August 7

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August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

This day marks the approximate midpoint of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and of winter in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the June solstice).

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Events

322 BC – Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedonia.

461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.

1427 – The Visconti of Milan's fleet is destroyed by the Venetians on the Po River.

1461 – The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.

1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

1714 – The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.

1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

1789 – The United States Department of War is established.

1791 – American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

1794 – U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

1858 – The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.

1879 – The opening of the Poor Man's Palace in Manchester, England.

1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

1927 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

1930 – The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

1933 – The Simele massacre: The Iraqi government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele.

1938 – The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.

1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

1946 – The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

1947 – The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design, and was minted until 2008.

1959 – Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1960 – Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.

1962 – Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.

1964 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

1970 – California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.

1976 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.

1979 – Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.

1981 – The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

1985 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

1987 – Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union

1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

1990 – First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf war.

1998 – Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.

2008 – The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

Births

317 – Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)

1282 – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)

1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595)

1560 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer (d. 1614)

1571 – Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (d. 1627)

1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)

1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672)

1726 – James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)

1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)

1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)

1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer (d. 1842)

1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)

1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)

1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)

1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)

1862 – Victoria of Baden (d. 1931)

1867 – Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (d. 1956)

1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)

1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)

1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)

1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)

1884 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)

1884 – Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940)

1887 – Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (d. 1970)

1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964)

1901 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)

1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)

1904 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)

1907 – Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (d. 1980)

1910 – Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)

1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)

1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)

1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)

1916 – Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (d. 2008)

1918 – C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)

1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)

1921 – Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)

1921 – Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor

1924 – Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)

1925 – Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003)

1925 – M. S. Swaminathan, Indian geneticist and academic

1926 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (d. 2015)

1927 – Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)

1927 – Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana

1927 – Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (d. 2003)

1927 – Carl Switzer, American actor (d. 1959)

1928 – Betsy Byars, American author and academic

1928 – Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square

1929 – Don Larsen, American baseball player

1930 – Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (d. 2013)

1930 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator

1931 – Jack Good, British television producer

1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author (d. 2015)

1932 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)

1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)

1932 – Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)

1932 – Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)

1933 – Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager

1933 – Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author

1934 – Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1935 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)

1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (d. 2011)

1937 – Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)

1940 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)

1941 – Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician

1941 – Franco Columbu, Italian bodybuilder, actor, and weightlifter

1942 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host

1942 – Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic

1942 – B. J. Thomas, American singer

1942 – Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1943 – Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader

1943 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1944 – John Glover, American actor

1944 – Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

1945 – Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (d. 2014)

1945 – Alan Page, American football player and jurist

1947 – Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter

1947 – Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1948 – Marty Appel, American businessman and author

1948 – Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach

1949 – Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician

1949 – Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician

1950 – Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 – Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

1950 – S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician

1952 – Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer

1952 – Kees Kist, Dutch footballer

1952 – Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author

1953 – Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author

1954 – Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy

1954 – Alan Reid, Scottish politician

1955 – Diane Downs, American murderer

1955 – Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor

1955 – Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle

1955 – Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban librarian

1955 – Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright

1955 – Grigoris Valtinos, Greek actor and director

1956 – Sharon Isbin, American guitarist

1957 – Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer

1957 – Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (d. 2012)

1957 – Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel

1958 – Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey

1958 – Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1958 – Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach

1959 – Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author

1959 – Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach

1960 – David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1960 – Jacquie O'Sullivan, English singer-songwriter

1961 – Brian Conley, English actor and singer

1961 – Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast

1961 – Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer

1962 – Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer

1963 – Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player

1963 – Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author

1963 – Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator

1964 – John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author

1964 – Peter Niven, Scottish jockey

1965 – Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1965 – Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater

1966 – David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (d. 2011)

1966 – Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1966 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founder of Wikipedia

1967 – Jason Grimsley, American baseball player

1968 – Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter

1968 – Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach

1968 – Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author

1968 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)

1969 – Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager

1970 – Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)

1971 – Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster

1971 – Rachel York, American actress and singer

1972 – Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter

1973 – Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)

