Historical Events
- Aug 1 -8] Gay & Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam
Canadian Women's Open
Aug 2 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Essex GC: Brandie Burton wins by 1 shot from Annika Sörenstam
- Aug 2 Curtis Cup Women's Golf, Minikahda GC: US beats Great Britain & Ireland 10-8
- Aug 2 Tour de France: Marco Pantani of Italy makes it a Tour & Giro d'Italia double, German Erik Zabel is points winner
No Matter What
Aug 3 Irish band Boyzone release their best-selling single "No Matter What" composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman
- Aug 3 The Oval stages first competitive cricket match played under floodlights in London when home team Surrey loses to Sussex by 8 wickets in the day/night 40-over fixture
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Aug 5 The American spin-off "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and Wayne Brady, debuts on ABC
Event of Interest
Aug 11 Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian National Authority president, Yasser Arafat, arrives in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela
- Aug 13 31st San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Event of Interest
Aug 14 Winnie Mandela sued by the South African government
Omagh Bombing
Aug 15 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, kills 29 people and injures about 220
PGA Championship
Aug 16 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Sahalee CC: Vijay Singh of Fiji wins by 2 shots from American Steve Stricker
'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'
Aug 17 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship
Assassination
Aug 19 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden
- Aug 20 The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
- Aug 20 U.S. embassy bombings: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
Blade
Aug 21 Marvel superhero film "Blade" starring Wesley Snipes is released
P. W. Botha Refuses to Testify
Aug 21 P. W. Botha found guilty of contempt for repeatedly ignoring subpoenas to testify before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Aug 22 South Africa beats Australia, 29-15 in Johannesburg to win their first Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; Springboks fullback Percy Montgomery lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
- Aug 24 First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
- Aug 24 The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Aug 25 "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" debut album by Lauryn Hill is released (5 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Billboard Album of the Year 1998)
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Khamani Griffin, American actor (All Of Us, Daddy Day Care), born in Oakland, California
- Aug 7 Immanuel Wilkins, American modern jazz saxophonist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 7 Jalen Hurts, American football quarterback (NCAA C'ship 2018 University of Alabama; University of Oklahoma; Philadelphia Eagles), born in Houston, Texas
Shawn Mendes (25 years old)
Aug 8 Canadian singer-songwriter (Handwritten, Treat You Better), born in Toronto, Ontario
- Aug 12 Rudy Pankow, American actor (Outer Banks), born in Ketchikan, Alaska
- Aug 12 Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player (ATP Finals 2019; French Open 2021 runner-up), born in Athens, Greece
- Aug 14 Doechii [Jaylah Ji'mya Hickmon], American singer and rapper (Yucky Blucky Fruitcake), born in Tampa, Florida
- Aug 17 Genesis Owusu [Kofi Owusu-Ansah], Ghanaian-Australian singer and rapper (Smiling With No Teeth), born in Koforidua, Ghana
- Aug 18 Clairo [Claire Cottrill], American singer-songwriter ("Sofia"), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Aug 19 Ella Guevara, Filipino actress (Starstruck Kids), born in Quezon City, Philippines
- Aug 24 Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality, born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 25 China Anne McClain, American actress and singer (The Gospel; Daddy's Little Girls), born in Decatur, Georgia
- Aug 29 Bizarrap [Gonzalo Julián Conde], Argentine rapper (Quevedo), born in Ramos Mejía, Argentina
Famous Weddings
- Aug 22 FOX News Channel correspondent and Robert F Kennedy's youngest son Douglas Kennedy (32) weds Molly Stark (29) in Nantucket, Massachusetts
Susan Wojcicki
Aug 23 YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki (30) weds Google executive Dennis Troper in Belmont, California
- Aug 29 "Baywatch" actress Traci Bingham (30) weds Robb Vallier at First United Methodist Church in Ames, Iowa
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Eva Bartok [Éva Márta Szőke], Hungarian-British actress (The Crimson Pirate; Ten Thousand Bedrooms), dies at 71 [birth date sources vary between 1926 and 1929]
- Aug 2 Shari Lewis [Phyllis Hurwitz], American puppeteer and ventriloquist (Lamb Chop), dies of breast cancer at 65
- Aug 3 Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and musicologist, dies after a series strokes at 63
- Aug 4 Yuri Artyukhin, Soviet Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 14), dies at 68
- Aug 5 Otto Kretschmer, German U-boat commander, dies at 86
- Aug 5 Todor Zhivkov, Bulgaria communist leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB), 1954-89, dies at 86
- Aug 6 André Weil, French mathematician (foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry), dies at 92
- Aug 6 Nat Gonella, British big band jazz trumpeter, mellophonist, singer, and bandleader (The Georgians; Oh, Monah), dies at 90
- Aug 7 Wallace Coulter, American inventor and entrepreneur (Coulter Principle - made complete blood counts possible), dies at 85 [1]
- Aug 8 Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist, killed by the Taliban at about 30
- Aug 11 Benjamin "Benny" Waters, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, dies at 96
- Aug 13 Julien Green, American-French writer (Frere Francois), dies at 97
- Aug 13 Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (Mirza, Cornichons), dies at 63
- Aug 13 Philip von Schantz, Swedish painter, dies at 70
- Aug 16 Dorothy West, American writer of the Haarlem Renaissance (The Living is Easy), dies at 91
- Aug 17 Tadeusz Slusarski, Polish track and field athlete (b. 1950)
- Aug 17 Wladyslaw Komar, Polish athlete (Olympic gold shot put 1972) and actor, dies in a car crash at 58
- Aug 18 Otto Wichterle, Czech chemist and inventor of the soft contact lens, dies at 84 [1]
- Aug 18 Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (Star Trek, Megaforce), dies of a heart attack at 49
- Aug 19 Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet-Russian naval officer who saved the world by refusing to launch a nuclear torpedo from submarine B-59 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, dies of kidney cancer at 72
- Aug 20 Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer ("Seven Lonely Days"), dies at 82
- Aug 24 E. G. Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Aug 24 Gene Page, American arranger, composer, and record producer (Righteous Brothers; Marvin Gaye; Whitney Houston), dies at 58
- Aug 24 Jerry Clower 'The Mouth of the Mississippi', American country comedian (Nashville on Road), dies following surgery at 71
