Mark Antony
30 BC Mark Antony, Roman Politician and General, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium at 53
Mark Antony
- 371 St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (b. c. 283)
- 527 Justin I, Byzantine emperor (518-27), dies (b. c. 450)
- 1137 Louis VI, King of France, dies (1108-37)
- 1190 Floris III, Count of Holland, dies
- 1227 Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1179)
- 1402 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England, dies at 61
- 1457 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50
Cosimo de Medici
1464 Cosimo de Medici, Italian de facto ruler of Florence, dies at 74
Cosimo de Medici
- 1541 Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
- 1546 Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1506)
- 1557 Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490)
- 1580 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
- 1589 Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
- 1630 Federico Cesi, Italian naturalist and founder of the first modern scientific society, the Accademia dei Lincei, dies at 45
- 1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48
- 1708 Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698), dies at 57
- 1714 Anne Stuart, Queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49
- 1743 Richard Savage, English poet and playwright, dies at about 46
- 1787 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90
- 1796 Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
- 1798 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (b. 1753)
- 1812 Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (b. 1763)
- 1834 Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies
- 1837 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter, dies at 41
- 1851 William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
- 1857 Charles Turner, engraver, dies
- 1866 John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1790)
- 1882 Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
- 1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies
- 1884 Heinrich Laube, writer, dies
- 1887 Joseph Rainey, American politician, 1st African American in US House of Representatives (1870-1879), dies at 55
- 1896 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor of the first fuel cell, dies at 85
- 1902 Ludwig Beckmann, painter, dies
Calamity Jane
1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, dies at 51
Calamity Jane
- 1911 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Das, grosse Duden Lexicon), dies
- 1917 Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (b. 1879)
- 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, early Indian nationalist leader, dies at 64
- 1925 John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61
- 1926 Israel Zangwill, Jewish author (Children of The Ghetto) and Zionist leader, dies at 62
- 1943 Ismar Elbogen, German/US learned/rabbi (Jewish Lexicon), dies at 68
Manuel L. Quezon
1944 Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42), dies of tuberculosis at 65
Manuel L. Quezon
- 1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
- 1954 Charles-A Cingria, writer, dies
- 1957 Harvey Glatmin, 1st bondage-photo victim, executed [or 8/18/59]
- 1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62
- 1963 Theodore Roethke, US poet (Praise to the end!), dies
- 1966 Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
- 1970 Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
- 1973 Walter Ulbricht, pres German DR, dies at 80
- 1974 Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1977 Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47
- 1985 Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92
- 1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73
- 1986 Robert Wolfgang Schnell, German writer, dies at 70
- 1988 John Cardinal Dearden, US cardinal, dies at 80
- 1990 Norbert Elias, German/English/Neth philosopher/sociologist, dies
- 1993 Alfred Manessier, Fr painter (glass-in-lead), dies in car crash at 81
- 1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
- 1993 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72
- 1993 Viktor Polyanitshko, governor of Kaukasus, murdered
- 1994 George Dixon, trumpet/sax, dies at 85
- 1994 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
- 1996 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
- 1996 Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58
- 1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
- 1996 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- 1997 Ngiratkel Etpison, president of Palau (1989-92), dies
- 1999 Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (b. 1897)
- 2003 Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (b. 1922)
- 2004 Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1913)
- 2004 Philip Hauge Abelson, American physicist, dies at 91
- 2005 Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1982-2005), dies at 84
- 2005 Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1920)
- 2005 Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1918)
- 2006 Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (b. 1965)
- 2006 Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 2006 Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (b. 1949)
- 2008 Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
Corazon Aquino
2009 Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92), dies of colon cancer at 76
Corazon Aquino