On This Day — August 1
4871 noted people were born and 2309 died on August 1 in our archive, including George de Hevesy, Alexander Marcet and Alfred Hoche.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 1
George de Hevesy
1885 – 1966
Alexander Marcet
1770 – 1822
Alfred Hoche
1865 – 1943
Amédée Borrel
1867 – 1936
André Laugier
1770 – 1832
Astrid Friis
1893 – 1966
Birendra Nath Mallick
b. 1956
Cumrun Vafa
b. 1960
Douglas Osheroff
b. 1945
Enikő Kubinyi
b. 1976
Fiona Stanley
b. 1946
Frank K. Edmondson
1912 – 2008
Georges Charpak
1924 – 2010
Gino Giugni
1927 – 2009
Gulshan Pashayeva
b. 1961
Gérard Worms
1936 – 2020
Haruhiko Okumura
b. 1951
Helen Sawyer Hogg
1905 – 1993
Henry Frye
b. 1932
Ivar Otto Bendixson
1861 – 1935
Jacek Popiel
b. 1954
Jacques Diouf
1938 – 2019
John Collins Warren
1778 – 1856
John Macdonell
1846 – 1921
Jüri Engelbrecht
b. 1939
Kenneth Feder
b. 1952
Krista Aru
1958 – 2025
Leoluca Orlando
b. 1947
M. R. James
1862 – 1936
Matvey Lyubavsky
1860 – 1936
Mugur Isărescu
b. 1949
Pan Halippa
1883 – 1979
Pericle Felici
1911 – 1982
Pierre Bourdieu
1930 – 2002
Tamila Tasheva
b. 1985
Tomasz Orłowski
b. 1956
Van Taylor
b. 1972
Viktar Karankievich
b. 1976
Vladimir Zakharov
1939 – 2023
Volodymyr Zabolotnyi
1898 – 1962
Walter Gerlach
1889 – 1979
Wan Gang
b. 1952
Yoram Koren
b. 1938
Zoran Đinđić
1952 – 2003
A.K. Nazmul Karim
1922 – 1982
Abraham Ginzburg
1926 – 2020
Akira Shichijo
b. 1951
Albert Safaryan
b. 1963
Alexander Johnson
1830 – 1912
Amber Rudd
b. 1963
Amnon Albeck
b. 1958
Anatoliy Drabovsky
b. 1958
Anders Samuelsen
b. 1967
Andrew Melville
1545 – 1622
Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff
b. 1960
Annelien Bredenoord
b. 1979
Antonio Negri
1933 – 2023
Arthur Mahler
1871 – 1916
Ayrat Xäyrullin
1970 – 2020
Bartosz Józwiak
b. 1973
Benjamin Mays
1894 – 1984
Bhupendra Nath Goswami
b. 1950
Bohdan Osadchuk
1920 – 2011
Boris Bilash
b. 1941
Bradley Winslow
1831 – 1914
Bruno Forte
b. 1949
Carme Solé Vendrell
b. 1944
Charles Gonthier
1928 – 2009
Charles Ruff
1939 – 2000
Chot Reyes
b. 1963
Clare Adamson
b. 1967
Constantin Levaditi
1874 – 1953
Daniel B. Shapiro
b. 1969
Daniel Lysons
1816 – 1898
David Satter
b. 1947
Denys Maslov
b. 1983
Djamila Ribeiro
b. 1980
Domocao Alonto
1914 – 2002
Doug Booth
b. 1957
Doug Burgum
b. 1956
Ed Vulliamy
b. 1954
El Jones
b. 1979
Elisey Ganaba
b. 1962
Elizabeth Wathuti
b. 1995
Elon Lindenstrauss
b. 1970
Erik Lönnroth
1910 – 2002
Erwin Nypels
1933 – 2024
Eugen von Knilling
1856 – 1927
Eugenia Cheng
b. 1976
Fabio Panetta
b. 1959
Fariborz Haghighat
b. 1951
Farouk El Okdah
b. 1946
Francis Reginald Scott
1899 – 1985
Francis Scott Key
1779 – 1843
François Désiré Roulin
1796 – 1874
Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol
1730 – 1803
G. N. Devy
b. 1950
Gaston Doumergue
1863 – 1937
Gazmend Kapllani
b. 1967
George Büchi
1921 – 1998
George Mercer Dawson
1849 – 1901
George Ticknor
1791 – 1871
Gholamreza Tajgardoon
b. 1966
Gleb Baklanov
