Historical Events
- Aug 1 99.9°F (37.7°C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record
Sports History
Aug 1 Baltimore shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. becomes only the second player after Lou Gehrig to appear in 2,000 consecutive MLB games, in a 1-0 win vs Twins
Music History
Aug 1 The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour
- Aug 1 Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed
- Aug 2 Congressional hearings begin on White Water
- Aug 2 Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
- Aug 2 Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
Film & TV History
Aug 2 NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
- Aug 3 102.4°F (39.1°C) in Tokyo Japan: record
- Aug 3 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
- Aug 4 27th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hyatt Regency
- Aug 4 Dwingeloo 1, near milky way system, discovered
- Aug 4 Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
- Aug 4 Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway
- Aug 5 Antonov-12 crashes at Boda, Eastern Siberia, 47 killed
- Aug 5 British rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 6 Algerian Muslim fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
- Aug 7 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
- Aug 7 Ernesto Samper sworn in as president of Colombia
Hedda Gabler
Aug 7 Revival of Henrik Ibsen's stage drama "Hedda Gabler", starring Kelly McGillis, closes at Criterion Theater, NYC, after 33 performances
- Aug 9 Stanley Betrian put in charge of Curacao
- Aug 10 Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
- Aug 11 João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, elected President of Guinea-Bissau
- Aug 12 1st NFL game on Fox network (exhibition - SF vs Denver)
- Aug 12 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute
- Aug 12 Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
- Aug 12 Stephen G Breyer, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
- Aug 13 Train crash in Tbilisi, Georgia, 24 killed
Women's British Open
Aug 14 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sörenstam; first LPGA sanctioned Open
- Aug 14 MLB pitcher Doc Gooden completes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center in Ranch Mirage, California
PGA Championship
Aug 14 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins his 2nd PGA C'ship by 6 strokes from American Corey Pavin
- Aug 14 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
- Aug 14 Terrorist "Carlos" arrested in Khartoum, Sudan
Event of Interest
Aug 15 South African President Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
- Aug 15 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
- Aug 16 Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections
- Aug 16 Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 17 King Letsie II of Lesotho dismisses premier Ntsu Mokhehle
- Aug 17 NY Central park reservoir officially named after Jackie Kennedy Onasis
- Aug 18 15th Commonwealth Games open in Victoria, Canada
- Aug 18 5.6 earthquake in Algeria, kills 171
- Aug 20 109.8°F (43.2°C) in Cordoba Spain
- Aug 20 Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
- Aug 20 Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
- Aug 20 Vuyani Bungu, the South African junior featherweight, wins the IBF World Boxing Title
- Aug 21 -23] Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed
- Aug 21 Ernesto Zedillo wins Mexican presidential election
- Aug 21 Royal Air Maroc ATR-42 crash down at Agadir, 44 killed
- Aug 21 The last French troops pull out of Rwanda, ending their highly controversial mission there
Murder of Interest
Aug 22 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
- Aug 22 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
Grace
Aug 23 Jeff Buckley releases his album "Grace", featuring his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"
- Aug 24 Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism
- Aug 24 Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
- Aug 24 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
Aug 27 Neil Simon's comedy "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 320 performances
- Aug 28 1st Japanese gay pride parade
- Aug 28 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
- Aug 28 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann
Sports History
Aug 31 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov
- Aug 31 The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland
Sports History
Aug 31 Thierry Henry makes his professional debut for Monaco in a 2–0 loss against Nice
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 2 Jacob Collier, English musician and producer (Djesse Vol. 1, 2, 3), born in London, England
- Aug 3 Todd Gurley, American NFL player (Los Angeles Rams), born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Aug 8 Lauv [Ari Staprans Leff]. American singer-songwriter, and record producer ("I Like Me Better"), born in San Francisco, California
- Aug 9 King Von [Dayvon Bennett], American rapper and songwriter ("Cazy Story"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020)
- Aug 10 Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer (Manchester City), born in Lisbon, Portugal
- Aug 10 Chun In-gee, South Korean golfer (US Open 2015, Evian C'ship 2016; Women's PGA C'ship 2022), born in Gunsan, South Korea
- Aug 17 Phoebe Bridgers, American singer-songwriter (Punisher), born in Newport Beach, California
- Aug 18 Jessie Flower [Michaela Murphy], American actress (Avatar: The Last Airbender), born in Southern Indiana
- Aug 18 Madelaine Petsch, American actress (Riverdale), born in Port Orchard, Washington
- Aug 19 Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian athlete (Gold medal heptathlon 2016 & 2020), born in Brussels, Belgium
- Aug 20 Miracle the white buffalo, an extremely rare white, non-albino buffalo calf, born in Janesville Wisconsin
- Aug 24 Kelsey Plum, American basketball player (Las Vegas Aces), born in Poway, California
- Aug 25 Josh Flitter, American actor (Air Buddies movies), born in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Breanna Stewart (29 years old)
Aug 27 American basketball power forward (NCAA C'ship 2013-16 UConn; WNBA C'ship 2018, 20 Seattle Storm; EuroLeague C'ship 2021 UMMC Ekaterinburg), born in Syracuse, New York
- Aug 28 Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player (World #2 2022; Wimbledon women's singles 2022, 23 & US Open 2022 runner-up), born in Ksar Hellal, Tunisia
Famous Weddings
The Notorious B.I.G.
Aug 4 American rapper The Notorious B.I.G. (22) weds singer Faith Evans
Famous Divorces
Billy Joel
Aug 25 American 'Piano Man' Billy Joel (45) and American supermodel Christie Brinkley (40) divorce after 9 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 George Dixon, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
- Aug 1 Gerard van de Groenekan, furniture maker/designer, dies at 90
- Aug 2 Bert Freed, American character actor (Shane, Invaders From Mars), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Aug 2 Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
- Aug 3 Hidalgo Moya, American architect and designer (Skylon), dies at 74
- Aug 3 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
- Aug 4 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian and politician, dies at 69
- Aug 4 Richard Du Cann, English lawyer and QC, dies at 65
- Aug 4 Solomon Adler, English-born economist and alleged spy for China, dies at 85
- Aug 5 Amy Sacks, American TV producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
- Aug 5 Audrey Langford, English singing teacher, dies at 82
- Aug 5 Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
- Aug 5 Terry Hibbitt, English footballer, dies at 47
- Aug 6 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter (Volare), dies at 66
- Aug 7 Larry Martyn, British comedy actor (Are You Being Served), dies at 60
- Aug 7 Robert Hutton [Winne], American actor (Torture Garden, Rocket), dies at 74
- Aug 8 Henriette Santer, Dutch-English clinical psychologist, dies at 62
- Aug 8 Leonid Leonov, Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
- Aug 8 Robin Cavendish, English campaigner for the disabled, dies at 64
- Aug 9 Clarence Ford, American sax player, dies at 64
- Aug 9 Mien van 't Sant, Dutch author (Mieke serial), dies at 93
- Aug 9 Toby Rowland, American theatrical manager (London), dies at 77
- Aug 10 Bill Baker, American doo-wop singer The Five Satins - "In The Still Of The Night"), dies at 58
- Aug 10 Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58
- Aug 11 Dorothy Grenfell Williams, radio producer and broadcaster, dies at 60
- Aug 11 Gordon Cullen, architect, dies at 80
- Aug 11 Mark "Red" Mitchell, American actor (JFK; 8 Seconds; Want to Live), dies when his car is struck by a train at 33
Peter Cushing (1913-1994)
Aug 11 English actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who), dies of cancer at 81
- Aug 12 Gene Cherico, American jazz bassist, dies at 59
- Aug 12 Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51
- Aug 13 Manfred Wörner, German general and Secretary-General of NATO (1988-94), dies at 59
