** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.

** 109. meitnerium, Mt, named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was one of the earliest scientists to become involved in the study of nuclear fission ( 1982 ).

** Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer

** Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel ( b. 1879 )

** Thomas Vanek, Austrian Hockey player

** Andreas Kofler, Austrian ski jumper

** Oskar Werner, Austrian actor ( b. 1922 )

** Carl Czerny, Austrian composer ( d. 1857 )

** Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ( d. 1989 )

** Alfred Proksch, Austrian Olympic athlete ( d. 2011 )

** Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist ( b. 1883 )

** Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer ( b. 1924 )

** Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist

** Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer

** Maria Schell, Austrian actress ( d. 2005 )

** Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist ( d. 2003 )

** Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician

** Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist

** Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor ( d. 1993 )

** Alois Brunner, Austrian captain

** Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer ( died 1972 )

** Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Senta Berger, Austrian actress

** Andreas Khol, Austrian politician

** International Air Transport Association for Baker Army Air Field ( abandoned ), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands

** U. S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories ( 1943 – 69 )

** United States Army Medical Unit ( 1956 – 69 )

** U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ; 1969 – present )

** Belgisch Leger ( Belgian Army )

** Afghan National Army Regional Hospital at Camp Shaheen

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Army Ten-Miler road race at The Pentagon.

** German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe.

** German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison ; Irmgard Möller fails ( their supporters still claim they were murdered ).

** Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general ( b. 1918 )

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Richard D. Winters, U. S. Army officer ( d. 2011 )

** Walter Tull, First Black infantry officer to serve in the British Army ( b. 1888 )

** In Bad Kleinen, Germany, GSG 9 troopers arrest Birgit Hogefeld and kill Wolfgang Grams two Red Army Faction terrorists.

** The United States Army suspends Gene C. McKinney, Sergeant Major of the Army, its top-ranking enlisted soldier, after hearing allegations of sexual misconduct.

** An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O ' Hanlon.

** The U. S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt.

** Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army

** George Carpenter, 5th General of The Salvation Army ( b. 1872 )

** An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.

** Lawrence Oates, English Army officer ( b. 1880 ).

** William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army ( b. 1829 )