August 29th
Holidays and Festivals
Slovak National Uprising Day * (see below)
Flag Day (Spain) * CLICK HERE
The first day of Thoth * (see below)
According to Hoyle Day
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Day
More Herbs, Less Salt Day
The Beheading of St. John the Baptist Feast Day (Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism, and Roman Catholic Church)
* Reading Festival Reading, England, UK August 27 – 29 (3of3) (2010)
* Leeds Festival Leeds, England, UK August 27 – 29 (3of3) (2010)
* Creamfields Festival Daresbury, Halton, Cheshire, UK August 28 - 29 (2of2) (2010)
* Slovak National Uprising Day - Celebrating Slovakian uprising in 1944 against the Nazis.
* The first day of Thoth – which is the first day of the Egyptian calendar. Thoth is the Ibis-headed god of knowledge.
Fête de la Fenouil Translation: Fennel Day (French Republican) The 12th day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's health in homely rhyme
To our oldest classmate, Father Time;
May our last survivor live to be
As bold and wise and as thorough as he!"
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29th, 1809 – October 7th, 1894), an American professor and author
Drink of The Day
The Last Word
1 Part Gin
1 Part Lime Juice
1 Part Green Chartreuse
1 Part Maraschino Liqueur
Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Wine of The Day
Magnotta (2007) Special Reserve
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Niagara Peninsula
$20
Beer of The Day
Trois Pistoles
Brewer - Unibroue
Style - Belgian Strong Dark Ale
ABV - 9%
Joke of The Day
A guy goes over to his friend's house, rings the bell, and the wife answers.
"Hi, is Tony home?"
"No, he went to the store."
"Well, you mind if I wait?"
"No, come in."
They sit down and the friend says, "You know Nora, you have the greatest breasts I have ever seen. I'd give you a hundred bucks if I could just see one."
Nora thinks about this for a second and figures what the hell - a hundred bucks. She opens her robe and shows one. He promptly thanks her and throws a hundred bucks on the table.
They sit there a while longer and Chris says, "They are so beautiful I've got to see the both of them. I'll give you another hundred bucks if I could just see the both of them together."
Nora thinks about this and thinks what the hell, opens her robe, and gives Chris a nice long look. Chris thanks her, throws another hundred bucks on the table, and then says he can't wait any longer and leaves.
A while later Tony arrives home and his wife says, "You know, your weird friend Chris came over."
Tony thinks about this for a second and says "Well did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"
Quote of The Day
"Never frown because someone could be falling in love with your smile."
- Unknown
August Observances
Admit You're Happy Month
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month
American History Essay Contest (8/1 - 12/15)
American Indian Heritage Month (Also November)
Beach Month
Black Business Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celery, Fennel and Cactus Month
Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
Children’s Vision and Learning Month
Family Fun Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Golf Month
Happiness Happens Month
Learn Japanese Month
Motor Sports Awareness Month
National Catfish Month
National Eye Exam Month
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month
National Goat Cheese Month
National Golf Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Panini Month
National Parks Month
National Picnic Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month
National Water Quality Month
National Win With Civility Month
National Women's Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month
Orange and Papaya Month
Peach Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month
Romance Awareness Month
Water Quality Month
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
Observances this Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week Last Full Week in AugustNational Safe at Home Week Last Work Week in August
Little League World Series Usually 11 Days Starting the Third Thursday in August
Historical Events on August 29th
08 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1178 Anti-Pope Callistus III gives pope title to Alexander III
1261 Jacques Pantaleon elected as Pope Urban IV
1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
1475 The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England, king Louis XI buys English contacts.
1484 Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
1498 Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
1521 The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár, now known as Belgrade.
1526 Battle of Mohács, Hungary conquered by Turks. The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges
1541 The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1612 Battle at Surat India, English fleet beats Portuguese
1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1655 Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.
1664 Adriaen Pieck/Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1708 English troops occupy Menorca & Sardinia
1708 Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French & Indians
1742 Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
1756 England & France meet in war
1756 Frederick the Great and Prussian Libya attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War.
1758 New Jersey Legislature forms The first American Indian Reservation at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1776 Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1792 English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
1793 Slaves in French colony of St Domingue (Haiti) freed
1825 Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction, demonstrates 1st electric transformer.
1833 The United Kingdom legislates the abolition of slavery in its empire.
1842 Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, the First Opium War.
