |
August 18 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
1305 β Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese ShΕgun (d. 1358)
1450 β Marko MaruliΔ, Croatian poet and author (d. 1524)
1458 β Lorenzo Pucci, Catholic cardinal (d. 1531)
1497 β Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (d. 1543)
1542 β Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (d. 1601)
1579 β Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (d. 1640)
1587 β Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, first child born to English parents in the Americas (date of death unknown)
1596 β Jean Bolland, Flemish priest and hagiographer (d. 1665) |
August 18 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1605 β Henry Hammond, English churchman and theologian (d. 1660)
1606 β Maria Anna of Spain (d. 1646)
1629 β Agneta Horn, Swedish writer (d. 1672)
1657 β Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect and painter (d. 1743)
1685 β Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1731)
1692 β Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1740)
1700 β Baji Rao I, first Peshwa of Maratha Empire (d. 1740)
1720 β Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (d. 1760)
1750 β Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1825)
1754 β FranΓ§ois, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general and engineer (d. 1833)
1774 β Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809)
1792 β John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
1803 β Nathan Clifford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 19th United States Attorney General (d. 1881)
1807 β B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (d. 1893)
1819 β Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1876)
1822 β Isaac P. Rodman, American general and politician (d. 1862)
1830 β Franz Joseph I of Austria (d. 1916)
1831 β Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (d. 1931)
1834 β Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field's (d. 1906)
1841 β William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1919)
1855 β Alfred Wallis, English painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1857 β Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop and missionary (d. 1926)
1866 β Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
1869 β Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator (d. 1959)
1870 β Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer (d. 1918)
1879 β Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general (d. 1970)
1885 β Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (d. 1964)
1887 β John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and professor of mining (d. 1957)
1890 β Walther Funk, German economist and politician, Reich Minister of Economics (d. 1960)
1893 β Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (d. 1985)
1893 β Ernest MacMillan, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1973)
1896 β Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1933)
1898 β Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
1900 β Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge (d. 1987)
1900 β Ruth Norman, American religious leader (d. 1993) |
August 18 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1902 β Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
1902 β Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author (d. 2003)
1903 β Lucienne Boyer, French singer (d. 1983)
1904 β Max Factor, Jr., American businessman (d. 1996)
1905 β Enoch Light, American bandleader, violinist, and recording engineer (d. 1978)
1906 β Marcel CarnΓ©, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1906 β Curtis Jones, American blues pianist and singer (d. 1971)
1908 β Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (d. 1988)
1908 β Olav H. Hauge, Norwegian poet and gardener (d. 1994)
1908 β Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1977)
1909 β GΓ©rard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1910 β Herman Berlinski, Polish-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2001)
1910 β Robert Winters, Canadian colonel, engineer, and politician, 26th Canadian Minister of Public Works (d. 1969)
1911 β Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (d. 2015)
1911 β Klara Dan von Neumann, Hungarian computer scientist and programmer (d. 1963)
1911 β Maria Ulfah Santoso, Indonesian politician and women's rights activist (d. 1988)
1912 β Otto Ernst Remer, German general (d. 1997)
1913 β Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (d. 1983)
1914 β Lucy Ozarin, United States Navy lieutenant commander and psychiatrist (d. 2017)
1915 β Max Lanier, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
1916 β Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, journalist, and diplomat (d. 2018)
1916 β Moura Lympany, English pianist (d. 2005)
1917 β Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006)
1918 β Cisco Houston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1961)
1919 β Wally Hickel, American businessman and politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (d. 2010)
1920 β Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (d. 1999)
1920 β Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1920 β Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006)
1921 β Lydia Litvyak, Russian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)
1921 β ZdzisΕaw Ε»ygulski, Polish historian and academic (d. 2015)
1922 β Alain Robbe-Grillet, French director, screenwriter, and novelist (d. 2008)
1923 β Katherine Victor, American actress (d. 2004)
1925 β Brian Aldiss, English author and critic (d. 2017)
1925 β Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon and academic (d. 2006)
1925 β Anis Mansour, Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2011)
1927 β Rosalynn Carter, 41st First Lady of the United States (d. 2023)
1928 β Marge Schott, American businesswoman (d. 2004)
1928 β Sonny Til, American R&B singer (d. 1981)
1929 β Hugues Aufray, French singer-songwriter
1930 β Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1930 β Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician (d. 2014)
1931 β Bramwell Tillsley, Canadian 14th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2019)
1931 β Hans van Mierlo, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2010)
1931 β Grant Williams, American film, theater and television actor (d. 1985)
1932 β Luc Montagnier, French virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1933 β Just Fontaine, Moroccan-French footballer and manager (d. 2023)
1933 β Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1933 β Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman (d. 2022)
1934 β Vincent Bugliosi, American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
1934 β Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and soldier (d. 1972)
1934 β Gulzar, Indian poet, lyricist and film director
1934 β Rafer Johnson, American decathlete and actor (d. 2020)
1934 β Michael May, German-Swiss race car driver and engineer
1935 β Gail Fisher, American actress (d. 2000)
1935 β Hifikepunye Pohamba, Namibian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Namibia
1936 β Robert Redford, American actor, director, and producer
1937 β Sheila Cassidy, English physician and author
1939 β Maxine Brown, American soul/R&B singer-songwriter
1939 β Robert Horton, English businessman (d. 2011)
1939 β Johnny Preston, American pop singer (d. 2011)
1940 β Adam Makowicz, Polish-Canadian pianist and composer
1940 β Gil Whitney, American journalist (d. 1982)
1942 β Henry G. Sanders, American actor
1943 β Martin Mull, American actor and comedian (d. 2024)
1943 β Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1943 β Carl Wayne, English singer and actor (d. 2004)
1944 β Paula Danziger, American author (d. 2004)
1944 β Robert Hitchcock, Australian sculptor and illustrator
1945 β Sarah Dash, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2021)
1945 β VΓ€rner Lootsmann, Estonian lawyer and politician
1945 β Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and author (d. 1994)
1948 β James Jones, English bishop
1948 β John Scarlett, English intelligence officer
1949 β Nigel Griggs, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1950 β Dennis Elliott, English drummer and sculptor
1952 β Elayne Boosler, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1952 β Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer (d. 2009)
1952 β Ricardo Villa, Argentinian footballer and coach
1953 β Louie Gohmert, American captain, lawyer, and politician
1953 β Marvin Isley, American R&B bass player and songwriter (d. 2010)
1954 β Umberto Guidoni, Italian astrophysicist, astronaut, and politician
1955 β Bruce Benedict, American baseball player and coach
1955 β Taher Elgamal, Egyptian-American cryptographer
1956 β John Debney, American composer and conductor
1956 β Sandeep Patil, Indian cricketer and coach
1956 β Jon Schwartz, American drummer and producer
1956 β Kelly Willard, American singer-songwriter
1956 β Rainer Woelki, German cardinal
1957 β Carole Bouquet, French actress
1957 β Tan Dun, Chinese composer
1957 β Denis Leary, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1957 β Ron Strykert, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1958 β Didier Auriol, French race car driver
1958 β Madeleine Stowe, American actress
1959 β Tom Prichard, American wrestler and trainer
1960 β Mike LaValliere, American baseball player
1960 β Fat Lever, American basketball player and sportscaster
1961 β Huw Edwards, Welsh journalist and author
1961 β Timothy Geithner, American banker and politician, 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1961 β Bob Woodruff, American journalist and author
1962 β Felipe CalderΓ³n, Mexican lawyer and politician, 56th President of Mexico
1962 β Geoff Courtnall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962 β Adam Storke, American actor
1964 β Craig Bierko, American actor and singer
1964 β Andi Deris, German singer and songwriter
1964 β Mark Sargent, Australian rugby league player
1964 β Kenny Walker, American basketball player and sportscaster
1965 β Ikue Εtani, Japanese voice actress
1966 β Gustavo Charif, Argentinian director and producer
1967 β Daler Mehndi, Indian Punjabi singer, songwriter and record producer