1973 – Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player

1973 – Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager

1974 – Chico Benymon, American actor

1974 – Michael Shannon, American actor

1975 – Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter

1975 – Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer

1975 – Ray Hill, American football player (d. 2015)

1975 – Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

1975 – Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player

1975 – Charlize Theron, South African-American actress and producer

1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager

1976 – Shane Lechler, American football player

1977 – Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer

1977 – Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ

1978 – Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter

1978 – Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter

1978 – Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer

1978 – Vanness Wu, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and dancer

1979 – Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1979 – Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer

1979 – Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author

1980 – Carsten Busch, German footballer

1980 – Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress

1980 – Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer

1980 – Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer

1981 – David Testo, American soccer player

1981 – Randy Wayne, American actor and producer

1982 – Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer

1982 – Abbie Cornish, Australian actress

1982 – Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player

1982 – Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007)

1982 – Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer

1982 – Brit Marling, American actress, producer, and screenwriter

1982 – Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer

1982 – Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player

1982 – Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer

1983 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (RBD)

1983 – Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter

1983 – Andriy Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist

1983 – Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist

1984 – Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player

1984 – Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress

1984 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (d. 2003)

1986 – Paul Biedermann, German swimmer

1986 – Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer

1986 – Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress

1986 – Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer

1987 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player

1987 – Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer

1987 – Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player

1987 – Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer

1988 – Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer

1988 – Anisa Mohammed, West Indian cricketer

1988 – Melody Oliveria, American blogger

1988 – Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer

1988 – Beanie Wells, American football player

1989 – DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player

1990 – Helen Flanagan, English actress

1990 – Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter

1991 – Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2016)

1991 – Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer

1991 – Mike Trout, American baseball player

1992 – Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)

1992 – Adam Yates, English cyclist

1992 – Simon Yates, English cyclist

1992 – Yusuf Erdoğan, Turkish footballer

1993 – Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper

1993 – Zaur Sizo, Russian footballer

1993 – Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter

Deaths

461 – Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)

707 – Li Chongjun, crown prince of the Tang Dynasty

1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)

1234 – Hugh Foliot, bishop of Hereford (b.c. 1155)

1272 – Richard Middleton, Lord Chancellor of England

1296 – Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg

1385 – Joan of Kent, mother of King Richard II of England (b. 1328)

1485 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)

1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1544)

1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)

1632 – Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)

1635 – Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)

1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)

1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)

1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)

1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)

1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)

1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)

1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)

1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)

1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)

1900 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)

1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)

1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)

1938 – Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)

1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

1945 – Yi Wu, Korean colonel (b. 1912)

1948 – Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)

1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)

1957 – Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)

1958 – Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)

1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)

1968 – Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)

1969 – Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)

1969 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)

1970 – Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)

1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard (b. 1953)

1972 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)

1973 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)

1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)

1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)

1981 – Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)

1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)

1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)

1989 – Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)

1992 – John Anderson, American actor and director (b. 1922)

1994 – Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)

1995 – Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)

1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)

2001 – Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)

2003 – K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)

2003 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)

2004 – Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)

2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)

2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)

2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)

2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)

2007 – Hal Fishman, American journalist and actor (b. 1931)

2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)

2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)

2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1957)

2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)

2009 – Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)

2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)

2011 – Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)

2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and espionage agent (b. 1912)

2011 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer (b. 1946)

2012 – Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)

2012 – Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)

2012 – Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)

2012 – Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1931)

2012 – Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)

2012 – Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)

2013 – Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)

2013 – Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)

2013 – Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (b. 1952)

2013 – Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)

2013 – Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (d. 1946)

2013 – Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)

2014 – Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)

2014 – Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

2014 – Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921)

2015 – Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)

2015 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)

2015 – Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)

2016 – Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Albert of Trapani

Cajetan of Thienna

Carpophorus

Dometius of Persia

Donatus of Arezzo

John Mason Neale and Catherine Winkworth (Episcopal Church (USA))

Nantovinus

Pope Sixtus II

August 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Assyrian Martyrs Day (Assyrian community)

Battle of Boyacá Day (Colombia)

Emancipation Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Republic Day (Ivory Coast)

Youth Day (Kiribati)

References

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