History of Today 07 August: Important Events, Births and Deaths

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Important Events on 07 August in History

07 Aug 2020: Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board. Read more
07 Aug 2008: The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia. Read more
07 Aug 2007: At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record. Read more
07 Aug 1999: The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan. Read more
07 Aug 1998: Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people. Read more
07 Aug 1997: Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more
07 Aug 1997: Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people. Read more
07 Aug 1995: The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake. Read more
07 Aug 1993: Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Read more
07 Aug 1990: First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War. Read more
07 Aug 1989: U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. Read more
07 Aug 1989: The National Cold Fusion Institute opened in Salt Lake City. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. Read more
07 Aug 1985: Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. Read more
07 Aug 1981: The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. Read more
07 Aug 1978: U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently. Read more
07 Aug 1976: Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars. Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1962: Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide. Read more
07 Aug 1960: Ivory Coast becomes independent from France. Read more
07 Aug 1959: Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1947: The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST). Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1933: The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre. Read more
07 Aug 1930: The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are murdered. Read more
07 Aug 1927: The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York. Read more
07 Aug 1926: The first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands. Read more
07 Aug 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. Read more
07 Aug 1890: Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.[better source needed] Read more
07 Aug 1858: The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. Read more
07 Aug 1819: Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá. Read more

Famous Births on 07 August

07 Aug 2000: Lauren Hemp, English footballer Lauren May Hemp is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the England national team. With City, she is a FA Cup and League Cup winner, and with England; she is a two-time European Championship winner, a Finalissima winner, as well as World Cup runner-up. Since 2017, Hemp was twice named FA England Young Player of the Year and four times named PFA Women's Young Player of the Year. Read more
07 Aug 1999: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter Sydney Michelle McLaughlin-Levrone is an American hurdler and sprinter who holds the world record for the 400 meters hurdles and the American record for the flat 400 meters. She won gold in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and 2025 World Athletics Championships. She set a world record time in the 400 m hurdles of 50.37 seconds at the 2024 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2024, breaking the world record she previously set of 50.65 seconds. She set a championship record in the flat 400 of 47.78 at the 2025 World Championships, making her the second fastest woman in history over that distance. She was the first woman to break the 52-second and 51-second barriers in the 400 m hurdles. She won a silver medal at the 2019 World Championships. At all four competitions, she also took gold as part of the women's 4 × 400 m relay team. Read more
07 Aug 1998: Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver Vladimir Barbu is an Italian diver. Read more
07 Aug 1998: María Belén Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer María Belén Bazo Germán is a Peruvian windsurfer who previously competed in the RS:X class and now competes in the iQFoil class. Read more
07 Aug 1998: Jalen Hurts, American football player Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He began his college football career with the Alabama Crimson Tide, leading the team to consecutive College Football Playoff National Championship appearances in 2016 and 2017. After three seasons at Alabama, Hurts used his final year of eligibility with the Oklahoma Sooners and made an appearance in the 2019–20 College Football Playoff. Read more
07 Aug 1997: Matty Cash, Polish footballer Matthew Stuart Cash is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Aston Villa. Born in England, he plays for the Poland national team. Read more
07 Aug 1997: Kyler Murray, American football player Kyler Cole Murray is an American professional football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). Following one season of college football with the Texas A&M Aggies, Murray played for the Oklahoma Sooners, winning the Heisman Trophy in 2018. Murray was selected first overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2019 NFL draft. He was also selected ninth overall by the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the 2018 draft, making him the first player drafted in the first round of both sports. Read more
07 Aug 1996: Dani Ceballos, Spanish footballer Daniel Ceballos Fernández is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder. Read more
07 Aug 1993: Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper Martti Nõmme is an Estonian ski jumper. He was born in Võru. Read more
07 Aug 1993: Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter Karol Zalewski is a Polish athlete who specialises in the sprinting events. He reached the semifinals of the 2013 World Championships in the 200 metres. He is also the 2013 European U23 champion over that distance. Read more
07 Aug 1992: Adam Yates, English cyclist Adam Richard Yates is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. Yates placed third overall at the 2023 Tour de France. In 2016 he became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon Yates. Read more
07 Aug 1992: Simon Yates, English cyclist Simon Philip Yates is a retired British professional road and track racing cyclist who last rode for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España and 2025 Giro d'Italia. Yates has taken more than thirty professional victories, including eleven Grand Tour stage victories – six at the Giro d'Italia, three at the Tour de France and two at the Vuelta a España. Yates has been a resident of Andorra since 2015. Read more
07 Aug 1992: Wout Weghorst, Dutch footballer Wout François Maria Weghorst is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Twente and the Netherlands national team. Read more
07 Aug 1991: Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (died 2016) Luis Jaime Salom Horrach was a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer. Salom died after a practice accident in the home event, at Circuit de Catalunya, when making contact with his bike and the wall after a high-speed accident. Racing in the Moto2 class since 2014, he finished 41 races, with three podium appearances, including a second-place finish at the 2016 Qatar season opener. At the time of his death, Salom ranked tenth in the 2016 Moto2 Championship point standings. Previously, he had competed in Moto3, accumulating nine race victories, finishing second and third in the 2012 and 2013 championships, respectively. Read more
07 Aug 1991: Mike Trout, American baseball player Michael Nelson Trout is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). Trout is a 12-time All-Star, three-time American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP), and nine-time winner of the Silver Slugger Award. He also captained the United States national team during the 2023 World Baseball Classic and was named to the All-WBC Team. He is regarded by many as the best baseball player of his generation and one of the greatest players in baseball history. Read more
07 Aug 1991: Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer Mitchell te Vrede is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Persian Gulf Pro League club Gol Gohar. Born in the Netherlands, he plays for the Suriname national team. Read more
07 Aug 1990: Jake Allen, Canadian ice hockey player Jake Allen is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a goaltender for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 34th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 2008 NHL entry draft and won the Stanley Cup with the Blues in 2019. Allen has also previously played for the Montreal Canadiens. Read more
07 Aug 1990: Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of rock band You Me at Six. Read more
07 Aug 1989: DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player DeMar Darnell DeRozan is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected ninth overall by the Toronto Raptors in the 2009 NBA draft. Nicknamed "Deebo", DeRozan is a six-time NBA All-Star and a three-time All-NBA Team member. DeRozan is currently fifth among active NBA players on the all-time scoring list. Read more
07 Aug 1988: Jonathan Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player Jonathan Bernier is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted in the first round, 11th overall, of the 2006 NHL entry draft by the Los Angeles Kings, with whom he spent his first four NHL seasons. He subsequently played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, and New Jersey Devils. Bernier won the Stanley Cup as the backup goalie with the Kings in 2012. Read more
07 Aug 1988: Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer Mohamed Aly Coulibaly is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a winger or forward. Read more
07 Aug 1988: Melody Oliveria, American blogger Melody Oliveria, also known by their handle bowiechick, is an American video blog contributor, most popularly to YouTube. They were listed as a notable contributor to YouTube in 2006. Read more
07 Aug 1988: Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer Erik Pieters is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a left-back and centre-back with Stoke City U21s as a overage player and coach. Read more
07 Aug 1988: Beanie Wells, American football player Christopher Michael Wells, known as Chris Wells or Beanie Wells, is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes and was selected by the Cardinals in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft with the 31st overall pick. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player Sidney Patrick Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre and captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed "The Next One", he was selected first overall by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL entry draft. Born and raised in Halifax, Crosby was one of the most lauded prospects in ice hockey history and is widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer Mustapha Sima Michael Dumbuya is a Sierra Leonean former professional footballer who played as a defender. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player Ryan Cole Lavarnway is an American-Israeli former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins, and Cleveland Indians. In international competition, he plays for Team Israel, and competed for them in the World Baseball Classic and in the Olympics. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer Rouven Kai Sattelmaier is a German former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper. Read more
07 Aug 1986: Paul Biedermann, German swimmer Paul Biedermann is a German retired competitive swimmer, a 200 and 400 metre freestyle long course world champion. He holds the long course world record in the 200 meters freestyle, and formerly held world records in the long course 400 meters and the short course world records in the 200 and 400 meters freestyle. Read more
07 Aug 1986: Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer Valter Birsa is a Slovenian retired footballer who played as a winger. Read more
07 Aug 1986: Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress Altaír Jarabo García is a Mexican-Venezuelan actress and fashion model. She is best known for her antagonistic roles in Mexican telenovelas including Inocente de ti, Al diablo con los guapos, En nombre del amor, Abismo de pasión, Mentir para vivir, Que te perdone Dios, Vencer el desamor and Corazón guerrero.