1967 β Brian Michael Bendis, American author and illustrator
1969 β Everlast, American singer, rapper, and musician
1969 β Masta Killa, American rapper
1969 β Mark Kuhlmann, German rugby player and coach
1969 β Edward Norton, American actor
1969 β Christian Slater, American actor and producer
1970 β Jason Furman, American economist and politician
1970 β Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor and producer
1971 β Patrik Andersson, Swedish footballer
1971 β Richard David James, English musician and record producer
1974 β Nicole Krauss, American novelist and critic
1975 β Kaitlin Olson, American actress and comedian
1977 β Paraskevas Antzas, Greek footballer
1977 β Even Kruse Skatrud, Norwegian musician and educator
1978 β Andy Samberg, American actor and comedian
1979 β Stuart Dew, Australian footballer
1980 β Esteban Cambiasso, Argentinian footballer
1980 β Rob Nguyen, Australian race car driver
1980 β Ryan O'Hara, Australian rugby league player
1980 β Bart Scott, American football player
1980 β Jeremy Shockey, American football player
1981 β CΓ©sar Delgado, Argentinian footballer
1981 β Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer
1983 β Mika, Lebanese-born English recording artist and singer-songwriter
1983 β Cameron White, Australian cricketer
1984 β Sigourney Bandjar, Dutch footballer
1984 β Robert Huth, German footballer
1985 β Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer
1985 β Bryan Ruiz, Costa Rican footballer
1986 β Evan Gattis, American baseball player
1986 β Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
1987 β Joanna JΔdrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist
1987 β Justin Wilson, American baseball player
1988 β Jack Hobbs, English footballer
1988 β Eggert JΓ³nsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 β G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
1989 β Anna Akana, American actress, comedian, musician, and YouTuber
1989 β Yu Mengyu, Singaporean table tennis player
1991 β Liz Cambage, Australian basketball player
1991 β Richard Harmon, Canadian actor
1992 β Elizabeth Beisel, American swimmer
1992 β Bogdan BogdanoviΔ, Serbian basketball player
1992 β Frances Bean Cobain, American visual artist and model Cross, Charles R. Heavier Than Heaven, Hyperion, 2001. p. 246.
1993 β Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer-songwriter
1993 β Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer
1994 β Madelaine Petsch, American actress and YouTuber
1994 β Morgan Sanson, French footballer
1994 β Seiya Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
1995 β AlΔ«na Fjodorova, Latvian figure skater
1995 β Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
1997 β Josephine Langford, Australian actress
1997 β Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
1998 β Brian To'o, Australian-Samoan rugby league playerRugby League Project
1998 β Clairo, American singer-songwriter
1998 β Nick Fuentes, American far-right political commentator
1999 β Cassius Stanley, American basketball player |
August 18 | Deaths | Deaths |
August 18 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
353 β Decentius, Roman usurper
440 β Pope Sixtus III
472 β Ricimer, Roman general and politician (b. 405)
670 β Fiacre, Irish hermit
673 β Kim Yu-shin, general of Silla (b. 595)
849 β Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian (b. 808)
911 β Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya, first Zaydi Imam of Yemen (b. 859)
1095 β King Olaf I of Denmark
1211 β Narapatisithu, king of Burma (b. 1150)
1258 β Theodore II Laskaris, emperor of Nicea (Byzantine emperor in exile)
1276 β Pope Adrian V (b. 1220)
1318 β Clare of Montefalco, Italian nun and saint (b. 1268)
1430 β Thomas de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros, English soldier and politician (b. 1406)
1500 β Alfonso of Aragon, Spanish prince (b. 1481)
1502 β Knut Alvsson, Norwegian nobleman and politician (b. 1455)
1503 β Pope Alexander VI (b. 1431)
1550 β Antonio Ferramolino, Italian architect and military engineer
1559 β Pope Paul IV (b. 1476)
1563 β Γtienne de La BoΓ©tie, French judge and philosopher (b. 1530)
1600 β Sebastiano Montelupi, Italian businessman (b. 1516) |
August 18 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1613 β Giovanni Artusi, Italian composer and theorist (b. 1540)
1620 β Wanli Emperor of China (b. 1563)
1625 β Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, English diplomat (b. 1556)
1634 β Urbain Grandier, French priest (b. 1590)
1642 β Guido Reni, Italian painter and educator (b. 1575)
1648 β Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1615)
1683 β Charles Hart, English actor (b. 1625)
1707 β William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire (b. 1640)
1712 β Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1660)
1765 β Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1708)
1815 β Chauncey Goodrich, American lawyer and politician, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (b. 1759)
1823 β AndrΓ©-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (b. 1769)
1842 β Louis de Freycinet, French explorer and navigator (b. 1779)
1850 β HonorΓ© de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (b. 1799)
1852 β James Finlayson, Scottish Quaker (b. 1772)Brian D. J. Denoon: Finlayson, James (1772β1852), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
1886 β Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (b. 1795) |
August 18 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1919 β Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company (b. 1841)
1940 β Walter Chrysler, American businessman, founded Chrysler (b. 1875)
1942 β Erwin Schulhoff, Austro-Czech composer and pianist (b. 1894)
1943 β Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Azerbaijani general (b. 1865)
1944 β Ernst ThΓ€lmann, German soldier and politician (b. 1886)
1945 β Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian activist and politician (b. 1897)
1946 β Che Yaoxian, Chinese communist (b. 1894)
1946 β Luo Shiwen, Chinese communist (b. 1904)
1949 β Paul Mares, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1900)
1950 β Julien Lahaut, Belgian soldier and politician (b. 1884)
1952 β Alberto Hurtado, Chilean priest, lawyer, and saint (b. 1901)
1961 β Learned Hand, American lawyer, jurist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
1964 β Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
1968 β Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
1975 β Odd LindbΓ€ck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (b. 1897)
1979 β Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
1981 β Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1983 β Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
1986 β Harun Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (b. 1902)
1990 β B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
1994 β Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)
1998 β Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
2001 β David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
2002 β Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2003 β Tony Jackson, English singer and bassist (b. 1938)
2004 β Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)
2004 β Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (b. 1906)
2005 β Chri$ Ca$h, American wrestler (b. 1982)
2006 β Ken Kearney, Australian rugby player (b. 1924)
2007 β Michael Deaver, American soldier and politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1938)
2007 β Magdalen Nabb, English author (b. 1947)
2009 β Kim Dae-jung, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 15th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2009 β Rose Friedman, Ukrainian-American economist and author (b. 1910)
2009 β Robert Novak, American journalist and author (b. 1931)
2010 β Hal Connolly, American hammer thrower and coach (b. 1931)
2010 β Benjamin Kaplan, American scholar and jurist (b. 1911)
2012 β Harrison Begay, American painter (b. 1917)
2012 β John Kovatch, American football player (b. 1920)
2012 β Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2012 β Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1927)
2012 β Jesse Robredo, Filipino public servant and politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (b. 1958)
2013 β Josephine D'Angelo, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2013 β Jean Kahn, French lawyer and activist (b. 1929)
2013 β Albert Murray, American author and critic (b. 1916)
2014 β Gordon Faber, American soldier and politician, 39th Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (b. 1930)
2014 β Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1934)
2014 β Levente Lengyel, Hungarian chess player (b. 1933)
2014 β Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
2015 β Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist and author (b. 1932)
2015 β Roger Smalley, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1943)
2015 β Suvra Mukherjee, Wife of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (b. 1940)
2015 β Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2015 β Bud Yorkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2016 β Ernst Nolte, German historian (b. 1923)
2017 β Bruce Forsyth, English television presenter and entertainer (b. 1928)
2017 β Zoe Laskari, Greek actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1944)
2018 β Denis Edozie, Nigerian Supreme Court judge (b. 1935)
2018 β Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1938)
2020 β Ben Cross, English stage and film actor (b. 1947)
2023 β Lolita, the second-oldest orca in captivity (b. ca. 1966)
2023 β Al Quie, American politician, 35th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1923)
2024 β Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide (b. 1916)
2024 β Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor (b. 1935)Alain Delon, la lΓ©gende du cinΓ©ma, est mort
2024 β Phil Donahue, American talk show host and producer (b. 1935) |
August 18 | Holidays and observances | Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Agapitus of Palestrina
Alberto Hurtado
Daig of Inniskeen
Evan (or Inan)
Fiacre
Florus and Laurus
Helena of Constantinople (Roman Catholic Church)