- Aug 13 Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, French violinist and composer, dies at 75
- Aug 14 Alice Childress, American playwright, actress and writer, dies at 77
- Aug 14 Bill Cowley, creator (Lyke Wake Walk), dies at 78
- Aug 14 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, dies at 89
- Aug 14 Joan Harrison, English screenwriter and producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca, They Won't Believe Me), dies at 83
- Aug 14 Patrick Meehan, Scottish petty criminal, wrongly convicted of murder and later given a royal pardon, dies of throat cancer at 67 [1]
- Aug 14 Tom Greenshields, English sculptor, dies at 79
- Aug 15 Shepherd Mead, American writer (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying), dies of stroke at 80
- Aug 15 Simon R. Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
- Aug 15 Wout Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
- Aug 16 Earnest Pawel, Polish/American author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
- Aug 16 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
- Aug 16 Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
- Aug 16 John Doucette, American actor (The Lone Ranger, Lock Up, Big Town), dies of cancer at 73
- Aug 17 Jack Sharkey, American boxer (NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight champion 1932-33), dies at 91
- Aug 18 Gottlob Frick, German opera singer, dies at 88
- Aug 18 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, literary agent, dies at 56
- Aug 18 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist (Nobel 1952), dies at 79
- Aug 19 John George Hughes, British academic and 9th bishop of Kensington (1987-1994), dies at 59
- Aug 19 Ladislav Fuks, Czech writer, dies at 70
Linus Pauling (1901-1994)
Aug 19 American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), dies at 93
- Aug 19 Nancy Lancaster, American British decorator (Colefax and Fowler), dies at 96
- Aug 19 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet poet, dies at 64
- Aug 19 Walter Bartley, English biochemist, dies at 78
- Aug 20 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
- Aug 20 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
- Aug 21 Anita Lizana, Chilean tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1937; first Latin American major winner), dies at 78
- Aug 21 Danitra Vance, American comedienne (SNL, 1985), and actress (Jumpin' At The Boneyard), dies of breast cancer at 40
- Aug 21 Hein Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch eccentric millionaire, dies at 73
- Aug 22 Leo Lerman, American writer and editor (Condé Nast Publications), dies at 80
- Aug 22 Tom Quirke, journalist, dies at 42
- Aug 23 Henri Rousselot, French admiral (submarine commander WWII), dies at 82
- Aug 23 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
- Aug 23 Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
- Aug 23 Richard Jock Kinneir, British graphic designer (modern road signs), dies at 77
- Aug 24 Jason McRoy, English mountain bike racer, dies in a motorcycle accident at 23
- Aug 25 Ramdas Nayak, Indian Hindu leader and politician, murdered at 52
- Aug 26 Tariq Yunus, Indian actor (Bollywood; Ashanti; Deceivers), dies at 54
- Aug 27 Roberto Goyeneche [El Polaco], Argentine tango singer (Maria), dies at 68
- Aug 28 Alfonso Letelier (-Llona), Chilean composer and educator (El Hombre ante la Ciencia - (Man Before Science)), dies at 88
- Aug 28 David Wright, South African-British poet (Deafness: A Personal Account), dies of cancer at 74
- Aug 28 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
- Aug 28 Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies of cancer at 25
- Aug 29 Arthur Ernest Mourant, British hematologist, dies at 90
- Aug 29 Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead
- Aug 29 Marea Hartman, English athletics administrator who integrated women's sports, dies at 74
- Aug 29 Michael Peters, American choreographer and dancer (Dreamgirls; Michael Jackson), dies of complications from AIDS at 46
- Aug 29 Phillip Gilmore, American actor (Malcolm X), dies at 38
- Aug 29 Tushar Kanti Ghosh, Indian journalist and world's oldest and longest serving newspaper editor (Amrita Bazar Patrika), dies at 95
- Aug 30 Lindsay Anderson, British director (If ...), dies at 71
- Aug 30 Michael Gribble, American film animator (Mike & Spike Festival), dies of cancer at 42
- Aug 31 Artur Balsam, Polish-American pianist, dies at 88
- Aug 31 Barbara Avedon, American scriptwriter (Bewitched), dies at 69
- Aug 31 Norman "Doc" Jones, American jazz bass player (Jo Jo Parnell Trio), dies at 68