She has a brother named Jorge Jarabo Garcia. Read more
07 Aug 1986: Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer Juan Pedro de la Rosa is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the brother of welterweight boxer James de la Rosa. Read more
07 Aug 1984: Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player Efstratios "Stratos" Perperoglou is a Greek former professional basketball player. He is 2.03 m tall and he played mainly at the small forward position. Read more
07 Aug 1984: Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress Tooba Siddiqui is a Pakistani actress and model. Siddiqui started her career by starring in a music video "My Love" for pop singer Yasir Akhtar. She began modeling for the Pakistani fashion industry in the early 2000s. She has appeared in campaigns for Deevees and Diva. After a break from acting, Tooba returned to the screen for the hit thriller series Dushman-e-Jaan. Read more
07 Aug 1984: Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (died 2003) Yun Hyon-seok was a South Korean LGBT poet, writer, and activist. He wrote under the pen names Yuk Wu-dang and Seolheon, and was also known by his nickname Midong or Donghwa. Read more
07 Aug 1983: Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor José Christian Chávez Garza is a Mexican singer and actor. He is best known for his role as Giovanni Méndez López in the telenovela Rebelde, as well as for being a member of the spin-off pop group RBD. Read more
07 Aug 1983: Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter Sırrı Murat Dalkılıç is a Turkish pop singer, songwriter, music producer, film and animation producer, director and actor. Read more
07 Aug 1983: Danny, Portuguese footballer Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes, commonly known as Danny, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Also a winger, he was known for his dribbling and key passes. Read more
07 Aug 1983: Andriy Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist Andriy Askoldovych Hrivko is a Ukrainian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018. Since retiring from racing, Hrivko currently serves as the president of the Ukrainian Cycling Federation. Read more
07 Aug 1983: Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist Mark Lewis Pettini is an English former cricketer who played domestically for Essex and Leicestershire. He was a right-handed batsman and very occasional wicket-keeper and right-arm medium-pace bowler. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer Ángeles Constanza Balbiani Morea better known as Angie Balbiani is an Argentine actress, model, television presenter and journalist. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Abbie Cornish, Australian actress Abbie Cornish is an Australian actress and rapper. In film, Cornish is known for her roles as Heidi in Somersault (2004), Fanny Brawne in Bright Star (2009), Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch (2011), Lindy in Limitless (2011), Clara Murphy in RoboCop (2014), and Sarah Wilson in Geostorm (2017). She worked with writer/director Martin McDonagh in Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). For the latter, Cornish won her first Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the cast. In 2018, she portrayed Cathy Mueller in the first season of Amazon Video series Jack Ryan opposite John Krasinski, a role she reprised in the fourth and final season in 2023. She also played Dixy in the film The Virtuoso (2021) alongside Anthony Hopkins. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player Juan Martín Hernández is an Argentine retired rugby union player. A mainstay of the Argentina national team The Pumas. He played for the club Toulon in the French Top 14 competition. His 2010 move to Racing brought him back to the city where he had begun his professional career in 2003 with Stade Français. He has also played in the South African Currie Cup with the Sharks, and was slated to play with the Sharks in Super Rugby in 2010, but suffered a back injury that knocked him out of the Super Rugby season. Hernández is a "utility back" capable of playing at fly-half, centre, or fullback, though he generally prefers fly-half. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Marquise Hill, American football player (died 2007) Marquise Hill was an American professional football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Patriots in the second round of the 2004 NFL draft. He played college football at LSU. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player Vassilis Spanoulis, also commonly known as Bill Spanoulis, or Kill Bill is a Greek professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the senior men's Greek national team and Greek basketball club Aris Thessaloniki. He was the head coach of AS Monaco from 2024 until March 2026, when the club and Spanoulis mutually agreed to part ways. Read more
07 Aug 1982: Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer Martin Vučić is a Macedonian singer. Read more
07 Aug 1981: David Testo, American soccer player David Testo is an American retired soccer player who, after his playing career ended in 2011, became the first male American professional player of that sport to come out as gay. Testo played professionally from 2003 to 2011, including two years in with the Columbus Crew from 2004 to 2005. He began his career with the Richmond Kickers, and also played for the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact before he was released by the Impact in 2011. He played collegiately for South Carolina and North Carolina. Read more
07 Aug 1981: Randy Wayne, American actor and producer Randy Wayne Frederick is an American actor. Read more
07 Aug 1980: Carsten Busch, German footballer Carsten Busch is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Read more
07 Aug 1980: Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress Aurélie Claudel is a French model and actress. Read more
07 Aug 1980: Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, better known as just Tácio, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as defensive midfielder. In 1997, he was part of the Brazilian team that won the 1997 South American Under-17 Football Championship. Read more
07 Aug 1980: Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer Seiichiro Maki is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Japan national team. Read more
07 Aug 1979: Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter Eric Johann Johnson is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing Flash Gordon on the eponymous 2007–2008 television series, Whitney Fordman on the superhero series Smallville, Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama Rookie Blue, and Jack Hyde in the Fifty Shades film series. In 2022, he played a misogynist corrupt sheriff in the HBO Max horror series Pretty Little Liars. Read more
07 Aug 1979: Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer Miguel Ángel Llera Garzón is a Spanish football manager and former professional player who played as a centre back. He was most recently first-team coach at Bristol Rovers. Read more
07 Aug 1979: Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author Birgit Zotz is an Austrian writer, cultural anthropologist and an expert on the subject of hospitality management studies. Read more
07 Aug 1978: Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension. He has also directed the films The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Mirrors (2008), Piranha 3D (2010), Horns (2013) and Crawl (2019). Read more
07 Aug 1978: Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter James Vincent Shanahan, known professionally as Jamey Jasta, is an American vocalist, record producer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of metalcore/hardcore punk band Hatebreed. He also fronts the sludge metal band Kingdom of Sorrow and the metalcore band Icepick and has released several solo records. He has also produced albums for other artists. Read more
07 Aug 1978: Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer Mark Jason McCammon is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Born in England, he represented the Barbados national team at international level. Read more
07 Aug 1978: Cirroc Lofton, American actor Cirroc Lofton is an American actor and podcaster who started his career at the age of nine with many minor roles. He got his start in the 1989 child education program Econ and Me, which teaches children economics. He is best known for playing Jake Sisko on the 1990s TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Read more
07 Aug 1977: Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer Charlotte Julia Ronson is an English fashion designer, based in Los Angeles, US. Read more
07 Aug 1977: Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ Samantha Judith Ronson is an English DJ, singer, and songwriter. Read more
07 Aug 1977: Justin Brooker, Australian rugby league player Justin 'Brash' Brooker is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs Magpies, the Bradford Bulls, the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and the South Sydney Rabbitohs, as a centre. Read more
07 Aug 1976: Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos is a Greek professional football manager and former player. Read more
07 Aug 1976: Shane Lechler, American football player Edward Shane Lechler is an American former professional football player who played as a punter for 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL draft. Lechler also played for the Houston Texans. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter Koray Candemir is a Turkish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He used to be the lead singer of the Turkish rock band Kargo. Towards the end of 2008, Koray Candemir and Serkan Celikoz decided to end their involvement with Kargo, due to vision and opinion differences with the other members of Kargo. They formed their new band which is named 'maSKott'. They are currently in Seattle working on their new projects and released their debut album in 2010. Besides singing, Koray also plays the guitar in Kargo and maSKott. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer Gerard John Denton is an Australian former first-class cricketer who played for Tasmania. The right-arm fast-medium bowler began his first-class cricket for Tasmania, despite having been born in Queensland. He switched to the Victoria for two seasons, before returning to Tasmania for the 2007/08 season. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Megan Gale, Australian model and actress Megan Kate Gale is an Australian model and actress. Born in Parmelia, Western Australia, Gale won a modelling contest when she was 18 in her home town. In 1999 she was cast in a series of commercials for Vodafone Italy. This led to wide exposure in both Italy and her homeland Australia, and she appeared in Vodafone advertising until 2006. Gale has also appeared in Italian movies and television shows, and as an actress, Gale played Fatma in The Water Diviner (2014) and Valkyrie in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Read more
