Historical Events
- Aug 1 British troops enter Vladivostok
- Aug 1 Pittsburgh and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21
- Aug 2 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I
- Aug 3 The first allied troops land at Archangel, the Russian port on the White Seas
Event of Interest
Aug 4 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann
- Aug 6 Ferdinand Foch becomes Marshal of France during WWI
- Aug 6 World War I: Second Battle of the Marne ends
- Aug 8 World War I: The Allies launch the Hundred Days Offensive, beginning with the Battle of Amiens where 500 tanks and 10 Allied divisions attacked German lines
- Aug 9 Cincinnati Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"
- Aug 12 WWI: Allies defeat Germans at the Battle of Amiens - the last great battle on the Western Front
- Aug 13 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany
- Aug 15 Longest work of animation then produced - "The Sinking of Lusitania" by Winsor McCay
- Aug 16 US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops
- Aug 17 Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated
- Aug 17 British troops attack Baku, Azerbaijan
- Aug 17 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000
- Aug 17 Turkish troops overthrow Caukasus
Yip Yip Yaphank
Aug 19 Irving Berlin's military musical revue "Yip Yip Yaphank" opens at the Century Theater, later transferring to the Lexington, NYC
- Aug 20 WWI: Britain opens offensive on Western front
- Aug 24 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
- Aug 24 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
- Aug 26 Winchell Smith & Frank Bacon's comedic play "Lightnin'" premieres in NYC
- Aug 27 Christy Mathewson resigns as Cincinnati Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of US Army
- Aug 27 Dr Joseph L Johnson named as US minister to Liberia
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Aug 27 Spanish flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the US
Suspension of Tris Speaker
Aug 28 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
Second Battle of Bapaume
Aug 29 WWI: Bapaume, France re-taken from the Germans in the Second Battle of Bapaume by British, Australian, NZ and Canadian Corps in the Hundred Days Offensive
- Aug 30 Czechoslovakia forms independent republic
- Aug 31 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist, born in Carmarthenshire (d. 1999)
- Aug 3 (Robert Jordan) "Smoki" Whitfield, American actor (Bomba the Jungle Boy; Lord of the Jungle; Swamp Fox), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1967)
- Aug 3 Eddie Jefferson, American jazz vocalese singer and lyricist ("Moody's Mood for Love"), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1979)
- Aug 3 James MacGregor Burns, American political writer (The Lion & the Fox), born in Melrose, Massachusetts (d. 2014)
- Aug 3 Larry Haines [Hecht], American actor (The Odd Couple, Search for Tomorrow), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 2008)
- Aug 3 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1999)
- Aug 4 Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), African-American author, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1992)
- Aug 5 Betty Oliphant, British-Canadian ballerina, co-founder of National Ballet School of Canada, born in London, England (d. 2004)
- Aug 5 Tom Drake [Alfred Sinclair Alderdice], American actor (Meet Me In St. Louis; Warlock), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1982)
- Aug 6 Norman Granz, American jazz record producer (Verve Records; Pablo Records), and impresario (Jazz at the Philharmonic), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2001)
- Aug 7 C. Buddingh', Dutch poet, born in Dordrecht, Netherlands (d. 1985)
- Aug 9 Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (Dirty Dozen), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1983)
- Aug 10 Arnett Cobb, American jazz tenor saxophonist (Lionel Hampton), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1989)
- Aug 10 Eugene Wilkinson, naval officer (first nuclear sub commander), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2013)
- Aug 10 Joseph Hardy, American character actor (Husbands; The Clock), born in Arlington, Massachusetts (d. 1990)
Guy Gibson (1918-1944)
Aug 12 British aviator who led the Dambusters Raid (Victoria Cross), born in Simla, India
- Aug 12 Margaret Burbidge, British-American astronomer and educator (faint object spectrograph of the Hubble Space), born in Davenport, England (d. 2020) [1]
- Aug 12 Sid Bernstein, music producer and concert promoter (Beatles; Rolling Stones), born in New York City (d. 2013)
- Aug 13 Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1997)
