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August 26 is the 238th day of the year (239th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 127 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 683Yazid I's army kills 11,000 people of Medina including notable Sahabas in Battle of al-Harrah.
  • 1071 – The Seljuq Turks defeat the Byzantine army at the Battle of Manzikert, and soon gain control of most of Anatolia.
  • 1278Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolf I of Germany defeat Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle on the Marchfeld near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
  • 1303Chittorgarh falls to the Delhi Sultanate, after which thirty thousand Hindu inhabitants are killed.
  • 1346 – At the Battle of Crécy, an English army easily defeats a French one twice its size.
  • 1444Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs: A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near Basel.
  • 1542Francisco de Orellana crosses South America from Guayaquil on the Pacific coast to the mouth of the Amazon River on the Atlantic coast.
  • 1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
  • 1767Jesuits all over Chile are arrested as the Spanish Empire suppresses the Society of Jesus.[1]
  • 1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
  • 1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
  • 1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
  • 1791John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
  • 1810 – The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
  • 1813War of the Sixth Coalition: An impromptu battle takes place when French and Prussian-Russian forces accidentally run into each other near Liegnitz, Prussia (now Legnica, Poland).
  • 1814Chilean War of Independence: Infighting between the rebel forces of José Miguel Carrera and Bernardo O'Higgins erupts in the Battle of Las Tres Acequias.
  • 1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
  • 1914World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
  • 1914 – World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
  • 1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
  • 1922Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the "Great Offensive" (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
  • 1940Chad becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
  • 1942The Holocaust in Ukraine: At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
  • 1944World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
  • 1966 – The South African Border War starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
  • 1970 – The fiftieth anniversary of American women being able to vote is marked by a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality.
  • 1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
  • 1978Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
  • 1980 – After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.
  • 1997Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
  • 1998 – The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
  • 1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
  • 2003 – A Beechcraft 1900 operating as Colgan Air Flight 9446 crashes after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, killing both pilots on board.[2]
  • 2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.
  • 2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA.
  • 2015 – Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
  • 2018 – Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a mass shooting at a Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.[3][4]

Births[]

  • 1469Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
  • 1548Bernardino Poccetti, Italian painter (d. 1612)
  • 1582Humilis of Bisignano, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (d. 1637)
  • 1596Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632)
  • 1676Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)
  • 1694Elisha Williams, English colonial minister, academic, and politician (d. 1755)
  • 1695Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, French singer-songwriter (d. 1791)
  • 1728Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1777)
  • 1736Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (d. 1790)
  • 1740Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, invented the hot air balloon (d. 1810)
  • 1743Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (d. 1794)
  • 1751Manuel Abad y Queipo, Spanish-born Mexican bishop (d. 1825)
  • 1775William Joseph Behr, German publicist and academic (d. 1851)
  • 1792Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan soldier and politician, 4th President of Uruguay (d. 1857)
  • 1797Saint Innocent of Alaska, Russian Orthodox missionary priest, then the first Orthodox bishop and archbishop in the Americas, and finally the Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia (d. 1879)
  • 1819Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)
  • 1854Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer (d. 1932)
  • 1856Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress (d. 1939)
  • 1862Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader (d. 1926)
  • 1865Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station (d. 1946)
  • 1873Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube (d. 1961)
  • 1874Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (d. 1938)
  • 1875John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)
  • 1880Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1918)
  • 1882James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
  • 1882 – Sam Hardy, English footballer (d. 1966)
  • 1885Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972)
  • 1888Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (d. 1974)[5]
  • 1891Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright (d. 1960)
  • 1894Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer (d. 1989)
  • 1896Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician (d. 1990)
  • 1897Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea (d. 1990)
  • 1898Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist (d. 1979)
  • 1900Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom (d. 1970)
  • 1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer and businessman (d. 1980)
  • 1901Eleanor Dark, Australian author and poet (d. 1985)
  • 1901 – Hans Kammler, German SS officer and engineer (d. 1945)
  • 1901 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer and bandleader (d. 1972)
  • 1901 – Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (d. 1987)
  • 1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 1972)
