August 30

"August 30th" redirects here. For the song by Delirious?, see August 30th (song).

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

Events

• 526 – King Theoderic the Great dies of dysentery at Ravenna; his daughter Amalasuntha takes power as regent for her 10-year-old son Athalaric.
• 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
• 1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
• 1464 – Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
• 1574 – Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
• 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
• 1727 – Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
• 1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
• 1799 – The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
• 1800 – Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
• 1813 – First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
• 1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
• 1835 – Melbourne is founded.
• 1836 – The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General Horatio Wright.
• 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
• 1896 – Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
• 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
• 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
• 1917 – Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
• 1918 – Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
• 1922 – Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
• 1940 – The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
• 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
• 1945 – Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
• 1945 – The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
• 1945 – The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
• 1945 – The August Revolution ends as Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates, ending the Nguyễn dynasty.
• 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
• 1963 – The Moscow–Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
• 1966 – The Beatles perform their final concert as a touring act at Candlestick Park in San Fransisco.
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1974 – A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• 1974 – A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
• 1981 – President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
• 1992 – The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
• 1995 – Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
• 1998 – Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
• 1999 – East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
• 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.
• 2014 – Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.

Births

• 1334 – Peter of Castile (d. 1369)
• 1400 – Vlad II Dracul (d.1447)
• 1569 – Jahangir, Mughal emperor (d. 1627)
• 1720 – Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796)
• 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (d. 1825)
• 1768 – Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812)
• 1797 – Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
• 1808 – Princess Ludovika of Bavaria (d. 1892)
• 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869)
• 1813 – Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (d. 1862)
• 1818 – Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
• 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1849)
• 1839 – Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903)
• 1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
• 1848 – Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905)
• 1850 – Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)
• 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
• 1852 – J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (d. 1919)
• 1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
• 1860 – Isaac Levitan, Jewish-Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
• 1870 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
• 1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1883 – Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (d. 1931)
• 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
• 1885 – Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
• 1893 – Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
• 1896 – Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)
• 1901 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970)
• 1901 – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
• 1906 – Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (d. 1995)
• 1907 – Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1996)
• 1907 – Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (d. 1978)
• 1907 – John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980)
• 1908 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
• 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
• 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 1912 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)
• 1913 – Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1915 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003)
• 1916 – Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
• 1917 – Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Harold Atcherley, English businessman
• 1918 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (d. 2010)
• 1919 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)
• 1923 – William Duell, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Nate Saint, American missionary and pilot (d. 1956)
• 1923 – Vic Seixas, American tennis player
• 1924 – Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
• 1924 – Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)
• 1925 – Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
• 1925 – Donald Symington, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
• 1927 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor
• 1927 – Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer
• 1928 – Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
• 1928 – Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)
• 1929 – Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1930 – Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
• 1931 – Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)
• 1933 – Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
• 1934 – Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (d. 2016)
• 1935 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Peter North, English scholar and academic
• 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
• 1938 – Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
• 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress and singer
• 1939 – John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
• 1941 – Ben Jones, American actor and politician
• 1941 – Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
• 1942 – Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
• 1942 – Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
• 1943 – Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach
• 1943 – Robert Crumb, American illustrator
• 1943 – Colin Dann, English author
• 1943 – Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic
• 1943 – Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
• 1943 – David Maslanka, American composer and academic
• 1944 – Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
• 1944 – Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
• 1944 – Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1946 – Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
• 1946 – Peggy Lipton, American model and actress
• 1947 – Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
• 1948 – Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
• 1949 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
• 1950 – Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
• 1951 – Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
• 1951 – Timothy Bottoms, American actor and producer
• 1951 – Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer
• 1951 – Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania
• 1952 – Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator
• 1952 – Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
• 1953 – Ron George, American businessman and politician
• 1953 – Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Horace Panter, English bass player
• 1953 – Robert Parish, American basketball player
• 1954 – Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
• 1954 – Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
• 1954 – David Paymer, American actor and director
• 1955 – Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
• 1956 – Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1958 – Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
• 1958 – Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1958 – Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
• 1958 – Martin Jackson, English drummer
• 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006)
• 1958 – Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1959 – Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer and radio personality
• 1960 – Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
• 1960 – Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
• 1960 – Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
• 1962 – Ricky Sanders, American football player
• 1962 – Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician
• 1963 – Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014)
• 1963 – Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
• 1963 – Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
• 1963 – Paul Oakenfold, English DJ and producer
• 1964 – Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
• 1964 – Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
• 1966 – Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer (D Ream)
• 1966 – Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic
• 1967 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress
• 1967 – Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
• 1968 – Diran Adebayo, English author and critic
• 1968 – Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer
• 1969 – Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer
• 1970 – Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
• 1970 – Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – Julian Smith, Scottish politician
• 1972 – Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
• 1972 – Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
• 1973 – Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
• 1974 – Aaron Barrett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1974 – Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
• 1975 – Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
• 1976 – Mike Koplove, American baseball player
• 1977 – Shaun Alexander, American football player
• 1977 – Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
• 1977 – Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
• 1977 – Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler
• 1978 – Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
• 1978 – Cliff Lee, American baseball player
• 1979 – Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 – Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
• 1979 – Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 – Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
• 1980 – Derrick Ward, American football player
• 1981 – Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
• 1981 – Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
• 1982 – Will Davison, Australian race car driver
• 1982 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• 1983 – Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
• 1983 – Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer
• 1983 – Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1985 – Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
• 1985 – Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
• 1985 – Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
• 1985 – Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
• 1985 – Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
• 1985 – Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player
• 1985 – Holly Weston, English actress
• 1986 – Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 – Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
• 1987 – Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
• 1989 – Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
• 1989 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter
• 1991 – Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014)
• 1991 – Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
• 1991 – Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
• 1994 – Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
• 1994 – Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

• 526 – Theoderic the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)
• 832 – Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772)
• 1329 – Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (b. 1300)
• 1428 – Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
• 1483 – Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
• 1580 – Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
• 1619 – Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
• 1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
• 1856 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
• 1879 – John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
• 1886 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
• 1896 – Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
• 1906 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
• 1907 – Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
• 1908 – Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
• 1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1935 – Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1936 – Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
• 1938 – Max Factor, Sr., Polish-American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
• 1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
• 1943 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
• 1945 – Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1946 – Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
• 1947 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
• 1949 – Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1951 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (b. 1911)
• 1964 – Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1968 – William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1970 – Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
• 1971 – Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1981 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
• 1985 – Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 1990 – Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
• 1991 – Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)
• 1991 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1994 – Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 1995 – Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (b. 1942)
• 1996 – Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Jan Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, Welsh farmer and inventor (b. 1907)
• 2002 – J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
• 2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
• 2013 – William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
• 2014 – Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
• 2015 – Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
• 2015 – M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
• 2015 – Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Alexander of Constantinople
  • Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
  • Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
  • Blessed Stephen Nehmé (Maronite Church / Catholic Church)
  • Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)
  • Fantinus
  • Felix and Adauctus
  • Fiacre
  • Jeanne Jugan
  • Narcisa de Jesús
  • Pammachius
  • August 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
• Constitution Day (Turks and Caicos Islands)
• Independence Day (Tartarstan, Russia not formally recognized)
• International Day of the Disappeared
• Popular Consultation Day (East Timor)
• Saint Rose of Lima's Day (Peru)
• Victory Day (Turkey)

External links

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