Died this day

2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)

Died this day

2006 – Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)

Died this day

2006 – S. Yizhar (aka Yizhar Smilansky), Israeli author (b. 1916)

Died this day

2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)

Died this day

2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)

Died this day

2007 – Haley Paige, American pornographic actress (b. 1981)

Died this day

2008 – Jerry Finn, American record producer (b. 1969)

Died this day

2009 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930)

Died this day

2009 – Dean Turner, Australian musician (b. 1972)

Died this day

2010 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean writer (b. 1941)

Died this day

2010 – Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress and comedienne (b. 1950)

Born today

1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet

Born today

1929 – Marie Severin, American comic book artist and colorist

Born today

1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter

Born today

1933 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano

Born today

1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist

Born today

1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist

Born today

1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor

Born today

1939 – James Burton, American guitarist

Born today

1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor

Born today

1943 – Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor

Born today

1944 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer

Born today

1944 – Peter Weir, Australian film director

Born today

1968 – Dina Carroll, British singer

Born today

1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter

Born today

1984 – Neil Dexter, South African cricketer

1818 - Warren Hastings 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), dies at 85

Died this day

1926 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)

Died this day

1960 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (b. 1895)

Died this day

2005 – Brock Peters, American actor (b. 1927)

Born today

1929 – Vera Miles, American actress

Born today

1949 – Geoff Capes, English strongman

Born today

Shelley Long, American actress

Born this day

1949 – Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor

Birthdays


1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor

1931 – Regis Philbin, American television host

1933 – Tom Skerritt, American actor

1949 – John Savage, American actor

1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-born musician (Kiss)

1951 – Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)

1954 – Elvis Costello, English musician

1958 – Christian LeBlanc, American actor

1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor

1964 – Joanne Whalley, British actress

1968 – Rachael Ray, American chef and television personality

1970 – Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer

1970 – Claudia Schiffer, German model

Died this day

79 – Pliny the Elder, Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher and military commander (b. 23)

Died this day

1227 – Genghis Khan, Khagan of Mongol Empire (b. 1162)

Died this day

1482 – Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI of England (b. 1429)

Died this day

1554 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1473)

Died this day

1688 – Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer (b. c. 1635)

Died this day

1776 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1711)

Died this day

1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)

Died this day

1822 – William Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1738)

Died this day

1867 – Michael Faraday, English scientist (b. 1791)

Died this day

1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (b. 1844)

Died this day

1904 – William Hall, Canadian Royal Naval sailor (b. 1827)

Died this day

1924 – Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (b. 1818)

Died this day

1945 – John Birch, American intelligence officer and missionary (b. 1918)

Died this day

1967 – Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)

Died this day

1968 – Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910)

Died this day

1979 – Stan Kenton, American musician and bandleader (b. 1911)

Died this day

1984 – Truman Capote, American author (b. 1924)

Died this day

2000 – Jack Nitzsche, American record producer (b. 1937)

Died this day

2001 – Aaliyah, American R&B singer and actress (b. 1979)

Died this day

2001 – Ken Tyrrell, British race driver and F1 team principal (b. 1924)

Died this day

2009 – Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (b. 1932)

Died this day 27 August

542 – Saint Caesarius of Arles

Died this day 27 August

749 – Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i, Abbasid general

Died this day 27 August

827 – Pope Eugene II

Died this day 27 August

1312 – Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1262)

Died this day 27 August

1394 – Chokei, Emperor of Japan (b. 1343)62)

Died this day 27 August

1450 – Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)

Died this day 27 August

1521 – Josquin des Prez, Flemish composer

Died this day 27 August

1545 – Piotr Gamrat, Polish Catholic archbishop (b. 1487)

Died this day 27 August

1572 – Claude Goudimel, French composer62)

Died this day 27 August

1577 – Titian, Italian artist

Died this day 27 August

1590 – Pope Sixtus V (b. 1521)

Died this day 27 August

1635 – Félix Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1562)

Died this day 27 August

1664 – Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)

Died this day 27 August

1748 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)

Died this day 27 August

1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (b. 1721)

Died this day 27 August

1857 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1815)

Died this day 27 August

1865 – Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian author (b. 1796)

Died this day 27 August

1871 – William Whiting Boardman, American politician (b. 1794)

Died this day 27 August

1875 – William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)

Died this day 27 August

1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b. 1842)

Died this day 27 August

1929 – Herman Potočnik Noordung, Slovenian rocket scientist (b. 1892)

Died this day 27 August

1931 – Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)

Died this day 27 August

1931 – Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)

Died this day 27 August

1934 – Linda Agostini, Australian murder victim known as the "Pyjama Girl" (b. 1905)