  • 1903Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992)
  • 1904Christopher Isherwood, English-American author and academic (d. 1986)
  • 1904 – Joe Hulme, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1991)
  • 1906Bunny Austin, English tennis player (d. 2000)[6]
  • 1906 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist, developed the polio vaccine (d. 1993)
  • 1908Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)
  • 1908 – Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
  • 1909Eric Davies, South African cricketer and educator (d. 1976)
  • 1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)
  • 1909 – Gene Moore, American baseball player (d. 1978)
  • 1910Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
  • 1911Otto Binder, American author and screenwriter (d. 1974)
  • 1914Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and translator (d. 1984)
  • 1914 – Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (d. 2008)
  • 1915Humphrey Searle, English composer and conductor (d. 1982)
  • 1918Katherine Johnson, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2020)[7]
  • 1919Gerard Campbell, American priest and academic (d. 2012)
  • 1920Brant Parker, American illustrator (d. 2007)
  • 1920 – Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai general and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2019)
  • 1921Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician and scholar (d. 1994)
  • 1921 – Benjamin C. Bradlee, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
  • 1922Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
  • 1923Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (d. 2013)
  • 1924Alex Kellner, American baseball player (d. 1996)
  • 1925Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (d. 2005)
  • 1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, Minister of Justice for France (d. 1999)
  • 1925 – Pyotr Todorovsky, Ukrainian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 2013)
  • 1925 – Etelka Keserű, Hungarian economist and politician (d. 2018)
  • 1925 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, Chilean composer (d. 2010)
  • 1926Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999)
  • 1926 – Robert Vickrey, American painter and author (d. 2011)
  • 1928Om Prakash Munjal, Indian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Hero Cycles (d. 2015)
  • 1929Reuben Kamanga, Zambian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Zambia (d. 1996)
  • 1930Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach
  • 1931Kálmán Markovits, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2009)
  • 1932Luis Salvadores Salvi, Chilean basketball player (d. 2014)
  • 1934Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1934 – Kevin Ryan, Australian rugby player, coach, lawyer and politician
  • 1935Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
  • 1935 – Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (d. 2007)
  • 1936Benedict Anderson, American political scientist and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1937Don Bowman, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1938Jet Black, English drummer
  • 1939Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli businessman and politician (d. 2007)
  • 1939 – Jorge Paulo Lemann, Brazilian banker and financier
  • 1940Michael Cockerell, English journalist
  • 1940 – Vic Dana, American dancer and singer
  • 1940 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
  • 1940 – Nik Turner, English musician and songwriter
  • 1941Chris Curtis, English drummer and singer (d. 2005)
  • 1941 – Jane Merrow, English actress, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1941 – Barbet Schroeder, French-Swiss director and producer
  • 1942Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, English lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1942 – Chow Kwai Lam, Malaysian football coach and player (d. 2018)
  • 1943Dori Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1944Alan Parker, English guitarist and songwriter
  • 1944 – Judith Rees, English geographer and academic
  • 1944 – Maureen Tucker, American singer-songwriter and drummer
  • 1945Tom Ridge, American sergeant and politician, 1st Secretary of Homeland Security
  • 1946Zhou Ji, Chinese engineer and politician, 14th Chinese Minister of Education
  • 1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer-songwriter
  • 1946 – Alison Steadman, English actress
  • 1947Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
  • 1949Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Azerbaijani cleric
  • 1949 – Leon Redbone, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2019)
  • 1951Gerd Bonk, German weightlifter (d. 2014)
  • 1951 – Bill Whitaker, American journalist
  • 1951 – Edward Witten, American physicist and academic
  • 1952Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1952 – Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)
  • 1952 – Will Shortz, American journalist and puzzle creator
  • 1953David Hurley, Australian general and politician, 27th Governor General of Australia
  • 1953 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer
  • 1954Howard Clark, English golfer and sportscaster
  • 1954 – Tracy Krohn, American race car driver and businessman
  • 1954 – Hugh Pelham, British academic and educator
  • 1955Ian Dejardin, English historian and curator
  • 1955 – Giuseppe Resnati, Italian chemist and educator
  • 1956Sally Beamish, English viola player and composer
  • 1956 – Brett Cullen, American actor
  • 1956 – Mark Mangino, American football player and coach
  • 1957Nikky Finney, American poet and academic
  • 1958Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist
  • 1959Oliver Colvile, English lawyer and politician
  • 1959 – Stan Van Gundy, American basketball player and coach
  • 1960Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
  • 1960 – Ola Ray, American model and actress
  • 1961Daniel Lévi, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1961 – Jeff Parrett, American baseball player
  • 1962Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
  • 1963David Byas, English cricketer and umpire
  • 1963 – Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author
  • 1963 – Patrice Oppliger, American author, critic, and academic
  • 1964Allegra Huston, English-American author and screenwriter
  • 1964 – Bobby Jurasin, American-Canadian football player and coach
  • 1964 – Chad Kreuter, American baseball player and manager
  • 1964 – Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer and manager
  • 1964 – Torsten Schmitz, German boxer
  • 1964 – Carsten Wolf, German cyclist
  • 1964 – Mehriban Aliyeva, 1st Vice President of Azerbaijan, goodwill ambassador of UNESCO and ISESCO.