1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
1854 Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
1861 US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina during the American Civil War.
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station) begins
1862 Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
1864 William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
1869 The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first rack railway.
1871 Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket". Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match (7-46 & 7-44)
1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1885 Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves & 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan & Dominick McCaffrey
1885 Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle
1885 Phillies Charlie Ferguson no-hits Providence 1-0
1889 1st American Intl pro lawn tennis contest (Newport RI)
1895 The formation of the Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel, Huddersfield, England.
1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador
1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis
1905 Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
1906 Bridge in St Lawrence Canada caves in, 70 die
1906 William J Clothier wins the US Tennis Open
1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1908 NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London
1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
1910 Japan changes Korea's name to Chosen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1911 Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
1913 Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
1914 4th day of Tannenberg, Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 Arizonian is 1st vessel to arrive in SF via Panama Canal
1914 Battle at St Quentin, French counter attack under General Lanrezac
1915 US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in accident.
1916 Congress creates US Naval reserve
1916 Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916 The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1916 Transportship Hsin-Yu & cruiser Hai-Yung collide, 1000 die
1916 US Congress accept Jones Act, Philippines independence
1916 Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1918 Bapaume taken by Australian Corps and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
1922 Turkish forces set fire to Smyrna in Asia Minor.
1924 German Republic day accepts Dawes plan
1925 After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him
1929 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
1932 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
1932 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops
1935 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
1937 Phila A's Bob Johnson is 2nd to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
1939 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II
1940 7th NFL Chicago All-Star Game, Green Bay 45, All-Stars 28 (84,567)
1941 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1943 Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany
1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy, Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees
1944 Anti German rebellion in Slovakia, Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1945 British liberate Hong Kong from Japan
1945 Gen MacArthur named Supreme Commander of Allied Powers in Japan
1947 Constantine Tsaldaris follows Maximos as Greece premier
1949 Soviet atomic bomb project, The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1950 Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1953 KHSL TV channel 12 in Chico, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 USSR explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb
1954 SF International Airport (SFO) opens
1956 French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
1958 Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colo
1958 George Harrison joins Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
1958 United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1960 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack
1962 Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962 US U-2 flight sees SAM launch pads in Cuba
1963 Harmon Killebrew (Twins) HRs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH
1964 "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 965 perfs
1964 On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)
1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released
1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5
1965 Willie Mays sets NL record for HRs in a month with his 17th of August
1966 Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
1966 Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
1966 The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
1967 Final TV episode of "Fugitive"
1967 Yanks longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yanks win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours & 19 minutes
1968 1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains)
1968 Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
1968 Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja
1969 Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench
1969 KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Phila (1 cop killed)
1970 Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Ruben Salazar.
1972 SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces added to last 21 he retired 6 days earlier for record 41 in a row
1974 USSR performs underground nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova becoming 4th brightest in sky
1976 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1977 St Louis Cardinal Lou Brock eclipses Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893 as Padres win 4-3
1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 USTA National Tennis Center opens in Flushing NY
