August 3

Events

• AD 8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.
• AD 70 - Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished.
• 435 - Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
• 881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.
• 908 - Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.
• 1031 - Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
• 1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as first Belgian Pope Stephen IX.
• 1342 - The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
• 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
• 1527 - The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
• 1601 - Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.
• 1645 - Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.
• 1778 - The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.
• 1795 - Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.
• 1811 - First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.
• 1829 - The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
• 1852 - Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event.
• 1859 - The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
• 1900 - The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
• 1903 - Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
• 1907 - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
• 1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
• 1921 - Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
• 1936 - A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
• 1940 - World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
• 1946 - Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
• 1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
• 1949 - The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.
• 1958 - The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
• 1959 - Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
• 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.
• 1972 - The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
• 1977 - Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
• 1981 - Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
• 1997 - Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
• 1997 - The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
• 2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
• 2005 - President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
• 2007 - Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
• 2010 - Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees in damage.
• 2014 - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
• 2018 - Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
• 2019 - Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 - Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.

  Births

• 1486 - Imperia Cognati, Italian courtesan
• 1491 - Maria of Jülich-Berg, German noblewoman
• 1509 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator
• 1622 - Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, German field marshal
• 1692 - John Henley, English minister and poet
• 1766 - Aaron Chorin, Hungarian rabbi and author
• 1770 - Frederick William III of Prussia
• 1803 - Joseph Paxton, English gardener and architect, designed The Crystal Palace
• 1808 - Hamilton Fish, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of State
• 1811 - Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company
• 1817 - Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
• 1823 - Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish-American revolutionary and military leader, territorial governor of Montana
• 1832 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer, conductor, and director
• 1840 - John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey, English jurist and politician
• 1850 - Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic
• 1856 - Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
• 1860 - William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer
• 1863 - Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist
• 1867 - Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1871 - Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar
• 1872 - Haakon VII of Norway
• 1886 - Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet and playwright
• 1887 - Rupert Brooke, English poet
• 1890 - Konstantin Melnikov, Russian architect, designed the Rusakov Workers' Club
• 1894 - Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1895 - Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English politician
• 1896 - Ralph Horween, American football player and coach
• 1899 - Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver
• 1900 - Ernie Pyle, American soldier and journalist
• 1900 - John T. Scopes, American educator
• 1901 - John C. Stennis, American lawyer and politician
• 1901 - Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal
• 1902 - Regina Jonas, German rabbi
• 1902 - David Buttolph, American film composer
• 1903 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian journalist and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Tunisia
• 1904 - Dolores del Río, Mexican actress
• 1904 - Clifford D. Simak, American journalist and author
• 1905 - Franz König, Austrian cardinal
• 1907 - Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer
• 1907 - Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil
• 1907 - Yang Shangkun, Chinese politician, and 4th President of China
• 1909 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American author and educator
• 1911 - Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor and producer
• 1912 - Fritz Hellwig, German politician
• 1913 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer
• 1916 - Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter
• 1916 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1917 - Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader
• 1918 - James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author
• 1918 - Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist
• 1918 - Larry Haines, American actor
• 1918 - Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter
• 1920 - Norman Dewis, English test driver and engineer
• 1920 - Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author
• 1920 - P. D. James, English author
• 1920 - Charlie Shavers, American trumpet player and composer
• 1920 - Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect
• 1921 - Richard Adler, American composer and producer
• 1921 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress
• 1922 - John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium
• 1923 - Jean Hagen, American actress
• 1923 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
• 1924 - Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter
• 1924 - Leon Uris, American soldier and author
• 1925 - Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
• 1925 - Lewis Rowland, American neurologist
• 1926 - Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress
• 1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 1926 - Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author
• 1926 - Gordon Scott, American actor
• 1928 - Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1928 - Henning Moritzen, Danish actor
• 1930 - James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1933 - Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer
• 1934 - Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor
• 1934 - Michael Chapman, English bassoon player
• 1934 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA
• 1935 - John Erman, American actor, director, and producer
• 1935 - Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1935 - Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist, composer, and bandleader
• 1936 - Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host
• 1936 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor
• 1937 - Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1937 - Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
