August 21

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Events

1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo people capture Santa Fe, New Mexico from Spain during the Pueblo Revolt.
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Kingdom of Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 - King Gustav III of Sweden completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Instrument of Government (1772), ending Age of Liberty in Sweden in Sweden and installing him as an Enlightened absolutism.
1810 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - United States first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda, Shizuoka. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 21, 1856)
1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 debates begin.
1862 - The Vienna Wiener Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate States of America guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1878 - The American Bar Association is founded.
1879 - The Mary, the mother of Jesus, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs I.
1911 - The Mona Lisa is art theft by a Louvre employee.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1942 - World War II: A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1942 - World War II: Allies of World War II forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1959 - President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1963 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian people population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 - James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American United States Marine Corps.
1969 - An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire
1971 - A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party (Philippines) campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Ferdinand Marcos political candidates injured.
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcano Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 - August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1997 - United Kingdom rock band Oasis (band) release their 3rd album Be Here Now - the fastest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 - Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.

Births

1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1904 - Count Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Toe Blake, National Hockey League player and coach (Montreal Canadiens) (d. 1995)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 - Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
1937 - Robert Stone, American novelist
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Clarence Williams III, American actor
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, American singer
1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Harry Smith (television), American television journalist
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze (band)/Deep Purple)
1954 - Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1954 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
1959 - Jim McMahon, American football player
1960 - Mario Leduc, Mexican Adimistrador
1961 - David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1966 - John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 - Nathan Jones (wrestler), American professional wrestler
1970 - Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1973 - Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1975 - Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee (footballer), Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby player
1979 - Kelis, American singer
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - Neil Dexter, Cricketer
1987 - Ryan Peters, English football player
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress/model and singer
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Deaths

1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1935 - John Hartley (tennis), English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1857)
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1910)
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon (Musician), tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philantropher (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.
Roman festivals - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held.

Religious feast days

List of saints - Pope Pius X.
Orthodox - Thaddeus of Edessa, Abraham of Smolensk.*Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

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Events

1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 12, 1192)
1680 - Pueblo people capture Santa Fe, New Mexico from Spain during the Pueblo Revolt.
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.
1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Kingdom of Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1772 - King Gustav III of Sweden completes his coup d'etat by adopting a new Instrument of Government (1772), ending Age of Liberty in Sweden in Sweden and installing him as an Enlightened absolutism.
1810 - Charles XIV John of Sweden, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
1841 - The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
1842 - The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.
1852 - Tlingit destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.
1856 - United States first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda, Shizuoka. (Traditional Japanese calendar: July 21, 1856)
1858 - The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 debates begin.
1862 - The Vienna Wiener Stadtpark opens its gates.
1863 - Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by Confederate States of America guerillas Quantrill's Raiders in the Lawrence Massacre.
1878 - The American Bar Association is founded.
1879 - The Mary, the mother of Jesus, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist reportedly appear to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
1888 - The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs I.
1911 - The Mona Lisa is art theft by a Louvre employee.
1942 - World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad began.
1942 - World War II: A Nazi flag is installed atop the Mount Elbrus.
1942 - World War II: Allies of World War II forces involved in the Guadalcanal campaign defeated an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
1944 - Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
1959 - President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
1963 - Xa Loi Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngo Dinh Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, vandalises Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead.
1968 - Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring; on the same day, Nicolae Ceauşescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet maneuver, encouraging the Romanian people population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
1968 - James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American United States Marine Corps.
1969 - An Australian, Michael Dennis Rohan, sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire
1971 - A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party (Philippines) campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Ferdinand Marcos political candidates injured.
1976 - Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjeom, Korea.
1983 - Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport).
1986 - Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcano Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
1991 - Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 - August Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
1993 - NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
1997 - United Kingdom rock band Oasis (band) release their 3rd album Be Here Now - the fastest selling album of all time in the United Kingdom.
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia.
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
2007 - Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.