07 Aug 1975: Ray Hill, American football player (died 2015) Raymond Millous Hill was a college and professional American football player. He was a defensive back at Michigan State, and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL), splitting three seasons between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, and was part of their Super Bowl XXXVI championship season. He suffered a leg injury during the 2001 preseason, and was placed on injured reserve for the entire season. His younger brother Renaldo Hill, also played in the NFL. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin Rebecca Ann Kleefisch is an American politician and former television reporter who served as the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected to the position on November 2, 2010, as the running mate of Governor Scott Walker; the pair narrowly lost reelection to a third term in 2018. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player Édgar Enrique Rentería Herazo, nicknamed "the Barranquilla Baby", is a Colombian former professional baseball shortstop. He played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants, and Cincinnati Reds. Rentería finished second to Todd Hollandsworth in the 1996 Rookie of the Year Award balloting. In 1997, his RBI single off Charles Nagy in the eleventh inning of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series won the first World Series in Marlins' history over the Cleveland Indians. In the 2010 World Series against the Texas Rangers, Rentería won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award with the San Francisco Giants after he hit game-winning home runs in Game 2 and Game 5. Rentería was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2025. Read more
07 Aug 1975: Charlize Theron, South African actress Charlize Theron is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three BAFTAs and two Emmy Awards. Read more
07 Aug 1974: Chico Benymon, American actor Chico Benymon is an American actor, singer, musician, and fashion designer best known for his role as Andre "Spencer" Williams on the UPN comedy Half & Half. He also starred in the Nickelodeon TV series The Haunted Hathaways. Read more
07 Aug 1974: Michael Shannon, American actor Michael Corbett Shannon is an American actor. Known for his forceful and intense style of acting, he has twice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). He received Actor Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014). Read more
07 Aug 1973: Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Mikhail "Gorshok" Gorsheniov was a lead singer and composer of Russian horror punk/hard rock band Korol i Shut. Read more
07 Aug 1973: Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player Daniel Peter Graves is a Vietnamese-born American former professional baseball player and current baseball analyst. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher from 1996 to 2006, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds where he was their primary relief pitcher for five seasons and became the franchise's all-time leader in career saves. A two-time National League All-Star, Graves was the winner of the 2002 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award. Graves also pitched for the Cleveland Indians and the New York Mets. Read more
07 Aug 1973: Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager Kevin Vincent Muscat, better known by his nickname "Super Kev", is an English-born Australian professional soccer manager and former player who played as a defender. He represented the Australia national team at international level, earning 46 caps between 1994 and 2006. Muscat is currently head coach of Chinese Super League club Shanghai Port. Read more
07 Aug 1972: Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter Geronimo "Gerry" J. Peñalosa is a Filipino boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2010. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the World Boxing Council (WBC) super-flyweight title from 1997 to 1998, and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight title from 2007 to 2009. Originally from the city of San Carlos, Negros Occidental, Peñalosa currently resides in Manila. He was trained mainly by Freddie Roach and went on to become a boxing trainer and a promoter himself after retirement. Peñalosa's older brother, Dodie Boy Peñalosa, who is also a former boxer and world champion. Read more
07 Aug 1971: Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster Dominic Gerald Cork is a former English county and international cricketer. Cork was an all-rounder who batted at lower-order batsman and bowled right-arm fast-medium, and was renowned for his swing and seam control. Cork had a lethal out-swinger that got him success throughout the 1990s. In 1995, he took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies. Read more
07 Aug 1971: Rachel York, American actress and singer Rachel York is an American actress and singer. Known for stage roles, including award-winning performances in Camelot, Hello, Dolly!, Into the Woods, and Anything Goes, her screen roles include a portrayal of Lucille Ball in the 2003 television film Lucy. Read more
07 Aug 1970: Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (died 2006) Eric John Namesnik, nicknamed "Snik," was an American competition swimmer who competed for the University of Michigan and a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the men's 400-meter Individual Medley. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Markus Bundi, Swiss writer Markus Bundi is a Swiss writer. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager Paul Lambert is a Scottish professional football manager and former player. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Dana G. Peleg, Israeli writer and LGBT activist Dana G. Peleg is an Israeli writer, poet, journalist, translator and editor. She is an activist for women's and LGBT rights. She wrote the first regular column in the Israeli press on the subject of lesbian, bisexual and pansexual women, and her two short story collections and debut novel revolve around the same subject. Read more
07 Aug 1968: Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna is an Italian-American screenwriter and film director. Read more
07 Aug 1968: Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach Trevor Ronald Hendy, AM is a former Australian professional surf lifesaver. Read more
07 Aug 1968: Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author Sophie Lee is an Australian film, stage and television actress and author. Read more
07 Aug 1967: Jason Grimsley, American baseball player Jason Alan Grimsley is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played for seven teams during a 15-year career. He was a member of both the 1999 and 2000 World Series champion New York Yankees. Read more
07 Aug 1966: David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (died 2011) John David Cairns was a Scottish politician who served as Minister of State for Scotland from 2005 to 2008. A member of Scottish Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverclyde, formerly Greenock and Inverclyde, from 2001 until his death in 2011. Read more
07 Aug 1966: Shobna Gulati, British actress Shobna Gulati is an English actor and presenter. Gulati is known for playing Anita in dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in the soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2013. They also played Mari Hoff in the 2006 UK Tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show Loose Women. They took over the role of Ray in the West End production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie in 2019 and also reprised the role for the film adaptation. Most recently, they played the role of Nima in Hullraisers and reprised the role of Ray in Everybody's Talking About Jamie for its 2023–2024 UK and Ireland Tour. Read more
07 Aug 1966: Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Martha Kristin Hersh is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter known for her solo work and with her rock bands Throwing Muses and 50FootWave. She has released eleven solo albums. Her guitar work and composition style ranges from jaggedly dissonant to traditional folk. Hersh's lyrics have a stream-of-consciousness style, reflecting her personal experiences. Read more
07 Aug 1966: Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Donal Wales is an American and British internet entrepreneur and former financial trader. He is best known for co-founding Wikipedia, a nonprofit free encyclopedia, and Fandom, a for-profit wiki hosting service. He has also worked on Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune, and Trust Café. Read more
07 Aug 1965: Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Raul Francisco Martínez-Malo Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was both the lead singer and songwriter of country music band the Mavericks, co-writing many of their singles, as well as Rick Trevino's 2003 single "In My Dreams". After the disbanding of the Mavericks in the early 2000s, Malo pursued a solo career. He also participated from 2001 in the Los Super Seven supergroup. The Mavericks re-formed in 2012 and continued to tour extensively. In 2015, they won the Americana music award for duo/group of the year. Read more
07 Aug 1965: Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater Elizabeth Ann Manley, CM is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 1988 Olympic silver medallist, the 1988 World silver medallist and a three-time Canadian national champion. Read more
07 Aug 1964: John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author John Birmingham is a British-born Australian author, known for the 1994 memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, the Axis of Time trilogy, and the well-received space opera series, the Cruel Stars trilogy. Read more
07 Aug 1964: Ian Dench, English guitarist and songwriter Ian Alec Harvey Dench is an English songwriter and musician. He is the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with "Unbelievable" in 1991. It was voted one of BBC Radio 2's 'Greatest Guitar Riffs'. Read more
07 Aug 1964: Peter Niven, Scottish jockey Peter Niven is a retired British jump jockey in National Hunt racing. In May 2001 he became the first Scotsman and sixth jockey to ride over 1,000 winners, eventually retiring in September that year with 1002 winners. At the time of his retirement he was the only jockey to have won five races in a day on four occasions. He is now a racehorse trainer. Read more
07 Aug 1963: Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player Paul Dunn is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played club football in Sydney for Eastern Suburbs, Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta and Penrith. Read more
07 Aug 1963: Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author Nicholas John Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. As of 2025, he is an editor-at-large at Reason. Read more
07 Aug 1963: Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator Marthaniel "Marcus" Roberts is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher. Read more
07 Aug 1962: Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer Alison Brown is an American banjo player, guitarist, composer, and producer. She has won and has been nominated for several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck, for her unique style of playing. In her music, she blends bluegrass, jazz, Latin and Celtic influences. Read more
07 Aug 1961: Brian Conley, English actor and singer Brian Paul Conley is an English actor, comedian, singer and television presenter. Conley has been the host of The Brian Conley Show, as well as presenting the Royal Variety Performance on eight occasions. In his 40+-year television career, he has starred in award-winning television sitcoms including Time After Time and The Grimleys. Read more