August 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Arbor Day (Pakistan)
Armed Forces Day (North Macedonia)
Birthday of Virginia Dare (Roanoke Island)
Constitution Day (Indonesia)
Long Tan Day, also called Vietnam Veterans' Day (Australia)
National Science Day (Thailand) |
August 18 | References | References |
August 18 | Sources | Sources
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August 18 | External links | External links
Category:Days of August |
August 18 | Table of Content | Redirect, Events, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Births, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Deaths, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Holidays and observances, References, Sources, External links |
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August 19 | Events | Events |
August 19 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
295 BC β The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War.
43 BC β Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
947 β Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces.
1153 β Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon.
1458 β Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope.
1504 β In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Cambro-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 β Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France. |
August 19 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1604 β Eighty Years War: a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of Sluis to capitulate.
1612 β The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
1666 β Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
1692 β Salem witch trials: In Salem, province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 β Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
1745 β OttomanβPersian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
1759 β Battle of Lagos: Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.
1772 β Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'Γ©tat, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 β American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1812 β War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides".
1813 β Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
1839 β The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
1848 β California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
1854 β The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
1861 β First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 β Dakota War: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way. |
August 19 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1903 β The Transfiguration Uprising breaks out in East Thrace, resulting in the establishment of the Strandzha Commune.
1909 β The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. William Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
1920 β The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka.Nicolas Werth, Karel BartoΕ‘ek, Jean-Louis PannΓ©, Jean-Louis Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, StΓ©phane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, hardcover, 858 pages, .
1927 β Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 β The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934 β The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of FΓΌhrer.
1936 β The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
1940 β First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1941 β Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter.
1942 β World War II: Operation Jubilee (The Dieppe Raid): The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails.
1944 β World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 β August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 β Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 β In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1960 β Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 β Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1964 β Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
1965 β Japanese prime minister Eisaku SatΕ becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture.
1978 β In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths.
1980 β Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1980 β OtΕoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured.
1981 β Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 β Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 β Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1989 β Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991 β Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
1991 β Crown Heights riot begins.Shapiro, Edward S. (2002). "Interpretations of the Crown Heights Riot". American Jewish History.
1999 β In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan MiloΕ‘eviΔ.
2002 β Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 β A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy SΓ©rgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 β Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
2004 β Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
2005 β The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2009 β A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2010 β Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
2013 β The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
2017 β Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. |
August 19 | Births | Births |
August 19 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
232 β Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
1342 β Catherine of Bohemia, duchess of Austria (d. 1395)
1398 β ΓΓ±igo LΓ³pez de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (d. 1458)
1570 β Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer (probable; d. 1630)
1583 β DaiΕ‘an, Chinese prince and statesman (d. 1648)
1590 β Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1649)
1596 β Elizabeth Stuart, queen of Bohemia (d. 1662) |
August 19 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1609 β Jan Fyt, Flemish painter (d. 1661)Joannes Fijt at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
1621 β Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, etcher, and poet (d. 1674)
1631 β John Dryden, English poet, literary critic and playwright (d. 1700)
1646 β John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (d. 1719)
1686 β Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (d. 1737)
1689 (baptized) β Samuel Richardson, English author and publisher (d. 1761)
1711 β Edward Boscawen, English admiral and politician (d. 1761)
1719 β Charles-FranΓ§ois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1781)
1743 β Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1793)
1777 β Francis I, king of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
1815 β Harriette Newell Woods Baker, American editor and children's book writer (d. 1893)
1819 β Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Luxembourger-Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1894)
1830 β Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist (d. 1895)
1835 β Tom Wills, Australian cricketer and pioneer of Australian rules football (d. 1880)
1843 β C. I. Scofield, American minister and theologian (d. 1921)
1846 β Luis MartΓn, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 β Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and engineer (d. 1894)
1849 β Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian politician and diplomat (d. 1910)
1858 β Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (d. 1934)
1870 β Bernard Baruch, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
1871 β Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company (d. 1948)
1873 β Fred Stone, American actor and producer (d. 1959)
1878 β Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
1881 β George Enescu, Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1955)
1881 β George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (d. 1954)
1883 β Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company (d. 1971)
1883 β JosΓ© Mendes CabeΓ§adas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1885 β Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (d. 1969)
1887 β S. Satyamurti, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1943)
1895 β C. Suntharalingam, Sri Lankan lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1985)
1899 β Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
1900 β Gontran de Poncins, French author and adventurer (d. 1962)
1900 β Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1976)
1900 β Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001) |
August 19 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1902 β Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
1903 β James Gould Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1978)
1904 β Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1963)
1906 β Philo Farnsworth, American inventor, invented the Fusor (d. 1971)
1907 β Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, Indian historian, author, and scholar (d. 1979)
1909 β Ronald King, New Zealand rugby player (d. 1988)
1910 β Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (d. 1946)
1911 β Anna Terruwe, Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
1912 β Herb Narvo, Australian rugby league player, coach, and boxer (d. 1958)
1913 β John Argyris, Greek engineer and academic (d. 2004)
1913 β Peter Kemp, Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1993)
1913 β Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1914 β Lajos BarΓ³ti, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1914 β Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (d. 1955)
1914 β Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (d. 2005)
1915 β Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1915 β Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (d. 1985)
1916 β Dennis Poore, English racing driver and businessman (d. 1987)
1918 β Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1996)
1919 β Malcolm Forbes, American publisher and politician (d. 1990)
1921 β Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1991)
1922 β Jack Holland, Australian rugby league player (d. 1994)
