Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXII

[Peelz]

[Colorado700R]

everytime you pop a zip, you kill a baby Krandall

[Peelz]

spelled zit wrong...but still hilarious.

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August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

43 BC – Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
1504 – Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 – An 18-year-old Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland, after spending 13 years in France.
1666 – 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 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 – Jacobite Rising, Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, raises his standard and marches on London – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45".
1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 – Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides".
1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1839 – Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
1848 – 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).
1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
1862 – Indian Wars: 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.
1895 – American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1953 – Cold War: the CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1960 – Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 – Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
1989 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments.
1990 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits the Northeast.
1999 – In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 – A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 – A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.

Births

1342 – Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
1398 – Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 – John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
1646 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
1711 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1743 – Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French Painter (d. 1894)
1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1883 – Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1896 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
1899 – Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
1900 – Colleen Moore, American film actress.(d. 1988)
1900 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
1902 – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
1907 – Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1912 – Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1913 – John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
1914 – Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 – Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1915 – Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
1919 – Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
1921 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
1925 – Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 – Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor
1930 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009)
1931 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
1934 – Renée Richards, American physician
1935 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress
1939 – Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream)
1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter
1940 – Jill St. John, American actress
1942 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
1943 – Billy J. Kramer, British singer
1944 – Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
1944 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, forty-second President of the United States
1946 – Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 – Dave Dutton, English actor
1947 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor
1948 – Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
1950 – Jennie Bond, British journalist
1950 – Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
1951 – John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
1953 – Lynwood Slim, American blues musician
1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant
1953 – Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
1955 – Peter Gallagher, American actor
1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor
1957 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
1957 – Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
1957 – Ian Gould, England cricketer
1957 – Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer
1958 – Anthony Muñoz, American football player
1958 – Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
1958 – Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
1959 – Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
1959 – Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
1960 – Morten Andersen, American football player
1960 – Ron Darling, American baseball player and announcer
1961 – Jonathan Coe, British author
1962 – Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
1962 – Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
1963 – John Stamos, American actor
1963 – Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1963 – Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor
1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
1966 – Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American musician
1968 – Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
1968 – Mark McGuinn, country music singer
1969 – Nate Dogg, American rapper
1969 – Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
1969 – Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list
1969 – Paula Jai Parker, American actress
1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor
1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor
1969 – Clay Walker, American singer
1970 – Fat Joe, American rapper
1970 – Jeff Tam, American baseball Player
1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
1971 – Mary Jo Fernandez, Tennis player
1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
1972 – Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
1972 – Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
1973 – Callum Blue, British actor
1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
1973 – Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
1975 – Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator
1975 – Tracie Thoms, American actress
1975 – Marco Coti Zelati, Italian bassist (Lacuna Coil)
1977 – Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
1977 – Takahiro Yamada, Japanese bassist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
1978 – Chris Capuano, American baseball player
1979 – Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K, Attack Cat)
1979 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
1980 – Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
1980 – Houcine Camara, French singer
1980 – Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
1980 – Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
1980 – Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1982 – Erika Christensen, American actress
1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 – John McCargo, American football player
1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
1983 – Mike Conway, British racing driver
1984 – Micah Alberti, American actor
1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
1985 – Megan Rochell, American singer
1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
1987 – Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
1987 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
1988 – Travis Tedford, American actor
1989 – Romeo, American rapper
1998 – Ella Guevara, Filipino actress

Deaths

14 – Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
1186 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 – Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 – Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
1493 – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1580 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
1646 – Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1662 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 – Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1692 – John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b.1632)
1753 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1883 – Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1889 – Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
1895 – John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1914 – Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1923 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
1936 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
1944 – Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1945 – Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)
1950 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 – Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 – David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1957 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1959 – Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
1963 – Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1967 – Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1975 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
1975 – Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1977 – Peter Dyneley, British actor (b. 1921)
1979 – Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(b. 1887)
1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
1980 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1981 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
1982 – August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 – Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
1994 – Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
1995 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
2000 – Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2000 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2001 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
2003 – Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 – Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 – Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
2008 – LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)

Holidays and observances

Afghanistan – Afghan Independence Day
United States – National Aviation Day

[Krandall]

1991 – Hurricane Bob hits the Northeast.


Hurrican Bill is on the way!