07 Aug 1961: Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast Yelena Viktorovna Davydova is a Russian-Canadian gymnastics coach and judge who competed for the former Soviet Union. She was the women's artistic individual all-around champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She's the owner and head coach at Gemini Gymnastics, a gymnastics club in Oshawa, Ontario. In July 2012, Davydova was one of the coaches of the Canadian women’s artistic gymnastics team. In 2016 Davydova was head floor judge at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Read more
07 Aug 1961: Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer (died 2016) Walter Robert John Swinburn was a flat racing jockey and trainer who competed in Great Britain and internationally. Read more
07 Aug 1961: Carlos Vives, Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo is a Colombian singer, songwriter and actor. Read more
07 Aug 1960: David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, director and musician. He received his breakthrough with the role of Fox Mulder in The X-Files franchise receiving international fame and earning a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and five Actor Awards. He received another Golden Globe for his portrayal of Hank Moody on the television series Californication (2007–2014). He also had a recurring role in the Twin Peaks franchise as transgender DEA agent Denise Bryson. He executive-produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius (2015–2016).
He wrote, directed and starred in the 2004 coming-of-age comedy House of D, which also starred Robin Williams, Téa Leoni and Anton Yelchin. Read more
07 Aug 1959: Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudohistorical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of promoting Islamophobia. Read more
07 Aug 1959: Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach Ali Hassimshah Omarshah, known as Ali Shah, is a former Zimbabwean international cricketer. An all-rounder who batted left-handed and bowled right-arm medium pace, Shah played in three Test matches and 28 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1996, and was the first non-white player to represent the country. He was educated at Morgan High School. Read more
07 Aug 1958: Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey Russell Avery Baze is a retired Canadian-American horse racing jockey. He holds the record for the most race wins in North American horse racing history, and is a member of the United States Racing Hall of Fame and the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame. Read more
07 Aug 1958: Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence. Read more
07 Aug 1958: Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach Alberto Salazar is an American former track coach and long-distance runner. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family, living in Connecticut and then in Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar won the New York City Marathon three times in the early 1980s, and won the 1982 Boston Marathon in a race known as the "Duel in the Sun". He set American track records for 5,000 m and 10,000 m in 1982. Salazar was later the head coach of the Nike Oregon Project until it was shut down in 2019 for doping violations. He won the IAAF Coaching Achievement Award in 2013. Read more
07 Aug 1957: Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (died 2012) Daire Brehan was an Irish actress, broadcaster and barrister who presented a variety of BBC Radio programmes during the 1990s including Language Live, for BBC Radio 5, You and Yours, The Afternoon Shift (1995–98) and Pick of the Week for BBC Radio 4, a documentary Too Many Songs on American comic songster Tom Lehrer for BBC Radio 2, Pick of the World for BBC World Service, and Today’s Agenda for BBC Radio Kent. Read more
07 Aug 1957: Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel Alexander Nikolaevich Dityatin was a Russian gymnast, three-time Olympic champion and Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. Winning eight medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics, he set the record for achieving the most medals of any type at a single Olympic Games. The American swimmer Michael Phelps twice equalled this record, at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Dityatin competed for the Leningrad Dinamo sports society. Read more
07 Aug 1955: Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor Wayne Elliot Knight is an American actor. After several smaller film parts, including in box office successes like Dirty Dancing and Basic Instinct, Knight's breakthrough role was portraying Dennis Nedry in the film adaptation of Jurassic Park (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. His other two most prominent roles followed on television, where he played Newman on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), which earned him a Q Award nomination for Best Recurring Player and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, respectively. Read more
07 Aug 1955: Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle Gregory James Nickels is an American politician who served as the 51st mayor of Seattle, Washington, and as of 2025 is the last Seattle mayor who has served more than one term in office. He took office on January 1, 2002, and was reelected to a second term in 2005. In August 2009, Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor, failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election, and losing his bid for a third term as mayor. He left office on January 1, 2010. Read more
07 Aug 1955: Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin is a postmodern Russian writer of novels, short stories, and plays. Read more
07 Aug 1954: Valery Gazzaev, Russian footballer, manager and politician Valery Georgiyevich Gazzaev is a Russian politician, football manager and former footballer of Ossetian descent. As a Soviet footballer he played the position of a striker enjoying successes with his team FC Dynamo Moscow as well as the USSR national football team in the Olympics. Read more
07 Aug 1954: Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard is an American-born Israeli spy and former intelligence analyst who was jailed for spying for Israel. Read more
07 Aug 1954: Alan Reid, Scottish politician Alan Reid is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician who has been a councillor in the East Dunbartonshire ward of Bearsden North since 2022. Read more
07 Aug 1953: Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author Anne Fadiman is an American writer. She specializes in the genres literary journalism, essays, memoir, biography, and autobiography. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award. She also teaches writing at Yale University. Read more
07 Aug 1952: Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer Caroline Sidney Aaron is an American actress. She has appeared in multiple Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, and Woody Allen films and is also known for her role in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Read more
07 Aug 1952: Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer Eamonn Christopher Darcy is an Irish professional golfer. He won four times on the European Tour and played in the Ryder Cup four times. Read more
07 Aug 1952: Kees Kist, Dutch footballer Cornelis Kist is a Dutch former professional footballer and manager. He played as a striker, and most notably won the European Golden Shoe for the 1978–79 season. Read more
07 Aug 1952: Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author Alexei David Sayle is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th-greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd. Read more
07 Aug 1950: Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Rodney Crowell is an American musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music. Crowell has had five number one singles on Hot Country Songs, all from his 1988 album Diamonds & Dirt. He has also written songs and produced for other artists. Read more
07 Aug 1950: Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Alan Lee Keyes is an American politician, political scientist, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987. A member of the Republican Party, Keyes sought the nomination for President of the United States in 1996, 2000, and 2008. Read more
07 Aug 1950: S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician Singaravelu Thandayuthapani is a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, civil servant, politician and provincial minister. Read more
07 Aug 1949: Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician Walid Kamal Jumblatt is a Lebanese politician who served as the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) from 1977 until 2023. A hereditary leader of the Lebanese Druze and a prominent former warlord, Jumblatt led his party's militia, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), during the Lebanese Civil War. Under his leadership, the PSP consolidated an autonomous Druze administration in the Chouf and Aley regions following victories in the 1983 Mountain War. Read more
07 Aug 1949: Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician Matthew Francis Parris is a British political writer, broadcaster, and former politician. He served as Member of Parliament for West Derbyshire from 1979 to 1986. Ideologically a liberal conservative, he was a member of the Conservative Party, but resigned over the party's stance on Brexit. Read more
07 Aug 1948: Marty Appel, American businessman and author Martin E. Appel is an American public relations and sports management executive, television executive producer, baseball historian and author. Read more
07 Aug 1948: Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach Gregory Stephen Chappell is a former cricketer who represented Australia at international level in both Tests and One-Day Internationals (ODI). The second of three brothers to play Test cricket, Chappell was the pre-eminent Australian batsman of his time who allied elegant stroke making to fierce concentration. An exceptional all round player who bowled medium pace and, at his retirement, held the world record for the most catches in Test cricket, Chappell's career straddled two eras as the game moved toward a greater level of professionalism after the WSC schism. He was the vice captain of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup. Read more
07 Aug 1947: Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter Franciscus Henricus Antheunis, professionally known as Franciscus Henri, is a musician and children's entertainer. He has dual Dutch and Australian nationality. In 1970 he gained national prominence when he competed in the TV talent quest New Faces, which led to a recording contract with the Melbourne-based independent label Fable Records. From 1997, he also performs as Mister Whiskers, a travelling singer who loves children and performs for them with his dog companion, Smiggy. Read more
07 Aug 1947: Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Sofiia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru, known simply as Sofia Rotaru, is a Ukrainian singer. Read more
07 Aug 1945: Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (died 2014) George Ian Kenneth Ireland was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014. Read more