1923 β Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003)
1924 β Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
1924 β William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer (d. 2003)
1925 β Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright (d. 1971)
1926 β Angus Scrimm, American actor and author (d. 2016)
1928 β Shiv Prasaad Singh, Indian Hindi writer (d. 1998)
1928 β Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
1929 β Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1929 β Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic (d. 2021)
1930 β Frank McCourt, American author and educator (d. 2009)
1931 β Bill Shoemaker, American jockey and author (d. 2003)
1932 β Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
1932 β Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995β1996) (d. 2016)
1933 β Bettina Cirone, American model and photographer
1933 β David Hopwood, English microbiologist and geneticist
1933 β Debra Paget, American actress
1934 β David Durenberger, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2023)
1934 β RenΓ©e Richards, American tennis player and ophthalmologist
1935 β Bobby Richardson, American baseball player and coach
1936 β Richard McBrien, American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015)
1937 β Richard Ingrams, English journalist, founded The Oldie
1937 β William Motzing, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1938 β Diana Muldaur, American actress
1938 β Nelly Vuksic, Argentine conductor and musician
1939 β Ginger Baker, English drummer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1940 β Roger Cook, English songwriter, singer, and producer
1940 β Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1940 β Jill St. John, American model and actress
1941 β John Cootes, Australian rugby league player, priest, and businessman
1941 β Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek educator and politician (d. 2009)
1942 β Fred Thompson, American actor, lawyer, and politician (d. 2015)
1943 β Don Fardon, English pop singer
1943 β Sid Going, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2024)
1943 β Billy J. Kramer, English pop singer
1944 β Jack Canfield, American author
1944 β Stew Johnson, American basketball player
1944 β Bodil Malmsten, Swedish author and poet (d. 2016)
1944 β Eddy Raven, American country music singer-songwriter
1944 β Charles Wang, Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Computer Associates International (d. 2018)
1945 β Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1945 β Charles Wellesley, 9th Duke of Wellington, English politician
1945 β Ian Gillan, English singer-songwriter
1946 β Charles Bolden, American general and astronaut
1946 β Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 42nd President of the United States
1946 β Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 β Dave Dutton, English actor and screenwriter
1947 β Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (d. 2007)
1947 β Gerald McRaney, American actor
1947 β Gerard Schwarz, American conductor and director
1947 β AnuΕ‘ka Ferligoj, Slovenian mathematician
1948 β Jim Carter, English actor
1948 β Tipper Gore, American activist and author, former Second Lady of the United States
1948 β Robert Hughes, Australian actor
1948 β Christy O'Connor Jnr, Irish golfer and architect (d. 2016)
1949 β Michael Nazir-Ali, Pakistani-English bishop
1950 β Jennie Bond, English journalist and author
1950 β Sudha Murty, Indian author and teacher, head of Infosys Foundation
1951 β John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter
1951 β Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952 β Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
1952 β Gabriela Grillo, German equestrian (d. 2024)
1952 β Jimmy Watson, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 β Oscar Larrauri, Argentinian racing driver
1955 β Mary-Anne Fahey, Australian actress
1955 β Peter Gallagher, American actor
1955 β Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Dominica-born English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1955 β Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1956 β Adam Arkin, American actor, director, and producer
1956 β JosΓ© RubΓ©n Zamora, Guatemalan journalist
1957 β Paul-Jan Bakker, Dutch cricketer
1957 β Gary Chapman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 β Martin Donovan, American actor and director
1957 β Ian Gould, English cricketer and umpire
1957 β Cesare Prandelli, Italian footballer and manager
1957 β Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
1957 β Gerda Verburg, Dutch trade union leader and politician, Dutch Minister of Agriculture
1958 β Gary Gaetti, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1958 β Anthony MuΓ±oz, American football player and sportscaster
1958 β Brendan Nelson, Australian physician and politician, 47th Minister for Defence for Australia
1958 β Rick Snyder, American politician and businessman, 48th Governor of Michigan
1958 β Darryl Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959 β Chris Mortimer, Australian rugby league player
1959 β Ivan Neville, American singer-songwriter
1959 β Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
1960 β Morten Andersen, Danish-American football player
1960 β Ron Darling, American baseball player and commentator
1961 β Jonathan Coe, English author and academic
1963 β John Stamos, American actor
1965 β Kevin Dillon, American actor
1965 β Kyra Sedgwick, American actress and producer
1965 β James Tomkins, Australian rower
1966 β Lee Ann Womack, American singer-songwriter
1967 β Khandro Rinpoche, Indian spiritual leader
1967 β Satya Nadella, Indian-American business executive, chairman and CEO of Microsoft
1969 β Douglas Allen Tunstall Jr., American professional wrestler and politician
1969 β Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011)
1969 β Matthew Perry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
1969 β Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1969 β Clay Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 β Fat Joe, American rapper
1971 β Mary Joe FernΓ‘ndez, Dominican-American tennis player and coach
1971 β JoΓ£o Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer
1972 β Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentinian footballer and manager
1972 β Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1973 β Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer and manager
1973 β Roy Rogers, American basketball player and coach
1973 β Tasma Walton, Australian actress
1975 β Tracie Thoms, American actress
1976 β RΓ©gine Chassagne, Canadian singer-songwriter
1977 β Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
1978 β Chris Capuano, American baseball player
1978 β Jakub DvorskΓ½, Czech game designer
1978 β Thomas Jones, American football player
1979 β Oumar KondΓ©, Swiss footballer
1980 β Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2022)
1980 β Craig Frawley, Australian rugby league player
1980 β Jun Jin, South Korean singer
1980 β Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
1980 β Michael Todd, American bass player
1981 β Nick Kennedy, English rugby player
1981 β Taylor Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 β Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler
1982 β Erika Christensen, American actress
1982 β Melissa Fumero, American actress
1982 β J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
1982 β Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
1982 β Stipe Miocic, American professional mixed martial artist
1982 β Steve Ott, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 β Mike Conway, English racing driver
1983 β Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 β Tammin Sursok, South African-Australian actress and singer
1984 β Simon Bird, English actor and screenwriter
1984 β Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
1984 β Ryan Taylor, English footballer
1985 β David A. Gregory, American actor
1985 β Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder
1986 β Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
1986 β Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
1986 β Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter
1987 β Patrick Chung, Jamaican-American football player
1987 β Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
1987 β Nico HΓΌlkenberg, German racing driver
1988 β Kirk Cousins, American football player
1988 β Veronica Roth, American author
1989 β Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
1990 β Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
1991 β Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer
1992 β David Rittich, Czech ice hockey player
1993 β Pio Seci, Fijian rugby league player
1994 β Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
1994 β Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
1996 β Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress
1996 β Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player
1999 β Ethan Cutkosky, American actor and musician
1999 β Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player
2000 β Keegan Murray, American basketball player
2001 β Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player |
August 19 | Deaths | Deaths |
August 19 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
607 BC β Duke Ling of Jin, Chinese monarch
AD 14 β Augustus, Roman emperor (b. 63 BC)
780 β Credan, English abbot and saint
947 β Abu Yazid, Kharijite rebel leader (b. 873)
998 β Fujiwara no Sukemasa, Japanese noble, statesman and calligrapher (b. 944)
1072 β Hawise, Duchess of Brittany (b. 1037)
1085 β Al-Juwayni, Muslim scholar and imam (b. 1028)
1186 β Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 β Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 β Alphonso, Earl of Chester (b. 1273)
1297 β Louis of Toulouse, French bishop and saint (b. 1274)
1457 β Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter (b. 1421)
1470 β Richard Olivier de Longueil, French cardinal (b. 1406)
1493 β Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1506 β King Alexander Jagiellon of Poland (b. 1461)
1541 β Vincenzo Cappello, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1469)