  • 1965Marcus du Sautoy, English mathematician and academic
  • 1965 – Chris Burke, Amefrican actor
  • 1966Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach
  • 1966 – Shirley Manson, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1967Michael Gove, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Education
  • 1968Chris Boardman, English cyclist
  • 1969Adrian Young, American drummer and songwriter
  • 1970Jason Little, Australian rugby player
  • 1970 – Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer
  • 1971Thalía, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1973Richard Evatt, English boxer (d. 2012)
  • 1974Kelvin Cato, American basketball player and coach
  • 1974 – Meredith Eaton, American actress
  • 1975Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player and coach
  • 1976Mike Colter, American actor
  • 1976 – Amaia Montero, Spanish singer-songwriter
  • 1977Therese Alshammar, Swedish swimmer
  • 1977 – Liam Botham, English rugby player and cricketer
  • 1977 – Saeko Chiba, Japanese voice actress and singer
  • 1977 – Simone Motta, Italian footballer
  • 1979Jamal Lewis, American football player
  • 1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 1979 – Rubén Arriaza Pazos, Spanish footballer
  • 1980Macaulay Culkin, American actor
  • 1980 – Brendan Harris, American baseball player
  • 1980 – Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player
  • 1980 – Chris Pine, American actor
  • 1981Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer
  • 1981 – Sebastian Bönig, German footballer
  • 1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
  • 1981 – Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer
  • 1981 – Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler
  • 1982Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer
  • 1982 – John Mulaney, American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
  • 1982 – Jayson Nix, American baseball player
  • 1982 – Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
  • 1983Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer
  • 1983 – Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver
  • 1985Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
  • 1985 – Brandon McDonald, American football player
  • 1985 – David Price, American baseball player
  • 1986Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
  • 1986 – Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
  • 1986 – Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model
  • 1987Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
  • 1988Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
  • 1988 – Evan Ross, American actor
  • 1988 – Danielle Savre, American actress
  • 1988 – Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1988 – Lars Stindl, German football player
  • 1989James Harden, American basketball player
  • 1990Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
  • 1991Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier[8]

Deaths[]

  • 787Arechis II, duke of Benevento
  • 887Kōkō, emperor of Japan (b. 830)
  • 1214Michael IV of Constantinople
  • 1278Ottokar II of Bohemia (b. 1233)
  • 1346Charles II, Count of Alençon (b. 1297)
  • 1346 – Louis I, Count of Flanders (b. 1304)
  • 1346 – Louis II, Count of Blois
  • 1346 – Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1320)
  • 1346 – John of Bohemia (b. 1296)
  • 1349Thomas Bradwardine, English archbishop, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1290)
  • 1399Mikhail II, Grand Prince of Tver (b. 1333)
  • 1462Catherine Zaccaria, Despotess of the Morea
  • 1486Ernest, Elector of Saxony (b. 1441)
  • 1500Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (b. 1449)
  • 1551Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1516)
  • 1572Petrus Ramus, French philosopher and logician (b. 1515)
  • 1595António, Prior of Crato (b. 1531)
  • 1666Frans Hals, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1580)
  • 1714Constantin Brâncoveanu, Ruler of Wallachia (b. 1654)
  • 1714 – Edward Fowler, English bishop and author (b. 1632)
  • 1723Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist and biologist (b. 1632)
  • 1785George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, English soldier and politician, 3rd Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1716)
  • 1810Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish sailor and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (b. 1753)
  • 1813Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (b. 1791)
  • 1850Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)
  • 1865Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (b. 1791)
  • 1878Mariam Baouardy, Syrian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b. 1846)
  • 1910William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
  • 1921Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (b. 1875)
  • 1921 – Sándor Wekerle, Hungarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1848)
  • 1930Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
  • 1943Bîmen Şen, Turkish composer and songwriter (b. 1873)
  • 1944Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (b. 1909)
  • 1945Franz Werfel, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1890)
  • 1946Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1886)
