Public Holidays on August 21

• 🌍 Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)
• 🌍 Pihenőnap (2026. 08. 08.-től helyettesítve) (Hungary)

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On This Day in History — August 21

• 2017 — An eclipse traverses the continental United States.
• 2016 — Last day of the Rio Summer Olympics.
• 2013 — Hundreds of people are reported killed by chemical attacks in the Ghouta region of Syria.
• 2000 — Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
• 1993 — NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
• 1991 — Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.

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Notable Births on August 21

• 1991 — Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1989 — Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1989 — Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 — Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 — Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 — James Davey, English rugby league player

Notable Deaths on August 21

• 2017 — Bajram Rexhepi, First Kosovan Prime Ministers of UN mission administration in Kosovo . (b. 1954)
• 2015 — Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
• 2015 — Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)
• 2015 — Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2014 — Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
• 2014 — Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)

Religious Observances on August 22

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Muhammad al-Masūm ق

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On This Day in History — August 22

• 2012 — Ethnic clashes over grazing rights for cattle in Kenya's Tana River District result in more than 52 deaths.
• 2007 — The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
• 2006 — Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.
• 2006 — Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
• 2004 — Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
• 2003 — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

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Notable Births on August 22

• 1995 — Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 — Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1993 — Rajinder Singh Sandhu, Punjabi Poet/Writer
• 1992 — Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1991 — Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1991 — Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player

Notable Deaths on August 22

• 2017 — Michael J. C. Gordon, British Computer scientist (b. 1948)
• 2016 — S. R. Nathan, 6th President of Singapore (b. 1924)
• 2016 — Toots Thielemans, Belgian and American jazz musician (b. 1922)
• 2015 — Arthur Morris, Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2015 — Ieng Thirith, Cambodian academic and politician (b. 1932)
• 2015 — Eric Thompson, English race car driver and book dealer (b. 1919)