Historical Events
- Aug 1 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee)
Event of Interest
Aug 12 US President Andrew Johnson defies Congress suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 William Orlamond, Danish actor (Flesh and the Devil, The Wind), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1957)
- Aug 2 Ernest Dowson, British poet (Decorations in Verse and Prose), born in Lee, London (d. 1900)
- Aug 2 Frank Alvord Perret, American volcanologist renowned for his research at Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1943)
Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947)
Aug 3 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37), born in Bewdley, England
- Aug 4 Jake Beckley, American Baseball HOF first baseman (23,767 putouts MLB record; career .308 hitter; Pittsburgh Alleghenys/Pirates; NY Giants; Cincinnati Reds; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Hannibal, Missouri (d. 1918)
- Aug 5 Jacob Ruppert Jr., American Baseball HOF executive (owner New York Yankees 1915-39; signed Babe Ruth; built Yankee Stadium), born in New York City (d. 1939)
- Aug 7 Emil Nolde [Hansen], German painter and graphic artist, born in Nolde, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1956)
- Aug 11 Hobart Bosworth, American actor (Woman of Affairs, Big Parade), born in Marietta, Ohio (d. 1943)
- Aug 11 Joe Weber, American vaudeville comedian, singer (Weber and Fields), and theatrical producer, born in New York City (d. 1942)
- Aug 12 Edith Hamilton, American classicist (Mythology), born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation (d. 1963)
- Aug 13 Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter and writer (Legenden Der Zeit), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1938)
- Aug 13 William Alexander Craigie, Scottish lexicographer (Skotlands Rimur), born in Dundee, Scotland (d. 1957)
- Aug 14 Cupid Childs, American baseball player, born in Calvert County, Maryland (d. 1912)
- Aug 14 John Galsworthy, English author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932), born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England (d. 1933)
- Aug 16 Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Só), born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1900)
- Aug 22 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)
- Aug 22 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)
- Aug 23 Marcel Schwob, French writer and journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants), born in Chaville, France (d. 1905)
- Aug 25 James W. Gerard, American jurist and diplomat, born in Geneseo, New York (d. 1951)
- Aug 28 Umberto Giordano, Italian composer, chiefly of opera (was Andrea Chénier; Fedora; La cena delle beffe), born in Foggia, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1948)
Famous Weddings
George Westinghouse
Aug 8 Engineer George Westinghouse (20) weds Marguerite Erskine Walker in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 18 Cosima Liszt marries Hans von Bülow, a pupil of her father, at St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin
Famous Deaths
- Aug 3 Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
- Aug 10 Ira Aldridge, famed African-American Shakespearean actor (Othello, Shylock), dies at 63 [1]
- Aug 14 Nicola Benvenuti, Italian composer, dies at 84
- Aug 21 Juan Álvarez, Mexican revolutionary leader (President of Mexico 1855), dies at 77
- Aug 23 Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Aug 25 English scientist discovered electromagnetic induction, invented 1st electric motor, dies at 75
- Aug 31 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and translator (Les Fleurs du mal), dies at 46