[socalrappy700]

August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 133 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of Syria and Palestine away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
917 – Battle of Anchialus: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drives the Byzantines out.
1000 – The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1391 – Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order.
1672 – Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
1775 – The Spanish establish a presidio (fort) in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers – American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
1804 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: the "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1888 – Mutineers imprison Emin Pasha at Dufile.
1900 – Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling.
1914 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1926 – Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
1940 – In Mexico City exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramon Mercader. He dies the next day.
1944 – World War II: the Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet offensive.
1953 – The Soviet Union publicly acknowledges that it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
1955 – In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
1960 – Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring its independence.
1968 – 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.
1975 – Viking Program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
1979 – The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1982 – Lebanese Civil War: a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO's withdrawal from Lebanon.
1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
1988 – "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: a cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 – Estonia secedes from the Soviet Union.
1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1997 – Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 – U.S. embassy bombings: the United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1999 – Tony Martin confronts two burglars in his farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk. Martin shoots both Brendon Fearon and Fred Barras with a pump-action shotgun, with Barras later dying of his injuries.
2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
2008 – Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, 8 more die afterwards. Only 18 people survive.

Births

1517 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader (d. 1586)
1561 – Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1625 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709)
1632 – Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)
1710 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (d. 1761)
1719 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
1719 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
1776 – Bernardo O'Higgins, South American revolutionary (d. 1842)
1779 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (d. 1848)
1833 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (d. 1901)
1845 – St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic Saint (d. 1916)
1847 – Andrew Greenwood, England cricketer (d. 1889)
1847 – Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (d. 1912)
1856 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (d. 1909)
1860 – Raymond Poincaré, French statesman (d. 1934)
1865 – Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (d. 1911)
1868 – Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (d. 1954)
1873 – Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1950)
1881 – Edgar Guest, English poet (d. 1959)
1886 – Paul Tillich, German-American theologian (d. 1965)
1890 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
1897 – Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (d. 1970)
1898 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
1901 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1905 – Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973)
1905 – Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
1907 – Alan Reed, original voice of Fred Flintstone. (d. 1977)
1908 – Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
1909 – Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1978)
1910 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961)
1913 – Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
1916 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
1918 – Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
1921 – Jack Wilson, Australian cricketer (d. 1985)
1924 – George Zuverink, American baseball player
1923 – Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
1926 – Nobby Wirkowski, American and Canadian football player and coach
1927 – Geriatric1927, English video blogger
1927 – Yootha Joyce, English actress (d. 1980)
1930 – Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1931 – Don King, American boxing promoter
1932 – Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
1932 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (d. 2009)
1932 – Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
1933 – George J. Mitchell, former United States Senator
1934 – Armi Kuusela, Finnish beauty queen
1935 – Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate
1936 – Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Jim Bowen, English comedian
1937 – El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1937 – Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian film director
1938 – Alain Vivien, French politician
1939 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician (d. 2004)
1940 – Rubén Hinojosa, American politician
1940 – Rex Sellers, Australian cricketer
1941 – Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1941 – Rich Brooks, American football coach
1941 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1941 – Robin Oakley, British journalist
1941 – Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
1942 – Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
1942 – Fred Norman, American baseball player
1943 – Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor
1944 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1991)
1944 – Graig Nettles, American baseball player
1946 – Connie Chung, American journalist
1946 – Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1946 – N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian businessman
1947 – Alan Lee, English conceptual artist
1948 – John Noble, Australian actor
1948 – Robert Plant, British Musician (Led Zeppelin)
1949 – Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1949 – Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer
1949 – Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1949 – Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986)
1951 – Greg Bear, American author
1952 – John Emburey, English cricketer
1952 – Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack)
1952 – John Hiatt, American musician
1953 – Gerry Bertier, American wheelchair Olympian (d. 1981)
1954 – Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (d. 2007)
1954 – Al Roker, American television personality
1954 – Don Stark, American actor
1955 – Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
1956 – Joan Allen, American actress
1956 – Alvin Greenidge, West Indian cricketer
1957 – Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
1958 – Patricia Rozema, Canadian film director and screenwriter
1958 – John Stehr, American journalist
1961 – Greg Egan, Australian author
1961 – Joe Pasquale, English comedian
1962 – Sophie Aldred, English actress
1962 – James Marsters, American actor
1962 – Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player
1965 – KRS-One, American rapper
1966 – Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)
1967 – Andy Benes, American baseball player
1967 – Colin Cunningham, American actor
1967 – Terri Poch, American yogini and former professional wrestler
1968 – Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer
1968 – Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969 – Duke Droese, American professional wrestler
1970 – Els Callens, Belgian tennis player
1970 – John D. Carmack, American computer game programmer
1971 – Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor
1971 – Steve Stone, English footballer
1971 – David Walliams, British comedian
1971 – Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1972 – Chaney Kley, American actor
1973 – Todd Helton, American baseball player
1974 – Amy Adams, American actress
1974 – Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 – Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
1974 – Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1974 – Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
1975 – Marcus Mastin, American author
1976 – Chris Drury, American hockey player
1977 – Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 – Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
1977 – Ivar Ingimarsson, Icelandic footballer
1977 – Mayra Veronica, Cuban model and actress
1977 – James Ormond, England cricketer
1979 – Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
1979 – Haha (entertainer), South Korean entertainer
1980 – Corey Carrier, American actor
1980 – Rochelle Gadd, British actress
1981 – Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
1981 – Bernard Mendy, French footballer
1982 – Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
1982 – Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
1982 – Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984 – Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
1984 – Golan Yosef, Dutch actor
1986 – Robert Clark, Canadian actor
1987 – Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
1988 – Jerryd Bayless, American Basketball Player
1990 – Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
1991 – Marko Đoković, Serbian tennis player
1992 – Demi Lovato, American actress and singer
2003 – Prince Gabriel of Belgium