1979 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
1981 28th Walker Cup, US wins 15-9
1981 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg - South Atlantic League)
1982 38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
1982 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
1982 Steve Miller's "Abracadabra" hits #1
1982 The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
1985 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1985 NY Yankee Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time
1986 Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1986 Morocco king Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya
1987 Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
1987 Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
1988 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record
1988 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq
1991 JFK Jr wins his 1st battle as an attorney
1991 Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo is killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
1991 Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
1992 Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout & decides to keep the ball He rolls it to the dugout, allows Ricky Jordan to take 2nd on error
1992 Largest wrestling crowd out side of US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium
1992 Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
1993 21st du Maurier Golf Classic, Brandie Burton
1993 93rd US Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris
1993 Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
1993 Actress Marlee Matlin (28) weds Kevin Grandalski (28)
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
2007 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident, six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
2012 Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
2012 Georgian hostage crisis results in 3 police officers and 10 militants being killed
2012 Operation Eagle, undertaken by the Egyptian Army, results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23
2012 The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles
2013 41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya
2014 Riots break out in Guinea following rumours that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
2014 Senegal is 5th country hit by Ebola
Born on August 29th
1387 Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19)
1434 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator
1476 Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder (Kano school of painting)
1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry)
1609 Sassoferrato (Giovanni B Salvi), Italian painter (Madonna)
1619 Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher, disproved substance (d. 1704)
1686 Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer
1694 Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715)
1725 Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1728 Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797)
1756 Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 Jan Sniadecki, Polish mathematician (d. 1830)
1773 Raphael G Kiesewetter, Austria musicologist (Arab Music)
1777 Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, founder of Sinology (d. 1853)
1780 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather) (d. 1867)
1805 Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1808 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician and reformer
1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician and writer (Old Ironsides) (d. 1894)
1810 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian politician, writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884)
1811 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) (d. 1888)
1815 Anna Ella Carroll, US, civil war writer (Reconstruction)
1842 Alfred Shaw, English cricketer (pioneering England Test bowler) (d. 1907)
1843 David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 Edward Carpenter, English poet (d. 1929)
1849 Titus A J van Asch van Wijck, Dutch governor Suriname (1891-97)
1851 Willem M d'Ablaing, Dutch lawyer
1855 Emil Pauer, composer
1857 Sandford Schultz, English cricketer (d. 1937)
1862 Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet (Blue Bird) (Nobel laureate 1911) (d. 1949)
1871 Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1874 Walter Field
1876 Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (auto self-starter) (d. 1958)
1876 Kim Gu, President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949)
1877 Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II)
1879 Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher
1880 Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canada, lived past 117
1881 Edvin Kallstenius, composer
1881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator (Enfantines)
1884 Ehm Welk, writer
1891 Michael Chekhov, Russia, actor (Abie's Irish Rose, Rhapsody)
1894 E Franklin Frazier, sociologist, died in 1962
1898 Preston Sturges (Edmund P Biden), American director (Sullivan's Travels) (d. 1959)
1899 George Macready, Providence RI, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
1899 Lyman L Lemnitzer, Marine Corps general (WW II)
1900 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou)
1901 Aurèle Joliat, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986)
1903 Ernst Kreuder, writer
1903 Olive Ann Beech, aircraft industry executive
1904 Werner Forssmann, German physician, urologist (Nobel laureate 1956) (d. 1979)
1905 Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (d. 1941)
1905 Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1905 Lan Adomian, composer
1905 Martinus A Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70)
1906 Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake Ind, actress (Father of Bride, Julia)
1907 Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)
1909 Francis Henry Smith, librarian
1909 Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader
