August 21

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

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Events

Pre-1600
  • 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
  • 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
  • 1169 – Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin. The uprising is defeated after two days, consolidating Saladin's position as master of Egypt.[1]
  • 1192 – Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era).[2]
  • 1331 – King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia.[3]
  • 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta.[4]

1601–1900

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600
  • 1165 – Philip II of France (d. 1223)
  • 1481 – Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (d. 1550)
  • 1535 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese general (d. 1619)
  • 1552 – Muhammad Qadiri, Founder of the Naushahia branch of the Qadri order (d. 1654)
  • 1567 – Francis de Sales, Swiss bishop and saint (d. 1622)
  • 1579 – Henri, Duke of Rohan (d. 1638)
  • 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician (d. 1672)

1601–1900
  • 1625 – John Claypole, English politician (d. 1688)
  • 1643 – Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
  • 1660 – Hubert Gautier, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1737)
  • 1665 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1729)
  • 1670 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1734)
  • 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter and educator (d. 1805)
  • 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting (d. 1839)
  • 1754 – Banastre Tarleton, English general and politician (d. 1833)
  • 1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
  • 1789 – Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)
  • 1798 – Jules Michelet, French historian and philosopher (d. 1874)
  • 1800 – Hiram Walden, American general and politician (d. 1880)
  • 1801 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (d. 1876)
  • 1813 – Jean Stas, Belgian chemist and physician (d. 1891)
  • 1816 – Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist and academic (d. 1856)
  • 1823 – Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)
  • 1826 – Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist and academic (d. 1903)
  • 1829 – Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1907)
  • 1840 – Ferdinand Hamer, Dutch bishop and missionary (d. 1900)
  • 1851 – Charles Barrois, French geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1939)[17]
  • 1856 – Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès, American heiress (d. 1921)
  • 1858 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, (d. 1889)
  • 1862 – Emilio Salgari, Italian journalist and author (d. 1911)
  • 1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish-Australian poet and author (d. 1963)
  • 1872 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (d. 1898)[18]
  • 1878 – Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (d. 1963)
  • 1879 – Claude Grahame-White, English pilot and engineer (d. 1959)
  • 1884 – Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (d. 1936)
  • 1885 – Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner (d. 1939)
  • 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)
  • 1887 – James Paul Moody, English sailor (d. 1912)
  • 1891 – Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican-American soldier (d. 2007)
  • 1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
  • 1894 – Christian Schad, German painter (d. 1982)
  • 1895 – Blossom Rock, American actress (d. 1978)
  • 1897 – Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Scottish soldier and peer (d. 1966)