Died this day 27 August

1944 – Georg von Boeselager, German nobleman (b. 1915)

Died this day 27 August

1948 – Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)

Died this day 27 August

1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

Died this day 27 August

1963 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)

Died this day 27 August

1963 – W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights activist and scholar (b. 1868)

Died this day 27 August

1963 – Allama Mashriqi, Pakistani scholar and politician (b. 1888)

Died this day 27 August

1964 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedienne (b. 1895)

Died this day 27 August

1965 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887)

Died this day 27 August

1967 – Brian Epstein, English manager of The Beatles (b. 1934)

Died this day 27 August

1968 – Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (b. 1906)

Died this day 27 August

1969 – Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)

Died this day 27 August

1969 – Erika Mann, German writer and daughter of Thomas Mann (b. 1905)

Died this day 27 August

1971 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and television personality (b. 1898)

Died this day 27 August

1971 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photo-journalist (b. 1906)

Died this day 27 August

1975 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (b. 1892)

Died this day 27 August

1976 – Mukesh, Indian playback singer (b. 1923)

Died this day 27 August

1979 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British admiral and statesman (assassinated) (b. 1900)

Died this day 27 August

1980 – Douglas Kenney, American humorist (b. 1947)

Died this day 27 August

1981 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)

Died this day 27 August

1984 – Bernard Youens, English actor (b. 1914)

Died this day 27 August

1987 – Scott "La Rock" Sterling, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)

Died this day 27 August

1988 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)

Died this day 27 August

1988 – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (b. 1928)

Died this day 27 August

1990 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American guitarist (b. 1954)

Died this day 27 August

1996 – Greg Morris, American actor (b. 1933)2)

Died this day 27 August

1997 – Sotiria Bellou, Greek singer (b. 1921)

Died this day 27 August

1999 – Hélder Câmara, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1909)

Died this day 27 August

2001 – Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (assassinated) (b. 1938)

Died this day 27 August

2001 – Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer, Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (b. 1936)

Died this day 27 August

2002 – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole, "Father of the Modern Day Men's Movement," Founder of the Christian Men's Network (CMN) (b. 1922)

Died this day 27 August

2003 – Pierre Poujade, French politician (b. 1920)

Died this day 27 August

2004 – Willie Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1946)

Died this day 27 August

2005 – Giorgos Mouzakis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1922)

Died this day 27 August

2005 – Seán Purcell, Gaelic footballer (b. 1929)

Died this day 27 August

2006 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director (b. 1922)

Died this day 27 August

2006 – María Capovilla, oldest living person from 2004–2006 (b. 1889)

Died this day 27 August

2006 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born guitarist (Napalm Death) (b. 1969)

Died this day 27 August

2007 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

Died this day 27 August

2008 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor (b. 1970)

Died this day 27 August

2009 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913)

Died this day 27 August

2010 – Luna Vachon, Professional Wrestler (b. 1962)

Born this day 27 August

1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet

Born this day 27 August

1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player

Born this day 27 August

1932 – Antonia Fraser, British author

Born this day 27 August

1935 – Ernie Broglio, American baseball player

Born this day 27 August

1935 – Frank Yablans, American film producer

Born this day 27 August

1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician

Born this day 27 August

1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

Born this day 27 August

1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

Born this day 27 August

1941 – Harrison Page, American actor

Born this day 27 August

1942 – Daryl Dragon, American keyboardist (Captain & Tennille)

Born this day 27 August

1942 – Brian Peckford, Canadian politician

Born this day 27 August

1943 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

Born this day 27 August

1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor

Born this day 27 August

1946 – Tony Howard, West Indian cricketer

Born this day 27 August

1947 – Barbara Bach, American actress

Born this day 27 August

1949 – Jeff Cook, vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin for Alabama

Born this day 27 August

1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor

Born this day 27 August

1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player-manager

Born this day 27 August

1952 – Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), American actor

Born this day 27 August

1953 – Alex Lifeson, Canadian guitarist (Rush)

Born this day 27 August

1953 – Peter Stormare, Swedish-born actor

Born this day 27 August

1954 – John Lloyd, British tennis player

Born this day 27 August

1954 – Derek Warwick, British race car driver

Born this day 27 August

1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

Born this day 27 August

1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress

Born this day 27 August

1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer and two-time Masters champion

Born this day 27 August

1958 – Normand Brathwaite, Canadian comedian and television and radio host

Born this day 27 August

1959 – Gerhard Berger, Austrian racing driver and F1 team co-owner (Scuderia Toro Rosso)