1580 β Andrea Palladio, Italian architect, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (b. 1508) |
August 19 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1646 β Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1583)
1654 β Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
1662 β Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1674 β FrantiΕ‘ek MaxmiliΓ‘n KaΕka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
1680 β Jean Eudes, French priest, founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary (b. 1601)
1691 β KΓΆprΓΌlΓΌ FazΔ±l Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman commander and politician, 117th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1637)
1702 β Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1645)
1753 β Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (b. 1687)
1808 β Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721)
1822 β Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
1883 β Jeremiah S. Black, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Attorney General (b. 1810)
1889 β Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1838)
1895 β John Wesley Hardin, American Old West outlaw, gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 β Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833) |
August 19 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1914 β Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1915 β Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
1923 β Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1928 β Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
1929 β Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
1932 β Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)
1936 β Federico GarcΓa Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1942 β Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
1942 β Heinrich Rauchinger, KrakΓ³w-born painter (b. 1858)
1944 β Henry Wood, English conductor (b. 1869)
1945 β TomΓ‘s Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
1950 β Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1871)
1954 β Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 β David Bomberg, English soldier and painter (b. 1890)
1967 β Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born American author and publisher (b. 1884)
1967 β Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English journalist and historian (b. 1907)
1968 β George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904)
1970 β PaweΕ Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
1975 β Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
1976 β Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
1976 β Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
1977 β Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
1977 β Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1980 β Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 β Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
1982 β August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 β Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
1986 β Viv Thicknesse, Australian rugby player (b. 1910)
1993 β Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
1994 β Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1995 β Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
2000 β Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
2001 β Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
2003 β Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 β SΓ©rgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 β Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
2008 β Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
2009 β Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
2011 β RaΓΊl Ruiz, Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
2012 β Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
2012 β Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)
2012 β Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (b. 1944)
2012 β Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932)
2013 β Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923)
2013 β Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927)
2013 β Abdul Rahim Hatif, Afghan politician, 8th President of Afghanistan (b. 1926)
2013 β Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2014 β Samih al-Qasim, Palestinian poet and journalist (b. 1939)
2014 β Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist (b. 1927)
2014 β James Foley, American photographer and journalist (b. 1973)
2014 β Candida Lycett Green, Anglo-Irish journalist and author (b. 1942)
2015 β George Houser, American minister and activist (b. 1916)
2015 β Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (b. 1935)
2016 β Jack Riley, American actor and voice artist (b. 1935)
2017 β Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and activist (b. 1932)
2019 β Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948)
2021 β Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (b. 1939)
2022 β Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian (b. 1906)
2023 β VΓ‘clav Patejdl, Slovak musician (b. 1954)
2024 β Maria Branyas, American-Spanish supercentenarian (b. 1907) |
August 19 | Holidays and observances | Holidays and observances
Afghan Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain (Afghanistan)
August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
Birthday of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway)
Christian Feast Day:
Bernardo Tolomei
Bertulf of Bobbio
Saint Calminius
EzequiΓ©l Moreno y DΓaz
Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar), and its related observances:
Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast" (Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church)
Jean-Eudes de MΓ©zeray
Louis of Toulouse
Maginus
Magnus of Anagni
Magnus of Avignon
Sebaldus
August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Manuel Luis QuezΓ³n Day (Quezon City and other places in the Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
National Aviation Day (United States)
World Humanitarian Day |
August 19 | References | References |
August 19 | External links | External links
Category:Days of August |
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August 21 | Events | Events |
August 21 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
959 β Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of LiΓ¨ge.
1140 β Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the JinβSong Wars.
1169 β Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin..
1192 β Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i TaishΕgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the KenkyΕ« (ε»ΊδΉ
) era).
1331 β King Stefan UroΕ‘ III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan DuΕ‘an, who succeeds as King of Serbia.
1415 β Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta. |
August 21 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1680 β Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689 β The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1716 β Seventh OttomanβVenetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.
1770 β James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 β King Gustav III completes his coup d'Γ©tat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1778 β American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at PondichΓ©ry.
1791 β A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
1808 β Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1810 β Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 β Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 β Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.
1852 β Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1858 β The first of the LincolnβDouglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois."First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois." NPS.gov. 21 August 2019.
1862 β The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.
1863 β Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
1878 β The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York.
1879 β The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named βOur Lady of Knockβ and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site.
1883 β An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
1888 β The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. |
August 21 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1901 β Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
1911 β The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
1914 β World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
1918 β World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
1942 β World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 β Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1944 β World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
1945 β Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1957 β The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 β United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii's admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.
1963 β XΓ‘ Lợi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to NgΓ΄ ΔΓ¬nh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalizes Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1965 β The Socialist Republic of Romania is proclaimed, following the adoption of a new constitution.
1968 β Cold War: Nicolae CeauΘescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 β James Anderson Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1971 β A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1982 β Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1983 β Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
1986 β Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a range.
1988 β The 6.9 Nepal earthquake shakes the NepalβIndia border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709β1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
1991 β Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
1991 β Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 β NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1994 β Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 crashes in Douar Izounine, Morocco, killing all 44 people on board.
