On this day: 7 August
Events, births and deaths on 7 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Jim Lovell
- Deaths · Myint Swe
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Bryan Clauson
100 years ago1926
- Births · Stan Freberg
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1106 · Deaths · Henry IV
- 1028 · Deaths · Alfonso V of León
Events · 21
- 1461(Julian date)Rebellion of Cao Qin — day-long uprising in the Ming dynasty
- 1479Battle of Guinegate — 1479 battle between France and the Habsburg royals
- 1743Treaty of Åbo — peace treaty signed between the Russian Empire and Sweden in Åbo (Turku) on 18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1743 in the end of the Russo-Swedish War of 1741–1743
- 1744Second Silesian War — part of the War of the Austrian Succession
- 1782Badge of Military Merit — American military award
- 1819Battle of Boyacá — 1819 battle
- 1897Battle of Abu Hamed — 1897 battle of the Mahdist War
- 1914Battle of Mulhouse — 1914 battle
- 1927
- 1930lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith — lynching in 1930, in Marion, Indiana, United States
- 1933Simele massacre — massacre by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Iraq
- 1942Guadalcanal campaign — 1942-1943 series of battles fought on and around Guadalcanal as part of World War II
- 1942Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo — 1942 battle
- 1955Hurricane Diane — Category 2 Atlantic hurricane in 1955
- 1964Gulf of Tonkin Resolution — foundation of the Vietnam War
- 1985White House Farm murders — 1985 murders in England
- 1997Fine Air Flight 101 — aviation accident
- 19981998 United States embassy bombings — attacks on the US Embassy
- 2008Russo-Georgian War — 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia
- 2020Air India Express Flight 1344 — 7 August 2020 aircraft crash in Kerala, India
- 20262026 Nonthaburi shootings — school shooting in Bang Kruai, Nonthaburi, Thailand on 7 August 2026
Births · 60
- 317Constantius II — Roman emperor (317-361)
- 1533(Julian date)Alonso de Ercilla — Spanish soldier and poet (1533-1594)
- 1560(Julian date)Elizabeth Báthory — Hungarian countess
- 1702Muhammad Shah — 12th Mughal Emperor from 1719 to 1748
- 1742Nathanael Greene — American general in the American Revolutionary War (1742-1786)
- 1779Carl Ritter — German geographer (1779-1859)
- 1862Victoria of Baden — Queen consort of Sweden (1907-1930)
- 1867Emil Nolde — German artist (1867–1956)
- 1876Mata Hari — Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy (1876-1917)
- 1884Billie Burke — American stage and film actress (1884-1970)
- 1890Elizabeth Gurley Flynn — American politician (1890-1964)
- 1902Ann Harding — American actress (1902–1981)
- 1903Louis Leakey — kenyan-British archaeologist and naturalist
- 1904Ralph Bunche — diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner (1904–1971)
- 1911Nicholas Ray — American film director (1911-1979)
- 1928James Randi — Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent
- 1932Abebe Bikila — Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion
- 1933Elinor Ostrom — American political economist (1933-2012)
- 1938Giorgetto Giugiaro — Italian automobile designer (born 1938)
- 1940Jean-Luc Dehaene — Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999 (1940–2014)
- 1942Caetano Veloso — Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
- 1942B. J. Thomas — American singer (1942-2021)
- 1943Alain Corneau — French film director (1943-2010)
- 1943Mohammed Badie — Egyptian politician, 8th Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood
- 1944Robert Mueller — American attorney and sixth director of the FBI (1944–2026)
Deaths · 60
- 461Majorian — Western Roman Emperor (420-461)
- 1028Alfonso V of León — King of León
- 1106(Julian date)Henry IV — Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105
- 1385(Julian date)Joan of Kent — English noblewoman (1328-1385)
- 1485(Julian date)Alexander Stewart — Duke of Albany
- 1547(Julian date)Saint Cajetan — (1480–1547) Founder of the Theatines
- 1616Vincenzo Scamozzi — 16th century Italian architect (1548–1616)
- 1639Martin van den Hove — Dutch mathematician
- 1661Jin Shengtan — Chinese writer
- 1817Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours — French writer, economist, and government official (1739–1817)
- 1821Caroline of Brunswick — Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1820 to 1821
- 1834Joseph Marie Jacquard — French inventor
- 1848Jöns Jacob Berzelius — Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
- 1855Mariano Arista — President of Mexico (1851–1853)
- 1864Li Xiucheng — Chinese military commander (1823–1864)
- 1893Alfredo Catalani — Italian operatic composer (1854-1893)
- 1899Jacob Maris — Dutch painter (1837-1899)
- 1900Wilhelm Liebknecht — German journalist, writer and socialist politician (1826–1900)
- 1938Constantine Stanislavsky — Russian actor and theatre director (1863–1938)
- 1941Rabindranath Tagore — Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
- 1948Charles Bryant — British actor and film director (1879-1948)
- 1957Oliver Hardy — American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy (1892–1957)
- 1960Luis Ángel Firpo — Argentine boxer (1894-1960)
- 1969Joseph Kosma — Hungarian-French composer (1905–1969)
- 1969Jean Bastien — French footballer (1915-1969)
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