1910 Robert Pineda-Duque, composer
1910 Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
1912 Barry Sullivan, American actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man) (d. 1994)
1912 Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects)
1912 Sohn Kee-chung, Korean runner (d. 2002)
1912 Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian/Polish cinematographer
1913 Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999)
1915 Denys Hay, historian
1915 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower) (d. 1982)
1915 Nathan Pritikin, American nutritionist (d. 1985)
1916 George Montgomery, American actor (Battle of Bulge, Hallucination) (d. 2000)
1916 Leo Horn, Dutch soccer referee/columnist/businessman
1916 Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
1917 Isabel Sanford, American actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family) (d. 2004)
1918 Jelle Zijlstra, economist/minister/pres Netherlands Bank
1920 Charles White, Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Airpot 95, Serpico)
1920 Charlie "Bird" Parker, American musician, jazz saxophonist (d. 1955)
1920 Joseph Lesniewski, Erie, Pennsylvania, Easy Company soldier in 101st Airborne, (d. 2012)
1920 Susan Damante Shaw, London England, actress (Wilderness Family)
1922 Emile Habibi, writer
1922 Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (d. 2008)
1922 Yorgos Sicilianos, composer
1923 Hiralal Gaekwad, Indian cricketer
1923 Lester Albert Trimble, composer
1923 Marmaduke Hussey, BBC Chairman (d. 2006)
1923 Reinier Braams, Dutch biophysicist/MP (VVD)
1923 Richard Attenborough, English actor, director (Gandhi, Young Winston)
1924 Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 Dinah Washington, American singer (What a Difference a Day Makes) (d. 1963)
1924 James W Wood, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1925 Donald O'Connor, Chicago Ill, dancer/actor (Singing in the Rain)
1926 Betty Lynn, American actress
1926 Helene Ahrweiler, Greek Byzantinologist
1926 María Dolores Pradera, Spanish melodic singer
1927 Marion Williams, US gospel singers (Stars of Faith)
1928 Charles Gray, English actor (Clay-Rawhide) (d. 2000)
1928 Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1929 Thom Gunn, British poet (The Wound) (d. 2004)
1930 Jacques Bouchard, Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006)
1930 Marius J J van Amelsvoort, Dutch undersecretary (CDA)
1931 Lise Payette, Quebec politician, writer and columnist
1931 Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer (d. 2001)
1933 Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1933 Jehan Sadat, 1st lady of Egypt
1933 Ramses Shaffy, Dutch cabaret actor (Zaak MP, Liefdesbekentenissen)
1934 David H Pryor, (Sen-D Arkansas, 1979)
1934 Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor and director (d. 2004)
1934 Gene Allison, US R&B-singer (You Can Make It If You Try)
1934 Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer
1934 John Guy, New Zealand cricketer
1935 Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch essayist/mathematician
1935 Laszlo Garai, Hungarian scientist, psychologist
1935 William Friedkin, American film director
1936 John McCain, American politician (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-86)
1937 James J Florio, American politician, (Rep-D-NJ, 1975-90/Gov-D-NJ, 1990-94)
1938 Elliott Gould, American actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
1938 Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 Joel Schumacher, American film director
1939 William Friedkin, Chic, dir (Exorcist, Cruising, French Connection)
1940 Gary Gabelich, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1940 James Brady, American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt)
1940 Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ (Olympic-gold-1972)
1941 Robin Leach, English television host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous)
1942 Holmes Sterling Morrison, musician
1942 James Glennon, American cinematographer (d. 2006)
1942 John Heuser, Electron microscopist
1943 Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996)
1943 Richard Halligan, Troy NY, rock vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears)
1945 Chris Copping, Essex England, rock bassist (Procol Harum)
1945 Wyomia Tyus, American athlete, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1946 Bob Beamon, American long jumper and high jumper (Olympics-gold-68, 29' 2½" 8.9m)
1946 Dimitris Christofias, Cypriot politician and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus
1947 James Hunt, English race car driver (d. 1993)
1947 Temple Grandin, American animal welfare and autism expert
1948 Charles David Walker, astronaut (STS 12 STS 16 STS 23)
1949 Peter John Wiegold, composer
1950 Dave Reichert, American politician and sheriff
1950 Doug DeCinces, American baseball player
1950 Mark McHale, WLAF offensive line coach (Amsterdam Admirals)
1952 Dave Malone, American rock guitarist
1952 Deborah Van Valkenburgh, American actress
1952 Karen Hesse, American children's writer
1953 James Quesada, Nicaraguan/American anthropologist
1953 Rick Downey, rocker drummer/vocalist (Blue Oyster Cult)
1954 Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 Julio Fernandez, jazz guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1954 Michael P(aul) Kube-McDowell, American sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery)
1955 Diamanda Galas, American singer
1955 Frank Hoste, Belgian cyclist
1956 Edddie Murray, NFL kicker (Washington Redskins, Minnesota Vikings)
1956 GG Allin, American rock singer (d. 1993)
1956 Kelly Murray, Vancouver, Canadian Tour golfer (985 Alberta Open)
1956 Mark Morris, American choreographer
1957 Jerry D. Bailey, American racing jockey
1957 Pim Kops, rock musician (Dike, Bloedend Heart)
1957 Therese Hession, LPGA golfer
1958 Lenny Henry, British writer, comedian and actor
1958 Michael Jackson (King of Pop), American entertainer and pop singer (Thriller, Bad, Billy Jean) (d. 2009)