- Aug 13 Frederick Sanger, British biochemist (worked out structure of insulin, developed Sanger sequencing to sequence complete genome, Nobel Prize 1958, 1980), born in Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England (d. 2013)
- Aug 13 John Bunting, Australian diplomat and senior civil servant, born in Ballarat, Victoria (d. 1995)
- Aug 15 Fay Honey Knopp, American activist (founded a Quaker ministry for men and women in prisons), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1995)
- Aug 15 Florian ZaBach, American violinist ("The Hot Canary") and TV personality, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006)
- Aug 15 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, born in Saigon, Vietnam (d. 1994)
- Aug 17 Ike Quebec, American jazz tenor saxophone player, and pianist, born in Newark. New Jersey (d. 1963)
- Aug 17 Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings), born in New York City (d. 1979)
- Aug 19 Jimmy Rowles [Hunter], American jazz pianist and composer (The Peacocks), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1996)
- Aug 19 Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician, ninth President of India (1992-97), born in Bhopal, British India (d. 1999)
Jacqueline Susann (1918-1974)
Aug 20 American author (Valley of the Dolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 21 Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba (d. 2004)
- Aug 22 Mary McGrory, American journalist and columnist, born in Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
- Aug 24 Ray McIntire, American chemical engineer (invented Styrofoam at Dow), born in Gardner, Kansas (d. 1996)
- Aug 24 Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala, born in Delhi, India (d. 2004)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Aug 25 American Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1958-69; Israel Philharmonic; London Symphony), and composer (West Side Story; Chichester Psalms), born in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Aug 25 Richard Greene, English stage and screen actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood), born in Plymouth, Devon, England (d. 1985)
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)
Aug 26 American NASA mathematician (portrayed in film Hidden Figures), born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
- Aug 26 Louis Stotijn, Dutch bassoonist, and conductor (Residence Orchestra), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2013)
- Aug 27 Lord Winstanley, British MP (Labour) (d. 1993)
- Aug 28 Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, President of Argentina (1971-73), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1996)
- Aug 29 Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch economist, politician (Prime Minister, 1966-67), and President of Netherlands Bank (1967-82), born in Oosterbierum, Netherlands (d. 2001)
- Aug 30 Billy Johnson, American baseball player, born in Montclair, New Jersey (d. 2006)
Ted Williams (1918-2002)
Aug 30 American Baseball HOF outfielder (last player to bat over .400 in single season; 19 x MLB All Star; AL MVP 1946, 49; Triple Crown 1942, 47 Boston Red Sox), born in San Diego, California
Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
Aug 31 American Tony and Academy Award-winning lyricist (with Frederick Loewe - My Fair Lady; Gigi; Camelot), and screenwriter, born in New York City
- Aug 31 Lucrecia Roces Kasilag, Filipina composer (Filiasiana), concert pianist, and educator (Bayanihan Dance Company), born in San Fernando, Philippines (d. 2008)
Famous Weddings
Enrico Caruso
Aug 18 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso (45) weds American socialite Dorothy Benjamin (25) in New York City, until his death in 1921
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, Canadian physician and founder of Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal), dies at 72
- Aug 1 John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy, dies at 64
- Aug 3 Albert Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies of tuberculosis at 41
- Aug 8 Gertrude E. Durden Rush, American composer and playwright, dies at 38
- Aug 10 Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
- Aug 12 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), dies of cancer at 46
- Aug 13 Luther Gulick, American Basketball Hall of Fame contributor (basketball pioneer; international official), dies at 53
- Aug 15 Heinrich Köselitz [Peter Gast], German composer, dies at 64
- Aug 22 Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (b. 1868)
- Aug 29 Max Dauthendey, German painter and author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51
- Aug 31 Joe English, Irish-Flemish draftsman, painter, and soldier (designed WWI gravestones), dies of appendicitis at 36
