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1681 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (d. 1741) 1694 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744) [27] 1749 – Thomas Lynch Jr., American commander and politician (d. 1779) 1797 – Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist and composer (d. 1879) [28] 1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829) [29]
Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who is a basketball ambassador for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) where he played most of his career as the starting center before ending his playing career with brief stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic.
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August 5. International Beer Day. National Oyster Day. National Water Balloon Day. August 6. Farmworker Appreciation Day. Fiesta de San Salvador. National Disc Golf Day. National Mustard Day.
1984 – A Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft crashed while attempting to land in Dhaka, killing 49 people in the deadliest aviation accident in Bangladeshi history. 2012 – An American white supremacist carried out a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin , killing six people and wounding four others.
One of the most successful playwrights in American history, Neil Simon was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York. ... 4 and recognized his birthday as July 4, 1902. Lansky was famous for being "the ...
1896 - Birth of Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1957) 1901 - Birth of Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (d. 1975) 1953 - Death of Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)