August 21st, 1873

Born on August 21st, 1873

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 21st?

August 21st, 2007

BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.

August 21st, 2015

Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.

August 21st, 2013

Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.

August 21st, 1986

A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

August 21st, 1963

South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas (one pictured) across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.

August 21st, 1945

American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.

August 21st, 1944

World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.

August 21st, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign.

August 21st, 1911

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.

August 21st, 1858

The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.

August 21st, 1808

Peninsular War: British and Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.

August 21st, 1789

The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.

August 21st, 1717

Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.

August 21st, 1716

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.

August 21st, 1689

Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 21st

Same year
Born in 1873

71

Alexis Carrel

French surgeon and biologist

*June 28th, 1873, Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon †November 5th, 1944, Paris

77

Ivanoe Bonomi

Italian prime minister in 1921–22 and 1944–45

*October 18th, 1873, Mantua †April 20th, 1951, Rome

69

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)

*April 1st, 1873, Starorussky Uyezd †March 28th, 1943, Beverly Hills

89

Otto Harbach

American songwriter

*August 18th, 1873, Salt Lake City †January 24th, 1963, New York City

39

Alphonse Kirchhoffer

French fencer

*December 19th, 1873, 11th arrondissement of Paris †June 30th, 1913, 5th arrondissement of Paris

81

María Goyri

Spanish hispanist

*August 29th, 1873, Bilbao †November 28th, 1954, Madrid

58

Julieta Lanteri

Argentine pharmacologist and suffragist (1873–1932)

*March 22nd, 1873, Province of Cuneo †February 23rd, 1932, Buenos Aires

67

Louis Pinck

German priest

*July 11th, 1873, Lemberg †December 8th, 1940, Saarbrücken

86

Arturo Labriola

Revolutionary syndicalist politician and journalist

*January 21st, 1873, Naples †June 23rd, 1959, Naples

83

Konstantin von Neurath

German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)

*February 2nd, 1873, Kleinglattbach †August 14th, 1956, Enzweihingen

83

Jules Rimet

Founders of association football institution (1873-1956)

*October 14th, 1873, Theuley †October 16th, 1956, Suresnes

81

Luigi Gasparotto

Italian politician (1873-1954)

*May 31st, 1873, Sacile †June 29th, 1954, Cantello

87

Lee de Forest

American inventor

*August 26th, 1873, Council Bluffs †June 30th, 1961, Hollywood

94

Ejnar Hertzsprung

Danish astronomer and chemist

*October 8th, 1873, Frederiksberg †October 21st, 1967, Roskilde

65

Feodor Chaliapin

Russian opera singer and actor (1873-1938)

*February 1st, 1873, Lisitsyn-Emelin House †April 12th, 1938, Paris

88

Otto Loewi

Jewish-German pharmacologist

*June 3rd, 1873, Frankfurt †December 25th, 1961, New York City

59

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)

*July 20th, 1873, Santos Dumont †July 23rd, 1932, Guarujá

77

Alfred Wiłkomirski

Polish violinist and pedagogue

*January 1st, 1873, Azov †January 1st, 1950, Łódź

50

Valery Bryusov

Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian

*December 1st, 1873, Moscow †October 9th, 1924, Moscow

67

Kyösti Kallio

Finnish politician and 4th President of Finland (1873-1940)

*April 10th, 1873, Ylivieska †December 19th, 1940, Helsinki Central Railway Station

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1873 is a normal year and no leap year.

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