07 Aug 1945: Alan Page, American football player and jurist Alan Cedric Page is an American former Minnesota Supreme Court judge and professional football player. After playing college football at the University of Notre Dame, Page gained national recognition as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) during 15 seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. Following his retirement, he then embarked on a legal career. Page earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1967 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1978. Page served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1993 until he reached the court's mandatory retirement age of 70 in 2015. Read more
07 Aug 1944: John Glover, American actor John Glover is an American actor who has played a range of quirky and villainous roles in films and television, such as Lionel Luthor in Smallville, Dr. Jason Woodrue in Batman & Robin and the voice of Riddler in the DC Animated Universe. He also played the role of Daniel Clamp in Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Read more
07 Aug 1944: Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2026) Robert Swan Mueller III was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. Read more
07 Aug 1943: Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader Mohammed Badie is the eighth Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood. Read more
07 Aug 1943: Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer Lana Eleanor Cantrell AM is an Australian-American singer and entertainment lawyer. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in the Grammy Awards of 1968. Read more
07 Aug 1943: Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (died 2010) Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer. Read more
07 Aug 1942: Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history. Read more
07 Aug 1942: Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer and actor (died 1995) Carlos Roque Monzón, nicknamed Escopeta (Shotgun), was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight championship for seven years, and successfully defended his title 14 times against 11 different fighters. The Ring magazine and Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1972. As of May 2026, Monzón is ranked by BoxRec as the seventh greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Read more
07 Aug 1942: Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicália, which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship that took power in 1964. He has remained a constant creative influence and best-selling performing artist and composer ever since. Veloso has won nineteen Brazilian Music Awards, nine Latin Grammy Awards and two Grammy Awards. On 14 November 2012, Veloso was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. Read more
07 Aug 1942: Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic Sir Richard Brook Sykes is a British microbiologist, the chair of the Royal Institution, the UK Stem Cell Foundation, and the trustees at King Edward VII's Hospital, and chancellor of Brunel University. As of June 2021, he is chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, where he is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, including preparations for booster programmes and encouraging vaccine innovation in the UK. Read more
07 Aug 1942: B. J. Thomas, American singer (died 2021) Billy Joe Thomas was an American singer widely known for his country, contemporary Christian, and pop hits of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Read more
07 Aug 1941: Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician (died 2016) Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting,, was a British Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans. Read more
07 Aug 1940: Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2014) Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber", as well as "The Minesweeper", for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks. Read more
07 Aug 1940: Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (died 2007) Uwe Nettelbeck was a German record producer, journalist and film critic. He was best known as the creator and producer of the German krautrock band Faust and changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s. He was also one of Germany's leading film critics in the 1960s. Read more
07 Aug 1938: Giorgetto Giugiaro, Italian automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro is an Italian automotive designer. He has worked on supercars and popular everyday vehicles. He was named Car Designer of the Century in 1999 and inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2002. He was awarded the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award six times, including a lifetime achievement recognition in 1984. Read more
07 Aug 1937: Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (died 2011) Zoltán Berczik was a Hungarian table tennis player. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships. Read more
07 Aug 1937: Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (died 2012) Donald Wilson was an English cricketer, who played in six Test matches for England from 1964 to 1971. His first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1957 to 1974, was spent with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and he later became a noted cricket coach. He was born in Settle, Yorkshire and died at York. Read more
07 Aug 1935: Lee Corso, American college football coach and broadcaster Lee Richard Corso is an American former college football coach and analyst. He is best known for appearing on ESPN's College GameDay program from its inception in 1987 until his retirement in August 2025. Read more
07 Aug 1935: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (died 1977) Rahsaan Roland Kirk, known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality; in his shows, virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the simultaneous playing of several instruments. Read more
07 Aug 1934: Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001) Sándor Simó was a Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 25 films and directed a further seven. His 1969 film Those Who Wear Glasses won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. His 1977 film My Father's Happy Years was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Read more
07 Aug 1933: Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager Edwin Ronald Firmani is a former professional football player and manager. A former forward, he spent most of his playing career in Italy and England. He managed 13 different clubs over 29 years, mostly in the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. Born in South Africa, he represented the Italy national team internationally. Read more
07 Aug 1933: Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012) Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom was an American political scientist and political economist whose work was associated with New Institutional Economics and the resurgence of political economy. In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her "analysis of economic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E. Williamson; she was the first woman to win the prize. Read more
07 Aug 1933: Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author (died 2017) Jerry Eugene Pournelle was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, he worked in the aerospace industry, but eventually focused on his writing career. In an obituary in Gizmodo, he was described as "a tireless ambassador for the future." Read more
07 Aug 1933: Alberto Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat Alberto "Bert" Gatmaitan Romulo is a Filipino politician and diplomat. He served in the Philippines in various capacities as executive secretary, finance secretary, foreign affairs secretary, and budget secretary. His most recent office is his leadership of the Department of Foreign Affairs before and during the early period of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III. Read more
07 Aug 1932: Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (died 1973) Shambel Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian marathon runner who was a back-to-back Olympic marathon champion. He was the first Ethiopian Olympic gold medalist, winning his first gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while running barefoot. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, he won his second gold medal, making him the first athlete to successfully defend an Olympic marathon title. In both victories, he ran in world record time. Read more
07 Aug 1932: Edward Hardwicke, English actor (died 2011) Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes (1986–94). Read more
07 Aug 1932: Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (died 1995) Rien Poortvliet was a Dutch artist and illustrator. Read more
07 Aug 1932: Maurice Rabb Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (died 2005) Maurice F. Rabb Jr. was an American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases. Read more
07 Aug 1930: Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (died 2013) Togrul Farman oglu Narimanbekov was one of the prominent modern Azerbaijani artists, laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Azerbaijan SSR, the People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan, and a personal benefactor of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Read more
07 Aug 1930: Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator (died 2017) Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically. Read more
07 Aug 1929: Don Larsen, American baseball player (died 2020) Don James Larsen was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962–1964), Houston Colt .45's / Astros (1964–1965), and Chicago Cubs (1967). Read more
07 Aug 1928: Betsy Byars, American author and academic (died 2020) Betsy Byars was an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted… Mud Blossom (1991). Read more
07 Aug 1928: Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square (died 2021) Harold Owen Luder was a British architect who designed a number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, many in an uncompromising brutalist design, and many now demolished. He served as chairman of the Architects Registration Board and twice as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1981–1983 and 1995–1997. He established his own practice Owen Luder Partnership in 1957, and left in 1987 to form the consultancy Communication In Construction. Read more
07 Aug 1928: James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (died 2020) James Randi was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. He was the co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). Randi began his career as a magician under the stage name The Amazing Randi and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims. Randi retired from practicing magic at age 60, and from his foundation at 87. Read more
07 Aug 1927: Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana (died 2021) Edwin Washington Edwards was an American politician who served as the 50th governor of Louisiana for four terms. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S. representative for Louisiana's 7th congressional district from 1965 to 1972. He served twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive. He served a total of almost 16 years in gubernatorial office, which at 5,784 days is the sixth-longest such tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history. Read more
