August 22

August 22 is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 131 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.
• 476 – Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops.
• 565 – Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
• 851 – Battle of Jengland: Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland.
• 1138 – Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.
• 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet.
• 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.
• 1639 – Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
• 1642 – Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
• 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America.
• 1711 – Ships from British Admiral Hovenden Walker's Quebec Expedition flounders on rocks at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
• 1717 – Spanish troops land on Sardinia.
• 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
• 1780 – James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
• 1791 – Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue.
• 1798 – French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
• 1827 – José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
• 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
• 1846 – The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
• 1848 – The United States annexes New Mexico.
• 1849 – The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
• 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
• 1864 – Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention.
• 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1902 – Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
• 1902 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
• 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
• 1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
• 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
• 1941 – World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
• 1942 – World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
• 1944 – World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union.
• 1944 – World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces
• 1949 – Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake
• 1950 – Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis.
• 1952 – The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
• 1961 – Ida Siekmann dies attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
• 1962 – An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
• 1963 – American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet).
• 1966 – Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
• 1968 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
• 1971 – J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
• 1972 – Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies.
• 1973 – The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands him to resign or else be unseated through force and new elections be called. The first demand is executed eighteen days later in a bloody coup d'état, commencing 17 years of military rule.
• 1978 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
• 1984 – PC Brian Bishop a British police officer is shot in the head by an armed robber in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. He dies from his injuries five days later.
• 1985 – Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport.
• 1989 – Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• 1992 – FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
• 1996 – Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
• 2003 – Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
• 2004 – Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2006 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
• 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history. The combined run total is also Major League record.
• 2007 – The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
• 2012 – Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.

Births

• 1412 – Frederick II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1464)
• 1601 – Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1667)
• 1624 – Jean Regnault de Segrais, French author and poet (d. 1701)
• 1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)
• 1679 – Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758)
• 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829)
• 1764 – Charles Percier, French architect and interior designer (d. 1838)
• 1771 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (d. 1831)
• 1773 – Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (d. 1858)
• 1778 – James Kirke Paulding, American poet, playwright, and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1860)
• 1800 – William S. Harney, American general (d. 1889)
• 1800 – Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1865)
• 1827 – Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1906)
• 1834 – Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
• 1836 – Archibald Willard, American soldier and painter (d. 1918)
• 1845 – William Lewis Douglas, American businessman and politician, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924)
• 1848 – Melville Elijah Stone, American publisher, founded the Chicago Daily News (d. 1929)
• 1854 – Milan I of Serbia (d. 1901)
• 1857 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937)
• 1860 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (d. 1917)
• 1862 – Claude Debussy, French pianist and composer (d. 1918)
• 1867 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928)
• 1874 – Max Scheler, German philosopher and author (d. 1928)
• 1880 – Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916)
• 1880 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944)
• 1882 – Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (d. 1919)
• 1887 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1977)
• 1890 – Cecil Kellaway, South African-American actor and singer (d. 1973)
• 1891 – Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (d. 1983)
• 1891 – Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor (d. 1973)
• 1893 – Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Dorothy Parker, American poet and author (d. 1967)
• 1895 – László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer (d. 1951)
• 1895 – Paul Comtois, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1897 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer and educator (d. 1965)
• 1902 – Thomas Pelly, American lawyer and politician (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress and director (d. 2003)
• 1902 – Edward Rowe Snow, American historian and author (d. 1982)
