What are the important events that happened on August 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 7 is the 219^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 25, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,242,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectadecaenneagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 194 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,612 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 7: This Day In History

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.

August 7 Historical Events

• 461 –
  Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer .
• 936 –
  Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
• 1789 –
  The United States War Department is established.
• 1890 –
  Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
• 1927 –
  The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
• 1938 –
  The Holocaust: The building of Mauthausen concentration camp begins.
• 1940 –
  World War II: Alsace Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
• 1960 –
  Côte d'Ivoire becomes independent.
• 1989 –
  U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
• 1999 –
  The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighbouring Russian Republic of Dagestan.

Who were born on August 7?

• 1726 –
  James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)
• 1783 –
  Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
• 1868 –
  Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (d. 1931)
• 1911 –
  István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
• 1958 –
  Alberto Salazar, American distance runner
• 1974 –
  Sek Loso, Thai Singer
• 1979 –
  Eric Johnson, American actor
• 1982 –
  Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
• 1987 –
  Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox)
• 1987 –
  Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player

Who died on August 7?

• 1635 –
  Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
• 1817 –
  Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
• 1917 –
  Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
• 1938 –
  Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
• 1953 –
  Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1970 –
  Jonathan Jackson, instigator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout and brother of Black Panther George Jackson (b. 1953)
• 1974 –
  Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
• 2003 –
  Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2009 –
  Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)
• 2010 –
  Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)