Historical Events
Stanley Honored
Aug 21 Henry Morton Stanley makes his maiden speech in the UK House of Commons as the member for North Lambeth in a discussion on Africa
US Men's Tennis Open
Aug 25 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Fred Hovey beats defending champion Robert Wrenn 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for his lone major singles title
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Benjamin Mays, African-American educator (Morehouse, Howard University) and civil rights leader, born in Ninety Six, South Carolina (d. 1984)
- Aug 2 Matthew Henderson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (1 Test; New Zealand's first-ever Test match 1930), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 1970)
- Aug 3 Marguerite Nichols, American actress (An Old Man's Folly), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1941)
- Aug 9 Nathaniel "Nat" Pendleton, American wrestler (Olympics 1920, Silver) and actor (The Thin Man, Reckless), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1967)
- Aug 9 Ted Badcock, New Zealand cricketer (swing bowler in NZ's 1st Test matches), born in Abbottabad, India (d. 1982)
- Aug 10 Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
- Aug 10 Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian author and satirist, born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1958)
- Aug 13 Bert Lahr [Irving Lahrheim], American comic and actor (The Wizard of Oz - "Lion"), born in New York City (d. 1967)
- Aug 13 Robert Burton, American actor (The Big Heat, Compulsion, A Man Called Peter), born in Eastman, Georgia (d. 1962)
- Aug 14 Jack Gregory, Australian cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 2 x 100, 7 x 50, 85 wickets, BB 7/69; NSW CA), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1973)
- Aug 16 Albert Cohen, Greek-born Swiss novelist (Belle du Seigneur), born in Corfu, Greece (d. 1981)
- Aug 16 Jacinto Guerrero, Spanish musician and composer, born in AjofrÃn, Toledo (d. 1951)
- Aug 16 Liane Haid, Austrian actress (Lady Hamilton), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2000)
- Aug 16 Lucien Littlefield, American actor (Blondie), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1960)
- Aug 19 Arnoldt Bronnen, Austrian playwright, born in Vienna (d. 1959)
- Aug 22 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, born in Pierreville, Quebec (d. 1966)
- Aug 22 Paul Taylor White, American composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello), born in Bangor, Maine (d. 1973)
- Aug 24 Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston (1944-70), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
- Aug 31 Joseph Schillinger, Ukrainian-American composer, music theorist, and eductaor, born in Kharkiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1943) [some source give birthday as September 1]
Famous Deaths
Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
Aug 5 German social philosopher and revolutionary socialist who co-authored "The Communist Manifesto" with Karl Marx, dies of throat cancer at 74
- Aug 6 George Frederick Root, American songwriter ("The Battle Cry of Freedom"), dies at 74
- Aug 13 Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies at 79
- Aug 19 John Wesley Hardin, American outlaw and gunfighter (claimed to have killed 27 men), shot dead in a saloon at 42
- Aug 24 John F. Loudon, Dutch sugar and indigo manufacturer, who Delft collection was left to the Rijksmuseum, dies at 74