Births

1165 - King Philip II of France (d. 1223)
1535 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)
1567 - Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva and saint (d. 1622)
1597 - Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1660 - Hubert Gautier, French scientist and civil engineer (d. 1737)
1665 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)
1670 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military leader (d. 1734)
1725 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
1754 - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
1754 - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
1765 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1789 - Augustin Louis Cauchy, French mathematician (d. 1857)
1798 - Jules Michelet, French historian (d. 1874)
1800 - Hiram Walden, American politician (d. 1880)
1801 - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (d. 1876)
1813 - Jean Stas, Belgian chemist (d. 1891)
1816 - Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist (d. 1856)
1826 - Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903)
1872 - Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator (d. 1898)
1891 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, World's oldest living man 2004-2007 (d. 2007)
1892 - Charles Vanel, French actor and director (d. 1989)
1904 - Count Basie, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1906 - Friz Freleng, American movie animator (d. 1995)
1908 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1909 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (d. 1992)
1912 - Toe Blake, National Hockey League player and coach (Montreal Canadiens) (d. 1995)
1915 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (d. 1998)
1918 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
1920 - Christopher Robin Milne, inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (d. 1996)
1924 - Jack Buck, American sports announcer (d. 2002)
1924 - Chris Schenkel, American sports journalist (d. 2005)
1924 - Jack Weston, American actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Maurice Pialat, French actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 - Jorge Rafael Videla, ex-dictator of Argentina
1928 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player (d. 1999)
1929 - X. J. Kennedy, American poet
1930 - Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2002)
1930 - Frank Perry, American film director (d. 1995)
1932 - Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
1933 - Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
1934 - Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
1938 - Kenny Rogers, American singer and actor
1937 - Robert Stone, American novelist
1939 - James Burton, American guitarist
1939 - Clarence Williams III, American actor
1939 - Festus Mogae, president of Botswana
1943 - Hugh Wilson, American director, writer and actor
1944 - Jackie DeShannon, American singer
1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
1944 - Perry Christie, former prime minister of the Bahamas
1945 - Jerry DaVanon, baseball player
1945 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (d. 2006)
1949 - Loretta Devine, American actress
1950 - Patrick Juvet, Swiss singer
1951 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
1951 - Char Margolis, American medium
1951 - Harry Smith (television), American television journalist
1951 - Margo Kane, Canadian playwright.
1952 - Joe Strummer, British musician and singer (The Clash) (d. 2002)
1952 - Glenn Hughes, British bassist and vocalist (Finders Keepers/Trapeze (band)/Deep Purple)
1954 - Archie Griffin, former American football player and only two-time Heisman Trophy winner.
1954 - Ivan Stang, American writer
1956 - Kim Cattrall, English-born actress
1959 - Jim McMahon, American football player
1960 - Mario Leduc, Mexican Adimistrador
1961 - David Morales, American disc jockey
1961 - Stephen Hillenburg, American animator and cartoonist
1962 - Jeff Stryker, American actor
1963 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1963 - Richmond Arquette, American actor
1964 - Trinity Loren, American actress and model (d. 1998)
1965 - Jim Bullinger, American baseball player
1966 - John Wetteland, Major League Baseball player
1967 - Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
1967 - Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down)
1967 - Darren Bewick, AFL footballer
1969 - Josée Chouinard, Canadian figure skater
1970 - Nathan Jones (wrestler), American professional wrestler
1970 - Erik Dekker, Dutch cyclist
1971 - Liam Howlett, British musician (The Prodigy)
1971 - Matthew Noonan, American Concert Organist
1971 - Robert Harvey, Australian Rules Footballer (St Kilda Football Club)
1973 - Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 - Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google
1975 - Alicia Witt, American actress
1975 - Simon Katich, Australian cricketer
1976 - Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player
1978 - Reuben Droughns, American football player
1978 - Jason Marquis, American baseball player
1978 - Alan Lee (footballer), Irish footballer
1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player
1978 - Peter Buxton, English rugby player
1979 - Kelis, American singer
1980 - Burney Lamar, American race car driver
1981 - Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
1983 - Josh Harrington, American professional BMX rider
1983 - Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality
1984 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
1984 - B.J. Upton, American baseball player
1984 - Melissa Schuman, American actress
1984 - Neil Dexter, Cricketer
1987 - Ryan Peters, English football player
1989 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress/model and singer
1996 - Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress

Deaths

1157 - King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)
1153 - Bernard of Clairvaux, French theologian (b. 1090)
1271 - Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)
1581 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1614 - Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)
1627 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (b. 1557)
1673 - Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, English soldier
1689 - William Cleland, Scottish poet and soldier
1762 - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (b. 1689)
1763 - Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)
1796 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1814 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1753)
1836 - Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (b. 1785)
1838 - Adelbert von Chamisso, German writer (b. 1781)
1935 - John Hartley (tennis), English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (b. 1849)
1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary (b. 1879)
1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, American poet (b. 1863)
1940 - Hermann Obrecht, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1882)
1943 - Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1857)
1947 - Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1881)
1951 - Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (b. 1905)
1957 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
1957 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1960 - David Barnard Steinman, American civil engineer and bridge designer (b. 1886)
1964 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (b. 1893)
1978 - Charles Eames, American designer and architect (b. 1907)
1979 - Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
1981 - Michael Devine, the last man to die in the 1981 Irish hunger strike (b. 1954)
1982 - Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
1983 - Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader (b. 1932)
1988 - Ray Eames, American designer, artist and architect (b. 1912)
1989 - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1910)
1997 - Yuri Nikulin, Russian clown and actor (b. 1921)
2000 - Daniel Lisulo, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2001 - Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
2003 - Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and aid worker (b. 1946)
2003 - Wesley Willis, American musician (b. 1963)
2005 - Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2005 - Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music (b. 1934)
2005 - Dalia Rabikovich, Israeli poet (b. 1936)
2005 - Martin Dillon (Musician), tenor, American opera singer (b. 1957)
2006 - Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philantropher (b. 1941)
2006 - Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916)
2007 - Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish writer (b. 1960)
2007 - Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

Ninoy Aquino Day - special holiday in the Philippines.
Roman festivals - Consualia, in honor of Consus, is held.

Religious feast days

List of saints - Pope Pius X.
Orthodox - Thaddeus of Edessa, Abraham of Smolensk.*Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
On This Day in Canada

August 21 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 132 days remaining until the end of the year.

BBC ON THIS DAY | Front Page
1987: Gunman kills 14 in Hungerford rampage. A man shoots 14 people dead in the ... 21 August

BBC ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1968: Russia brings winter to 'Prague Spring'
Dozens are killed in a massive Soviet military clampdown in Czechoslovakia. ... Dozens of people have been killed in a massive military clampdown in Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw ...

William Pfaff: A monster of our own making | UK news | The Observer
This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday August 21 2005 on p24 of the Comment section. It was last updated at 01:21 on August 21 2005.

Work - Thursday, August 21
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Work - Friday, August 21
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Hermit Eclipse: Total Solar Eclipse: August 21 2017
H_description ... The total solar eclipse of August 21 2017 will be spectacularly visible across to milions of people across the United States.

Dept_Diary - Thursday, August 21
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Science weekly for August 21 | Podcasts | Guardian Unlimited
The Guardian's science team is joined by Vivienne Parry to dissect the week's events including scientific literacy and the truth about ecstacy.

Monday August 21 2006 | Media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
The soft soaps in the press box As the Premiership season kicks off, academic Raymond Boyle argues that too much sports reporting and punditry fails to give an honest and ...