Historical Events
- Aug 1 American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200m at the Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to become the first man to complete the 200m-400m double
- Aug 1 Dan O'Brien wins the decathlon gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics to become the first American since Bruce Jenner in 1976 to win the gruelling event
- Aug 1 French sprinter Marie-José Pérec wins the 200m final at the Atlanta Olympics to become only the 2nd athlete to win the 200-400m Olympic double (Valerie Brisco-Hooks 1984)
A Game of Thrones
Aug 1 George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones", the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
- Aug 1 M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched
- Aug 1 Tiffeny Milbrett scores the winner as the US beats China 2-1 at the Atlanta Olympics for the first ever Olympic gold medal in women's soccer
Olympic Gold
Aug 2 The star-studded United States men's basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics
Tour de France
Aug 3 5-time Tour de France winner Miguel Induráin of Spain wins the 52.2k road time trial in 1:04:05, 12 seconds ahead of countryman Abraham Olano at the Atlanta Olympics
Olympic Gold
Aug 3 American Andre Agassi wins the men's singles Tennis gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics beating Spaniard Sergi Bruguera 6-2, 6-3, 6-1
- Aug 3 US General William F. Garrison accepts responsibility for outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and retires from military service
Canadian Women's Open
Aug 4 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Edmonton CC: Laura Davies wins by 2 from Karrie Webb and Nancy Lopez
Baseball Hall of Fame
Aug 4 Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster and Ned Hanlon inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
- Aug 4 XXVI Summer Olympic Games close in Atlanta, Georgia
- Aug 5 Kansas City Chiefs rout Dallas Cowboys 32-6 in an NFL pre-season exhibition game in Monterrey Mexico
- Aug 6 Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 people
- Aug 6 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars after examining meteorite ALH84001, thought to be from Mars
Event of Interest
Aug 6 US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya
- Aug 8 American jazz artist Mel Tormé (70), suffers a stroke, ending his 65-year singing career
- Aug 10 Dare & Go ends Cigars record tying victory streak at 16
- Aug 10 New Zealand beats South Africa, 29-18 in Cape Town to win the inaugural Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
- Aug 10 Parlisha Williams (Louisiana) crowned Ms Black USA Metroplex
- Aug 10 Yanks lose ending 3rd best home series victory streak at 24
- Aug 11 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Vallhalla GC: Mark Brooks wins his first major title with birdie on first playoff hole against fellow American Kenny Perry
A Thousand Clowns
Aug 11 Revival of Herb Gardner's stage comedy-drama "A Thousand Clowns" starring Judd Hirsch, closes at Criterion Theater, NYC, after 32 performances
Women's British Open
Aug 18 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn, Duke's Course: Emilee Klein wins by 7 strokes ahead of fellow Americans Amy Alcott and Penny Hammel
- Aug 18 Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
- Aug 19 The major South African political parties begin their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
- Aug 20 India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
- Aug 21 Christie Lee Woods, 18, of Texas, crowned 14th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 21 In Venezuela, a subsidiary of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), Corpoven, signs a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S.-based ARCO
- Aug 21 Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
Hughie
Aug 21 Revival of Eugene O'Neill's' drama "Hughie", directed by Al Pacino, and starring Pacino and Paul Benedict, opens at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC; runs for 56 performances
- Aug 22 ANC makes its first submission to Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
Bin Laden's Declaration of War
Aug 23 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"
- Aug 25 96th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
7th Heaven
Aug 26 "7th Heaven", starring Jessica Biel, debuts on The WB
- Aug 26 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy
Sports History
Aug 27 Dino Ciccarelli is traded by the Detroit Red Wings to the Tampa Bay Lightning
Venice Film Festival
Aug 28 53rd Venice Film Festival: "Michael Collins" directed by Neil Jordan wins Golden Lion
- Aug 28 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex
- Aug 29 Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 7 Tessa Allen, American actress, born in Manhattan Beach, California
- Aug 8 A'ja Wilson, American basketball player (Las Vegas Aces), born in Hopkins, South Carolina
- Aug 16 Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer (7 x Olympic gold 2016, 20; 13 x World C'ship gold; WR 100m butterfly 49.45 2020), born in Green Cove Springs, Florida
- Aug 16 Will Zalatoris, American golfer (US Masters 2021, US Open & PGA C'ship 2022 runner-up), born in San Francisco, California
- Aug 17 Ella Cruz, Filipina actress (Aryana), born in Angat, Philippines
- Aug 21 Jamia Simone Nash, American singer and actress, born in Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Aug 21 Karolína Muchová, Czech tennis player (French Open 2023 runner-up), born in Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Aug 30 Mikal Bridges, American NBA player (Phoenix Suns), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 30 Trevor Jackson, American actor, singer-songwriter (Grown-ish), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Aug 31 Jalen Brunson, American NBA Player (NY Knicks), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Famous Weddings
Hakeem Olajuwon
Aug 8 NBA Rockets star Hakeem Olajuwon (33) weds Dalia Asafi (18) in Houston, Texas
Robert Mugabe
Aug 17 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (72) weds Grace Marufu (31) at Kutama College in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
- Aug 24 Swedish actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm, Sweden; divorce in 2007
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Frida Boccara, French singer, dies at 55
- Aug 1 John Lanigan, Australian operatic tenor (Covent Garden), dies at 75
- Aug 1 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- Aug 1 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
- Aug 1 Pierre Lucien Claverie, Algerian-French Bishop of Oran, murdered by Islamic extremists in Algeria at 58
- Aug 1 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ), dies at 99 [1]
- Aug 2 Humphrey Fisher, English born TV Producer, dies at 72
- Aug 2 Michel Debre, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1959-62), dies at 84
- Aug 3 Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (Marco the Magnificent), dies at 87
- Aug 4 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener and journalist (BBC Gardener's World), dies of a heart attack at 59
- Aug 4 Willard "Home Run" Brown, American Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL World Series 1942; 6 x NgL All-Star Kansas City Monarchs; MLB: St. Louis Browns), dies at 81
- Aug 5 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Zanzibar-born revolutionary, politician and pan-Africanist, dies at 72
- Aug 5 Bruce Howard Lidington, English actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46
- Aug 5 Frank Marcus, German playwright and critic, dies at 68
- Aug 6 Buland al-Haidary, Iraqi poet (Passages to Exile), dies at 69
- Aug 6 Gerry Gomez, West Indian cricket all-rounder (29 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 101, 58 wickets, BB 7/55; Trinidad), dies from a heart attack at 76
- Aug 6 Hernán Siles Zuazo, Bolivian politician (President of Bolivia 1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
- Aug 6 Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63
- Aug 6 Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies
- Aug 6 Ossie Clark, British fashion designer of the Swinging Sixities, stabbed to death by a former lover at 54
- Aug 6 Richard M. Goodwin, American mathematician and economist (The Dynamics of A Capitalist Economy), dies at 83
- Aug 7 Anne Kristen, Scottish actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay), dies at 59
- Aug 8 Åke Hermanson, Swedish composer, dies at 73
- Aug 8 Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69
- Aug 8 George Samways, English children's writer (Greyfriars), dies at 101
- Aug 8 Herbert Huncke, American writer and poet, dies at 80
- Aug 8 Julian Stryjkowski, Polish journalist and writer known for his radical leftist leanings, dies at 91
- Aug 8 Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90
- Aug 9 Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer air officer and inventor of the turbojet engine, dies at 89 [1]
- Aug 9 James Whitman McLamore, American businessman and 1st CEO of Burger King who created The Whopper, dies at 70
- Aug 9 Kenneth Fleetwood, English fashion designer (Hardy Amies, dressed Queen Elizabeth II), dies at 65
- Aug 9 Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
- Aug 10 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
