Anniversaries 1 August

Birth

Al-Qushayri1

philosopher 986–1072

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck3

French naturalist 1744–1829

Francis Scott Key8

American lawyer and poet 1779–1843

Octavius Winslow3

English theologian 1808–1878

Richard Henry Dana Jr.13

United States author and lawyer 1815–1882

Herman Melville144

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

Maria Mitchell8

American astronomer 1818–1889

Mary Harris Jones12

Irish-born American labor and community organizer 1837–1930

M. R. James4

British writer 1862–1936

Stuart Merrill4

American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language 1863–1915

Claude Bragdon1

American architect 1866–1946

Mohammad Ali Foroughi3

Iranian politician 1877–1942

Rose Macaulay6

English novelist and writer 1881–1958

Marvin Bower12

American business theorist 1903–2003

Reijer Hooykaas5

Dutch historian 1906–1994

Eric Shipton5

British explorer 1907–1977

Fiorenzo Angelini1

Catholic cardinal 1916–2014

Elaine Dundy42

American journalist, actress 1921–2008

Shimon Peres15

Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of… 1923–2016

John Clive Ward5

British-Australian nuclear physicist 1924–2000

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia9

former King of Saudi Arabia 1924–2015

Georges Charpak3

ukrainian-born french physicist 1924–2010

Barry Long86

Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926–2003

Hafizullah Amin5

politician, former Afghan head of state (1979) 1929–1979

Lawrence Eagleburger1

American statesman and diplomat 1930–2011

Pierre Bourdieu12

French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930–2002

Lionel Bart3

composer 1930–1999

Hsu Shui-teh1

Taiwanese politician 1931

Meir Kahane7

American/Israeli political activist and rabbi 1932–1990

Antonio Negri63

Italian sociologist 1933

Ko Un2

korean poet 1933

Anthony F. Tonnos1

Canadian Catholic bishop 1935

Yves Saint Laurent10

fashion designer 1936–2008

W. D. Hamilton1

British evolutionary biologist (1936-2000) 1936–2000

Robert James Waller15

American writer 1939–2017

Jerry Garcia12

American musician and member of the Grateful Dead 1942–1995

Giancarlo Giannini1

Italian actor, voice actor, director and screenwriter 1942

Ronald Cohen4

British businessman 1945

David Gemmell195

British author of heroic fantasy 1948–2006

Bruno Forte1

Catholic bishop 1949

Ray Dalio6

American businessman 1949

Zoran Đinđić13

Serbian politician 1952–2003

Michael Badnarik14

American software engineer 1954

James Gleick15

American author, journalist, and biographer 1954

Amber Rudd1

British politician (born 1963) 1963

Fiona Oakes1

British marathon runner 1966

James St. James4

American writer 1966

Kenneth Bae1

American missionary held as prisoner in North Korea 1968

Thomas E. Woods Jr.1

American academic 1972

Dhani Harrison10

English musician 1978

Jason Momoa1

American actor and model 1979

Danny Tidwell11

American dancer 1984

Glenn Dorsey2

American football player, defensive lineman 1985

Raheem Kassam6

British journalist and politician 1986

Tomi Adeyemi3

American author 1993

Death

Cosimo de' Medici3

First ruler of the Medici political dynasty 1389–1464

Anne of Great Britain4

queen of England, queen of Scotland and queen of Ireland (1… 1665–1714

Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori2

Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musici… 1696–1787

Richard Savage4

English poet 1697–1743

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard1

United States poet and novelist 1823–1902

Joseph Hayne Rainey14

politician 1832–1887

Израэль Зангвилл1

1864–1926

Israel Zangwill9

British writer 1864–1926

Manuel L. Quezon3

president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 1878–1944

Hope Mirrlees4

British translator, poet and novelist 1887–1978

Walter Ulbricht3

German politician 1893–1973

Nirad C. Chaudhuri2

Indian writer 1897–1999

Norbert Elias4

German sociologist 1897–1990

Theodore Roethke86

American poet 1908–1963

Philip Abelson1

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director o… 1913–2004

Frances Farmer10

American actress 1913–1970

W. Ian Thomas1

British writer 1914–2007

Sviatoslav Richter2

Soviet pianist 1915–1997

Henry Mazer1

American conductor 1918–2002

Bernard d'Espagnat2

French physicist and philosopher 1921–2015

Sidney Morgenbesser16

American philosopher 1921–2004

Pauline Baynes1

English illustrator of children's books 1922–2008

Paddy Chayefsky19

American playwright, screenwriter and novelist 1923–1981

Bob Thaves1

cartoonist 1924–2006

Barry Hughart5

American novelist 1934–2019

Iris Marion Young2

American philosopher 1949–2006