Deaths

535 – Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
984 – Pope John XIV
1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
1572 – Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
1580 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
1611 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
1639 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
1643 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
1648 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
1672 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
1672 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
1680 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
1701 – Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
1707 – Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1773 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
1811 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
1823 – Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
1825 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
1904 – René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
1912 – William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1914 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)
1919 – Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869)
1930 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
1959 – William Halsey, Jr, American admiral (b. 1882)
1961 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1963 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
1965 – Jonathan Myrick Daniels, Civil Rights Martyr (b. 1939)
1971 – Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
1980 – Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1982 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
1986 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
1989 – George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (b. 1906)
1993 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
1997 – Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
1997 – Léon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (b. 1922)
1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2001 – Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
2001 – Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
2005 – Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
2005 – Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 – Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
2006 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
2006 – Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (Afghanistan) (b. 1977)
2007 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
2007 – Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
2008 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1921)
2008 – Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
2008 – Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)

Holidays and observances

World Union – World Union Day.
Roman Catholic saints – Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Bahá'í Faith – Feast of Asmá (Names) – First day of the ninth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
Hungary – St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary.
Estonia – Day of Restoration of Independence, celebrating the secession from the Soviet Union in 1991.

[Krandall]

1999 – Tony Martin confronts two burglars in his farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk. Martin shoots both Brendon Fearon and Fred Barras with a pump-action shotgun, with Barras later dying of his injuries.


WOOT!

[Colorado700R]

1999 – Tony Martin confronts two burglars in his farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk. Martin shoots both Brendon Fearon and Fred Barras with a pump-action shotgun, with Barras later dying of his injuries.


WOOT!

REGULATORS!!!!!!   Mount up............chaps!!!

[Krandall]

Nice!




hows the home front aaron.

[Colorado700R]

Doing well thank you.  Nikki has to bear the most of the work with the kids since I'm at work all day.  And she hasn't killed anyone yet.  Then again, I haven't seen Micheal (3) lately  

[Krandall]

 

losing children 1 by one slowly. 

[socalrappy700]

August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of the year.

Today in history

1192 – Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192)
1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt.
1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
1760 – The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
1808 – 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 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 – America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)
1858 – The Lincoln-Douglas debates begin.
1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate guerrillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1878 – The American Bar Association is founded.
1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
1928 – WRNY began regularly scheduled television broadcasts in New York City.
1942 – World War II: a Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1942 – World War II: Allied forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 – Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1959 – 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 – Xa Loi Pagoda raids: the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 – Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 – James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine.
1969 – An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire
1971 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1986 – Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 – Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1992 – Ruby Ridge Standoff in Idaho
1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
2001 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 – Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.

