Historical Events
- Aug 18 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 10 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
- Aug 11 Joseph Nollekens, English sculptor (portrait busts, patronized by George III), born in London, England (d. 1823)
- Aug 14 Charles Hutton, English mathematician and surveyor, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (d. 1823)
- Aug 19 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, German-Scottish cellist and composer, born in Darmstadt, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1824)