07 Aug 1926: Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (died 2015) Stan Freberg was an American actor and entertainer. Read more
07 Aug 1925: Felice Bryant, American songwriter (died 2003) Felice Bryant and Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant were an American wife-and-husband country music and pop songwriting team. They are best known for songs such as "Rocky Top", "We Could", "Love Hurts", and numerous hits by the Everly Brothers, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bird Dog", "Bye Bye Love", and "Wake Up Little Susie". Read more
07 Aug 1921: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (died 2014) Ricardo Baliardo, better known as Manitas de Plata, was a French flamenco guitarist of Catalan Gitano descent, born in southern France. Read more
07 Aug 1921: Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (died 2016) Karel Husa was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen in 1959. Read more
07 Aug 1918: C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (died 1985) Cornelis "Kees" Buddingh' was a Dutch poet, TV-presenter, translator. Amongst others he translated A Clockwork Orange and the complete works of William Shakespeare into Dutch. His son Wiebe Buddingh‘ later became the translator of Harry Potter into the Dutch language. The C. Buddingh'-prijs literary award is named after him. Read more
07 Aug 1918: Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (died 2007) Gordon Zahn was an American sociologist, pacifist, professor, and author. Read more
07 Aug 1916: Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (died 2008) Kermit Ernest Hollingshead Love was an American puppet maker, puppeteer, costume designer, and actor in children's television and on Broadway. He was best known as a designer and builder with the Muppets, in particular those on Sesame Street. Read more
07 Aug 1911: István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (died 1979) István Bibó was a Hungarian lawyer, civil servant, politician and political theorist. Read more
07 Aug 1911: Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (died 1979) Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema's supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Read more
07 Aug 1907: Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (died 1980) Albert Kotin was a Russian-born American abstract expressionist painter. He belonged to the early generation of New York School artists whose innovations by the 1950s had gained recognition across the Atlantic, including in Paris. The New York School's abstract expressionism, led by figures such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, became a leading art movement of the post-World War II era. Read more
07 Aug 1904: Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971) Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He is the first black Nobel laureate and the first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and early administration of the United Nations (UN), serving as the under‑secretary‑general and briefly the acting secretary-general in 1953, and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous UN peacekeeping operations. Read more
07 Aug 1903: Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (died 1972) Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work was important in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa, particularly through discoveries made at Olduvai Gorge with his wife, fellow palaeoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Having established a programme of palaeoanthropological inquiry in eastern Africa, he also motivated many future generations to continue this scholarly work. Several members of the Leakey family became prominent scholars themselves. Read more
07 Aug 1901: Ann Harding, American actress and singer (died 1981) Ann Harding was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Harding was a regular on Broadway and on tour in the 1920s. In the 1930s, Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures," and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday. Read more
07 Aug 1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (died 1964) Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an American labor leader and feminist. In the early years of her activist career, she was an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. During World War I she founded the Workers Defense Union (WDU), to advocate for anyone arrested and imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act while championing the cause of labor. In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. She joined the Communist Party USA in 1936 during the Popular Front period and became one of its most recognized and beloved leaders. Read more
07 Aug 1887: Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (died 1970) Anna Elisabet Weirauch was a German author. Weirauch was an important figure for lesbians in Germany in the early 1900s, as well as for lesbians in the 1970s-1980s following an English translation. Her most well-known work is Der Skorpion, which was a significant piece of lesbian literature which broke from traditional peers in the genre. Read more
07 Aug 1884: Billie Burke, American actress and singer (died 1970) Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American character actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is perhaps best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Read more
07 Aug 1884: Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (died 1940) Nikolai Voldemar Triik was an Estonian Modernist painter, graphic artist, printmaker and professor. His work displays elements of Symbolism and Expressionism. Read more
07 Aug 1879: Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (died 1931) Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, or Kotzé was a cricketer from Cape Colony who played in three Test matches for South Africa from 1902 to 1907. He was considered one of the fastest bowlers of his time. He toured England with the South African teams in 1901, 1904 and 1907. Read more
07 Aug 1876: Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (died 1917) Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod, better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed by firing squad in France. Read more
07 Aug 1869: Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (died 1959) Mary Frances Winston Newson was an American mathematician. She became the first American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of Göttingen in Germany. She was also the first person to translate Hilbert's problems into English. Read more
07 Aug 1868: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (died 1931) Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University (1901–1931). Read more
07 Aug 1868: Huntley Wright, English actor (died 1941) Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies. Read more
07 Aug 1867: Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (died 1956) Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and was one of the first oil painting and watercolor painters of the early 20th century to explore color. He is known for his brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals. Read more
07 Aug 1862: Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (died 1939) Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner was an intimist painter known for his paintings of domestic interiors and quiet street scenes. His style contained elements of impressionism with the influences of Édouard Manet, Monet and of the Pointillists discernible in his work. Le Sidaner favoured a subdued use of colour, preferring nuanced greys and opals applied with uneven, dappled brushstrokes to create atmosphere and mysticism. A skilled nocturne painter, he travelled widely throughout France and Europe before settling at Gerberoy in the Picardy countryside from where he painted for over thirty years. Read more
07 Aug 1862: Victoria of Baden (died 1931) Victoria of Baden was Queen of Sweden from 8 December 1907 until her death in 1930 as the wife of King Gustaf V. She was politically active in a conservative fashion during the development of democracy and known to be pro-German during the First World War. Read more
07 Aug 1844: Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (died 1911) Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris. Read more
07 Aug 1826: August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (died 1889) Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen, was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic. He served as professor of Finnish language and literature at the Imperial Alexander University from 1863 as the successor to Elias Lönnrot, and as the university's rector from 1884 to 1887. Ahlqvist is regarded as one of the founders of Finno-Ugric studies alongside Matthias Alexander Castrén, and as a poet under the pen name A. Oksanen he introduced several new verse forms into Finnish-language poetry. He is also remembered as the sharpest critic of the writer Aleksis Kivi, who later rose to the position of the national author of Finland. Read more

Notable Deaths on 07 August

07 Aug 2025: Myint Swe, retired army general and acting president of Myanmar (b.1951) Myint Swe was a Burmese politician and army officer who served as the third first vice president of Myanmar from 2016 until his death in 2025. A member of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), Myint Swe served as acting president of Myanmar in 2018 and again from 2021 to 2025. Read more
07 Aug 2024: Jon McBride, American astronaut (born 1943) Jon Andrew McBride was an American naval officer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NASA. Read more
07 Aug 2023: William Friedkin, American film director (born 1935) William David Friedkin was an American director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Read more
07 Aug 2022: David McCullough, American historian and author (born 1933) David Gaub McCullough was an American popular historian and author. He was a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award. Read more
07 Aug 2021: Markie Post, American actress (born 1950) Marjorie Armstrong Post, known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985; public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992; Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire from 1992 to 1995; and Barbara ‘Bunny’ Fletcher, the mother of Detective Erin Lindsay, on the NBC drama series Chicago P.D. from 2014 to 2017. Read more
07 Aug 2021: Trevor Moore, American comedian (born 1980) Trevor Paul Moore was an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and musician. He was a founding member of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know (WKUK), alongside Sam Brown, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams and Darren Trumeter. The troupe had a sketch comedy series which aired for five seasons on IFC from March 2007 until June 2011. Read more
07 Aug 2019: David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (born 1967) David Cloud Berman was an American musician, singer-songwriter and poet. He founded – and was the only constant member of – the indie rock band Silver Jews with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Read more