• 1903 – Jerry Iger, American cartoonist, co-founded Eisner & Iger (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
• 1908 – Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 1909 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Mel Hein, American football player and coach (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925)
• 1913 – Leonard Pagliero, English businessman and pilot (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Jack Dunphy, American author and playwright (d. 1992)
• 1914 – Connie B. Gay, American businessman, co-founded the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (d. 1989)
• 1915 – David Dellinger, American activist (d. 2004)
• 1915 – James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, co-designed the electron microscope (d. 2007)
• 1915 – Hugh Paddick, English actor (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Edward Szczepanik, Polish economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in Exile (d. 2005)
• 1917 – John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1918 – Mary McGrory, American journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Ray Bradbury, American author and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Denton Cooley, American soldier and surgeon
• 1921 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (d. 1997)
• 1921 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Tony Pawson, English cricketer, footballer, and journalist (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Theoni V. Aldredge, Greek-American costume designer (d. 2011)
• 1922 – Micheline Presle, French actress
• 1924 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (d. 2015)
• 1924 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989)
• 1925 – Honor Blackman, English actress and singer
• 1926 – Marc Bohan, French fashion designer
• 1926 – Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (d. 1984)
• 1928 – Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat
• 1928 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Valery Alekseyev, Russian anthropologist and author (d. 1991)
• 1929 – Ulrich Wegener, German police officer and general
• 1930 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Gerald P. Carr, American engineer, colonel, and astronaut
• 1932 – Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor (d. 1991)
• 1933 – Sylva Koscina, Croatian-Italian actress (d. 1994)
• 1934 – Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., American general and engineer (d. 2012)
• 1935 – Annie Proulx, American journalist and author
• 1936 – Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2012)
• 1936 – John Callaway, American journalist and producer (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Dale Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1936 – Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer, designed the maverick roller coaster
• 1938 – Jean Berkey, American businesswoman and politician (d. 2013)
• 1938 – Paul Maguire, American football player and sportscaster
• 1939 – Valerie Harper, American actress and singer
• 1939 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player
• 1940 – Bill McCartney, American football player and coach, founded Promise Keepers
• 1940 – George Reinholt, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Bill Parcells, American football player and coach
• 1942 – Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and author (d. 1993)
• 1943 – Alun Michael, Welsh police officer and politician, 1st First Minister of Wales
• 1943 – Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist and engineer, co-designed the Intel 4004
• 1944 – Roger Cashmore, English physicist and academic
• 1944 – Peter Hofmann, Czech-German tenor and actor (d. 2010)
• 1944 – Monta Mino, Japanese television host
• 1945 – Tamori, Japanese television personality
• 1945 – David Chase, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Ron Dante, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Archies, The Cuff Links, and The Detergents)
• 1945 – Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician
• 1947 – Donna Jean Godchaux, American singer-songwriter (Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, and Jerry Garcia Band, and Donna Jean Godchaux Band)
• 1947 – Cindy Williams, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1948 – Eleonora Brown, Italian actress
• 1948 – David Marks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys and Delaney & Bonnie)
• 1949 – Doug Bair, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic author and poet
• 1949 – Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
• 1950 – Ray Burris, American baseball player and coach
• 1950 – Scooter Libby, American lawyer and politician, Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States
• 1951 – Mary Allen, English journalist
• 1951 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
• 1952 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket from the Tombs and Pere Ubu) (d. 1977)
• 1953 – Paul Ellering, American weightlifter, wrestler, and manager
• 1955 – Chiranjeevi, Indian actor, producer, and politician
• 1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese martial artist and actor
• 1956 – Paul Molitor, American baseball player and coach
• 1956 – Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer
• 1957 – Steve Davis, English snooker player, sportscaster, and author
• 1958 – Colm Feore, American-Canadian actor
• 1958 – Stevie Ray, American wrestler and sportscaster
• 1958 – Vernon Reid, English-American guitarist and songwriter (Living Colour)
• 1959 – Juan Croucier, Cuban-American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Ratt and Dokken)
• 1959 – Pia Gjellerup, Danish lawyer and politician, Danish Minister of Finance
• 1959 – Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (d. 2013)
• 1959 – Annie Tempest, English cartoonist
• 1959 – Mark Williams, English actor and screenwriter
• 1960 – Holger Gehrke, German footballer and manager
• 1961 – Andrés Calamaro, Argentinian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Los Abuelos de la Nada and Los Rodríguez)
• 1961 – Iain Coucher, English businessman
• 1961 – Roland Orzabal, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
• 1961 – Debbi Peterson, American singer and drummer (The Bangles and Kindred Spirit)
• 1963 – Tori Amos, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Y Kant Tori Read)
• 1963 – Terry Catledge, American basketball player
• 1964 – Tom Gibis, American voice actor and singer
• 1964 – Diane Setterfield, English author and educator
• 1964 – Mats Wilander, Swedish-American tennis player and coach
