Did you know
Late in her life, she appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition.
Notable Deaths on August 1
1903 — Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman and scout (born 1853)
August 1 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 30 BC to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
114 source records
30 BC – 2024
Today in history
Major events on August 1
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1834 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843. Source
- 1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. Source
- 1894 The Empire of Japan and Qing China declare war on each other after a week of fighting over Korea, formally inaugurating the First Sino-Japanese War. Source
- 1980 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state. Source
Did you know
Wilford Brimley became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), Cocoon (1985), and Cocoon: The Return (1988).
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Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receive widespread national media coverage.
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Manuel L. Quezon was the first Filipino to head a government of the entire Philippines and is considered the second president of the Philippines after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901), whom Quezon defeated in the 1935 presidential election.
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As the First Secretary of the Communist Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he was the chief decision-maker in East Germany.
More major people who died on August 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2020
Wilford Brimley
American actor and singer (born 1934)
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s.
1966
Charles Whitman
American mass murderer (born 1941)
Charles Joseph Whitman was an American mass murderer who committed the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting, one of the first mass shootings in modern American history to receive widespread national media coverage.
1944
Manuel L. Quezon
Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines (born 1878)
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina GCGH KGCR, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944.
1973
Walter Ulbricht
German soldier and politician (born 1893)
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht was a German communist politician and revolutionary.
1137
Louis VI
king of France (born 1081)
Louis VI, called the Fat or the Fighter, reigned as King of the Franks from 1108 to 1137. Like his father Philip I, Louis made a lasting contribution to centralizing the institutions of royal power.
527
Justin I
Byzantine emperor (born 450)
Justin I, also called Justin the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 518 to 527.
1402
Edmund of Langley
1st Duke of York, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1341)
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York was the fifth son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
1943
Lydia Litvyak
Soviet lieutenant and pilot (born 1921)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II.
2010
Lolita Lebrón
Puerto Rican-American activist (born 1919)
Lolita Lebrón was a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes after carrying out an armed attack on the United States Capitol in 1954, which resulted in the wounding of five…
1963
Theodore Roethke
American poet (born 1908)
Theodore Huebner Roethke was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the…
1098
Adhemar of Le Puy
French papal legate
Adhemar de Monteil was one of the principal figures of the First Crusade and was bishop of Puy-en-Velay from before 1087. He was the chosen representative of Pope Urban II for the expedition to the Holy Land.
2006
Iris Marion Young
American political scientist and activist (born 1949)
Iris Marion Young was an American political theorist and socialist feminist who focused on the nature of justice and social difference.
1938
Edmund C. Tarbell
American painter and academic (born 1862)
Edmund Charles Tarbell was an American Impressionist painter. A member of the Ten American Painters, his work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian…
1977
Francis Gary Powers
American captain and pilot (born 1929)
Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee.
2009
Corazon Aquino
Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)
María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines, serving from 1986 to 1992.
2003
Guy Thys
Belgian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)
Guy Jean-Leonard Thys was a Belgian football manager, mostly known for being the most successful manager in the history of the Belgium national football team as he managed to lead the national side to their only UEFA…
2013
Wilford White
American football player (born 1928)
Wilford Parley "Whizzer" White was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).
1807
John Boorman
English cricketer (born c. 1754)
John Boorman was an English cricketer whose known career spanned 26 seasons from 1768 to 1793.
1252
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Italian archbishop and explorer (born 1180)
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine OFM was a medieval Italian diplomat, Catholic archbishop, explorer and one of the first Europeans to enter the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.