1959 Akkineni Nagarjuna, Indian Telugu actor
1959 Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut (STS 74, sk: 99)
1959 Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1959 Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 Rebecca De Mornay, American actress (Hand that Rocks Cradle)
1959 Stephen Wolfram, British physicist and mathematician (Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, A New Kind of Science)
1959 Timothy Perry Shriver, member of the Kennedy Family
1960 Todd English, American chef
1960 Tony MacAlpine, American guitarist
1961 Carsten Fischer, German field-hockey player
1961 Rodney McCray, American basketball player
1961 Tony MacAlpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity)
1962 Carl Banks, American football player, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, NY Giants)
1962 Hiroki Kikuta, Japanese composer
1962 Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor
1963 Elizabeth Brown, minister healer and writer
1963 Elizabeth Fraser, Scottish singer
1963 Greg Holmes, Covina Cal, tennis star
1963 Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
1964 Jordi Arrese, Spain, tennis star
1965 Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1965 Dina Spybey, American actress
1965 Will Perdue, American basketball player, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs)
1966 Dan Truman, St George Utah, singer (Diamond Rio-Meet in the Middle)
1967 Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre)
1967 Shaun Van Allen, Shaunavon, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1968 Darren Joseph, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 Brady Katytman, Greece NY, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1969 Jerry Simons, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Vitesse)
1969 Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1970 Chris Daugherty, Winner of Survivor: Vanuatu
1970 Jacco Elringh, Netherlands, tennis star
1971 Carla Gugino, American actress
1971 Dennis de Brown, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player
1972 Bae Yong Joon, South Korean actor
1972 Michael Roan, NFL tight end/halfback (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1973 Adam Sessler, American TV show host
1973 Devin Wyman, defensive tackle (New England Patriots)
1973 Jermane Mayberry, guard/tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Joe Carollo, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 Leigh Sherer, Jasper Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-Top 10-1996)
1973 Olivier Jacque, motorcyclist
1974 Brad Boston, Sarnia Ontario, soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1974 Kumi Tanioka, Japanese composer
1975 Dante Basco, Filipino/American actor
1975 Juan Diego Botto, Argentine-Spanish actor
1976 Chris Renaud, Fredericton New Brunswick, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
1976 Kasia Kulesza, Warsaw Poland, Canadian synchro swimmer (Oly-silver-96)
1976 Kevin Kaesviharn, American football player
1976 Pablo Mastroeni, American soccer player
1976 Stephanie Worcester, Miss USA-Maine (1997)
1976 Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1977 Aaron Rowand, American baseball player
1977 Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian
1977 Devean George, American basketball player
1977 Jo Weil, German actor
1977 John Patrick O'Brien, American footballer
1977 Roy Oswalt, American baseball player
1978 Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1978 Larissa Meek, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1997)
1979 Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1979 Natasha Fisher, Miss Nebraska Teen USA (1997)
1979 Ryan Shealy, American baseball player
1979 Stijn Devolder, Belgian cyclist
1980 Chris Simms, American football player
1980 David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1980 David West, American basketball player
1980 Mohammad Sheikh, Kenyan cricketer
1980 Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer and actor
1981 Dennis Oh, Korean-American actor
1981 Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
1981 Jay Ryan (Jay Bunyan), Australian actor
1981 Lanny Barbie, Canadian pornographic actress
1982 A+, American rapper
1982 Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
1982 Leon Washington, American football player
1985 Jeffrey Licon, American actor
1985 Marc Rzepczynski, American baseball player
1986 Lauren Collins, Canadian actress
1986 Lea Michele, American actress and singer
1987 Tony Kane, Irish footballer
1990 Nicole Anderson, American actress
1990 Sam Stern, British chef and author
1992 Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1994 James Wilson, Cricketer, songwriter, legend.
Died on August 29th
29 John the Baptist, beheaded
886 Basil I, the Macedonier, Byzantine emperor (867-886) (b. 811)
1093 Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)
1123 King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)
1395 Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)
1442 John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)
1523 Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot
1526 Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in battle) (b. 1506)
1533 Atahualpa, last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
1542 Cristovão da Gama, Portuguese soldier (b. c. 1516)
1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights
1657 John Lilburne, English dissenter (b. 1614)
1712 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King) (b. 1648)
1738 Georg Reuter, composer
1758 Gerard Van Wage, historian
1758 Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal
1769 Edmund Hoyle, English author and teacher, games expert (b. 1672)
1780 Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (b. 1713)
1782 Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral drowns (b. 1718)
1799 Pius VI (Giovanni A Braschi), Italian Pope (1775-99) (b. 1717)
1821 Horace Coignet, composer
1844 Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (b. 1762)