  • 1956Alfred Wagenknecht, German-American activist (b. 1881)
  • 1958Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (b. 1872)
  • 1966W. W. E. Ross, Canadian geophysicist and poet (b. 1894)
  • 1968Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905)
  • 1972Francis Chichester, English pilot and sailor (b. 1901)
  • 1974Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and explorer (b. 1902)
  • 1975Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist and academic (b. 1885)
  • 1976Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
  • 1977H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
  • 1978Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
  • 1978 – José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
  • 1979Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
  • 1980Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
  • 1980 – Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
  • 1981Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
  • 1981 – Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
  • 1986Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
  • 1987John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
  • 1987 – Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
  • 1988Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
  • 1989Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
  • 1990Tang Chang, Thai artist (b. 1934)
  • 1991Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)[9]
  • 1992Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
  • 1993Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)
  • 1995John Brunner, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1934)
  • 1998Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • 2000Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
  • 2000 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)[6]
  • 2001Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
  • 2001 – Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
  • 2003Jim Wacker, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
  • 2004Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1952)
  • 2005Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1960)
  • 2005 – Robert Denning, American art collector and interior designer (b. 1927)
  • 2005 – Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (b. 1949)
  • 2006Rainer Barzel, Polish-German lawyer and politician, Minister of Intra-German Relations (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – Clyde Walcott, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1926)
  • 2007Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
  • 2009Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (b. 1925)
  • 2010Raimon Panikkar, Catalan priest and scholar (b. 1918)
  • 2011George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (b. 1929)
  • 2011 – Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
  • 2011 – John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (b. 1949)
  • 2012Russ Alben, American composer and businessman (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Reginald Bartholomew, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – Jacques Bensimon, Canadian director and producer (b. 1943)
  • 2012 – Krzysztof Wilmanski, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1940)
  • 2013Hélie de Saint Marc, French soldier (b. 1922)
  • 2013 – John J. Gilligan, American soldier and politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (b. 1921)
  • 2013 – Bill Schmitz, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
  • 2013 – Jack Sinagra, American lawyer and politician (b. 1950)
  • 2013 – Clyde A. Wheeler, American soldier and politician (b. 1921)
  • 2014Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)
  • 2014 – Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)
  • 2014 – Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)
  • 2014 – Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • 2015Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)
  • 2015 – Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
  • 2015 – P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)
  • 2015 – Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)
  • 2015 – Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)
  • 2017Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)
  • 2018Neil Simon, American playwright and author (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    • Alexander of Bergamo (Roman Catholic Church)
    • Blessed Ceferino Namuncurá
    • David Lewis
    • Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages
    • Mariam Baouardy (Melkite Greek Catholic Church)
    • Melchizedek
    • Our Lady of Częstochowa
    • Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
    • Teresa Jornet Ibars
    • Zephyrinus
    • August 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • The Sunday nearest to this date is Go Topless Day (International observance)
  • Herero Day (Namibia)
  • Heroes' Day (Namibia)
  • Repentance Day (Papua New Guinea)
  • Women's Equality Day (United States)

References[]

  1. Barros Arana, Diego (2000) [1886]. "Capítulo XI". Historia General de Chile (in Spanish). VI (2 ed.). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria. p. 275.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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