Born this day 27 August

1961 – Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer

Born this day 27 August

1961 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer

Born this day 27 August

1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor

Born this day 27 August

1969 – Reece Shearsmith, British actor and comedian

Born this day 27 August

1969 – Mark Ealham, England cricketer

Born this day 27 August

1970 – Tony Kanal, English musician (No Doubt)

Born this day 27 August

1972 – Denise Lewis, English heptathlete

Born this day 27 August

1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate

Born this day 27 August

1976 – Mark Webber, Australian racing driver

Died this day 28th August

388 – Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper

Died this day 28th August

430 – Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)

Died this day 28th August

1341 – King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)

Died this day 28th August

1481 – King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)

Died this day 28th August

1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)

Died this day 28th August

1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)

Died this day 28th August

1678 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)

Died this day 28th August

1757 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)

Died this day 28th August

1784 – Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)

Died this day 28th August

1785 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)

Died this day 28th August

1793 – Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)

Died this day 28th August

1805 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)

Died this day 28th August

1818 – Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago

Died this day 28th August

1820 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)

Died this day 28th August

1839 – William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)

Died this day 28th August

1900 – Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)

Died this day 28th August

1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)

Died this day 28th August

1933 – Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)

Died this day 28th August

1943 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)

Died this day 28th August

1947 – Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)

Died this day 28th August

1955 – Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)

Died this day 28th August

1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)

Died this day 28th August

1965 – Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)

Died this day 28th August

1971 – Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889)

Died this day 28th August

1972 – Prince William of Gloucester of the British Royal Family (b. 1941)

Died this day 28th August

1975 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)

Died this day 28th August

1976 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)

Died this day 28th August

1978 – Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)

Died this day 28th August

1981 – Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)

Died this day 28th August

1982 – Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)

Died this day 28th August

1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)

Died this day 28th August

1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)

Died this day 28th August

1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)

Died this day 28th August

1988 – Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)

Died this day 28th August

1990 – Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)or (b. 1919)

Died this day 28th August

1991 – Alekos Sakellarios, Greek writer and film director (b. 1913)

Died this day 28th August

1993 – William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)ucator (b. 1919)

Died this day 28th August

1995 – Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)

Died this day 28th August

1997 – Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)

Died this day 28th August

2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)

Died this day 28th August

2003 – Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)

Died this day 28th August

2005 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)

Died this day 28th August

2005 – Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)

Died this day 28th August

2005 – George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)

Died this day 28th August

2006 – Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)

Died this day 28th August

2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Hilly Kristal, American musician (b. 1932)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)

Died this day 28th August


2007 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)

Died this day 28th August

2007 – Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)

Died this day 28th August

2008 – Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)

Died this day 28th August

2009 – Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973)

Died this day 28th August

2009 – Wayne Tippit, American actor (b. 1932)

Died this day 28th August

2010 – William P. Foster, American band director and educator (b. 1919)

Born this day 28th August

1913 – Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer

Born this day 28th August

1916 – Jack Vance, American author

Born this day 28th August

1924 – Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer

Born this day 28th August

1930 – Windsor Davies, British actor

Born this day 28th August

1930 – Ben Gazzara, American actor

Born this day 28th August

1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone

Born this day 28th August

1931 – Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director

Born this day 28th August

1932 – Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player

Born this day 28th August

1936 – Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire

Born this day 28th August

1938 – Paul Martin, Canadian politician

Born this day 28th August

1938 – Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist

Born this day 28th August

1940 – Ken Jenkins, American actor

Born this day 28th August

1940 – Roger Pingeon, French cylist

Born this day 28th August

1940 – Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind)

Born this day 28th August

1941 – Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat

Born this day 28th August

1943 – David Soul, American actor

Born this day 28th August

1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager

Born this day 28th August

1943 – Surayud Chulanont, Thai 24th Prime Minister (former)

Born this day 28th August

1945 – Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer

Born this day 28th August

1948 – Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)

Born this day 28th August

1948 – Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer

Born this day 28th August

1949 – Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers)

Born this day 28th August

1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds)

Born this day 28th August

1961 – Kim Appleby, English singer

Born this day 28th August

1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer

Born this day 28th August

1969 – Jack Black, American actor

Born this day 28th August

1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer

Born this day 28th August

1970 – Sherrié Austin, Australian actress/singer

Born this day 28th August

1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer

Born this day 28th August

1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

Died this day 29th August

886 – Basil I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 811)

Died this day 29th August

1093 – Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1057)

Died this day 29th August

1123 – King Eystein I of Norway (b. c. 1088)

Died this day 29th August

1395 – Duke Albert III of Austria (b. 1349)

Died this day 29th August

1442 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (b. 1389)

Died this day 29th August

1526 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (killed in the Battle of Mohács) (b. 1506)