** Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( b. 1910 )

** Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist ( d. 1991 )

** Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player

** Sylvia Porter, American economist and journalist ( b. 1913 )

** Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( d. 1940 )

** Police discover the body of Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana.

** Sylvia Ashton, American actress ( d. 1940 )

** Sylvia Plath, American poet and author ( d. 1963 )

** The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?

** The modernist classic Ulysses by James Joyce is first published complete in book form by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in Paris on February 2 ( Joyce's 40th birthday ), with a further edition published in Paris for the Egoist Press of London on October 12 ( much of which is seized by the United States Customs Service ).

** Eastern Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis crassirostris

** Steven Paul ( producer ), John Nelson ( conductor ), John Aler, Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance, Mark S. Doss, Marilyn Horne, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Samuel Ramey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus & the English Chamber Orchestra for Handel: Semele

** Christopher Hogwood ( conductor ), Sylvia McNair & the Academy of Ancient Music for The Echoing Air-The Music of Henry Purcell

** Steven Paul ( producer ), John Nelson ( conductor ), John Aler, Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance, Mark S. Doss, Marilyn Horne, Neil Mackie, Sylvia McNair, Samuel Ramey, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus & the English Chamber Orchestra for Handel: Semele

** Christopher Hogwood ( conductor ), Sylvia McNair & the Academy of Ancient Music for The Echoing Air-The Music of Henry Purcell

** Sylvia Snow ( 16 January 1850-2 January 1934 )

** Sylvia 1952

** Sylvia Zaradic as English dub voice of Sora

** Sylvia Sass

** Rachel Sylvia Kimball ( 28 January 1846-12 December 1847 )

** The Fire-Dwellers, afterword by Sylvia Fraser

** Janine Gulisano-Danny & Sylvia: A Musical Love Story-American Century Theatre

** The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

** Sylvia by A. R.

** C. Plath

** Pierre Bérégovoy, former prime minister of France, commits suicide.

** Downing Street Declaration: The United Kingdom commits itself to the search for an answer to the problems of Northern Ireland.

** Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery in Toronto.

** Geli Raubal commits suicide in Adolf Hitler's apartment.

** In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.

** In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.

** Peter Sutcliffe ( the " Yorkshire Ripper ") commits his first murder, that of Wilma McCann.

** August 24 – Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia ( whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica ), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.

** A " warning " will be given in the form of a yellow card or a green card ( The green card gives a 10 % deduction of a fighter's purse ) when a fighter commits an illegal action or does not follow the referee's instruction.

** he commits interference ;

** he commits interference, such as when he contacts a fielder playing a batted ball, or when he contacts a live batted ball before it passes a fielder other than the pitcher ;

** No Doubt's original lead singer John Spence commits suicide.

** Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis commits suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of 23.

** The Germs lead singer Darby Crash commits suicide on December 7, 1980 at the age of 22.

** Dave Insurgent ( Dave Rubinstein ), lead singer of Reagan Youth commits suicide at the age of 29 on July 3, 1993 with an overdose of anti-depressants.

** A person who commits a misdemeanor

** A person who commits a felony