1910 – 1976
Glenn Ricart
b. 1949
Grace Roe
1885 – 1979
Grigol Abashidze
1914 – 1994
Günter Baumann
b. 1947
Hannah O'Neill
b. 1993
Heinz Ellenberg
1913 – 1997
Henry Darwin Rogers
1808 – 1866
Hiranmay Sengupta
1934 – 2022
Hiroshi Mitsuzuka
1927 – 2004
Hossein Salami
1960 – 2025
Hughie Edwards
1914 – 1982
Hülya Kat
b. 1983
Ignacio Sánchez-Carpintero Plano
1942 – 2026
Igor Taro
b. 1981
Ivan Sechenov
1829 – 1905
Iván Duque
b. 1976
Jack Delano
1914 – 1997
Jacques Leibowitch
1942 – 2020
Jalil Javadov
1918 – 1980
Jan T. Gross
b. 1947
Jean Barman
b. 1939
Jeffrey S. Lehman
b. 1956
Jehuda Reinharz
b. 1944
Jiang Chaoliang
b. 1957
Johan Reinhold Aspelin
1842 – 1915
Johann Friedrich von Recke
1764 – 1846
John Friend Mahoney
1889 – 1957
Joseph Henry Gilbert
1817 – 1901
Josh Harder
b. 1986
José Padilha
b. 1967
Judith P. Vladeck
1923 – 2007
Ken Bennett
b. 1959
Khizri Shikhsaidov
1947 – 2026
Ko Un
b. 1933
Koichi Wakata
b. 1963
Korniliy
b. 1947
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
b. 1949
Károly Rezső Soó
1903 – 1980
Larry O. Spencer
b. 1954
Lawrence Eagleburger
1930 – 2011
Leonid Bunimovich
b. 1947
Leslie Wilson
1876 – 1955
Lionel Beaumont Thomas
1893 – 1942
Lorenz Oken
1779 – 1851
Louis Dumont
1911 – 1998
Lowitja O'Donoghue
1932 – 2024
Lucius G. Tong
1842 – 1908
Lyudmila Shirina
b. 1948
Madina Abilqasymova
b. 1978
Marc-Philippe Daubresse
b. 1953
Marco Buschmann
b. 1977
Margarita Kozhina
1925 – 2012
Maria Mitchell
1818 – 1889
Masakazu Tamura
1943 – 2021
Matthew D. Green
b. 1976
Mauricio Herdocia
1957 – 2021
Maxim Zetkin
1883 – 1965
Megumi Harada
b. 1979
Mika Yokota
b. 1971
Mikhail Vanin
b. 1960
Miloslav Kabelac
1908 – 1979
Mischa Cotlar
1913 – 2007
Mokutaro Kinoshita
1885 – 1945
Mushfiq Mammadli
b. 1972
Naresh Chandra
1934 – 2017
Nicolae Testemițanu
1927 – 1986
Nils Rosenblad
1888 – 1981
Nwankwo Kanu
b. 1976
Oleg Vinogradov
b. 1937
Oleh Dyomin
b. 1947
Oliver Dowden
b. 1978
Otto Toeplitz
1881 – 1940
Paul Goldbart
b. 1960
Pedro Cevallos
1759 – 1838
Petro Symonenko
b. 1952
Piero Luigi Vigna
1933 – 2012
Prem Sikka
b. 1951
Pride Chigwedere
b. 1974
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
1865 – 1947
Pyotr Gusev
1932 – 2024
Raheem Kassam
b. 1986
Raymond Sokolov
b. 1941
Reinhold Wulle
1882 – 1950
Riad Haidar
1951 – 2023
Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam
1745 – 1816
Richard O. Covey
b. 1946
Ron Brown
1941 – 1996
Saburō Matsukata
1899 – 1973
Sammy Lee
1920 – 2016
Sergio Moro
b. 1972
Sherwood Lett
1895 – 1964
Shinya Izumi
b. 1937
Sukbok Chang
b. 1962
Søren Galatius
b. 1976
Terrance W. Gainer
b. 1947
Thelma Buchholdt
1934 – 2007
… and 4,671 more
Died on August 1
Anders P. Ravn
1947 – 2019
Blas Cabrera Felipe
1878 – 1945
Esmé Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith
1863 – 1939
Francis Robert Japp
1848 – 1925
Hannie van Leeuwen
1926 – 2018
Heinrich von Sybel
1817 – 1895
Henri Goelzer
1853 – 1929
Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine
