31 August
Notable Births
Jang Won-young
b. 2004
South Korean singer (born 2004)
Amanda Anisimova
b. 2001
American tennis player (born 2001)
Sauce Gardner
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
BossMan Dlow
b. 1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Jalen Brunson
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Alex Harris (Scottish footballer)
b. 1994
Scottish footballer (born 1994)
Ilnur Alshin
b. 1993
Russian professional football player
Tyler Randell (rugby league)
b. 1992
Australian rugby league footballer
Ragna Sigurðardóttir (politician)
b. 1992
Icelandic politician (born 1992)
Nicolás Tagliafico
b. 1992
Argentine footballer (born 1992)
António Félix da Costa
b. 1991
Portuguese racing driver (born 1991)
Cédric Soares
b. 1991
Portuguese footballer (born 1991)
Tadeja Majerič
b. 1990
Slovenian tennis player
Dezmon Briscoe
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Matt Adams
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
David Ospina
b. 1988
Colombian footballer (born 1988)
Athena (wrestler)
b. 1988
American professional wrestler (born 1988)
Ondřej Pavelec
b. 1987
Czech ice hockey player (born 1987)
Ryan Kelley
b. 1986
American actor (born 1986)
Johnny Wactor
b. 1986
American actor (1986–2024)
Notable Deaths
Sol Bamba
d. 2024
Football player and manager (1985–2024)
Mahal (actress)
d. 2021
Filipino actress, comedian, and vlogger (1974–2021)
Francesco Morini
d. 2021
Italian footballer (1944–2021)
Michael Constantine
d. 2021
American actor (1927–2021)
Geronimo (alpaca)
d. 2021
Alpaca in the United Kingdom
Pranab Mukherjee
d. 2020
President of India from 2012 to 2017
Tom Seaver
d. 2020
American baseball player (1944–2020)
Anthoine Hubert
d. 2019
French racing driver (1996–2019)
Alec Holowka
d. 2019
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
Carole Shelley
d. 2018
British actress (1939–2018)
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
d. 2015
English Conservative politician (1926–2015)
Tom Scott (linebacker)
d. 2015
American football player (1930–2015)
Bapu (director)
d. 2014
India director and artist (1933–2014)
Ștefan Andrei
d. 2014
Romanian politician
Stan Goldberg
d. 2014
American comics artist (1932–2014)
Carol Vadnais
d. 2014
Canadian ice hockey player (1945–2014)
Alan Carrington
d. 2013
British chemist (1934–2013)
David Frost
d. 2013
British television host and journalist (1939–2013)
Max Bygraves
d. 2012
British entertainer (1922–2012)
Joe Lewis (martial artist)
d. 2012
American martial artist and actor (1944–2012)
On This Day in History
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2025
A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people. 26
2025 Tarasin landslide
2025
An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 1400 people. 25
2025 Kunar earthquake
2024
A helicopter crashes in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, killing all 22 occupants.
2024 Kamchatka Mil Mi-8 crash
2016
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
Dilma Rousseff
2006
Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
Edvard Munch
2005
The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
2005 Al-Aimmah Bridge disaster
2002
Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.
Typhoon Rusa
1999
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 Russian apartment bombings
1999
A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas
1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
Diana, Princess of Wales
1996
Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
Saddam Hussein
1994
Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
Estonia
1993
Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
Lithuania
1991
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
Kyrgyzstan
1988
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
1988
CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
CAAC Flight 301
1987
Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
Thai Airways Flight 365
1986
Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
Aeroméxico Flight 498
1986
The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
Soviet Union
1972
Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.
Aeroflot Flight 558