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August 22

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Battle of Bosworth Field

541 years ago

Born this day

1749

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Died aged 82

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Philip VI of France

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Famous births27

1647 · 379 yrs

Denis Papin

Denis Papin FRS (French pronunciation:; 22 August 1647 – 26 August 1713) was a French Huguenot physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker, the steam engine, the centrifugal pump, and a submersible boat.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1749 · 277 yrs

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language.

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LiteratureDied aged 82

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1862 · 164 yrs

Claude Debussy

Achille Claude Debussy (French:; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term.

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MusicDied aged 55

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1874 · 152 yrs

Max Scheler

Max Ferdinand Scheler (German:; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology.

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PhilosophyDied aged 53

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1887 · 139 yrs

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk; 22 August 1887 – 4 March 1977) was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945.

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1893 · 133 yrs

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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1902 · 124 yrs100 Club

Leni Riefenstahl

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (German:; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German filmmaker, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial personalities in film history.

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1904 · 122 yrs

Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 1989.

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1908 · 118 yrs

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French:; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer and artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film.

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1917 · 109 yrs

John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit.

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MusicWould be 109

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1920 · 106 yrs

Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (US: BRAD-berr-ee; 22 August 1920 – 5 June 2012) was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.

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1928 · 98 yrs

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (German:; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Famous deaths16

1350 · 676 yrs

Philip VI of France

Philip VI (French: Philippe; 1293 – 22 August 1350), called the Fortunate (French: le Fortuné), the Catholic (le Catholique) and of Valois (de Valois), was the first king of France from the House of Valois, reigning from 1328 until his death in 1350.

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RoyaltyDied aged 56

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1485 · 541 yrs

Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch, the House of York; the former had ruled England since 1154.

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RoyaltyDied aged 32

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1806 · 220 yrs

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French:; 5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.

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ArtDied aged 74

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1850 · 176 yrs

Nikolaus Lenau

Nikolaus Lenau was the pen name of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau (13 August 1802 – 22 August 1850), a German-language Austrian poet.

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LiteratureDied aged 48

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1883 · 143 yrs

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled A Sportsman's Sketches (1852), was a milestone of Russian realism.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1891 · 135 yrs

Jan Neruda

Jan Nepomuk Neruda (Czech:; 10 July 1834 – 22 August 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet and art critic; one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the "May School".

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LiteratureDied aged 57

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1903 · 123 yrs

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ( GASK-oyn SISS-əl; 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Salisbury, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen years.

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PoliticsDied aged 73

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1922 · 104 yrs

Michael Collins

Michael Collins (Irish: Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th century struggle for Irish independence. During the War of Independence he was Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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1942 · 84 yrs

Michel Fokine

Michael Fokine (23 April 1880 – 22 August 1942) was a Russian choreographer and dancer.

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1958 · 68 yrs

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard (French:; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1976 · 50 yrs

Juscelino Kubitschek

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation:; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961.

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1978 · 48 yrs

Jomo Kenyatta

Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978.

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Events5

1485 · 541 yrs

Battle of Bosworth Field

The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field ( BOZ-wərth) was the last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, the civil war between the houses of Lancaster and York that extended across England and Wales in the latter half of the 15th century.

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War

1849 · 177 yrs

First Italian War of Independence

The First Italian War of Independence (Italian: Prima guerra d'indipendenza italiana), part of the Risorgimento or unification of Italy, was fought by the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) and Italian volunteers against the Austrian Empire and other conservative states from 23 March 1848 to 22 August 1849 in the Italian…

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War

1864 · 162 yrs

Geneva Convention of 1864

The Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field (French: Convention pour l'amélioration du sort des blessés et des malades dans les forces armées en campagne), more commonly referred to as the First Geneva Convention or Geneva Convention I and abbreviated as GCI,…

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Politics

1910 · 116 yrs

Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910

The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty (Korean: 한일병합조약), was made by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire on 22 August 1910.

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Politics

2015 · 11 yrs

2015 World Championships in Athletics

The 2015 IAAF World Championships (Chinese: 2015年世界田徑錦標賽), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 August to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of which were awarded.

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