• 1937 - Tom Georgeson, English actor
• 1937 - Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 1938 - Terry Wogan, Irish-English radio and television host
• 1939 - Jimmie Nicol, English drummer
• 1939 - Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer
• 1940 - Lance Alworth, American football player
• 1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor and producer
• 1940 - James Tyler, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer
• 1941 - Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, publisher, and author, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• 1943 - Béla Bollobás, Hungarian-English mathematician and academic
• 1943 - Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson of Sweden
• 1943 - Steven Millhauser, American novelist and short story writer
• 1944 - Nino Bravo, Spanish singer
• 1945 - Eamon Dunphy, Irish footballer and journalist
• 1946 - Robert Ayling, English businessman
• 1946 - Jack Straw, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 - John York, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1947 - Ralph Wright, English footballer
• 1948 - Jean-Pierre Raffarin, French lawyer and politician, 166th Prime Minister of France
• 1949 - Philip Casnoff, American actor and director
• 1949 - B. B. Dickerson, American bass player and songwriter
• 1949 - Sue Slipman, English politician
• 1950 - Linda Howard, American author
• 1950 - John Landis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 - Jo Marie Payton, American actress and singer
• 1950 - Ernesto Samper, Colombian economist and politician, 29th President of Colombia
• 1951 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1951 - Jay North, American actor
• 1952 - Osvaldo Ardiles, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1953 - Ian Bairnson, Scottish saxophonist and keyboard player
• 1953 - Marlene Dumas, South African painter
• 1954 - Michael Arthur, English physician and academic
• 1954 - Gary Peters, English footballer and manager
• 1956 - Kirk Brandon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 - Todd Christensen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1956 - Dave Cloud, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1956 - Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
• 1957 - Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer and manager
• 1957 - Kate Wilkinson, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 11th New Zealand Minister of Conservation
• 1958 - Lindsey Hilsum, English journalist and author
• 1958 - Ana Kokkinos, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1959 - Martin Atkins, English drummer and producer
• 1959 - Mike Gminski, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1959 - John C. McGinley, American actor and producer
• 1959 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1960 - Tim Mayotte, American tennis player and coach
• 1960 - Gopal Sharma, Indian cricketer
• 1961 - Molly Hagan, American actress
• 1961 - Nick Harvey, English politician, Minister of State for the Armed Forces
• 1961 - Lee Rocker, American bassist
• 1963 - Tasmin Archer, English pop singer
• 1963 - Frano Botica, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1963 - James Hetfield, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1963 - David Knox, Australian rugby player
• 1963 - Ed Roland, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1963 - Lisa Ann Walter, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 - Isaiah Washington, American actor and producer
• 1964 - Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player
• 1964 - Ralph Knibbs, British rugby union player
• 1964 - Nate McMillan, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 - Kevin Sumlin, American football player and coach
• 1964 - Abhisit Vejjajiva, English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1966 - Brent Butt, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 - Gizz Butt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1966 - Eric Esch, American wrestler, boxer, and mixed martial artist
• 1967 - Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, founded MNP Entreprise
• 1967 - Skin, English singer and guitarist
• 1968 - Rod Beck, American baseball player
• 1969 - Doug Overton, American basketball player and coach
• 1970 - Stephen Carpenter, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1970 - Gina G, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1970 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game designer
• 1971 - Forbes Johnston, Scottish footballer
• 1971 - DJ Spinderella, American DJ, rapper, producer, and actress
• 1972 - Sandis Ozoliņš, Latvian ice hockey player and politician
• 1973 - Jay Cutler, American bodybuilder
• 1973 - Nikos Dabizas, Greek footballer
• 1973 - Michael Ealy, American actor
• 1973 - Chris Murphy, American politician, junior senator of Connecticut
• 1975 - Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
• 1975 - Argyro Strataki, Greek heptathlete
• 1976 - Troy Glaus, American baseball player
• 1977 - Tom Brady, American football player
• 1977 - Justin Lehr, American baseball player
• 1977 - Óscar Pereiro, Spanish cyclist and footballer
• 1978 - Joi Chua, Singaporean singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 - Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
• 1978 - Jenny Tinmouth, English motorcycle racer
• 1978 - Dimitrios Zografakis, Greek footballer
• 1979 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian model and actress
• 1980 - Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter
• 1980 - Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Tony Pashos, American football player
• 1980 - Brandan Schieppati, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 - Hannah Simone, Canadian television host and actress
• 1981 - Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer
• 1981 - Travis Bowyer, American baseball player
• 1981 - Pablo Ibáñez, Spanish footballer
• 1982 - Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
• 1982 - Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
• 1982 - Damien Sandow, American wrestler
• 1983 - Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player
• 1983 - Mark Reynolds, American baseball player
• 1984 - Yasin Avcı, Turkish footballer
• 1984 - Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
• 1984 - Matt Joyce, American baseball player
• 1984 - Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
• 1984 - Chris Maurer, American singer and bass player
• 1985 - Georgina Haig, Australian actress
• 1985 - Brent Kutzle, American bass player and producer
• 1985 - Ats Purje, Estonian footballer
• 1985 - Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby player and boxer
• 1986 - Charlotte Casiraghi, Monégasque journalist, co-founded Ever Manifesto
• 1986 - Darya Domracheva, Belarusian biathlete
• 1987 - Kim Hyung-jun, South Korean singer and dancer
• 1987 - Chris McQueen, Australian-English rugby league player
• 1988 - Denny Cardin, Italian footballer
• 1988 - Leigh Tiffin, American football player
• 1988 - Sven Ulreich, German footballer
• 1989 - Jules Bianchi, French race car driver
• 1989 - Sam Hutchinson, English footballer
• 1989 - Tyrod Taylor, American football player
• 1989 - Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer
• 1990 - Jourdan Dunn, English model
• 1990 - Kang Min-kyung, South Korean singer
• 1992 - Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
• 1992 - Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
• 1992 - Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player
• 1992 - Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player
• 1992 - Lum Rexhepi, Finnish footballer
• 1993 - Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
• 1993 - Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• 1994 - Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 - Todd Gurley, American football player
• 1995 - Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
• 1999 - Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

