Historical Events
Cricket History
Aug 12 W. G. Grace makes his highest Test Cricket score, scoring 170 vs Australia at The Oval
Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway
Aug 13 John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris; includes Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
- Aug 25 1st international polo meet (US vs England)
US Men's Tennis Open
Aug 28 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive US singles title
- Aug 31 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina, 110 die
Crocker-Woolworth Bank
Aug 31 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized in San Francisco
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher and founder (System Keesing), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966)
- Aug 2 John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian aviator, born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
- Aug 5 Óscar Esplá Spanish composer, born in Alicante, Spain (d. 1976)
- Aug 6 Edward Ballantine, American composer and music professor, born in Oberlin, Ohio (d. 1971)
Inez Milholland (1886-1916)
Aug 6 American suffragist (National Woman's Party), labor lawyer and socialist, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 7 Bill McKechnie, American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1940 Cincinnati Reds) and coach (World Series 1948 Cleveland Indians), born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
- Aug 7 Louis Alan Hazeltine, American inventor (neutrodyne circuit, making radio possible), born in Morristown, New Jersey (d. 1964)
- Aug 8 Daniel Ruyneman, Dutch composer and pianist (d. 1963)
- Aug 8 Pietro Alessandro Yon, Italian organist and composer, born in Settimo Vittone, Italy (d. 1943)
- Aug 12 Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
- Aug 13 Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African painter, born in Pretoria, South Africa (d. 1957)
- Aug 15 Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (left-arm bowler 1909-12), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1974)
- Aug 19 Robert Heger, German composer and conductor, born in Strasbourg, Kingdom of Prussia (now France) (d. 1978)
- Aug 20 Paul Tillich, German-American theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung), born in Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1965)
- Aug 23 Gottfried Rudinger, German composer, born in Lindau, Germany (d. 1946)
- Aug 24 William Francis Gibbs, American naval architect, designed Liberty ships, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)
- Aug 27 Eric Coates, English viola player and composer, born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1957)
- Aug 27 Rebecca Clarke, British-American violist and classical composer (Morpheus), born in Harrow, England (d. 1979)
Famous Weddings
Booker T. Washington
Aug 11 Education pioneer Booker T. Washington (30) weds Olivia Davidson (32) Athens, Ohio
Famous Deaths
- Aug 3 Per August Olander, Swedish violinist, and composer (Blenda), dies at 62
- Aug 4 Samuel J. Tilden, American politician (Governor of New York 1875-76, Presidential candidate 1876) and philanthropist (NY Public Library), dies at 72
- Aug 6 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
- Aug 9 Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
- Aug 10 Eduard Grell, German composer, dies at 85
- Aug 11 Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)
- Aug 13 Adolf von Doss, German composer, dies at 62
- Aug 16 Ramakrishna, Indian mystic and yogi, dies at 50
- Aug 17 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov, Russian chemist who discovered hexamine in 1859, dies at 57
- Aug 17 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 61
- Aug 22 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67
- Aug 30 Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American military officer and politician (US Representative from New York 1881-83), dies at 50
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