- Aug 10 Rex Tucker, British TV writer and director, dies at 83
- Aug 11 Mel Taylor, American rock drummer (The Ventures, 1962-73 and 1979-96), dies of cancer at 63
- Aug 11 Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (Cornelia Farooli), dies at 82
- Aug 11 Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79
- Aug 12 Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution), dies at 73
- Aug 12 Victor Ambartsumian, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50), dies at 87
- Aug 13 António de Spínola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 86
- Aug 13 Christopher John Gray, English Anglican priest, murdered in front of his own vicarage in Liverpool at 32 [1] [2]
- Aug 13 David Randall, British priest, founder of Cara, dies at 49
- Aug 13 David Tudor, American pianist and composer, dies at 70
- Aug 13 Louise Talma, American composer (Summer Sounds), dies at 89
- Aug 13 Tom Mees, American ESPN sports anchor (NHL), drowns at 46
- Aug 13 W. Gordon Smith, Scottish playwright (Jock), dies at 67
- Aug 14 Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93
- Aug 14 Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic, 1945-57; Munich Philharmonic, 1979-96), and educator, dies at 84
- Aug 14 Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64
- Aug 15 Masao Maruyama, Japanese social scientist, dies at 82
- Aug 16 Eric Cullen, Scottish actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
- Aug 16 Robert Lynn, Scottish anarchist, dies at 72
- Aug 17 Edward Digby Baltzell, American Ivy League sociologist (coined term WASP), dies at 80
- Aug 17 Eric Evans, English dean of St Paul's, dies at 68
- Aug 18 Geoffrey Dearmer, British poet, dies at 103
- Aug 18 Hugo Gabriel Gryn, British Reform rabbi, dies at 66
- Aug 19 Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards), dies at 70
- Aug 20 Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (Olympic Gold 1972), dies at 42
- Aug 20 Rio Reiser, German rock singer ("Ton Steine Scherben"), dies at 46
- Aug 21 Joyce Plesters, British conservation scientist, dies at 69
- Aug 21 Mary Two-Axe Earley, Mohawk elder and human rights advocate (fought against women's status under the Indian Act), dies at 84 [1]
- Aug 22 David Donaldson, Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, dies at 80
- Aug 22 Mareo Ishiketa, Japanese composer, dies at 79
- Aug 22 Robin Lorimer, Scottish publisher (New Testament from Greek into Scots), dies at 77
- Aug 22 William James Millar Mackenzie, Scottish political scientist, dies at 87
- Aug 24 Émile Noël, French European civil servant (helped bring about European Union), dies at 73
- Aug 24 John Christopherson, English artist and collector, dies at 75
- Aug 24 Robert Tewdwr Moss, English journalist and travel writer, found dead at 34
- Aug 25 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
- Aug 25 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, dies at 67
- Aug 25 Sylvia Fisher, Australian operatic soprano (Albert Herring Opera), dies at 86
- Aug 26 Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, President of Argentina (1971-73), dies at 77
- Aug 26 Baron Baker, Jamaican-British anti-racism activist, dies at 71
- Aug 26 Catherine Hall, British nurse who raised the professional profile of nursing and to establish its central role in health care, dies at 73
- Aug 27 Abram Games, British graphic artist ("Blonde Bombshell" ATS poster), dies at 82
- Aug 27 Alexander Lanusse, military President of Argentina (1971-73), dies
- Aug 27 Greg Morris, American actor (Mission: Impossible), dies of a brain tumor at 62
- Aug 27 Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (Great Plains prehistoric cultures), dies at 87
- Aug 28 Al Zarilla, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1948; St. Louis Browns), dies of cancer at 77
- Aug 28 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
- Aug 28 Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89
- Aug 29 Jean Davies, British naval officer (Director of WRNS), dies at 87
- Aug 29 Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer, dies at 64
- Aug 30 Christine Pascal, French actress and director (Smile, Elsa), commits suicide at 43
- Aug 30 José Toribio Merino, Chilean admiral (one of the principal leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état), dies at 80
- Aug 30 Josef Muller-Brockmann 'Father of Swiss Graphic Design', Swiss graphic designer and writer, dies at 82 [1]
- Aug 31 David Pollock, Viscount Hanworth, British barrister, dies at 80
- Aug 31 David Scott, British priest, Chaplain to the Queen, dies at 72
- Aug 31 Harald Penrose, British test pilot, dies at 92
- Aug 31 Milt Larkin, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 85
