Updated August 30, 2012, 2:28 pm

On Aug. 31, 1997, Britain’s Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris at age 36.

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On Aug. 31, 1907, William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker magazine for 35 years, was born. Following his death on Dec. 8, 1992, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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William Shawn 8/31/1907 – 12/8/1992 American editor of The New Yorker (1952-87).Go to obituary »

97	John Neville Keynes 8/31/1852 – 11/15/1949 English philosopher and economist
69	Georg Jensen 8/31/1866 – 10/2/1935 Danish silversmith and designer
81	Maria Montessori 8/31/1870 – 5/6/1952 Italian educator; founder of Montessori education
82	Wilhelmina 8/31/1880 – 11/28/1962 Dutch queen (1890-1948)
71	George Sarton 8/31/1884 – 3/22/1956 Belgian-born American scholar
54	DuBose Heyward 8/31/1885 – 6/16/1940 American dramatist, novelist and poet
77	Fredric March 8/31/1897 – 4/14/1975 American screen and stage actor
79	Arthur Godfrey 8/31/1903 – 3/16/1983 American radio and television entertainer
74	Dore Schary 8/31/1905 – 7/7/1980 American screenwriter, playwright, producer and director
49	Ramon Magsaysay 8/31/1907 – 3/17/1957 Philippine president (1953-7)
72	William Saroyan 8/31/1908 – 5/18/1981 American novelist and playwright
67	Alan Jay Lerner 8/31/1918 – 6/14/1986 American librettist and lyricist for stage and screen

 

Updated August 29, 2012, 2:28 pm

On Aug. 30, 1963, the hot-line communications link between Washington, D.C., and Moscow went into operation.

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On Aug. 30, 1898, Shirley Booth, American stage, screen, radio and television actress, was born. Following her death on October 16, 1992, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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> Shirley Booth 8/30/1898 – 10/16/1992 American stage, screen, radio, and television actress.Go to obituary »

77	Jacques-Louis David 8/30/1748 – 12/29/1825 French Neoclassicist painter
53	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 8/30/1797 – 2/1/1851 English novelist; wrote “Frankenstein”
58	Jacobus Hoff 8/30/1852 – 3/1/1911 Dutch/German first winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry (1901)
66	Ernest Rutherford 8/30/1871 – 10/19/1937 English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908)
42	Huey Long 8/30/1893 – 9/10/1935 American senator (1932-5) and powerful governor (1928-32) of Louisiana
86	Raymond Massey 8/30/1896 – 7/29/1983 Canadian-American actor, director and producer
68	John Gunther 8/30/1901 – 5/29/1970 American journalist and author
83	Fred MacMurray 8/30/1908 – 11/5/1991 American motion-picture and television actor
84	E. M. Purcell 8/30/1912 – 3/7/1997 American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952)
78	Sir Richard Stone 8/30/1913 – 12/6/1991 English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1984)