August 31
August 31 is the 243rd day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 244th in leap years): thus 122 days remain until the end of the year.
- 2.1 Before the 18th century
- 2.2 18th century
- 2.3 19th century
- 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 1901-1950
- 2.4.2 1951-2000
- 3.1 Before the 19th century
- 3.2 19th century
- 3.3 20th century
- 3.4 21st century
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Economy
Science and Technology
Culture
Society
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.
Sports
Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.
Born
Before the 18th century
- 0012: Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Roman emperor
- 0161: Commodus, Roman Emperor
- 1537: Arnold Mercator, cartographer
- 1546: Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, Czech writer and publisher
- 1569 Jahangir, Mughal emperor of India
- 1627: Christian von Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Bartenstein, German court official and politician
- 1634: Paul Ammann, German physician and botanist
- 1649: Bernhard von Zech, German writer
- 1652: Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga - Nevers, Duke of Mantua
- 1661: David the Elder Richter, German portrait and landscape painter
- 1663: Guillaume Amontons, French physicist
- 1685: Samuel Urlsperger, German Lutheran theologian
- 1686: Charles de Bourbon, duc de Berry, pretender to the French throne
- 1696: Johann Paul Kunzen, composer and organist
18th century
19th century
Alma Mahler -Werfel (* 1879)
Yoshihito (* 1879)
Queen Wilhelmina (* 1880)
Fredric March (* 1897)
20th century
1901-1950
1951-2000
Died
Before the 19th century
- 0875: Adventius, Bishop of Metz
- 1037: Hugh of Burgundy, Bishop of Lausanne
- 1056: Theodora III, Empress of Byzantium.
- 1234: Go- Horikawa, 86th Emperor of Japan
- 1287: Konrad von Würzburg, German poet, epic poet and didactic poet
- 1422: Henry V, King of England from the Lancaster House
- 1504: Hanns of Wulfestorff, knight, lord
- 1528: Mathis Gothart - Nithart, German painter and graphic artist, builder, waterworks maker
- 1589: Yuri Dalmatians, reformer and translator of the Bible into Slovene
- 1636: Albert Hein the Elder, German jurist and diplomat
- 1646: Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet
- 1650: Michael Behm, German Protestant theologian
19th century
Ferdinand Lassalle († 1864)
Charles Pierre Baudelaire († 1867)
20th century
21st Century
- 2000: Joan Hartigan Bathurst, Australian tennis player
- 2000: Klaus Miedel, German voice actor and actor
- 2002: Lionel Hampton, American jazz vibraphonist and band leader -
- 2002: George Porter, British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2003: Tadeusz Machl, Polish composer, organist and music teacher
- 2004: Carl Wayne, English singer and actor
- 2005: Manfred Adamski, German Works Council and sports official
- 2005: Clavé, Spanish painter and sculptor
- 2005: Emil Rudolf Greulich, German writer
- 2005: Józef Rotblat, Polish poet, Nobel Laureate
- 2005: Michael Sheard, British actor
- 2005: Sophie Watillon, Belgian gamba player
- 2006: Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer
- 2006: Mike Magill, American race car driver
- 2006: Hans E. Schwendermarkt, German painter
- 2008: Jerry Reed, American country singer and actor
- 2010: Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
- 2010: Liselotte disciples German German studies, historian and editor
- 2011: Rosel Zech, German actress
- 2012: Hans Ambrosi, German winemakers
- 2012: Martin Goldstein, German psychotherapist and youth advisor ( " Dr. Sommer " )
- 2012: Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Milan
- 2012: Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military and politicians
- 2012: Norbert Walter, German economist
- 2013: David Frost, British journalist, TV presenter, TV interviewer and Politsatiriker
Holidays and observances
- Religious observances St. Aidan of Lindisfarne, Missionary, Bishop and Patron ( Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox )
- John Bunyan, English revivalist ( Protestant)
- Ludwig Zimmermann ( Probst ), German - Baltic martyrs ( Protestant)
- St. Paulinus of Trier, French martyr and bishop of Trier ( Catholic)
- Name Days Raimund
- State Holidays and observances Kyrgyzstan: independence from the Soviet Union ( 1991)
- Malaysia: independence from Great Britain (1957 )
- Trinidad and Tobago: Independence of the West Indies Federation (1962 )
More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.
- Day
- Day in August