Historical Events
- Aug 11 World's 1st roller rink opens (Newport, Rhode Island)
Event of Interest
Aug 20 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
- Aug 23 Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
Famous Birthdays
Louis Lapicque (1866-1952)
Aug 1 French neuroscientist, born in Épinal, France
- Aug 5 Alfred Holy, Portuguese composer and harpist (German Opera - Prague, 1885–96); Berlin Royal Opera, 1896–1903, Vienna Court Opera, 1903–13; Boston Symphony, 1913-28), born in Oporto, Portugal (d. 1948)
- Aug 5 Carl Dietrich Harries, German chemist (developed synthetic rubber), born in Luckenwalde, Germany (d. 1923)
- Aug 5 Harry Trott, Australian cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 143, 29 wickets; Victoria CA), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1917)
- Aug 8 Matthew Henson, American explorer, 1st African American to reach North Pole (Jun 4 1909), born in Nanjemoy, Maryland (d. 1955)
- Aug 12 Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, Spanish playwright (Nobel Prize for Literature 1922), born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1954) [1]
- Aug 13 Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman and founder of Fiat (Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino) Automaker, born in Villar Perosa, Italy (d. 1945)
- Aug 14 Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (Prime number theorem), born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1962)
- Aug 17 Julia Marlowe [Sarah Frances Frost], English-American Shakespearean actress, born in Cumberland, England (d. 1950)
- Aug 17 Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)
- Aug 30 Georges Minne, Belgian sculptor, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1941)