1995 β Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
2000 β American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
2013 β Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
2017 β A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States. |
August 21 | Births | Births |
August 21 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
1165 β Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1481 β Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550)
1535 β Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese general (d. 1619)
1552 β Muhammad Qadiri, Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654)
1567 β Francis de Sales, Swiss bishop and saint (d. 1622)
1579 β Henri, Duke of Rohan (d. 1638)
1597 β Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (d. 1672) |
August 21 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1625 β John Claypole, English politician (d. 1688)
1643 β Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 β Hubert Gautier, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737)
1665 β Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
1670 β James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1734)
1725 β Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter and educator (d. 1805)
1754 β William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting (d. 1839)
1754 β Banastre Tarleton, English general and politician (d. 1833)
1765 β William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1787 β John Owen, American governor of North Carolina (d. 1841)
1789 β Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)
1798 β Jules Michelet, French historian and philosopher (d. 1874)
1800 β Hiram Walden, American general and politician (d. 1880)
1801 β Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
1813 β Jean Stas, Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891)
1816 β Charles FrΓ©dΓ©ric Gerhardt, French chemist and academic (d. 1856)
1823 β Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)
1826 β Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist and academic (d. 1903)
1829 β Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1907)
1840 β Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)
1851 β Charles Barrois, French geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1939)
1856 β Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de MorΓ¨s, American heiress (d. 1921)
1858 β Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)
1862 β Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (d. 1911)
1869 β William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)
1872 β Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (d. 1898)
1878 β Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (d. 1963)
1879 β Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
1884 β Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (d. 1936)
1885 β Γdouard Fabre, Canadian runner (d. 1939)
1886 β Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)
1887 β James Paul Moody, English sailor (d. 1912)
1891 β Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)
1892 β Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1894 β Christian Schad, German painter (d. 1982)
1895 β Blossom Rock, American actress (d. 1978)
1897 β Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1966) |
August 21 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1902 β Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian author (d. 1972)
1903 β Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1984)
1904 β Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)
1905 β Bipin Gupta, Indian actor and producer (d. 1981)
1906 β Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1995)
1907 β P. Jeevanandham, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
1909 β Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
1912 β Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1914 β Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach (d. 1998)
1916 β Bill Lee, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1916 β Consuelo VelΓ‘zquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)
1917 β Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008)
1918 β Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)
1921 β Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
1922 β Albert Irvin, English soldier and painter (d. 2015)
1923 β Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1924 β Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
1924 β Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1926 β Can YΓΌcel, Turkish poet and translator (d. 1999)
1927 β Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)
1928 β Addison Farmer, American bassist (d. 1963)
1928 β Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
1928 β Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)
1929 β Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1929 β X. J. Kennedy, American poet, translator, anthologist, editor
1929 β Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician and political prisoner (d. 2017)
1930 β Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 β Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1932 β Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
1932 β Melvin Van Peebles, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1933 β Janet Baker, English soprano and educator
1933 β Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
1933 β Barry Norman, English author and critic (d. 2017)
1933 β Erik Paaske, Danish actor and singer (d. 1992)
1934 β Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2001)
1934 β Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer (d. 2015)
1936 β Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
1936 β Radish Tordia, Georgian painter and educator
1937 β Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, first First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
1937 β Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian academic and politician, 51st President of Ecuador (d. 2021)
1937 β Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (d. 2015)
1938 β Steve Cowper, American politician, 6th Governor of AlaskaMarie Marmo Mullaney. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1988-1994, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. p. 13.
1938 β Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
1938 β Mike Weston, English rugby player (d. 2023)
1939 β James Burton, American Hall of Fame guitarist
1939 β Festus Mogae, Botswana economist and politician, third President of Botswana
1939 β Clarence Williams III, American actor (d. 2021)
1940 β Dominick Harrod, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2013)
1940 β Endre SzemerΓ©di, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist
1941 β Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter
1943 β Patrick Demarchelier, French photographer (d. 2022)
1943 β Jonathan Schell, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1943 β Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (d. 2014)
1943 β Hugh Wilson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1944 β Perry Christie, Bahamian politician, third Prime Minister of the Bahamas
1944 β Peter Weir, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 β Basil Poledouris, Greek-American composer, conductor (d. 2006)
1945 β Celia Brayfield, English journalist and author
1945 β Jerry DaVanon, American baseball player
1945 β Willie Lanier, American football player
1945 β Patty McCormack, American actress
1947 β Carl Giammarese, American singer-songwriter and musician
1949 β Loretta Devine, American actress and singer
1949 β Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
1950 β Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer-songwriter and model (d. 2021)
1950 β Arthur Bremer, American attempted assassin of George Wallace
1951 β Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 β Glenn Hughes, English musician
1951 β Yana Mintoff, Maltese politician, economist and educator
1951 β Chesley V. Morton, American businessman and politician
1952 β Keith Hart, Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer
1952 β JiΕΓ Paroubek, Czech soldier and politician, sixth Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
1952 β Bernadette Porter, English nun and educator
1952 β Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1953 β Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director
1954 β Archie Griffin, American football player
1954 β Steve Smith, American drummer
1954 β Mark Williams, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
1956 β Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
1956 β Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
1957 β Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (d. 2012)
1958 β Steve Case, American businessman, co-founder of America Online (AOL)
1958 β Mark Williams, Australian footballer and coach
1959 β Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
1959 β Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
1961 β Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player and coach (d. 2001)
1961 β V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2019)
1961 β Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
1962 β Cleo King, American actress
1962 β John Korfas, Greek-American basketball player and coach
1962 β Gilberto Santa Rosa, Puerto Rican bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero
1962 β Pete Weber, American bowler
1963 β Mohammed VI of Morocco, King of Morocco
1963 β Nigel Pearson, English footballer and manager
1964 β Gary Elkerton, Australian surfer
1965 β Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1966 β John Wetteland, American baseball player and coach
1967 β Darren Bewick, Australian footballer
1967 β Charb, French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
1967 β Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 β Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
1968 β Dina Carroll, English singer-songwriter
1968 β Goran Δurko, Serbian footballer
1968 β Laura Trevelyan, English journalist and author
1969 β Bruce Anstey, New Zealand motorcycle racer
1969 β JosΓ©e Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 β Craig Counsell, American baseball player and coach
1970 β Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist and manager
1970 β Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress
1971 β Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
1971 β Robert Harvey, Australian footballer and coach
1971 β Liam Howlett, English keyboard player, DJ, and producer
1973 β Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
1973 β Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974 β Martin Andanar, Filipino journalist and radio host
1974 β Paul Mellor, Australian rugby league player and referee
1975 β Simon Katich, Australian cricketer and manager
1975 β Alicia Witt, American actress and musician
1976 β Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player and scout
1976 β Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
1976 β Robert Miles, Australian rugby league player
1976 β RamΓ³n VΓ‘zquez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
1978 β Peter Buxton, English rugby player and manager
1978 β Reuben Droughns, American football player and coach
1978 β Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player and coach
1978 β Alan Lee, Irish footballer and coach
1978 β Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1979 β Kelis, American singer-songwriter, producer, chef and author
1979 β Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor
1980 β Bryan Allen, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 β Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1980 β Paul Menard, American race car driver
1980 β Jasmin WΓΆhr, German tennis player
1981 β Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer (d. 2018)
1981 β Cameron Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
