A mass shooting took place in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving 33 dead and five others injured.
The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
The Volga German ASSR was abolished as part of the mass deportation of Soviet Germans.
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.
Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.
Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts: During the Battle of Wofla, the Portuguese commander Cristóvão da Gama was captured by the Adal Sultanate and executed the next day.
The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy.
Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
2022 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of 3 people, including the perpetrator.
China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.
The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.
The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.
Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".
The Philadelphia race riot begins.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.
American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.
Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player
Marissa Bode, American actress
Weston McKennie, American soccer player
Kim Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer
Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast
Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer
Kyle Massey, American actor
Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model
Katie Findlay, Canadian actor
Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver
Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
Shalita Grant, American actress
Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast
Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)
Jeff Green, American basketball player
Armie Hammer, American actor
Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (died 2015)
Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and hostage
Florence Welch, English singer-songwriter
Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier
Will Harris, American baseball player
Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete
Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer
Carlos Quentin, American baseball player
LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
Jake Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer
Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
Debra Lafave, American sex offender and former teacher
Ryan Madson, American baseball player
Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete
Carly Pope, Canadian actress and producer
Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician
Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
Markus Pröll, German footballer
Ruth Riley, American basketball player
Karine Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter
Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
Jamie Cureton, English footballer
Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer and manager
Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality
Royce Willis, New Zealand rugby player
Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer
Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
J. August Richards, American actor
Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
Shane Andrews, American baseball player
Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach
Janet Evans, American swimmer
Daniel Goddard, Australian-American actor
Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
Melina Aslanidou, German-Greek singer-songwriter
Rick Recht, American singer-songwriter
Jack Black, American actor and comedian
Mary McCartney, English photographer and activist
Jason Priestley, Canadian actor, director, and producer
Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive
Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player
Billy Boyd, Scottish actor and singer
Jamie Osborne, English jockey and trainer
Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
Dan Crowley, Australian rugby player
Sonia Kruger, Australian television host and actress
Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon
Amanda Tapping, British-Canadian actress and director
Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
Lee Janzen, American golfer
Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Maria Gheorghiu, Romanian folk singer-songwriter
Regina Jacobs, American runner
Paul Allen, English footballer
Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
David Fincher, American director and producer
Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress
Cliff Benson, American football player
Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach
Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
Emma Samms, English actress
Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
Daniel Stern, American actor and director
Ai Weiwei, Chinese sculptor and activist
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
John Long, American basketball player
Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach
Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic
Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician
Rita Dove, American poet and essayist
Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (died 2013)
Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)
Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter
Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
Tony Husband, English cartoonist (died 2023)
Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (died 2019)
Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (died 2004)
Debra Mooney, American actress
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2023)
Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice actor
Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
Robert Greenwald, American director and producer
Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (died 2015)
Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager
David Soul, American actor and singer (died 2024)
Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic
Jorge Urosa, Venezuelan cardinal (died 2021)
Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator
Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach
John Stanley Marshall, English drummer (died 2023)
Paul Plishka, American opera singer
William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
Ken Jenkins, American actor
Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (died 2017)
John Kingman, English mathematician and academic
Marla Adams, American actress (died 2024)
Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic (died 2023)
Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (died 2017)
Marcello Gandini, Italian automotive designer (died 2024)
Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)
Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (died 2012)
Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
Sonny Shroyer, American actor
Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (died 2015)
Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (died 2012)
Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2016)
Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (died 2018)
Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (died 2014)
Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2014)
John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (died 2014)
Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (died 2020)
Windsor Davies, British actor (died 2019)
Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (died 1973)
Roxie Roker, American actress (died 1995)
F. William Free, American businessman (died 2003)
Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (died 2004)
Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2003)
Philip Purser, English author and critic (died 2022)
Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (died 2004)
Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (died 2010)
Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (died 2014)
John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)
Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (died 1995)
Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (died 1994)
Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (died 1997)
C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962)
Jack Vance, American author (died 2013)
Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (died 2009)
Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (died 2008)
Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1995)
Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (died 2009)
Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)
Robert Irving, English conductor and director (died 1991)
Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)
Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)
Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (died 2002)
Morris Graves, American painter and academic (died 2001)
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (died 1996)
John Betjeman, English poet and academic (died 1984)
Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (died 1992)
Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)
Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (died 1998)
Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (died 1990)
Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (died 1951)
James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)
Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 1983)
Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (died 1982)
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (died 1984)
Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)
August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)
István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)
Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (died 1959)
Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1950)
George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (died 1948)
Matilda Howell, American archer (died 1938)
Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (died 1943)
Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)
Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (died 1900)
Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (died 1900)
Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (died 1898)
Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (died 1894)
Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (died 1904)
Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)
Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)
Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1877)
Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (died 1821)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (died 1818)
John Stark, American general (died 1822)
Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (died 1750)
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1721)
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (died 1653)
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (died 1628)
John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (died 1639)
Taichang, emperor of China (died 1620)
Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (died 1558)
Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)
Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (died 1421)
Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (died 1068)
Obi Ndefo, American actor (born 1972)
Steve Silberman, American writer and journalist (born 1957)
Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)
Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (born 1950)
Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (born 1934)
Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)
Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)
Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)
Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)
Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)
John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)
John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)
Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)
Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)
Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)
Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)
Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)
Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (born 1925)
Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (born 1945)
Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)
Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)
Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (born 1938)
Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)
William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (born 1919)
Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)
Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)
Phil Hill, American race car driver (born 1927)
Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (born 1926)
Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (born 1932)
Paul MacCready, American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (born 1925)
Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (born 1935)
Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (born 1929)
Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)
Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (born 1963)
Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born 1914)
Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1910)
George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1911)
Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (born 1906)
Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)
William Stafford, American poet and academic (born 1914)
Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1913)
Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)
John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (born 1950)
Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)
Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)
John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)
Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (born 1901)
Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (born 1911)
Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1899)
Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (born 1899)
Robert Shaw, English actor (born 1927)
Anissa Jones, American actress (born 1958)
Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born 1907)
Prince William of Gloucester (born 1941)
Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)
Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)
Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (born 1909)
Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (born 1890)
Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (born 1870)
Boris III of Bulgaria (born 1894)
George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)
Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (born 1858)
Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (born 1872)
Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (born 1822)
Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (born 1838)
Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (born 1814)
Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (born 1835)
William Smith, English geologist and engineer (born 1769)
Edward Dando, English thief
Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)
Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (born 1722)
Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)
Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (born 1713)
Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739–1742); of Spanish Florida (1749–1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754–1758) (born 1693)
David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (born 1705)
Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (born 1701)
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1602)
Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (born 1638)
Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (born 1583)
George Lisle, English general (born 1610)
Charles Lucas, English general (born 1613)
Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (born 1576)
Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (born 1583)
Francis Vere, English governor and general
Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (born 1500)
Afonso V, king of Portugal (born 1432)
John de Sutton V, Baron Sutton of Dudley (born 1380)
Levon IV, king of Armenia (born 1309)
Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark
Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent
Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1016)
He Gui, Chinese general (born 858)
Louis the German, Frankish king (born 804)
Kōken, emperor of Japan (born 718)
Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (born 615)
Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (born 605)
Orestes, Roman general and politician
Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (born 354)
Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (born 335)
Christian feast day: Alexander of Constantinople
Christian feast day: Augustine of Hippo
Christian feast day: Edmund Arrowsmith
Christian feast day: Hermes
Christian feast day: Moses the Black
Christian feast day: August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National Grandparents Day (Mexico)