Aron Nimzowitsch ( or Aron Isayevich Nimtsovich, or Aaron Nimzovich ) (, ; born Aron Niemzowitsch ) ( 7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Russian-born, Danish leading chess master and a very influential chess writer.

Patents were eventually granted in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, (, filed May 16, 1991, issued June 22, 1994 and expiring not later than May 16, 2011 ), the United States (, issued May 25, 1993 and expiring not later than January 7, 2012 ) and Japan ( JP 3225440 ).

Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar (, ; also transliterated as Almihdhar ) < span dir =" ltr ">( May 16, 1975 – September 11, 2001 )</ span > was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was flown into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

Anne of Cleves (, ) ( 22 September 1515 – 16 July 1557 ) was a German noblewoman and the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England and as such she was Queen of England from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540.

David Ben-Gurion () (,, born David Grün ; 16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973 ) was the main founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel.

John V Palaiologos ( or Palaeologus ) (, Iōannēs V Palaiologos ) ( 18 June 1332 – 16 February 1391 ) was a Byzantine emperor, who succeeded his father in 1341, at age nine.

Amilcare Ponchielli (, August 31, 1834 – January 16, 1886 ) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.

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Salamis (, Ancient and Katharevousa: Σαλαμίς Salamís ), is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile ( 2 km ) off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens.

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Prince of Mindelheim, KG, PC (, often ; 26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O. S ), was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs through the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (, August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980 ), was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting.

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (, ) is the smallest of Germany's 16 states.

Baruch Kimmerling (, October 16, 1939 – May 20, 2007 ) was an Israeli scholar and professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Idries Shah ( 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996 ) (, ), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi ( Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي ), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.

Eliahu ( Eli ) ben Shaoul Cohen (, 16 December 1924 – 18 May 1965 ) was an Israeli spy.

Due to Swedish inaction Russians seized the initiative and struck first with army of 16 000 men under Field-Marshal Peter Lacy advanced from Vyborg (, ) towards Villmanstrand () and using nearly four fold superiority in numbers inflicted a major defeat on the Swedish garrison led by General Carl Henrik Wrangel.

Mohammad Mosaddegh or Mosaddeq (, *), also Mossadegh, Mossadeq, Mosadeck, or Musaddiq ( 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967 ), was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 when he was overthrown in a coup d ' état orchestrated by the British MI6 and the United States CIA.

Moshe Sharett (, born Moshe Shertok ( Hebrew: משה שרתוק ) on 16 October 1894, died 7 July 1965 ) was the second Prime Minister of Israel ( 1953 – 55 ), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurion's two terms.

Stephen Dušan (, ), commonly known as Stephen Dušan and Dušan the Mighty ( Душан Силни ; c. 1308 – 20 December 1355 ), was the King of Serbia ( from 8 September 1331 ) and Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks ( from 16 April 1346 ) until his death on 20 December 1355.

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

Abu Bakr ( Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa ) (, c. 573 CE – 23 August 634 CE ) also known as Abū Bakr as-Șiddīq ( Arabic: أبو بكر الصديق ) was a senior companion ( Sahabi ) and the father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (, ; August 18, 1870 – April 13, 1918 ) was a military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi (, ; also known as Rabia al-Makki ) ( August 9, 1976 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon as part of the September 11 attacks.

Pope Callixtus III ( 31 December 1378 – 6 August 1458 ) (, ), né Alfons de Borja, was Pope from 8 April 1455 to his death in 1458.

Solidarity (, pronounced ; full name: Independent Self-governing Trade Union " Solidarity " – Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy " Solidarność " ) is a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa.

Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (‎; 24 August 192911 November 2004 ), popularly known as Yasser Arafat () or by his kunya Abu Ammar (, ) was a Palestinian leader.

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (, ; – 25 August 1936 ), born Rozenfeld (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.

Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev (, ; – August 25, 1936 ), born Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.

Louis II (, 1 July 1506, Buda – 29 August 1526, Mohács ) was King of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia from 1516 to 1526.

Justin I (, ; c. 450 – 1 August 527 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 518 to 527.

John III Sobieski (, ) ( 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696 ) was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1674 until his death King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

GCMG (,, Shim ' aoon Beereez ; born Szymon Perski ; 2 August 1923 ) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel.

Carmen Miranda, GCIH (, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955 ) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Bon Festival (, or only, is a Japanese Buddhist holiday in August to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors.

It was inaugurated on 23 August 1930 ( days after Belgium's 100th anniversary ) as Jubilee Stadium (, ).

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (, Ivan Chetvyorty Vasilyevich ; 25 August 1530 – ), known in English as Ivan the Terrible (, Ivan Grozny ; lit.

Basil I, called the Macedonian (, Basíleios hō Makedṓn ;, Barsegh A Makedonatsi ; 830 / 835 – August 29, 886 ) was a Byzantine Emperor of probable Armenian descent who reigned from 867 to 886.