1693 – 1749
Hermann Lebert
1813 – 1878
Jacob Wallenberg
1892 – 1980
Jan Kasprowicz
1860 – 1926
Jüri Rätsep
1935 – 2018
Kenneth W. Bilby
1918 – 1997
Lauritz Weidemann
1775 – 1856
Leonard Hayflick
1928 – 2024
Norbert Elias
1897 – 1990
Otto Heinrich Warburg
1883 – 1970
Philip Abelson
1913 – 2004
Pieter Pauw
1564 – 1617
Tadeusz Reichstein
1897 – 1996
William Robert Grove
1811 – 1896
Alija Behmen
1940 – 2018
Alois Hundhammer
1900 – 1974
Alojzy Rafał Estreicher
1786 – 1852
Andrei Bubnov
1884 – 1938
Angus M. Woodbury
1886 – 1964
Arabella Mansfield
1846 – 1911
Arif Babayev
1938 – 2025
Arlene Raven
1944 – 2006
Berlyn Brixner
1911 – 2009
Bernard d'Espagnat
1921 – 2015
Carlo Confalonieri
1893 – 1986
Corazon Aquino
1933 – 2009
Degory Wheare
1573 – 1647
Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
1839 – 1921
Edwin Austin Abbey
1852 – 1911
Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro
1849 – 1907
Eurico de Melo
1925 – 2012
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
1921 – 2005
Francis Gary Powers
1929 – 1977
Frans van Buchem
1897 – 1979
Frida Boccara
1940 – 1996
Gabrielle Démians d'Archimbaud
1929 – 2017
Geneviève de Fontenay
1932 – 2023
George Thomas Beilby
1850 – 1924
Giuseppe Pizzardo
1877 – 1970
Gregers Gram
1846 – 1929
Guan Linzheng
1905 – 1980
Harold G. Bowen, Sr.
1883 – 1965
Harold Palmer Smith Jr.
1935 – 2025
Harrie Langman
1931 – 2016
Heinrich Laube
1806 – 1884
Henri Konan Bédié
1934 – 2023
Henri Moysset
1875 – 1949
Hugh Rowlands
1828 – 1909
Hugo Lederer
1871 – 1940
Ichiko Kamichika
1888 – 1981
Ildebrando Antoniutti
1898 – 1974
Ilinka Mitreva
1950 – 2022
Ingrid Aune
1985 – 2019
Iris Marion Young
1949 – 2006
J. Virginia Lincoln
1915 – 2003
Jan Krejčí
1825 – 1887
Johannes Willebrands
1909 – 2006
Jonathan Edwards
1745 – 1801
José Jorge Loureiro
1791 – 1860
Juan Pardo de Tavera
1472 – 1545
Just de Noailles
1777 – 1846
Karl Otfried Müller
1797 – 1840
Kartika Liotard
1971 – 2020
Kazimierz Kowalski
1951 – 2021
Kōji Kinutani
1943 – 2025
Leopold Müller
1908 – 1988
Line Bareiro
1950 – 2026
Lotta Hitschmanova
1909 – 1990
Louis Blériot
1872 – 1936
Luigi Carlo Farini
1812 – 1866
Léo Figuères
1918 – 2011
Malcolm MacLeod
1882 – 1969
Manuel L. Quezon
1878 – 1944
Max Page
1882 – 1963
Meghrajji III of Dhrangadhra
1923 – 2010
Mikhail Viktorov
1894 – 1938
Napoléon Alkan
1826 – 1906
Nariman Hasanzada
1931 – 2026
Oscar Larson
1871 – 1957
Paul Léon
1874 – 1962
Peter Aczel
1941 – 2023
Phillip Bennett
1928 – 2023
Pierre-Adrien Pâris
1745 – 1819
Placide Nicod
1876 – 1953
Queen Anne of Romania
1923 – 2016
Robert Satanowski
1918 – 1997
Sarmento Rodrigues
1899 – 1979
Sir Augustus Foster, 1st Baronet
1780 – 1848
Tadeusz Adamowski
1901 – 1994
Theodore Roethke
1908 – 1963
Thomas James
1573 – 1629
Thomas Leverton Donaldson
1795 – 1885
Toyotarō Yūki
1877 – 1951
Vasily Malyshkin
1896 – 1946
Walter Ulbricht
1893 – 1973
William Arthur Brown
1945 – 2019
William Jesse Goad Land
1865 – 1942