Births

1165 – King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 – Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
1597 – Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1643 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 – Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 – Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 – Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (d. 1889)
1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish/Australian poet (d. 1963)
1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1904 – William "Count" Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1906 – Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
1908 – M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 – Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1915 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1918 – Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 – Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 – Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 – Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
1924 – Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 – Judy Grable, American professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1925 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1927 – Thomas S. Monson, 16th president of the Church of of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church)
1928 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1928 – Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)
1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1929 – Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist
1930 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 – Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1936 – Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist
1937 – Gustavo Noboa, former President of Ecuador
1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
1939 – James Burton, American guitarist
1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor
1939 – Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1943 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer
1944 – Peter Weir, Australian film director
1944 – Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 – Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 – Patty McCormack, American actress
1945 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1949 – Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 – Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1950 – Arthur Bremer, American criminal, who shot George C Wallace in May 1972.
1951 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 – Char Margolis, American medium
1951 – Harry Smith, American television journalist
1951 – Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 – Keith Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1952 – Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze/Deep Purple)
1952 – Jiří Paroubek, former Czech prime minister
1952 – Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1953 – Ivan Stang, American writer
1954 – Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1956 – Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
1956 – John Tester, US Senator from Montana
1959 – Jim McMahon, American football player
1961 – David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 – Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1961 – V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer
1962 – Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 – King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 – Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 – Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 – Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1965 – Caryn Mower, American actress, stuntwoman and former professional wrestler
1966 – John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player
1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 – Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 – Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1969 – Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 – Nathan Jones, American professional wrestler
1970 – Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1971 – Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 – Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese Soccer player
1971 – Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1973 – Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1973 – Nikolay Valuev, Russian boxer
1975 – Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 – Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 – Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1976 – Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican American soccer player
1976 – Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 – Peter Buxton, English rugby union player
1978 – Bhumika Chawla, Indian Actress
1978 – Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer
1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1979 – Kelis Rogers-Jones, American singer
1980 – Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1980 – Paul Menard, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Driver
1981 – Collie Buddz, (Colin Harper) Reggae & Dancehall artist
1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1981 – Jarrod Lyle, Australian Golfer
1983 – Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 – Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1983 – Brody Jenner, American actor
1983 – Scott McDonald, Australian footballer (Celtic F.C.)
1984 – Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
1984 – Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 – Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 – B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1985 – Melissa M, French singer
1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
1987 – Kim Kibum, a member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
1988 – Louise Setara, English singer-songwriter
1988 – Paris Bennett, American singer and finalist on American Idol (season 5)
1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress, model and singer
1989 – Judd Trump, English snooker player
1989 – Clayton Paterson, Canadian musician (Asphalt Lullabies, Ruin of Nations)
1990 – Bo Burnham, American singer-songwriter and Internet Celebrity
1992 – Brad Kavanagh, English songwriter and actor
1996 – Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Deaths

1157 – King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1153 – Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1271 – Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 – Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1673 – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1689 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1796 – John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1854 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1870 – Ma Xinyi Viceroy of Liangjiang of the late Qing Dynasty in China,(b. 1821)
1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1940 – Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 – Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize (b. 1857)
1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1951 – Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 – Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 – Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1960 – David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
1971 – George Jackson, American prisoner, Soledad Brother, Black Panther (b. 1941)
1978 – Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 – Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
1988 – Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1992 – Dai Vernon, Canadian magician (b. 1894)
1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1997 – Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2000 – Tomata du Plenty, artist and lead singer of The Screamers. (b. 1948)
2001 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 – Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 – Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 – Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 – Martin Dillon, tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
2006 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 – Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)
2008 – Gene Upshaw, NFL Player, NFLPA President (b. 1945)
2008 – Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)

Holidays and observances

Morocco: King Mohammed VI's Birthday
Philippines: Ninoy Aquino Day

Roman festivals: Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held.

[Krandall]

1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.


MMMmmmMMmmmmm

Latvians.

[Colorado700R]

Ukrainian FTW, that euro-asian look is awesome (see the chick in the movie Hitman for example) 

Olga Kurylenko

[disco]

2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)

What a name.  "Hey, Schmuck!"