7 August
Notable Births
Lauren Hemp
b. 2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
b. 1999
American hurdler and sprinter (born 1999)
Jalen Hurts
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Matty Cash
b. 1997
Footballer (born 1997)
Kyler Murray
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Dani Ceballos
b. 1996
Spanish footballer (born 1996)
Francesca Eastwood
b. 1993
American television personality
Martti Nõmme
b. 1993
Estonian ski jumper
Karol Zalewski
b. 1993
Polish sprinter (born 1993)
Adam Yates
b. 1992
English racing cyclist
Simon Yates (cyclist)
b. 1992
British road and track racing cyclist
Wout Weghorst
b. 1992
Dutch footballer (born 1992)
Luis Salom
b. 1991
Spanish motorcycle racer
Mike Trout
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Mitchell te Vrede
b. 1991
Surinamese footballer
Jake Allen (ice hockey)
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Josh Franceschi
b. 1990
English singer-songwriter
DeMar DeRozan
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Jonathan Bernier
b. 1988
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1988)
Erik Pieters
b. 1988
Dutch footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Myint Swe
d. 2025
Acting President of Myanmar (2018; 2021–2025)
Jon McBride
d. 2024
American astronaut (1943–2024)
William Friedkin
d. 2023
American director and producer (1935–2023)
David McCullough
d. 2022
American historian and author (1933–2022)
Markie Post
d. 2021
American actress (1950–2021)
Trevor Moore (comedian)
d. 2021
American comedian and actor (1980–2021)
Lê Khả Phiêu
d. 2020
Vietnamese politician (1932–2020)
David Berman (musician)
d. 2019
American musician, singer, and poet (1967–2019)
M. Karunanidhi
d. 2018
Indian writer and politician (1924–2018)
Stan Mikita
d. 2018
Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player (1940–2018)
Don Baylor
d. 2017
American baseball player and manager (1949–2017)
David Maslanka
d. 2017
American composer (1943–2017)
Bryan Clauson
d. 2016
American racing driver (1989–2016)
Manuel Contreras
d. 2015
Chilean general (1929–2015)
Frances Oldham Kelsey
d. 2015
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
Louise Suggs
d. 2015
American golfer
Víctor Fayad
d. 2014
Argentine politician (1955–2014)
Perry Moss
d. 2014
American football player, coach, and executive (1926–2014)
Almir Kayumov
d. 2013
Russian footballer and referee
Tony Pawson (biochemist)
d. 2013
British-born Canadian scientist
On This Day in History
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2020
Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
Air India Express Flight 1344
2008
The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
Russo-Georgian War
2007
At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
Oracle Park
1999
The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
Chechnya
1998
Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1998 United States embassy bombings
1997
Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Space Shuttle program
1997
Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
Fine Air Flight 101
1995
The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
State of emergency
1993
Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Ada Deer
1990
First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
Gulf War
1989
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
Mickey Leland
1989
The National Cold Fusion Institute opened in Salt Lake City.
National Cold Fusion Institute
1987
Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
Cold War
1985
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
Takao Doi
1981
The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
The Washington Star
1978
U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
Jimmy Carter
1976
Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
Viking program
1974
Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
Philippe Petit
1970
California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
Harold Haley
1969
Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Richard Nixon