Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 7
Births
[edit]- 317 - Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)
- 1560 - Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
- 1779 - Carl Ritter, German geographer (d. 1859)
- 1876 - Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
- 1903 - Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (d. 1972)
- 1932 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopan athlete (d. 1973)
- 1940 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
- 1966 - Jimmy Wales, (pictured) American founder of Wikipedia
- 1978 - Cirroc Lofton, American actor
Deaths
[edit]- 461 - Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
- 479 - Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
- 1106 - Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
- 1485 - Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
- 1635 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
- 1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
- 1917 - Edwin Harris Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship (b. 1891)
- 1941 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
- 1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
- 1987 - Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
- 2004 - Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)