1067 - Baldwin V of Flanders
1159 - Pope Adrian IV (b. 1100)
1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)
1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer (b. 1491)
1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)
1600 - Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician (b. 1525)
1615 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)
1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)
1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
1715 - King Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1715 - François Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)
1818 - Robert Calder, British naval officer (b. 1745)
1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)
1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)
1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)
1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)
1967 - Siegfried Sassoon, English poet (b. 1886)
1969 - Drew Pearson, American newspaper columnist (b. 1897)
1970 - François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1977 - Ethel Waters, American singer (b. 1896)
1981 - Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1901)
1981 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (b. 1905)
1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)
1982 - Wladyslaw Gomulka, Polish communist leader (b. 1905)
1983 - Henry M. Jackson, American politician (b. 1912)
1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)
1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)
1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)
1986 - Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
1988 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)
1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
1998 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (b. 1930)
1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)
2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)
2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)
2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)
2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)
2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)
2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
2006 - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
2006 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006 - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2007 - Roy McKenzie, New Zealand philanthropist (b. 1922)
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Famous Deaths on 1 Sep
Monday, August 30, 2010
Famous Deaths on 31 Aug
1056 - Theodora, Byzantine Empress (b. 981)
1234 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (b. 1212)
1372 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)
1422 - King Henry V of England (b. 1387)
1645 - Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (b. 1566)
1654 - Ole Worm, Danish physician (b. 1588)
1688 - John Bunyan, English writer (b. 1628)
1730 - Gottfried Finger, Czech composer (b. 1660?)
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1772 - William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
1795 - François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player (b. 1726)
1799 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (b. 1720)
1814 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1867 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (b. 1821)
1869 - Mary Ward, Irish scientist, first automobile accident victim (b. 1827)
1888 - Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1845)
1920 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (b. 1832)
1940 - Georges Gauthier, French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal (b. 1871)
1941 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (b. 1892)
1948 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (b. 1932)
1952 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian political leader (b. 1868)
1963 - Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882)
1967 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1969 - Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b. 1923)
1973 - John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
1974 - Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (b. 1923)
1974 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
1978 - John Wrathall, President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
1979 - Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (b. 1904)
1985 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1986 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (b. 1898)
1986 - Urho Kekkonen, President of Finland (b. 1900)
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
1997 - Dodi Al-Fayed, film producer (b. 1955)
2000 - Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (b. 1925)
2002 - Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (b. 1908)
2002 - George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2004 - Carl Wayne, English singer (b. 1943)
2005 - Joseph Rotblat, Polish-British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1908)
2005 - Michael Sheard, British actor (b. 1940)
2006 - Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
2006 - Tom Delaney, British racing driver (b. 1911)
2007 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
651 - Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary
683 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque