Anniversaries 7 August

Birth

Constantius II7

Roman emperor 317–361

Joseph Rodman Drake1

Early American poet 1795–1820

Tryon Edwards57

American theologian 1809–1894

Frederic William Farrar1

British clergyman and author 1831–1903

Alice James2

American diarist 1848–1892

Edward de Veaux Morrell1

American politician 1863–1917

Herman Vandenburg Ames1

American author and academic 1865–1935

Emil Nolde28

German artist 1867–1956

Hermann Rauschning43

German politician 1887–1982

Léon Brillouin4

French physicist 1889–1969

Margaret Way1

Australian romance fiction writer 1900

Konrad Heiden12

German journalist and historian 1901–1966

Ralph Bunche19

American diplomat 1904–1971

John R. P. French9

American psychologist 1913–1995

M. S. Swaminathan13

Indian scientist 1925

Betsy Byars1

American children's writer 1928

James Randi8

Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic 1928

Jerry Pournelle10

American science fiction writer and journalist 1933–2017

Elinor Ostrom4

American political economist 1933–2012

Garrison Keillor61

American radio host and writer 1942

Caetano Veloso1

Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and politica… 1942

Tobin Bell4

American actor 1942

Robert Mueller5

Sixth director of the FBI; American attorney 1944

Ed Seykota16

American commodities trader 1946

Sofia Rotaru5

Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter… 1947

Greg Chappell2

Australian cricketer 1948

Walid Jumblatt2

Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon 1949

Alan Keyes62

American politician 1950

Ajahn Brahm3

Buddhist monk 1951

Anne Fadiman11

American essayist, journalist and magazine editor 1953

Christiana Figueres1

Costa Rican politician 1956

Paul Dini2

writer 1957

Alberto Salazar1

American track coach and long-distance runner born in Cuba 1958

Bruce Dickinson4

English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster 1958

Koenraad Elst144

orientalist, writer 1959

John Horgan3

36th Premier of British Columbia 1959

Kristen Hersh1

American rock singer 1966

Jimmy Wales48

Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur 1966

Lynn Strait1

American musician 1968–1998

Bruce Friedrich6

Member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 1969

Silas House3

American writer 1971

Chris Brummer1

law professor 1975

Charlize Theron3

film actress and producer, former fashion model 1975

Jacob Tobia5

american LGBTIQ activist 1991

Death

Jane Brereton1

Welsh writer (b. Flintshire 1685) 1685–1740

Jöns Jacob Berzelius6

Swedish chemist 1779–1848

Wilhelm Liebknecht53

German socialist politician 1826–1900

Elizabeth Chase Allen3

American author, journalist, poet 1832–1911

Jacob Maris7

Dutch painter 1837–1899

Rabindranath Tagore178

Bengali polymath 1861–1941

Virchand Gandhi6

Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Par… 1864–1901

Basil Hood1

British dramatist and army officer 1864–1917

Frank Buchman9

Evangelical theologist 1878–1961

Janusz Korczak3

Polish physician and writer 1878–1942

Alexander Blok8

poet 1880–1921

Karunanidhi3

Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Tamil… 1924–2018

Brigid Brophy6

novelist, essayist 1929–1995

Haruo Nakajima12

Japanese actor 1929–2017

Gerald M. Weinberg22

American computer scientist 1933–2018

Peter Jennings22

News anchor 1938–2005

Kary Mullis4

American biochemist 1944–2019

Jonathan P. Jackson6

American kidnapper 1953–1970