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Events on Monday 31 August 2026 4
1929 – 2026Edouard Balladur (1929-2026)Died 31 August 2026, aged 97French neo-Gaullist politician who served as prime minister from 1993 to 1995.
1934 – 2026Wendell Berry (1934-2026)Died 31 August 2026, aged 92American poet, novelist and essayist whose writing on farming and ecological responsibility grew from a lifetime working the land in Kentucky.
1939 – 2026Ada Yonath (1939-2026)Died 31 August 2026, aged 87Israeli crystallographer who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for mapping the atomic structure of the ribosome.
2026Duane Davis convicted of orchestrating the murder of Tupac ShakurThirty years after the 1996 killingDuane Keffe D Davis was found guilty of first-degree murder on 31 August 2026 for orchestrating the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur. Davis was the uncle of Orlando Anderson, the longtime suspected shooter, who died in 1998.