2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
2005 - Ed White, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1949)
2006 - Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)
Events
1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert.
1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in (then) Moravia.
1346 - Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1466 - A conspiracy against Piero di Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, led by Luca Pitti, is discovered.
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 - The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by National Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1818 - The first Illinois Constitution is signed in Kaskaskia, Illinois, the first state capital of Illinois.
1839 - The ship Amistad is captured off Long Island.
1862 - American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
1914 - World War I: Germany defeats Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg, a decisive engagement which results in the almost complete destruction of the Russian 2nd Army.
1914 - World War I: the British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.
1914 - World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
1920 - The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1922 - The Turkish Army launches the last attack on Greeks in the Turkish War of Independence.
1924 - (August 13 Old Style) The Catastrophe of Smyrna, known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks, occurs. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor.
1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1940 - Chad is the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor.
1942 - Holocaust in Chortkiv, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children murdered on the spot.
1944 - World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1957 - The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM
1968 - The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1977 - The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
1978 - Papal conclave, 1978 (August): Pope John Paul I is elected to the Papacy.
1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1980 - John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.
1983 - Flooding destroys most of the old town of Bilbao, Spain.
1987 - President Ronald Reagan proclaims September 11, 1987 as 9-1-1 Emergency Number Day.
1988 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.
1996 - Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy
1997 - Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.
1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2003 - The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
2008 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