1901–present
  • 1902 – Angel Karaliychev, Bulgarian author (d. 1972)
  • 1903 – Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1984)
  • 1904 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)
  • 1905 – Bipin Gupta, Indian actor and producer (d. 1981)
  • 1906 – Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (d. 1995)
  • 1907 – P. Jeevanandham, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1963)
  • 1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
  • 1912 – Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
  • 1914 – Doug Wright, English cricketer and coach (d. 1998)
  • 1916 – Bill Lee, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
  • 1916 – Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)
  • 1917 – Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician (d. 2008)
  • 1918 – Billy Reay, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2004)
  • 1921 – Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1922 – Albert Irvin, English soldier and painter (d. 2015)
  • 1923 – Keith Allen, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
  • 1924 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
  • 1924 – Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
  • 1926 – Can Yücel, Turkish poet and translator (d. 1999)
  • 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 2018)
  • 1928 – Addison Farmer, American bassist (d. 1963)
  • 1928 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1999)
  • 1928 – Bud McFadin, American football player (d. 2006)
  • 1929 – Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1929 – X. J. Kennedy, American poet, translator, anthologist, editor
  • 1929 – Ahmed Kathrada, South African politician and political prisoner (d. 2017)
  • 1930 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
  • 1930 – Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • 1932 – Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2015)
  • 1932 – Melvin Van Peebles, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2021)
  • 1933 – Janet Baker, English soprano and educator
  • 1933 – Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (d. 1994)
  • 1933 – Barry Norman, English author and critic (d. 2017)
  • 1933 – Erik Paaske, Danish actor and singer (d. 1992)
  • 1934 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian lawyer and politician, 13th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2001)
  • 1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer (d. 2015)
  • 1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (d. 1999)
  • 1936 – Radish Tordia, Georgian painter and educator
  • 1937 – Donald Dewar, Scottish lawyer and politician, first First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
  • 1937 – Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian academic and politician, 51st President of Ecuador (d. 2021)
  • 1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (d. 2015)
  • 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
  • 1938 – Mike Weston, English rugby player
  • 1939 – James Burton, American Hall of Fame guitarist
  • 1939 – Festus Mogae, Botswana economist and politician, third President of Botswana
  • 1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor (d. 2021)
  • 1940 – Dominick Harrod, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2013)
  • 1940 – Endre Szemerédi, Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist
  • 1941 – Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter
  • 1943 – Patrick Demarchelier, French photographer (d. 2022)
  • 1943 – Jonathan Schell, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
  • 1943 – Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (d. 2014)
  • 1943 – Hugh Wilson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1944 – Perry Christie, Bahamian politician, third Prime Minister of the Bahamas
  • 1944 – Peter Weir, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1945 – Basil Poledouris, Greek-American composer, conductor[19] (d. 2006)
  • 1945 – Celia Brayfield, English journalist and author
  • 1945 – Jerry DaVanon, American baseball player
  • 1945 – Willie Lanier, American football player
  • 1945 – Patty McCormack, American actress
  • 1947 – Carl Giammarese, American singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1949 – Loretta Devine, American actress and singer
  • 1949 – Daniel Sivan, Israeli scholar and academic
  • 1950 – Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer-songwriter and model
  • 1951 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
  • 1951 – Yana Mintoff, Maltese politician, economist and educator
  • 1951 – Chesley V. Morton, American businessman and politician
  • 1952 – Keith Hart, Canadian firefighter, wrestler, and trainer
  • 1952 – Jiří Paroubek, Czech soldier and politician, sixth Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
  • 1952 – Bernadette Porter, English nun and educator
  • 1952 – Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
  • 1953 – Ivan Stang, American author, publisher, and director
  • 1954 – Archie Griffin, American football player
  • 1954 – Steve Smith, American drummer
  • 1954 – Mark Williams, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
  • 1956 – Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
  • 1956 – Jon Tester, American farmer and politician
  • 1957 – Frank Pastore, American baseball player and radio host (d. 2012)
  • 1958 – Mark Williams, Australian footballer and coach
  • 1959 – Anne Hobbs, English tennis player and coach
  • 1959 – Jim McMahon, American football player and coach
  • 1961 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player and coach (d. 2001)
  • 1961 – V. B. Chandrasekhar, Indian cricketer and coach (d. 2019)
  • 1961 – Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist, animator and creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (d. 2018)
  • 1962 – John Korfas, Greek-American basketball player and coach
  • 1962 – Gilberto Santa Rosa, Puerto Rican bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero[20]
  • 1962 – Pete Weber, American bowler
  • 1963 – Mohammed VI of Morocco, King of Morocco
  • 1963 – Nigel Pearson, English footballer and manager
  • 1964 – Gary Elkerton, Australian surfer
  • 1965 – Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
  • 1966 – John Wetteland, American baseball player and coach
  • 1967 – Darren Bewick, Australian footballer
  • 1967 – Charb, French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
  • 1967 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
  • 1967 – Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
  • 1968 – Dina Carroll, English singer-songwriter
  • 1968 – Goran Ćurko, Serbian footballer
  • 1968 – Laura Trevelyan, English journalist and author
  • 1969 – Bruce Anstey, New Zealand motorcycle racer
  • 1969 – Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
  • 1970 – Craig Counsell, American baseball player and coach
  • 1970 – Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist and manager
  • 1970 – Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress
  • 1971 – Mamadou Diallo, Senegalese footballer
  • 1971 – Robert Harvey, Australian footballer and coach
  • 1971 – Liam Howlett, English keyboard player, DJ, and producer
  • 1973 – Sergey Brin, Russian-American computer scientist and businessman, co-founded Google
  • 1973 – Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1974 – Martin Andanar, Filipino journalist and radio host
  • 1974 – Paul Mellor, Australian rugby league player and referee
  • 1975 – Simon Katich, Australian cricketer and manager
  • 1976 – Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player and scout
  • 1976 – Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
  • 1976 – Robert Miles, Australian rugby league player
  • 1976 – Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
  • 1978 – Peter Buxton, English rugby player and manager
  • 1978 – Reuben Droughns, American football player and coach
  • 1978 – Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player and coach
  • 1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer and coach
  • 1978 – Jason Marquis, American baseball player
  • 1979 – Kelis, American singer-songwriter, producer, chef and author
  • 1980 – Burney Lamar, American race car driver
  • 1980 – Paul Menard, American race car driver
  • 1980 – Jasmin Wöhr, German tennis player
  • 1981 – Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer (d. 2018)
  • 1981 – Cameron Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
  • 1981 – Tyler Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
  • 1981 – Ross Thomas, American actor
  • 1982 – Jason Eaton, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1982 – Omar Sachedina, Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor
  • 1983 – Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
  • 1984 – Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
  • 1984 – Melvin Upton, Jr., American baseball player
  • 1985 – Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player
  • 1985 – Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
  • 1986 – Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
  • 1986 – Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
  • 1986 – Koki Sakamoto, Japanese gymnast
  • 1988 – Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
  • 1988 – Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1989 – Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
  • 1989 – James Davey, English rugby league player
  • 1989 – Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
  • 1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress
  • 1989 – Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
  • 1990 – Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
  • 1991 – Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
  • 1992 – Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
  • 1996 – Karolína Muchová, Czech tennis player[21]