William Joseph Behr
1775 – 1851
Yasen Zasursky
1929 – 2021
Yu Ying-shih
1930 – 2021
A. P. Lutali
1919 – 2002
Abdirahman Omar Osman- Eng Yarisow
1965 – 2019
Albert E. Smith
1874 – 1958
Albert Lautman
1908 – 1944
Aleksei Stetskii
1896 – 1938
Aleksey Konstantinovich Ryazanov
1920 – 1992
Alexander Bekzadyan
1879 – 1938
Alexander Kazakov
1889 – 1919
Alexander Kolker
1933 – 2023
Alexandre Bachelet
1866 – 1945
Alfred Manessier
1911 – 1993
Alfred O'Rahilly
1884 – 1969
Alfred von Doussa
1848 – 1926
Allen Bathurst, 6th Earl Bathurst
1832 – 1892
Alma E. Foerster
1885 – 1967
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
1696 – 1787
Alva M. Lumpkin
1886 – 1941
Amar Singh
1956 – 2020
Anders Spole
1630 – 1699
Andre Hajdu
1932 – 2016
Andrew Higgins
1886 – 1952
Andrey Vlasov
1901 – 1946
Anna Maria Brizio
1902 – 1982
Annemarie Huber-Hotz
1948 – 2019
Antonio Dias
1944 – 2018
Antonio Lamberto Rusconi
1743 – 1825
Antonio Loredan
1420 – 1482
Archie Casely-Hayford
1898 – 1977
Armand Mauss
1928 – 2020
Arthur Dehon Little
1863 – 1935
Asher Tyler
1798 – 1875
Auguste-Louis Petiet
1784 – 1858
Barry Trapnell
1924 – 2012
Begum Aizaz Rasul
1908 – 2001
Belkis Valdman
1942 – 2011
Benoît Frachon
1893 – 1975
Bernardo López Piquer
1801 – 1874
Bob Frankford
1939 – 2015
Bonifacio Gillego
1921 – 2002
Borys Hmyria
1903 – 1969
Carsten Tank Nielsen
1818 – 1892
Chanaka Amaratunga
1958 – 1996
Chang Taek-sang
1893 – 1969
Charles T. Payne
1925 – 2014
Charles Whitman
1941 – 1966
Charles van Rooy
1912 – 1996
Charles-Amable Lenoir
1860 – 1926
Christian August Volquardsen
1840 – 1917
Constant Nieuwenhuys
1920 – 2005
Constantine Corniaktos
1517 – 1603
D. A. Pennebaker
1925 – 2019
Daniel James III
1945 – 2017
David Heinrich Hoppe
1760 – 1846
Dick Kazmaier
1930 – 2013
Don A. Allen
1900 – 1983
Don B. Colton
1876 – 1952
Donát Bánki
1859 – 1922
E. Frank Sperry
1843 – 1916
Edgar von Harold
1830 – 1886
Editha Olga Bailey
1903 – 1980
Edmond Rousse
1817 – 1906
Edmund Anderson
1530 – 1605
Edmund Charles Tarbell
1862 – 1938
Eduard Berzin
1894 – 1938
Eduardo Arze Quiroga
1907 – 1989
Edward D. Ives
1925 – 2009
Edward Newdegate
1825 – 1902
Edward Tyson
1651 – 1708
Emmanuel Poulle
1928 – 2011
Emmanuel-Persillier-Lachapelle
1845 – 1918
Enric Prat de la Riba
1870 – 1917
Eric Tindill
1910 – 2010
Everard Mercurian
1514 – 1580
Ewing Kauffman
1916 – 1993
Ezekiel Whitman
1776 – 1866
Federico Cesi
1585 – 1630
Florentina Gómez Miranda
1912 – 2011
France Mihelič
1907 – 1998
Franklin Hooper
1851 – 1914
Frans Anatolius Sjöström
1840 – 1885
Fritz Schupp
1896 – 1974
Galina Sergeyeva
1914 – 2000
George Baird Hodge
1828 – 1892
George Clayton Foulk
1856 – 1893
George Lloyd
1560 – 1615
George McCall Courts
1888 – 1932
George Osbaldeston
1786 – 1866
Gertrude Prokosch Kurath
1903 – 1992
Gian Francesco Malipiero
1882 – 1973
Guillermo Kuschel
1918 – 2017
Harold A. Scheraga
1921 – 2020
Harry Boland
1887 – 1922
Harvey L. Berger
1938 – 2007
… and 2,109 more