07 Aug 2018: M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (born 1924) Muthuvel Karunanidhi, popularly known as Kalaignar was an Indian politician, writer and screenwriter who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms between 1969 and 2011 and was the longest-serving chief minister in the state's history. He was the ten-time president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for nearly five decades and a leading figure in the Dravidian movement. He was noted for his contributions to Tamil literature, which include plays, novels, poems, and a multi-volume memoir. Read more
07 Aug 2018: Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (born 1940) Stanley Mikita was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player who played his entire 22-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Chicago Black Hawks. Read more
07 Aug 2017: Don Baylor, American baseball player (born 1949) Don Edward Baylor, nicknamed "Groove," was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. During his 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), Baylor was a power hitter known for standing very close to home plate and was a first baseman, left fielder, and designated hitter. He played for six different American League (AL) teams, primarily the Baltimore Orioles and California Angels, but he also played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and Boston Red Sox. In 1979, Baylor was an All-Star and won the AL Most Valuable Player Award. He won three Silver Slugger Awards, the Roberto Clemente Award, and was a member of the 1987 World Series champion Minnesota Twins. Read more
07 Aug 2017: David Maslanka, American composer (born 1943) David Maslanka was an American composer of Polish descent who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony orchestra. Read more
07 Aug 2016: Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (born 1989) Bryan Timothy Clauson was an American professional auto racing driver, best known for his achievements in dirt track open-wheel racing, such as USAC Silver Crown, Midget and Sprint cars. Clauson was increasingly seen competing with the World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint cars in his last couple of years. Clauson also competed in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, Indy Lights, and IndyCar Series and was a development driver for Chip Ganassi Racing. Read more
07 Aug 2015: Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (born 1929) Juan Manuel "Mamo" Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda was a Chilean Army officer and the former head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), Chile's secret police during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. In 1995, he was convicted of the murder of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington, DC, and sentenced to seven years in prison, which he served until 2001. At the time of his death, Contreras was serving 59 unappealable sentences totaling 529 years in prison for kidnapping, forced disappearance, and assassination. Read more
07 Aug 2015: Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (born 1914) Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician who had a 45-year career with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a reviewer, she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety. Her concerns proved to be justified when it was shown that thalidomide caused serious birth defects. Kelsey's career intersected with the passage of laws strengthening FDA oversight of pharmaceuticals. Kelsey was the first woman to receive a PhD in pharmacology and the second woman to receive the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service, awarded to her by John F. Kennedy in 1962. Read more
07 Aug 2015: Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (born 1923) Mae Louise Suggs was an American professional golfer, as well as one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf. Read more
07 Aug 2014: Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (born 1955) Víctor Manuel Federico Fayad was an Argentine politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union. Read more
07 Aug 2014: Perry Moss, American football player and coach (born 1926) Perry Lee Moss was an American professional football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As a Tulsa tailback, he was on the Orange Bowl team that beat Georgia Tech, 26–12, in the 1945 Orange Bowl and later as an Illinois T-quarterback, he directed a Rose Bowl team which routed UCLA, 45–14, in 1947. Moss served two years in the United States Air Force between his playing time at Tulsa and Illinois. At Illinois, he was named to All-Big Ten Conference and All-American teams. He was drafted in 1948 by the Green Bay Packers in the 13th round and played at the professional level for one year before returning to Illinois as an assistant. He started one game at quarterback for the Packers. Read more
07 Aug 2014: Henry Stone, American record producer (born 1921) Henry Stone, born Henry David Epstein, was an American record company executive and producer whose career spanned the era from R&B in the early 1950s through the disco boom of the 1970s to the 2010s. He was best known as co-owner and president of TK Records, but reportedly set up more than 100 record labels, and generated more than $100 million in record sales across the world. Stone was described as "an acute businessman who always made sure that contracts and publishing agreements were written in his favor." Read more
07 Aug 2013: Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (born 1927) Samuel Gordon Armistead was an American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian, literary critic and professor of Spanish. He is considered one of the most notable Hispanist scholars of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century. Read more
07 Aug 2013: Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (born 1964) Almir Izmailovich Kayumov was a Russian football player and referee. Read more
07 Aug 2013: Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (born 1952) Anthony James Pawson was a British-born Canadian genetic scientist. He was known and recognized for his work on cellular organization, including how cells respond to growth signals, and how they communicate with each other. Read more
07 Aug 2013: Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (born 1923) Margaret Pellegrini was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini. Read more
07 Aug 2013: Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (born 1946) Meeli Truu was an Estonian architect. Read more
07 Aug 2013: Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (born 1961) Alexander Gennadiyevich Yagubkin was a Soviet Olympic boxer, who competed between 1979 and 1988. The only Soviet boxer to become the World heavyweight champion (1982), he never turned pro due to political restrictions imposed by the Soviet government. He was ranked the world's #2 amateur heavyweight by the AIBA in 1984, and #1 in 1986. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (born 1928) Murtuz Najaf oglu Alasgarov, also spelled as Murtuz Aleskerov, was an Azerbaijani politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan from 1996 to 2005. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Judith Crist, American critic and academic (born 1922) Judith Crist was an American film critic and academic. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (born 1959) Vladimir Vasilyevich Kobzev was a Russian professional football coach and player. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (born 1931) Anna Maria Piaggi was an Italian fashion writer. She was known for her bright blue hair, liberal use of make-up, and her sense of style that mixed vintage and contemporary fashion. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (born 1931) Mayer Nathan Zald was an American sociologist. He was a professor of sociology, social work and business administration at the University of Michigan, he made contributions to the sociology of organizations and social movements. Read more
07 Aug 2012: Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (born 1925) Dušan Zbavitel was a Czech indologist. Read more
07 Aug 2011: Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (born 1922) Mark Odom Hatfield was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A moderate Republican, he served eight years as the 29th governor of Oregon, followed by 30 years as one of its United States senators, including time as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A native Oregonian, he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduating from Willamette University. After the war he earned a graduate degree from Stanford University before returning to Oregon and Willamette as a professor. Read more
07 Aug 2011: Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and spy (born 1912) Nancy Grace Augusta Wake,, also known as Madame Fiocca and Nancy Fiocca, was a New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the Air Ministry. Read more
07 Aug 2010: John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (born 1924) John Ashworth Nelder was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. Read more
07 Aug 2009: Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (born 1933) Louis Emilio Saavedra was an American politician and educator who served as the 25th mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor from December 1989 until November 1993. Read more
07 Aug 2009: Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (born 1933) Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an accomplished musician who mainly played autoharp, banjo, fiddle, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, mandolin, dobro, jaw harp, and pan pipes. Seeger, a half-brother of Pete Seeger, produced more than 30 documentary recordings, and performed in more than 40 other recordings. He desired to make known the caretakers of culture that inspired and taught him. He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018. Read more
07 Aug 2008: Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (born 1931) Bernard Jules Brillstein was an American film and television producer, executive producer, and talent agent. Read more
07 Aug 2008: Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (born 1957) Andrea Pininfarina was an Italian engineer and manager, former CEO of the Italian coachbuilder Pininfarina, founded by his grandfather Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930 and still controlled by the family. He was the son of Sergio Pininfarina and was married to Italian aristocrat Cristina Maddalena Pellion di Persano, with whom he had three children, Benedetta, Sergio and Luca. Read more
07 Aug 2007: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (born 1917) Ernesto Ramírez Alonso was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "El Señor Telenovela" because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the world. Read more
07 Aug 2007: Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (born 1919) Sir Angus McMillan Tait was a New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. Read more
07 Aug 2006: Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (born 1911) Mary Anderson Bain was a New Deal politician best known for her 33 years of service as Chief of Staff for Representative Sidney R. Yates, of Illinois. Read more
07 Aug 2005: Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (born 1938) Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists. Read more