1981 β Tyler Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
1981 β Ross Thomas, American actor
1982 β Jason Eaton, New Zealand rugby player
1982 β Omar Sachedina, Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor
1983 β Brody Jenner, American television personality and model
1983 β Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
1984 β Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1984 β Melvin Upton, Jr., American baseball player
1984 β AlizΓ©e, French singer
1985 β NicolΓ‘s Almagro, Spanish tennis player
1985 β Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
1986 β Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
1986 β Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
1986 β Koki Sakamoto, Japanese gymnast
1986 β Brooks Wheelan, American comedian and actor
1987 β DeWanna Bonner, American-Macedonian basketball player
1987 β Cody Kasch, American actor
1987 β J. D. Martinez, American baseball player
1987 β Jodie Meeks, American basketball player and coach
1988 β Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
1988 β Joanna Mitrosz, Polish rhythmic gymnast
1988 β Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 β Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
1989 β James Davey, English rugby league player
1989 β Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
1989 β Hayden Panettiere, American actress
1989 β Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
1990 β Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
1990 β Christian VΓ‘zquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1991 β Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
1991 β Jesse Rutherford, American singer and songwriter
1992 β Brandon Drury, American baseball player
1992 β RJ Mitte, American actor
1992 β Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
1993 β Millie Bright, English footballer
1993 β Mike Evans, American football player
1994 β Alexandra Cooper, American podcaster
1994 β Ekin-Su CΓΌlcΓΌloΔlu, British-Turkish reality television personality, actress and model
1995 β Dominik KubalΓk, Czech ice hockey player
1996 β KarolΓna MuchovΓ‘, Czech tennis player
1999 β Maxim Knight, American actor
2000 β Corbin Carroll, American baseball player |
August 21 | Deaths | Deaths |
August 21 | Pre-1600 | Pre-1600
672 β Emperor KΕbun of Japan (b. 648)
784 β Alberic, archbishop of Utrecht
913 β Tang Daoxi, Chinese general
1131 β King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
1148 β William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089)
1157 β Alfonso VII of LeΓ³n and Castile (b. 1105)
1245 β Alexander of Hales, English theologian
1271 β Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (b. 1220)
1534 β Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1464)
1568 β Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1495) |
August 21 | 1601β1900 | 1601β1900
1614 β Elizabeth BΓ‘thory, Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (b. 1560)
1622 β Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1582)
1627 β Jacques Mauduit, French composer and academic (b. 1557)
1673 β Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (b. 1599)
1689 β William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661)
1762 β Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1689)
1763 β Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710)
1775 β Zahir al-Umar, Arabian ruler (b. 1690)
1796 β John McKinly, American physician and politician, first Governor of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 β Benjamin Thompson, American-English physicist and colonel (b. 1753)
1835 β John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (b. 1773)
1836 β Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)
1838 β Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
1853 β Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (b. 1783)
1854 β Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1867 β Juan Γlvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)
1870 β Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
1888 β James Farnell, Australian politician, eighth Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825) |
August 21 | 1901βpresent | 1901βpresent
1905 β Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
1910 β Bertalan SzΓ©kely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
1911 β Mahboob Ali Khan, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State (b. 1866)
1919 β Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
1935 β John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
1940 β Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
1940 β Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
1940 β Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
1943 β Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
1947 β Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
1951 β Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 β Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
1957 β Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1957 β Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1960 β David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
1964 β Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
1968 β Germaine GuΓ¨vremont, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1893)
1971 β George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
1974 β Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
1974 β Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
1978 β Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
1979 β Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1981 β Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(b. 1885)
1983 β Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
1988 β Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
1988 β Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
1989 β Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
1993 β Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
1995 β Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1995 β Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
1996 β Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (b. 1911)
2000 β Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
2000 β Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, third Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2000 β Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
2001 β Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 β John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
2003 β Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
2004 β Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)
2005 β Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (b. 1957)
2005 β Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (b. 1934)
2005 β Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936)
2005 β Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2006 β Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna recipient (b. 1916)
2006 β Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2007 β Frank Bowe, American academic (b. 1947)
2007 β Siobhan Dowd, British author (b. 1960)
2007 β Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (b. 1918)
2008 β Jerry Finn, American engineer and producer (b. 1969)
2009 β Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930)
2010 β Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)
2012 β Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920)
2012 β J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (b. 1926)
2012 β Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
2012 β Guy Spitaels, Belgian academic and politician, seventh Minister-President of Wallonia (b. 1931)
2012 β William Thurston, American mathematician and academic (b. 1946)
2013 β Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2013 β Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918)
2013 β C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936)
2013 β Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
2013 β Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932)
2014 β Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
2014 β Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)
2014 β Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946)
2014 β Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2014 β Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, ninth Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932)
2015 β Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
2015 β Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)
2015 β Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
2017 β Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954)
2018 β StefΓ‘n Karl StefΓ‘nsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975)
2019 β Celso PiΓ±a, Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953)
2024 β Nell McCafferty, Northern Irish journalist, playwright and civil rights campaigner (b. 1944)
2024 β Bill Pascrell, American politician (b. 1937)
2024 β John Amos, American actor (b. 1939) |
August 21 | Holidays and observances | Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Euprepius of Verona
Maximilian of Antioch
Our Lady of Knock
Pope Pius X
Sidonius Apollinaris
August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
Youth Day (Morocco)
World Senior Citizen's Day |
August 21 | References | References |
August 21 | External links | External links
Category:Days of August |
August 21 | Table of Content | pp-pc1, Events, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Births, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Deaths, Pre-1600, 1601β1900, 1901βpresent, Holidays and observances, References, External links |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | Short description | The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). The Dodo is a caricature of the author. A popular but unsubstantiated belief is that Dodgson chose the particular animal to represent himself because of his stammer, and thus would accidentally introduce himself as "Do-do-dodgson".
Historically, the dodo was a flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It became extinct in the mid 17th century during the colonisation of the island by the Dutch. |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
thumb|left|upright|Depiction by Arthur Rackham, 1907
In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev. Robinson Duckworth. In order to get dry after a swim, the Dodo proposes that everyone run a Caucus race β where the participants run in patterns of any shape, starting and leaving off whenever they like, so that everyone wins. At the end of the race, Alice distributes comfits from her pocket to all as prizes. However this leaves no prize for herself. The Dodo inquires what else she has in her pocket. As she has only a thimble, the Dodo requests it from her and then awards it to Alice as her prize. The Caucus Race, as depicted by Carroll, is a satire on the political caucus system, mocking its lack of clarity and decisiveness. |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | Interpretations | Interpretations |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | Disney animated film version | Disney animated film version
In the Disney film, the Dodo plays a much greater role in the story than in the book. He is merged with the character of Pat the Gardener, which leads to him sometimes being nicknamed Pat the Dodo, but this name is never mentioned in the film. The Dodo is also the leader of the caucus race. He has the appearance and personality of a sea captain. The Dodo is voiced by Bill Thompson and animated by Milt Kahl.
Dodo is first seen as Alice is floating on the sea in a bottle. Dodo is seen singing, but when Alice asks him for help, he does not notice her. On shore, Dodo is seen on a rock, organizing a caucus race. This race involves running around until one gets dry, but the attempts are hampered by incoming waves.
