Historical Events
Battle of Interest
Aug 16 War of the Triple Alliance: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Battle of Acosta Ñu
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 9 Randle Ayrton, British actor (The Manxman, Nell Gwyn), born in Chester, Cheshire, England (d. 1940)
- Aug 10 Lawrence Binyon, English poet (For the Fallen), born in London, England (d. 1943)
- Aug 14 Armas Järnefelt, Finnish conductor and composer (Berceuse), born in Vyborg, Russian Empire (d. 1958)
- Aug 23 Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology), born in Garnett, Kansas (d. 1950)
- Aug 23 James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, San Francisco mayor (1912-31), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1934)
- Aug 27 Karl Haushofer, German soldier and geographer, born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1946)
- Aug 31 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1890-93) and Scottish rugby union player, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1919)
Famous Weddings
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Aug 7 German airship inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (31) weds Isabella Freiin von Wolff from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, until his death in1917
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Aug 21 Business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt marries second wife and cousin Frank Armstrong Crawford in London, Ontario