Deaths

Pre-1600
  • 672 – Emperor Kōbun of Japan (b. 648)
  • 784 – Alberic, archbishop of Utrecht
  • 913 – Tang Daoxi, Chinese general
  • 1131 – King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
  • 1148 – William II, Count of Nevers (b. c. 1089)
  • 1157 – Alfonso VII of León and Castile (b. 1105)
  • 1245 – Alexander of Hales, English theologian
  • 1271 – Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (b. 1220)
  • 1534 – Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, 44th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1464)
  • 1568 – Jean Parisot de Valette, 49th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1495)

1601–1900
  • 1614 – Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and purported serial killer (b. 1560)[22]
  • 1622 – Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1582)
  • 1627 – Jacques Mauduit, French composer and academic (b. 1557)
  • 1673 – Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier (b. 1599)
  • 1689 – William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier (b. 1661)[5]
  • 1762 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1689)
  • 1763 – Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710)
  • 1775 – Zahir al-Umar, Arabian ruler (b. 1690)
  • 1796 – John McKinly, American physician and politician, first Governor of Delaware (b. 1721)
  • 1814 – Benjamin Thompson, American-English physicist and colonel (b. 1753)
  • 1835 – John MacCulloch, Scottish geologist and academic (b. 1773)
  • 1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785)
  • 1838 – Adelbert von Chamisso, German botanist and poet (b. 1781)
  • 1853 – Charles Tristan, marquis de Montholon, French general (b. 1783)
  • 1854 – Thomas Clayton, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
  • 1867 – Juan Álvarez, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1790)[23]
  • 1870 – Ma Xinyi, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1821)
  • 1888 – James Farnell, Australian politician, eighth Premier of New South Wales (b. 1825)

1901–present
  • 1905 – Alexander von Oettingen, Estonian theologian and statistician (b. 1827)
  • 1910 – Bertalan Székely, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1835)
  • 1911 – Mahboob Ali Khan, sixth Nizam of Hyderabad State (b.1866)[24]
  • 1919 – Laurence Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1875)
  • 1935 – John Hartley, English tennis player (b. 1849)
  • 1940 – Hermann Obrecht, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
  • 1940 – Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (b. 1863)
  • 1940 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (b. 1879)
  • 1943 – Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
  • 1947 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French engineer and businessman, founded Bugatti (b. 1881)
  • 1951 – Constant Lambert, English composer and conductor (b. 1905)
  • 1957 – Mait Metsanurk, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1879)
  • 1957 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • 1957 – Harald Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
  • 1960 – David B. Steinman, American engineer, designed the Mackinac Bridge (b. 1886)
  • 1964 – Palmiro Togliatti, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Justice (b. 1893)
  • 1968 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1893)[25]
  • 1971 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
  • 1974 – Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
  • 1974 – Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
  • 1978 – Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
  • 1979 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
  • 1981 – Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)
  • 1983 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
  • 1988 – Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
  • 1988 – Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
  • 1989 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
  • 1993 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
  • 1995 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
  • 1995 – Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
  • 1996 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (b. 1911)[26]
  • 2000 – Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
  • 2000 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, third Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
  • 2000 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
  • 2001 – Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
  • 2003 – John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
  • 2003 – Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
  • 2004 – Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)
  • 2005 – Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (b. 1957)
  • 2005 – Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (b. 1934)
  • 2005 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936)
  • 2005 – Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
  • 2006 – Bismillah Khan, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna recipient (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philanthropist (b. 1941)
  • 2007 – Siobhan Dowd, British author (b. 1960)
  • 2007 – Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American general (b. 1918)
  • 2008 – Jerry Finn, American engineer and producer (b. 1969)
  • 2009 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean engineer and author (b. 1930)
  • 2010 – Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Argentinean sociologist and author (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
  • 2012 – Guy Spitaels, Belgian academic and politician, seventh Minister-President of Wallonia (b. 1931)
  • 2012 – William Thurston, American mathematician and academic (b. 1946)
  • 2013 – Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
  • 2013 – Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918)
  • 2013 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936)
  • 2013 – Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
  • 2013 – Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932)
  • 2014 – Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
  • 2014 – Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2014 – Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946)
  • 2014 – Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
  • 2014 – Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, ninth Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932)
  • 2015 – Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
  • 2015 – Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)
  • 2015 – Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
  • 2017 – Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo (b. 1954)
  • 2018 – Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975)[27]
  • 2019 – Celso Piña, Mexican singer, composer, arranger, and accordionist (b. 1953)[28]

Holidays and observances
  • Christian Feast Day:
    • Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    • Euprepius of Verona
    • Maximilian of Antioch
    • Our Lady of Knock
    • Pope Pius X
    • Sidonius Apollinaris
    • August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
  • Youth Day (Morocco)
  • World Senior Citizen's Day[29]

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