Anniversaries 31 August

Birth

Caligula4

3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian… 12–41

Jahangir23

4th Mughal Emperor 1569–1627

Hermann von Helmholtz12

physicist and physiologist 1821–1894

Anna Bartlett Warner2

American hymnwriter 1827–1915

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps2

American author, intellectual and feminist 1844–1911

Elizabeth von Arnim8

Australian writer 1866–1941

Maria Montessori39

Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870–1952

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands6

Queen of the Netherlands 1898 - 1948 1880–1962

George Sarton33

American historian of science 1884–1956

Gordon H. Clark2

American philosopher and Calvinist theologian 1902–1985

William Saroyan190

American writer 1908–1981

John DeFrancis8

American linguist 1911–2009

Alan Jay Lerner2

lyricist and librettist from the United States 1918–1986

Raymond Williams12

philosopher 1921–1988

Alanis Obomsawin1

Abenaki filmmaker in Montreal 1932

Jim Morris (bodybuilder)4

American bodybuilder 1935–2016

Eldridge Cleaver21

American activist 1935–1998

Marva Collins3

American schoolteacher 1936–2015

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey1

American journalist and playwright 1938

Itzhak Perlman1

Israeli-American violinist and conductor 1945

Van Morrison100

Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

Shirley Jackson (physicist)1

American physicist, eighteenth president of the Rensselaer … 1946

Jerome Corsi7

American conservative author 1946

Steve Perry43

American writer 1947

Ralston Bowles8

American musician 1952

Robert Kocharyan4

second President of Armenia 1954

Gary Webb3

American investigative journalist 1955–2004

Tsai Ing-wen8

President of the Republic of China 1956

Glenn Tilbrook1

British musician 1957

Colm O'Rourke2

Irish Gaelic football player, journalist and businessman 1957

Edwin Bryant2

American indologist 1957

Éric Zemmour7

French essayist 1958

Hassan Nasrallah13

Secretary General of Hezbollah 1960

Dee Bradley Baker1

American voice actor 1962

Kenneth Oppel10

Canadian children's writer 1967

Queen Rania of Jordan6

Queen consort of Jordan 1970

Chris Tucker1

American comedian 1971

Kris Carr4

American actress and filmmaker 1971

Корнелиус Якхеллн1

1977

Yuvan Shankar Raja9

Indian musician 1979

Mohammad bin Salman6

Saudi crown prince and minister of defense 1985

Death

John Bunyan50

English Christian writer and preacher 1628–1688

Charles Baudelaire133

French poet 1821–1867

George William Curtis78

American writer 1824–1892

Wilhelm Wundt6

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor 1832–1920

John Todd Ferrier2

Christian vegetarian 1855–1943

Abraham Cahan2

Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1860–1951

Henri Bourassa1

Canadian politician 1868–1952

Georges Braque43

French painter and sculptor 1882–1963

E.E. "Doc" Smith1

Food engineer and author (1890-1965) 1890–1965

E. E. Smith1

Food engineer and author (1890-1965) 1890–1965

Ilya Ehrenburg1

Russian-Soviet writer and poet 1891–1967

Marina Tsvetaeva3

Russian poet and writer 1892–1941

Stefan Banach1

Polish &Ukrainian mathematician 1892–1945

Elizabeth Coatsworth1

American writer 1893–1986

John Ford1

American film director 1894–1973

Andrei Zhdanov2

Soviet politician 1896–1948

Henry Moore44

English artist 1898–1986

Frank Macfarlane Burnet3

Australian virologist 1899–1985

K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera4

Sri Lankan Buddhist monk 1919–2006

George Porter1

British chemist 1920–2002

Myron Tribus4

American academic 1921–2016

Max Bygraves3

Singer, comedian, actor 1922–2012

Rocky Marciano5

American boxer 1923–1969

J. S. Holliday14

American historian 1924–2006

David Frost4

English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and… 1939–2013

Diana, Princess of Wales22

First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales 1961–1997