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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) ... 2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
1 Births. 2 Deaths. Toggle the table of contents. Portal: Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 1. ... This page was last edited on 30 August 2023, at 01:57 (UTC).
Lionel Bart (August 1, 1930–April 3, 1999), English composer, would have turned 94 this year. Ronnie Kemper (August 1, 1909–February 16, 1997), American singer, would have turned 115 this year. Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779–January 11, 1843), American composer, lawyer and poet, would have turned 245 this year.
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (/ m ə ˈ m oʊ ə /; born August 1, 1979) [1] is an American actor. He made his acting debut as Jason Ioane on the syndicated action drama series Baywatch: Hawaii (1999–2001), which was followed by portrayals of Ronon Dex on the Syfy science fiction series Stargate Atlantis (2005–2009), and Khal Drogo in the first two seasons of the HBO fantasy drama series ...
2004 – Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise. 2007 – Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
The Grammy Award-winning musician was born on October 31, 1961. My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero was born on October 31, 1981. That means he'll turn 43 this year.
Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Lydia Coleman Mitchell, a library worker, and William Mitchell, a schoolteacher and amateur astronomer. [7] The third of ten children, Mitchell and her siblings were raised in the Quaker religion. [6]
Born: Benjamin Barnes, English film actor who portrayed Prince Caspian in two Narnia films; in London Died: Michael Devine , 27, the tenth and last casualty of the Maze Prison hunger strikers. Owen Carron , running for the IRA the same day in the by-election for the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency that had been held by Bobby Sands, won a ...