** Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician ( d. 1992 )

** Indonesian nationalists Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta declare the independence of the Republic of Indonesia, with Soekarno as president.

** A truce is declared between Indonesian nationalist troops and the Dutch army in Indonesia.

** An Indonesian ferry sinks off the northern tip of Sumatra, drowning more than 100 people.

** Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster

** Indonesian president Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force if necessary.

** Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer

** Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician ( b. 1912 )

** Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.

** Indonesian President Sukarno gives all executive powers to General Suharto ( see Transition to the New Order and Supersemar ).

** The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesian Confrontation is over ( a treaty is signed on August 11 ).

** Titi DJ, Indonesian pop singer

** Qory Sandioriva, Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder

** Oto Iskandar di Nata, Indonesian politician ( d. 1945 )

** The North Kalimantan National Army revolts in Brunei, in the first stirrings of the Indonesian Confrontation.

** The Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.

** Indonesian president Sukarno collapses in public.

** The Indonesian army, led by General Suharto, crushes an alleged communist coup attempt ( see Transition to the New Order and 30 September Movement ).

** The Indonesian army instigates the arrest and execution of communists which last until March 1966 ( see Indonesian killings of 1965 – 66 ).

** Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor

** Ebiet G Ade, Indonesian singer and songwriter

** The Indonesian military begins an operation in Aceh province.

** Child abduction, the abduction or kidnapping of a young child ( or baby ) by an older person

** for an-sentence conversation where the conversation history must be retransmitted and the person takes linear time to read the query

** Canonization, the process of declaring a person to be a Saint

** Egoism, the belief that the moral person is the self-interested person, holds that an action is right if it maximizes good for the self.

** Subject pronouns are used when the person or thing is the subject of the sentence or clause.

** Object pronouns are used when the person or thing is the object of the sentence or clause.

** This could be any position in which the speaker — whether an acknowledged expert on the subject, or an acquaintance of a person who experienced the matter in question — knows about the topic.

** A life estate pur autre vie is held by one person for the natural life of another person.

** a ghost, the spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living

** 103. lawrencium, Lr, named after Ernest O. Lawrence, a physicist best known for development of the cyclotron, and the person for whom the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( which hosted the creation of these transuranium elements ) are named ( 1961 ).

** Unit of observation, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is collected

** Unit of analysis, a type of entity ( e. g. person, house, neighborhood ) specifying the level at which data is analyzed

** The billionth living person in India is born.

** In Milan, Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra.

** Jeanne Calment, the oldest person ever, dies at age 122 years 164 days in Arles, France.

** The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.

** Walter James Bolton, Last person to be executed in New Zealand ( b. 1888 )

** John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida near Miami and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board 25 ' ocean rowboat ' Britannia ' ( left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969 ).

** Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.

** Judith Keppel, first person to win £ 1, 000, 000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

** Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey's team.

** Marie-Louise Meilleur, oldest living person at the time of her death ( b. 1880 )

** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.