07 Aug 2005: Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková, Slovak painter (born 1909) Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková was a Slovak painter, scenic designer and journalist. Read more
07 Aug 2004: Red Adair, American firefighter (born 1915) Paul Neal "Red" Adair was an American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. Read more
07 Aug 2004: Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (born 1948) Colin Joseph Bibby was a British ornithologist and conservationist. Read more
07 Aug 2003: K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (born 1931) Professor Kandiah David Arulpragasam was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic. He was the first vice-chancellor of Eastern University, Sri Lanka. Read more
07 Aug 2003: Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (born 1929) Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott Jr. was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Read more
07 Aug 2001: Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1932) Algirdas Teodoras Lauritėnas was a Lithuanian basketball player. He was a member of the Soviet team during the 1950s, and won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was also part of the team that became European champion in 1953 and 1957 and won a bronze medal in 1955. Read more
07 Aug 1995: Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (born 1929) Brigid Antonia Brophy was an English author, literary critic and polemicist. She was an influential campaigner who agitated for many types of social reform, including homosexual parity, vegetarianism, humanism, and animal rights. Brophy appeared frequently on television and in the newspapers of the 1960s and 1970s, making her prominent both in literary circles and on the wider cultural scene. Read more
07 Aug 1994: Larry Martyn, English actor (born 1934) Lawrence Martyn was a British film and television actor known for his comedy performances. Read more
07 Aug 1989: Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (born 1944) George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III was an American politician and anti-poverty activist. He served as a congressman from the Texas 18th District and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He was a Democrat. Read more
07 Aug 1987: Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (born 1900) Camille Nimr Chamoun was a Lebanese politician and statesman who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War and considered a za'im in Lebanon. Read more
07 Aug 1985: Grayson Hall, American actress (born 1922) Grayson Hall was an American actress. She was widely regarded for her avant-garde theatrical performances from the 1960s to the 1980s, and was known to television audiences for playing multiple prominent roles on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe in the same category for her performance in the John Huston film The Night of the Iguana (1964). Read more
07 Aug 1981: Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (born 1931) Gunnar Uusi was an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship six times. Read more
07 Aug 1978: Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (born 1922) Albert Edward Calvert was an English trumpeter successful in the 1950s. Between 1953 and 1958 he achieved seven instrumental hits on the UK Singles Chart, including the two chart-toppers "Oh, Mein Papa" in 1954 and "Cherry Pink " in 1955. Read more
07 Aug 1974: Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (born 1925) Rosario Castellanos Figueroa was a Mexican poet and author. She wrote both fiction, often set in her home state of Chiapas, and nonfiction addressing issues of cultural and gender oppression. Her writing influenced Mexican feminist theory and cultural studies. Castellanos was appointed ambassador to Israel in 1971. She died by electrocution in Tel Aviv while reaching for a lamp. Read more
07 Aug 1974: Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1902) Joseph Sylvio Theobald Mantha was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins. Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1960, he was regarded as one of the best two-way defencemen of his day. Read more
07 Aug 1973: Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (born 1895) Jack Morrison Gregory was an Australian cricketer. Read more
07 Aug 1972: Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (born 1929) Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil. Read more
07 Aug 1970: Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (born 1904) Harold Joseph Haley was an American judge. He was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the course of a trial, and was killed during the attempted escape of his captors with their hostages. Read more
07 Aug 1970: Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard and kidnapper (born 1953) Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to demand the freedom of the jailed Soledad Brothers, including Jackson's brother George. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (born 1915) Jean Bastien was a professional French footballer. He was born in Oran, French Algeria, and died, aged 54, in Marseille. Read more
07 Aug 1969: Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (born 1905) Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves. Read more
07 Aug 1968: Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (born 1908) Giovanni Bracco was an Italian racing car driver. Read more
07 Aug 1963: Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (born 1908) Ramon Vila Capdevila, sometimes known by various nicknames, including Caracremada, was a Catalan anarchist, member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, and guerrilla fighter. Read more
07 Aug 1960: Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (born 1894) Luis Ángel Firpo was an Argentine boxer. Born in Junín, Argentina, he was nicknamed The Wild Bull of the Pampas. He was the first Latin American in history to challenge for the world heavyweight title. His bout against Jess Willard set a world record for boxing attendance at the time. His 1923 heavyweight title fight against Jack Dempsey was named Ring Magazine Fight of the Year for 1923. Read more
07 Aug 1958: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (born 1892) Elizabeth Foreman Lewis was an American children's writer. She received the Newbery Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Read more
07 Aug 1957: Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (born 1892) Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1957. He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy. Read more
07 Aug 1953: Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (born 1860) Abner Charles Powell was an American professional baseball player. Powell played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals of the Union Association in 1884. He later played for the Baltimore Orioles and the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association in 1886. He also managed and owned several teams, and is best known for his innovations as a manager. Read more
07 Aug 1948: Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (born 1879) Charles Bryant was a British actor and film director. Read more
07 Aug 1941: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861) Rabindranath Tagore, was a British Indian poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance. In 1913, Tagore became the first Indian and non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within Bengal and the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. Read more
07 Aug 1938: Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (born 1863) Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski was a seminal Russian and Soviet theatre practitioner. He was widely recognized as an outstanding character actor, and the many productions that he directed garnered him a reputation as one of the leading theatre directors of his generation. His principal fame and influence, however, rests on his "system" of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal technique. Read more
07 Aug 1917: Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (born 1891) Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC, of the British Royal Naval Air Service, was the first pilot to land an aircraft on a moving ship. Read more
07 Aug 1912: François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (born 1841) François-Alphonse Forel was a Swiss physician and scientist who pioneered the study of lakes, and is thus considered the founder. He was also professor at the University of Lausanne and the Father of limnology. Limnology is the study of bodies of fresh water and their biological, chemical, and physical features. Read more
07 Aug 1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (born 1826) Wilhelm Martin Philipp Christian Ludwig Liebknecht was a German social democratic politician and journalist. A principal founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), his political career was a pioneering project in steering a Marxist-inspired workers' party to electoral success and mass membership. Liebknecht served as a member of the North German Reichstag from 1867 to 1871, and of the German Reichstag from 1874 until his death in 1900. Read more
07 Aug 1899: Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (born 1837) Jacob Henricus Maris was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852. Jacob Maris's most known works are the series of portraits of the royal House of Orange, he worked on these with his brother Matthijs Maris. He is also known for landscapes such as Ship on the Scheveningen beach. Read more
07 Aug 1893: Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (born 1854) Alfredo Catalani was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1981 film Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful. Read more
07 Aug 1864: Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (born 1823) Li Xiucheng, born Li Yiwen (李以文), was a military commander of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, during the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He was born to a peasant family. In 1864, he was captured and interrogated following the third and final Battle of Nanjing. He was then executed by Zeng Guofan. Read more
07 Aug 1855: Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (born 1802) José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as the 19th president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853. Read more
07 Aug 1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (born 1779) Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808 and served from 1818 as its principal functionary. He is known in Sweden as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry". During his lifetime he did not customarily use his first given name, and was universally known simply as Jacob Berzelius. Read more
07 Aug 1834: Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (born 1752) Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer. Read more
07 Aug 1817: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (born 1739) Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French-American writer, economist, publisher and government official. During the French Revolution, he, his two sons and their families migrated to the United States. Read more

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