• 1964 – Andrew Wilson, American actor and director
• 1965 – Wendy Botha, South African-Australian surfer
• 1965 – Courtney Gains, American actor and producer
• 1965 – Chen Liping, Singaporean actress
• 1966 – GZA, American rapper and producer (Wu-Tang Clan)
• 1966 – Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992)
• 1966 – Brooke Dillman, American actress
• 1966 – Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1967 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English model, actor, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Ty Burrell, American actor
• 1967 – Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1986)
• 1967 – Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (Alice in Chains, Class of '99, Mad Season, and Sleze) (d. 2002)
• 1967 – Bill Welke, American baseball player and umpire
• 1968 – Casper Christensen, Danish comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Paul Colman, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Newsboys and Paul Colman Trio)
• 1968 – Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
• 1968 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian businesswoman
• 1968 – Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008)
• 1970 – George Canyon, Canadian singer, guitarist, and actor
• 1970 – Charlie Connelly, English-Irish journalist and author
• 1970 – Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and author
• 1970 – Chin Chin Gutierrez, Filipino actress and singer
• 1970 – Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• 1970 – Shaun Steels, English drummer and bass player (My Dying Bride and Anathema)
• 1971 – Richard Armitage, English actor
• 1971 – Natalie Ceeney, English businesswoman
• 1971 – Craig Finn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hold Steady and Lifter Puller)
• 1971 – Rick Yune, American actor and martial artist
• 1972 – Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter
• 1972 – Paul Doucette, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Matchbox Twenty, The Break and Repair Method, and Tabitha's Secret)
• 1972 – Steve Kline, American baseball player and coach
• 1972 – Pontus Schultz, Swedish journalist (d. 2012)
• 1972 – Max Wilson, German-Brazilian race car driver
• 1973 – Sornram Teppitak, Thai actor and singer
• 1973 – Howie Dorough, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (Backstreet Boys)
• 1973 – Beenie Man, Jamaican rapper and producer
• 1973 – Kristen Wiig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1974 – Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
• 1974 – Agustín Pichot, Argentinian rugby player
• 1975 – Clint Bolton, Australian footballer
• 1975 – Sheree Murphy, English actress
• 1975 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
• 1976 – Marius Bezykornovas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Bryn Davies, American bassist, cellist, and pianist
• 1976 – Laurent Hernu, French decathlete
• 1976 – Randy Wolf, American baseball player
• 1977 – Keren Cytter, Israeli author and director
• 1977 – Heiðar Helguson, Icelandic footballer
• 1977 – Miho Kanno, Japanese actress and singer
• 1978 – Robert Levon Been, American singer and guitarist (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
• 1978 – James Corden, English actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Ioannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player
• 1978 – Ed Petrie, English comedian and actor
• 1979 – Brandon Adams, American actor
• 1979 – Angelu de Leon, Filipino actress
• 1979 – Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress and producer
• 1979 – Matt Walters, American football player
• 1980 – Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 – Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter
• 1980 – Seiko Yamamoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 – Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1981 – Jang Hyun-kyu, South Korean footballer (d. 2012)
• 1981 – Takumi Saito, Japanese actor and singer
• 1982 – Rodrigo Nehme, Mexican actor
• 1983 – Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1983 – Laura Breckenridge, American actress
• 1983 – Justin Buchholz, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 – Jahri Evans, American football player
• 1983 – Miho Ohwada, Japanese actress
• 1983 – Dani Thompson, Australian-English model and actress
• 1984 – Lee Camp, English footballer
• 1984 – Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian-Qatari footballer
• 1985 – Kether Donohue, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1985 – Luke Russert, American journalist
• 1986 – Monsieur Adi, French DJ and producer
• 1986 – James Frost, Welsh guitarist and keyboardist (The Automatic)
• 1986 – Lacie Heart, American porn actress
• 1986 – Erika Hebron, American model, Miss Missouri 2010
• 1986 – Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1986 – Adrian Neville, English wrestler
• 1986 – Janis Vahter, Estonian basketball player
• 1987 – Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Uhaa Nation, American wrestler
• 1987 – Karlie Simon, English porn actress
• 1988 – Sarah Major, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1989 – Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Chariz Solomon, Filipino actress
• 1990 – Syque Caesar, Bangladeshi gymnast
• 1990 – Randall Cobb, American football player
• 1990 – Drew Hutchison, American baseball player
• 1991 – Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1994 – Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1999 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor and stuntman

Deaths

• 408 – Stilicho, Roman general (b. 359)
• 1155 – Emperor Konoe of Japan (b. 1139)
• 1241 – Pope Gregory IX, (b. 1143)
• 1280 – Pope Nicholas III (b. 1216)
• 1304 – John II, Count of Holland (b. 1247)
• 1350 – Philip VI of France (b. 1293)
• 1358 – Isabella of France (b. 1295)
• 1456 – Vladislav II of Wallachia
• 1485 – Richard III of England (b. 1452)
• 1553 – John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1504)
• 1572 – Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, English leader of the Rising of the North (b. 1528)
• 1584 – Jan Kochanowski, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1530)
• 1599 – Luca Marenzio, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1553)
• 1607 – Bartholomew Gosnold, English lawyer and explorer, founded the London Company (b. 1572)
• 1652 – Jacob De la Gardie, Estonian-Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High Constable of Sweden (b. 1583)
• 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Polish astronomer and author (b. 1610)
• 1680 – John George II, Elector of Saxony (b. 1613)