1856 Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1861 Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
1865 John Brough, US publisher (gov-R-Ohio)
1866 Tokugawa Iemochi, 14th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (b. 1846)
1877 Brigham Young, American religious leader and western settler, 2nd president of Mormon Church (b. 1801)
1889 Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (b. 1815)
1891 Pierre Lallement, inventor of the bicycle (b. 1843 or 1844)
1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia)
1904 Murad V, Ottoman Sultan (1876) (b. 1840)
1909 Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
1910 Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests)
1910 Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer
1910 John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname)
1914 Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1918 Max Dauthendey, writer
1921 Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (rule of Allen)
1928 Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor
1930 William Archibald Spooner, English writer (b. 1844)
1931 David T. Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1867)
1933 Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer
1935 Astrid S L T Bernadotte, Queen of Belgium/Princess of Sweden
1935 Charles Lee Williams, composer
1935 Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
1940 Arthur De Greef, composer
1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed
1941 Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed
1946 Adolphus Busch III, American brewing magnate and President and CEO of the Anheuser-Busch Company (b. 1891)
1946 J E Feenstra, Nazi military police commandant, executed
1946 Milan Harasta, composer
1951 Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
1960 Alexander Gauge, actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
1960 Hazza el-Majali, PM of Jordan is assassinated
1960 Vicki Baum, writer
1966 Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theoretician (b. 1906)
1968 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881)
1968 Victor Sutherland
1970 Mary Clare
1971 Nathan Leopold, American convicted murderer (Leopold and Loeb) (b. 1904)
1972 Lale (Liselotte H) Anderson, German singer, night club performer (b. 1905)
1972 Rene Leibowitz, composer
1973 Michael Dunn, short actor (Justine, Boom, Madigan)
1973 Stringer Davis, actress (Mouse on the Moon, Miranda)
1975 Eamon de Valera, First Taoiseach and third President of Ireland (1937..59) (b. 1882)
1975 Leland T Weed
1976 Anissa Jones, actress (Buffy-Family Affair), ODs
1976 Jimmy Reed, American blues singer (b. 1925)
1976 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher (b. 1899)
1977 Brian McGuire, Australian racing driver (b. 1945)
1977 Jean Hagen, American actress (Dead Ringer, Shaggy Dog, Arena) (b. 1923)
1979 Mary Marquet, actress (Landru, Paris Canaille)
1981 Lowell Thomas, American writer and broadcaster (High Adventure) (b. 1892)
1982 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Anastasia, Gaslight) (b. 1915 - same day)
1982 Lehman Engel, US composer (Streetcar Named Desire)
1982 Nahum Goldmann, pres Zionist World Organization
1983 Simon Oakland, American actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep) (b. 1915)
1983 William Goyen, writer
1984 Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian statesman (b. 1901)
1985 Alexander Abramsky, composer
1985 Evelyn Ankers, English actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman) (b. 1918)
1985 Patrick Barr, actor (Black Orchid, On the Run)
1986 Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indies 1933-35, "chinaman")
1987 Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)
1987 Lee Marvin, American actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park) (b. 1924)
1989 Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
1990 Sandy, dog in the play Anni
1991 Dallas Adams, British painter, writer, actor (Terror from Within)
1991 Daniel Ocko
1991 Dixie Dunbar (Charlotte King)
1991 Kathryn Cravens, news correspondent
1991 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer, anti mafia, killed by the Mafia (b. 1924)
1992 Félix Guattari, French philosopher and social theorist (b. 1930)
1992 Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers)
1992 Teddy Turner, comedian (b. 1917)
1993 Dorian Corey, actor (Paris is Burning)
1993 Henry J "Harry" Smeets, dealer of Volkskrant
1994 Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist
1994 Gladys Marea Hartman, athletics Administrator
1994 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
1994 Michael Peters
1994 Phillip Gilmore, actress (Malcolm X),
1994 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, longest serving newspaper editor
1995 Frank Perry, American film director (Diary of Mad Housewife, David & Lisa) (b. 1930)
1995 Harry Broadhurst, British airman
1995 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist
1995 Thomas Strittmatter, writer
2000 Willie Maddren, English footballer (b. 1951)
2001 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (b. 1926)
2001 Graeme "Shirley" Strachan, Australian singer (Skyhooks), TV and radio star (b. 1952)
2002 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (b. 1920)
2003 Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi political leader (b. 1939)
2003 Michel Constantin, French film actor (b. 1924)
2003 Patrick Procktor, English artist (b. 1936)
2004 Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (b. 1942)
2007 Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (b. 1920)
2007 James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (b. 1914)
2007 Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (b. 1916)
2007 Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (b. 1962)
2008 Geoffrey Perkins, British comedy producer (b. 1953)
2008 Michael Schoenberg, Geophysicist (b. 1939)
2011 David "Honeyboy" Edwards, American delta blues guitarist
2014 Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver
2015 Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You)