Dodo is later summoned by the White Rabbit, when the rabbit believes a monster, actually Alice having magically grown to a giant size, is inside his home. Dodo brings Bill the Lizard, and attempts to get him to go down the chimney. Bill refuses at first, but Dodo is able to convince him otherwise. However, the soot causes Alice to sneeze, sending Bill high up into the sky. Dodo then decides to burn the house down, much to the chagrin of the White Rabbit. He begins gathering wood, such as the furniture, for this purpose. However, Alice is soon able to return to a smaller size and exit the house by eating a carrot from the White Rabbit's garden.
The White Rabbit soon leaves, while Dodo asks for matches, not realizing that the situation has been resolved. He then asks Alice for a match, but when she doesn't have any, Dodo complains about the lack of cooperation and uses his pipe to light the fire.
The Dodo later appears briefly at the end of the film, conducting another Caucus Race while Alice is being chased by the Queen of Hearts and her card soldiers.
In Alice's Wonderland Bakery, appears Captain Dodo, being unknown if he is the same character from the film, or a descendant as is the case of other characters from Wonderland in the series (the plot placed several decades after the events in the film). Captain Dodo also has a son named Jojo. |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | Tim Burton's ''Alice in Wonderland'' version | Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland version
In Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, the Dodo's appearance retains the subtle apparent nature from John Tenniel's illustration. He bears a down of brilliant blue and wears a navy blue waistcoat and white spats along with glasses and a cane. He is one of Alice's good-willed advisers, taking first note of her abilities as the true Alice. He is also one of the oldest inhabitants. His name is Uilleam, and he is portrayed by Michael Gough. He goes with the White Rabbit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and Dormouse to take Alice to Caterpillar to decide whether Alice is the real one. He is later captured by the Red Queen's forces. When Alice came to the Red Queen's castle, he was seen at the Red Queen's castle yard as a caddy for the Queen's croquet game. After the Red Queen orders the release of the Jubjub bird to kill all her subjects from rebelling, he is then seen briefly running from it when the Tweedles went to hide from it and escaped but was snatched by the Jubjub and was never seen again throughout the film.
His name may be based on a lecture on William the Conqueror from Chapter Three of the original novel. The character is voiced by Michael Gough in his final feature film role before his death in 2011. Gough came out of retirement to appear in the film but the character only speaks three lines, so Gough managed to record in one day. |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | References | References
Category:Lewis Carroll characters
Category:Fictional flightless birds
Category:Literary characters introduced in 1865
Category:Dodo
Category:Male characters in literature |
Dodo (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) | Table of Content | Short description, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', Interpretations, Disney animated film version, Tim Burton's ''Alice in Wonderland'' version, References |
Lory (disambiguation) | Wiktionary | A Lory is a small to medium-sized arboreal parrot.
Lory may also refer to: |
Lory (disambiguation) | People | People
Al De Lory (1930β2012), an American record producer, arranger, conductor and session musician
Donna De Lory (born 1964), an American singer, dancer and songwriter
Milo B. Lory (1903β1974), an American sound editor |
Lory (disambiguation) | Other uses | Other uses
Lory, a fictional parrot, a minor character in the Alice series by Lewis Carroll
Lory Lake, in Minnesota, U.S.
Lory State Park, near Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. |
Lory (disambiguation) | See also | See also
Lorry (disambiguation)
Lori (disambiguation)
Loris (disambiguation)
Loris, strepsirrhine primates |
Lory (disambiguation) | Table of Content | Wiktionary, People, Other uses, See also |
Albert | wiktionary | Albert may refer to: |
Albert | Companies | Companies
Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s
Albert Czech Republic, a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
Albert Music, an Australian music company now known as Alberts
Albert Productions, a record label
Albert (organisation), an environmental organisation concerning film and television productions |
Albert | Entertainment | Entertainment
Albert (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by FrantiΕ‘ek VlΓ‘Δil
Albert (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich
Albert (2016 film), an American TV movie
Albert (album), by Ed Hall, 1988
"Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy
Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
Albert (Discworld), a character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film Suspiria |
Albert | People | People
Albert (given name)
Albert (surname)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Albert (dancer) (FranΓ§ois-Ferdinand 1789β1865), French ballet dancer
Albert, a ring name of professional wrestler Matt Bloom (born 1972) |
Albert | Places | Places |
Albert | Canada | Canada
Albert (1846β1973 electoral district), a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick from 1846 to 1973
Albert (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in New Brunswick from 1867 to 1903
Albert (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick
Albert County, New Brunswick
Rural Municipality of Albert, Manitoba, Canada |
Albert | United States | United States
Albert, Kansas
Albert Township, Michigan
Albert, Oklahoma
Albert, Texas, a ghost town
The Albert (Detroit), formerly the Griswold Building, an American apartment block |
Albert | Elsewhere | Elsewhere
Albert (Belize House constituency), a Belize City-based electoral constituency
Albert, New South Wales, a town in Australia
Electoral district of Albert, a former electoral district in Queensland, Australia
Albert, Somme, a French commune |
Albert | Transportation | Transportation
Albert (automobile), a 1920s British light car
Albert (motorcycle), a 1920s German vehicle brand
Albert (tugboat), a 1979 U.S. tugboat |
Albert | Other | Other
719 Albert, Amor asteroid
Albert (crater), a lunar crater
The Albert, a pub in London
Albert and Alberta Gator, mascots for the Florida Gators |
Albert | See also | See also
Alberta (disambiguation)
Alberts (disambiguation)
Alberte (born 1963), a Danish singer and actress
Albertet, a diminutive of Albert
Albret, a seigneurie in Landes, France
Aubert, an Anglo-Saxon surname |
Albert | Table of Content | wiktionary, Companies, Entertainment, People, Places, Canada, United States, Elsewhere, Transportation, Other, See also |
Albert I | '''Albert I''' | Albert I may refer to: |
Albert I | People | People |
Albert I | Born before 1300 | Born before 1300
Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917β987)
Albert I, Count of Namur ()
Albert I of Moha
Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg
Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158β1195)
Albert I of KΓ€fernburg (), Archbishop of Magdeburg
Albert I of Pietengau ()
Albert I, Lord of Mecklenburg (after 1230β1265)
Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-LΓΌneburg (1236β1279), second duke of Brunswick-LΓΌneburg
Albert I of Germany (1255β1308), king of Germany and archduke of Austria
Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (β1316) |
Albert I | Born after 1300 | Born after 1300
Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336β1404), duke of Bavaria-Straubing, count of Holland, Hainault and Zealand
Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg-Stargard
Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen ()
Albert I, Duke of MΓΌnsterberg-Oels (1468β1511)
Albert I, Duke of Prussia (1490β1568), first Duke of Prussia
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848β1922)
Albert I of Belgium (1875β1934), king of the Belgians
Albert I Kalonji Ditunga (1929β2015), Congolese politician |
Albert I | Other uses | Other uses
Albert I (monkey), the first mammal used in a subspace rocket launch, June 11, 1948 |
Albert I | See also | See also
Albert (given name) |
Albert I | Table of Content | '''Albert I''', People, Born before 1300, Born after 1300, Other uses, See also |
Albert II | '''Albert II''' | Albert II may refer to: |