• 1701 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1628)
• 1711 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French general (b. 1644)
• 1752 – William Whiston, English mathematician, historian, and theologian (b. 1667)
• 1793 – Louis de Noailles, French general (b. 1713)
• 1793 – Cäcilia Weber, German-Austrian mother of Constanze Weber (b. 1727)
• 1797 – Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (b. 1724)
• 1806 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and illustrator (b. 1732)
• 1817 – Nakşidil Sultan, Ottoman wife of Abdul Hamid I (b. 1768)
• 1818 – Warren Hastings, English lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Bengal (b. 1732)
• 1828 – Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (b. 1758)
• 1850 – Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet and author (b. 1802)
• 1861 – Xianfeng Emperor of China (b. 1831)
• 1888 – Ágoston Trefort, Hungarian jurist and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1817)
• 1891 – Jan Neruda, Czech journalist, author, and poet (b. 1834)
• 1903 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1830)
• 1904 – Kate Chopin, American author and poet (b. 1850)
• 1909 – Henry Radcliffe Crocker, English dermatologist and author (b. 1846)
• 1914 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian bishop and academic (b. 1859)
• 1918 – Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (b. 1868)
• 1922 – Michael Collins, Irish commander and politician, 2nd Irish Minister of Finance (b. 1890)
• 1926 – Charles William Eliot, American academic (b. 1834)
• 1933 – Alexandros Kontoulis, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 – Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1861)
• 1942 – Michel Fokine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1880)
• 1946 – Döme Sztójay, Hungarian general and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1883)
• 1950 – Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (b. 1888)
• 1951 – Jack Bickell, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1953 – Jim Tabor, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1958 – Roger Martin du Gard, French paleographer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1897)
• 1960 – Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler and actor (b. 1898)
• 1963 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors (b. 1877)
• 1965 – Ellen Church, American flight attendant (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American biologist and academic, co-created the birth-control pill (b. 1903)
• 1970 – Vladimir Propp, Russian philologist and scholar (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Louise Huff, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician, biologist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902)
• 1977 – Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor and singer (b. 1918)
• 1978 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 – James T. Farrell, American author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 – James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1986 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1987 – Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1989 – Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• 1989 – Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
• 1991 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (b. 1937)
• 1994 – Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager {b. 1919)
• 2000 – Professor Tanaka, American wrestler and actor (n. 1930)
• 2003 – Generosa Ammon, American wife of Ted Ammon (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (b. 1906)
• 2003 – Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Al Dvorin, American bandleader and talent agent (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Luc Ferrari, French-Italian director and composer (b. 1929)
• 2005 – Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Mati Unt, Estonian author and director (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Bruce Gary, American drummer and producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Grace Paley, American short story writer, and poet (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Gladys Powers, English-Canadian soldier (b. 1899)
• 2009 – Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Nick Ashford, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ashford & Simpson) (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Jack Layton, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2011 – Joan Gerber, American voice actor and singer (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Nina Bawden, English author (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Charles Flores, Cuban-American bassist (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese soldier and politician
• 2012 – Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Chinese cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2012 – András József Szennay, Hungarian clergyman (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Keiko Fuji, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1951)
• 2013 – Jetty Paerl, Dutch singer (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Paul Poberezny, American pilot and businessman, founded the Experimental Aircraft Association (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Andrea Servi, Italian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2014 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist (b. 1906)
• 2014 – Pete Ladygo, American football player and coach (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Noella Leduc, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2014 – John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (b. 1921)
• 2014 – John S. Waugh, American chemist and academic (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Mariem Hassan, Saharan singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2015 – Jörg Schneider, Swiss actor and author (b. 1935)
• 2015 – Ieng Thirith, Cambodian academic and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Eric Thompson, English race car driver and book dealer (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Immaculate Heart of Mary
  • Queenship of Mary
  • Symphorian and Timotheus
  • August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day (Philippines) can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.
• Flag Day (Russia)
• Madras Day (Chennai, India)
• National Eat a Peach Day (United States)
• National Pecan Torte Day (United States)
• Southern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day (Southern Hemisphere)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada