Historical Events
- Aug 1 "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
- Aug 1 American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women's 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, with 5 athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers (10.82)
- Aug 1 British athlete Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100m gold medal edging Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona
- Aug 1 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
- Aug 1 USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
- Aug 2 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics
Theatrical Finale
Aug 2 Ariel Dorfman's stage drama "Death and the Maiden", starring Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfuss, and Gene Hackman, and directed by Mike Nichols, closes at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC, after 159 performances
Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 2 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser & Bill McGowan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Aug 2 Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus becomes the first gymnast to win 6 gold medals at one Olympics in Barcelona, also first to win 4 gold in one day's competition (pommel, vault, rings & parallel bars)
Unforgiven
Aug 3 "Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1993)
- Aug 3 Paramount Studios inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
- Aug 4 In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men's & women's doubles go to South Korea
- Aug 4 Italian fencer Giovanna Trillini wraps up gold medals in both women's foil events at the Barcelona Olympics as part of the winning team
- Aug 4 The diving competition at the Barcelona Olympics concludes with Chinese athletes dominant, winning 3 of 4 gold medals contested - American Mark Lenzi wins 3m springbaord
- Aug 5 Cuba wins baseball's inaugural gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, beating Chinese Taipei 11-1
Rodney King Riots
Aug 5 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King and indicted on civil rights charges
Olympic Gold
Aug 6 The US track team sweeps the medals in the long jump at the Barcelona Olympics as Carl Lewis wins gold (28 feet, 5 1/2 inches), Mike Powell silver and Joe Greene bronze
- Aug 6 Wrestler Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American to win in three straight Olympics, capturing the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division in Barcelona
- Aug 7 San Francisco Giants announce sale of MLB franchise to group of Tampa Bay investors; move blocked by other investors
- Aug 7 Taking advantage of 6 months training on home town Terrassa pitch, Spain wins their first hockey gold medal beating Germany 2-1 in the women's final at the Barcelona Olympics
Sports History
Aug 7 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal
- Aug 8 Bulgarian canoeist Nikolay Bukhalov completes the C-1 500 / 1,000 double winning the latter at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 8 Fermín Cacho wins Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes out the 1,500m at the Barcelona Games
- Aug 8 Germany goes through the field hockey competition undefeated to win gold with a 2-1 win over Australia in the men's final at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 8 Lou Whitaker hits his 200th career HR
Music History
Aug 8 Metallica singer and guitarist James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns during a pyrotechnics explosion on stage at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
- Aug 8 Spanish centre forward Kiko scores twice as the home team takes the football Olympic gold medal with a 3-2 win over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona
Olympic Gold
Aug 8 The original US 'Dream Team' wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 117-85 over Croatia; features superstars Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing
- Aug 9 Cuban boxer Félix Savón wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when he dominates Nigerian David Izonritei on points at the Barcelona Games
- Aug 9 Future 6-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US beats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics
Cricket History
Aug 9 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
- Aug 9 Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Aug 9 Revival of Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", starring Alec Baldwin & Jessica Lange, closes at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 137 performances
- Aug 10 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
- Aug 10 Soyuz TM-15 lands
The Real Inspector Hound
Aug 13 Revival of Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion Center Stage Right, New York, NYC; runs for 61 performances
- Aug 15 Colombo '92 closes in Genoa, Italy
- Aug 15 Striker Brian Deane scores both goals for Sheffield United in a season-opening 2-1 home win over Manchester United at Bramall Lane; first of Deane's goals is the first in EPL's inaugural season
F1 World Champion
Aug 16 British Williams driver Nigel Mansell finishes second in Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- Aug 16 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. Charles CC: American Sherri Steinhauer wins first of 2 majors (British Open 2006) by 3 from Judy Dickinson
- Aug 16 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs world 3,000m record 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany
PGA Championship
Aug 16 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins by 3 from John Cook, Nick Faldo, Jim Gallagher & Gene Sauers
- Aug 17 Hurricane Andrew forms south-east of Barbados in the Caribbean
- Aug 17 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
- Aug 19 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
- Aug 19 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
- Aug 20 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
- Aug 21 US Marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to apprehend him on firearms charges; an 11 day stand-off ensues
- Aug 22 FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Cricket History
Aug 22 Greg Matthews (4/76) & Shane Warne (3/11) spin Australia to a famous 16-run win v Sri Lanka in 1st cricket Test in Colombo
- Aug 23 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
- Aug 23 Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
- Aug 24 1st structural steel beams are erected at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio
- Aug 24 Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
- Aug 24 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded
- Aug 24 NFL Cleveland Browns suffer their worst pre-season loss, 56-3, to Minnesota Vikings
- Aug 24 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
- Aug 25 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 26 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 46 performances
- Aug 26 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 3 storm after causing deaths and severe damage in Florida
- Aug 27 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
Baseball Trade
Aug 27 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
- Aug 28 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
- Aug 28 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
- Aug 29 Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout. He decides to keep the ball by rolling it to the dugout, allowing Ricky Jordan to take second base on error.
- Aug 29 Largest wrestling crowd outside US - 75,000 at Wembley Stadium, London
- Aug 29 Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
- Aug 30 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
- Aug 30 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
- Aug 30 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
Low
Aug 30 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 1 (Low), based loosely on David Bowie's 1977 album "Low", premieres with the Junge Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, in Munich, Germany
The Most Happy Fella
Aug 30 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater, NYC, after 229 performances
Emmy Awards
Aug 31 44th Emmy Awards: "Northern Exposure" (Best Drama & Best Drama Writing), Christopher Lloyd (Road To Avalonlea), and Dana Delany (China Beach) win
- Aug 31 Dynamite explosion in a mine in the Philippines kills 500
- Aug 31 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 2 Charli XCX [Charlotte Aitchison], English singer-songwriter (Charli), born in Cambridge, England
- Aug 2 Hallie Eisenberg, American actress, born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
- Aug 3 Karlie Kloss, American model (Project Runway host), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Aug 3 Nadeshot [Matthew Haag], American professional gamer and Youtuber (Call of Duty)
Cole Sprouse (31 years old)
Aug 4 American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Riverdale), born in Arezzo, Italy
Dylan Sprouse (31 years old)
Aug 4 American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy
- Aug 4 Flavien Prat, French jockey (Kentucky Derby 2019; Preakness Stakes 2021; Prix Marcel Boussac 2013), born in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France
- Aug 4 Tiffany Evans, American pop and R&B singer, born in The Bronx, New York
- Aug 6 Liz Cooper, American rock singer-songwriter (Liz Cooper & The Stampede), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Aug 10 Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
- Aug 11 Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
- Aug 11 Jose Ortiz Jr., Puerto Rican jockey (Belmont Stakes 2016), born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
- Aug 12 Cara Delevingne, English fashion model, actress, and LGBT activist, born in London, England
- Aug 13 Katharine Close, American Scripps National Spelling Bee champion (2006)
- Aug 16 Quentin Fillon Maillet, French biathlete (Olympic gold 20k individual, 12.5k pursuit 2022), born in Champagnole, France
- Aug 18 Frances Bean Cobain, American artist and daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love, born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 18 Mawaan Rizwan, Pakistani-British comedian and actor (Taskmaster), born in Lahore, Pakistan
- Aug 18 Riko Narumi, Japanese actress and model, born in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
- Aug 20 Alex Newell, American actor and singer (Glee, Shucked), born in Lynn, Massachusetts
Demi Lovato (31 years old)
Aug 20 American actress (Camp Rock) and singer-songwriter ("Unbroken"), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Aug 20 Nat Sciver-Brunt, English cricketer (captain of England), born in Tokyo, Japan
- Aug 20 Neslihan Atagül, Turkish actress (Kara Sevda), born in Istanbul, Turkey
- Aug 21 Brad Kavanagh, British stage and screen actor (House of Anubis - "Fabian"), and singer-songwriter, born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
- Aug 22 Naomi Ackie, English actress (The End of the F***ing World), born in London, England
- Aug 25 Kaytranada [Louis Celestin], Haitian-Canadian record producer, DJ and rapper (Bubba), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Aug 25 Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer (Pink Cres), born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- Aug 26 Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast, born in Huadu, Guangzhou, China
- Aug 27 Carissa Moore, American surfer (WSL Women's World Tour Champion 2011, 13, 15, 19), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Aug 27 Daniel Ståhl, Swedish athlete (Olympic gold discus 2020; World C'ship gold 2019), born in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Aug 27 Kim Petras, German singer-songwriter (Unholy), born in Cologne, Germany
- Aug 29 Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter, born in São Paulo, Brazil
Famous Weddings
Janeane Garofalo
Aug 16 Comedian Janeane Garofalo (27) weds writer Robert Cohen in Las Vegas
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orchestra), dies of cancer at 72
- Aug 1 Kenny Sacha, American actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer film), dies of AIDS at 39
- Aug 1 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), dies at 76
- Aug 1 Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
- Aug 2 Ephraim Katz, Israeli American writer and filmmaker (The Film Encyclopedia), dies at 60
- Aug 2 Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of a heart attack at 44
- Aug 2 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/American journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
- Aug 2 Michel Berger [Hamburger], French singer-songwriter, and record producer. dies of a heart attack at 44
Wang Hongwen (1935-1992)
Aug 3 Chinese politician (member of the Gang of Four), dies at 56
- Aug 4 František Tomášek, 34th Archbishop of Prague and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, dies at 93
- Aug 4 Ralph Cooper, American master-of-ceremonies (creator of Amateur Night at the Apollo), actor, dancer, and choreographer, dies of cancer at 84
- Aug 5 Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto - "Rosanna"; "Africa"), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
Robert Muldoon (1921-1992)
Aug 5 New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984), dies at 70
- Aug 7 John Anderson, American actor (Psycho, Ride the High Country, Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies of a heart attack at 69
- Aug 7 Titti Sotto, Cuban singer and composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies of respiratory and liver failure at 48
- Aug 8 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian influential Shia Islamic scholar, dies at 92
- Aug 8 Alison L. Gertz, American aids-activist, Esquire women of year, dies of aids at 26
- Aug 8 Arthur Lang, American boxer and businessman, dies at 115
- Aug 8 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker and advisor, dies at 58
- Aug 8 Lou Krugman, American actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78
- Aug 8 Thomas J. McIntyre, American senator and writer (Fear Brokers), dies at 77
- Aug 9 Christopher Todd [Todd Wangberg], American performer, dies of AIDS at 30
- Aug 9 Jan van Baal, Dutch anthropologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea, dies (b. 1909)
- Aug 9 Patrick Devlin, English judge and legal philosopher, dies at 86
- Aug 9 Thomas J. McIntyre, American politician (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
- Aug 9 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), dies at 87
- Aug 10 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
- Aug 12 John Cage, American composer (4′33″; Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O), dies of a stroke at 79
- Aug 12 Mazoon al-Mashani, 2nd wife of Sultan Said bin Taimur and Queen Mother of Oman, dies at about 72
- Aug 12 Patricia Harmsworth, Lady Rothermere [Bubbles], English socialite and actress, dies at 59
- Aug 13 Bill Elverman, American playwright and actor (After Hours), dies at 40
- Aug 13 Clifford Allison, American stock-car racer, dies in a practice race at 27
- Aug 13 David Kaplan, American news producer (ABC), shot and killed reporting in Sarajevo Yugoslavia at 44 or 45
- Aug 13 Jan Elburg [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night), dies at 72
- Aug 14 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian-Dutch painter, dies at 104
- Aug 14 Flora Benson, American wife of Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 91
John Sirica (1904-1992)
Aug 14 American federal judge (Watergate hearings), dies at 88
- Aug 14 Marion Ames, American advocate for court reform, dies at 74
- Aug 14 Norah Phillips, Baroness Phillips, British politician (1st female Whip - UK House of Lords), dies at 82
- Aug 14 Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters, 1953-59 - "Only You"; "Great Pretender"), dies at 64
- Aug 15 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, American author (American Glass Animals), dies
- Aug 15 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (who saved 5,200 Jews from deportation in Hungary), dies at 82
- Aug 15 Jackie Edwards, Jamaican songwriter (Keep On Running), dies at 53 or 54
- Aug 15 Marie Paxton, British stage and screen actress (Ouanga; Kind Lady), dies at 87
- Aug 15 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies at 48
- Aug 15 Osamu Inaba, Japanese Minister of justice (helped bring down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka in Lockheed bribery scandal), dies at 82
- Aug 16 Don "Pixie" Roberts, Australian jazz clarinetist, saxophone player, and record label executive (Swaggle), dies at 75
- Aug 16 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
- Aug 17 Andre de Villiers, South African farmer and ANC informant, murdered at 42
- Aug 17 Barbara Morgan, American photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
- Aug 17 Tommy Nutter, English fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDS at 49
- Aug 18 Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
- Aug 18 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
- Aug 18 John Sturges, American film director (Gunfight at the OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
- Aug 19 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), dies of a brain tumor at 80
- Aug 19 Feliks Arons, Dutch director and actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
- Aug 19 Norvel Lee, American boxer (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 67
- Aug 20 Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, Russian "lost" cosmonaut, dies at 59
- Aug 20 William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
- Aug 21 Dai Vernon [David Frederick Wingfield Verner], Canadian magician, dies at 98
- Aug 21 Lucille Brown, American actress (Our Gang - "Farina"(the 1st one)), dies after illness at 74
- Aug 21 Theo van Tijn, Dutch Marxist social historian, dies at 65
- Aug 21 Theodor Berger, Austrian composer. (Sinfonia Parabolica), dies at 87
- Aug 22 Paul Winter, American classical and session violinist (NBC Orchestra, 1937-58), dies at 78
- Aug 23 Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way), dies at 85
- Aug 23 Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
- Aug 24 André Donner, Dutch jurist (2nd President European Court of Justice), dies at 74
- Aug 24 Larrie Londin [Ralph Gallant], American session drummer (Motown and Nashville), dies of a heart attack at 48
- Aug 25 Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
- Aug 25 Frederick O'Neal, American actor, theatre producer and television director (Pinky, Car 54 Where Are You), dies from natural causes at 86
- Aug 25 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
- Aug 26 Arthur Leigh Allen, American elementary school teacher and suspected Zodiac serial killer, dies at 58
- Aug 26 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Tintin, Kuifje), dies at 66
- Aug 29 Mary Norton, English children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
- Aug 29 Teddy Turner, English comedian (Coronation Street), dies at 75
- Aug 31 Wolfgang Güllich, German rock climber, dies at 31 after a car crash