  Deaths

• 908 - Burchard, duke of Thuringia
• 908 - Egino, duke of Thuringia
• 908 - Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg
• 925 - Cao, Chinese empress dowager
• 979 - Thietmar, margrave of Meissen
• 1003 - At-Ta'i, Abbasid caliph
• 1355 - Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman
• 1460 - James II, king of Scotland
• 1527 - Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal
• 1530 - Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain
• 1546 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace
• 1546 - Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator
• 1604 - Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat
• 1621 - Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author
• 1712 - Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar
• 1720 - Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician
• 1721 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver
• 1761 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic
• 1773 - Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright
• 1780 - Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemiologist and philosopher
• 1792 - Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman
• 1797 - Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
• 1805 - Christopher Anstey, English author and poet
• 1835 - Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor
• 1839 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator
• 1857 - Eugène Sue, French author and politician
• 1866 - Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture
• 1867 - Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar
• 1877 - William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago
• 1879 - Joseph Severn, English painter
• 1894 - George Inness, American painter
• 1913 - William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales
• 1916 - Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist
• 1917 - Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic
• 1920 - Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer
• 1922 - Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician
• 1924 - Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist
• 1925 - William Bruce, Australian cricketer
• 1929 - Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph
• 1929 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist
• 1936 - Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education
• 1942 - Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 - Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II
• 1949 - Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author
• 1954 - Colette, French novelist and journalist
• 1958 - Peter Collins, English race car driver
• 1959 - Herb Byrne, Australian footballer
• 1961 - Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist
• 1964 - Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist
• 1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1968 - Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II
• 1969 - Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales
• 1972 - Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer
• 1973 - Richard Marshall, American general
• 1974 - Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer
• 1975 - Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer
• 1977 - Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus
• 1977 - Alfred Lunt, American actor and director
• 1979 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1979 - Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright
• 1983 - Carolyn Jones, American actress
• 1995 - Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director
• 1995 - Edward Whittemore, American soldier and author
• 1996 - Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral
• 1997 - Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1998 - Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist
• 1999 - Rod Ansell, Australian hunter
• 1999 - Byron Farwell, American historian and author
• 2000 - Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 2001 - Christopher Hewett, English actor and director
• 2003 - Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter
• 2005 - Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet
• 2006 - Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 2006 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress
• 2007 - John Gardner, English author
• 2007 - Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 2008 - Skip Caray, American sportscaster
• 2008 - Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter
• 2008 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2009 - Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
• 2010 - Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter
• 2011 - William Sleator, American author
• 2011 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor
• 2012 - Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 2012 - Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic
• 2012 - Paul McCracken, American economist and academic
• 2012 - John Pritchard, American basketball player
• 2013 - John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman
• 2013 - Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician
• 2013 - Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager
• 2014 - Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• 2014 - Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal
• 2014 - Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author
• 2014 - Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer
• 2014 - Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic
• 2015 - Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic
• 2015 - Mel Farr, American football player and businessman
• 2015 - Coleen Gray, American actress
• 2015 - Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2015 - Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman
• 2015 - Jef Murray, Australian artist and author

  Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Killing of Pidjiguiti
• Armed Forces Day
• Christian feast day:
• * George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois
• * Lydia of Thyatira
• * Myrrhbearers
• * Nicodemus
• * Olaf II of Norway
• * Stephen
• * Waltheof of Melrose
• * August 3
• Flag Day
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Niger from France in 1960.
• *Arbor Day
• National Guard Day
• International Beer Day