Historical Events
Presidential Convention
Aug 7 Progressive (Bull Moose) Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for US President
Sports History
Aug 20 Washington Senators future Baseball HOF pitcher Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight, beating Cleveland Naps, 4-2; in nightcap Carl Cushion no-hits Naps, 2-0 in 6 innings
Parade for US Olympians
Aug 24 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
- Aug 24 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
- Aug 25 1st time an aircraft recovers from a spin
- Aug 25 Different nationalities battle with each other in Macedonia
- Aug 25 The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- Aug 26 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
US Men's Tennis Open
Aug 26 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Maurice McLoughlin wins first of 2 straight US singles titles; beats Wallace F. Johnson 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
- Aug 30 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Bryan Keith-Lucas, British political scientist, born in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire (d. 1996)
- Aug 1 Henry Jones, American actor (Vertigo, Phyllis, Falcon Crest, Gun Shy), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
- Aug 1 Masaya Hanai, Japanese businessman (d. 1995)
- Aug 2 Ann Dvorak [McKim], American actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface), born in New York City (d. 1979)
- Aug 2 Bela Szigeti, Hungarian theoretical physicist, born in Budapest (d. 1996)
- Aug 2 Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and UN statistician, born in Križ, Moslavania, Croatia (d. 2001)
- Aug 4 Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer, born in Volyn, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1999)
- Aug 4 David Raksin, American composer renown for his work in film and TV (Laura; Modern Times), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
- Aug 4 Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews), born in Lidingö Municipality, Sweden (d. 1947)
- Aug 5 Abbé Pierre, French Catholic priest (d. 2007)
- Aug 8 Daniel Mann [Chugerman], American stage and screen director (The Rose Tattoo; The Teahouse Of The August Moon; Butterfield 8), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
- Aug 10 Herman Strategier, Dutch organist, conductor, and composer (Rembrandt Cantata; Shadow Out of Time), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1988)
- Aug 10 Ivo Samkalden, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), Mayor of Amsterdam (1967-77), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1967)
- Aug 10 Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (O Pais do Carnaval), born near Itabuna, Brazil (d. 2001)
- Aug 10 Richard Reeves, American character actor (The Adventures of Superman; Date With an Angel), born in Queens, NYC, New York (d. 1967)
- Aug 10 Romain Maes, Belgian road cyclist (Tour de France 1935), born in Zerkegem, Belgium (d. 1983)
- Aug 11 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
- Aug 12 Margaret Scriven, English tennis player (French C'ships 1933-34), born in Leeds, West Yorkshire (d. 2001)
- Aug 12 Samuel Fuller, American screenwriter and director (Shock Corridor, The Big Red One), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1997)
Ben Hogan (1912-1997)
Aug 13 American golfer (9-time major title winner; US masters 1951, 53), born in Stephenville, Texas
- Aug 13 Max Croiset, Dutch actor (The Village on the River, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark), born in Blaricum, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Aug 13 Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1978)
- Aug 13 Rita Johnson, American actress (Honolulu, All Mine to Give), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1965)
- Aug 13 Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize for medicine 1969 genetic structure of viruses), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1991)
- Aug 13 “Big Chief” Russell Moore, Pima-American jazz trombonist (Lionel Hampton; Louis Armstrong), and composer ("Wounded Knee Chant"), born in the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona (d. 1983)
- Aug 14 Eva Strittmatter, German writer (Tinko), born in Spremberg, Niederlausitz, Germany (d. 1930)
- Aug 14 Karel Poons, Jewish-Dutch ballet dancer, educator, and Holocaust survivor, born in Amsterdam (d. 1994)
- Aug 15 Julia Child, American chef, author and television personality (The French Chef), born in Pasadena, California (d. 2004)
- Aug 15 Wendy Hiller, English actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield), born in Bramhall, Cheshire, England (d. 2003)
- Aug 16 Marga Klompé, Dutch 1st female minister (CRM), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1986)
- Aug 16 Ted Drake [Edward Joseph Drake], English footballer, born in Southampton, England (d. 1995)
- Aug 17 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter, son of Charley Toorop, born in Bergen, Netherlands (d. 1974)
- Aug 18 Elsa Morante, Italian writer, born in Rome (d. 1985)
- Aug 20 Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher and founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2004)
- Aug 21 Bruce Trent [William Butters], British singer and actor (The Passing Show, Band Waggon), born in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands (d. 1995)
- Aug 21 Man Singh II, Maharajah of Jaipur State, born in Rajuptana Agency (d. 1970)
- Aug 21 Toe Blake, Canadian Hockey HOF left wing (Stanley Cup 1935 Montreal Maroons; 1944, 46 Montreal Canadiens) and coach (Stanley Cup 1956-60, 1965-66, 68 Montreal Canadiens), born in Victoria Mines, Ontario (d. 1995)
- Aug 22 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1994)
- Aug 22 Richard Catling, British commissioner of police (Kenya), born in Leiston, Suffolk (d. 2005)
Gene Kelly (1912-1996)
Aug 23 American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and film director (An American in Paris; On The Town; Singin' in the Rain), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Aug 23 Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin, British businessman and President (GPG), born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1997)
- Aug 23 Jara Ribnikar, Serbian writer, born in Königgrätz, Bohemia (d. 2007)
- Aug 24 Durward Kirby, American TV announcer (Garry Moore Show), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2000)
- Aug 24 Fritz "Freddie" Brocksieper, German big band jazz drummer, and bandleader, born in Constantinople, Turkey (now Istanbul) (d. 1990)
- Aug 25 Erich Honecker, German politician, Head of State of East Germany (1971-89), born in Neunkirchen (d. 1994)
- Aug 27 Peter Gretton, British vice admiral, born in Franham, Surrey (d. 1992)
- Aug 28 Ruurd Faber, Dutch politcian and Mayor of Aalten (1971-75), born in Veenhuizen, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Aug 29 Barry Sullivan, American actor (Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man), born in New York City (d. 1994)
- Aug 29 Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects), born in Hagen, Germany (d. 1999)
- Aug 29 Sohn Kee-chung, Korean athlete and long-distance runner, born in Sinuiju, North Korea (d. 2002)
- Aug 29 Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-Polish cinematographer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2016)
- Aug 30 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1952 for nuclear magnetic resonance), born in Taylorville, Illinois (d. 1997)
- Aug 30 Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent (Special Operations Executive), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2011)
- Aug 31 Ramon Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor, born in Chillán, Chile (d. 1996)
Famous Weddings
Niels Bohr
Aug 1 Physicist Niels Bohr (26) weds Margrethe Norlund at a civil ceremony in Slagelse, Denmark
Virginia Woolf
Aug 10 British "To the Lighthouse" author Virginia Woolf [nee Stephen] (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) at the St Pancras (London) Register Office, until her deathsuicide in 1941
Famous Deaths
- Aug 7 François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Aug 13 French opera composer (Werther; Manon), dies of abdominal cancer at 70
William Booth (1829-1912)
Aug 20 English preacher and founder of the Salvation Army, dies at 83 [1]
- Aug 24 Alfred Berger, Austrian playwright, dies at 59
