Historical Events
Event of Interest
Aug 5 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
- Aug 6 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record)
Event of Interest
Aug 12 King Leopold II opens Antwerp Central Station
Event of Interest
Aug 19 Russian Tsar Nicholas II installs "Imperial Duma", without legislative powers
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)
- Aug 24 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
Brazzaville
Aug 29 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza leaves Brazzaville
- Aug 30 Detroit Tigers future Baseball HOF center fielder Ty Cobb makes his MLB debut, doubling off Jack Chesbro in a 5-3 win over the NY Highlanders at Bennett Park, Detroit
- Aug 30 Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge in German East-Africa
- Aug 31 25th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Beals Wright beats defending champion Holcombe Ward 6-2, 6-1, 11-9 for his lone major singles title
- Aug 31 Mbunga rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East Africa
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 2 Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1963)
Myrna Loy (1905-1993)
Aug 2 American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, Thin Man, Vanity Fair), born in Helena, Montana
- Aug 2 Ruth Nelson, American stage and screen actress (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; 3 Women; Awakenings), born in Saginaw, Michigan (d. 1992)
- Aug 3 Maggie Kuhn, American activist and co-founder (Gray Panthers), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995)
- Aug 4 Boris Alexandrov, Soviet-Russian conductor (Alexandrov Ensemble, 1946-86), and composer, chiefly of patriotic and military music, born in Bologoye, Russian Empire (d. 1994)
- Aug 4 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, born in Kensington, London (d. 1995)
- Aug 8 André Jolivet, French composer (Jeune France; Mana), born in Paris, France (d. 1974)
- Aug 8 Nino Martini, Italian actor (The Gay Desperado, Here's to Romance), born in Verona, Veneto, Italy (d. 1976)
- Aug 9 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice, born in Bowden, Cheshire (d. 1988)
- Aug 9 Leo Genn, British lawyer and actor (Mourning Becomes Electra, Moby-Dick, Affair in Monte Carlo), born in London, England (d. 1978)
- Aug 10 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge (d. 1995)
- Aug 10 Era Bell Thompson, American magazine editor (Ebony), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1986)
- Aug 10 Richard F. Kahn, English economist, worked with John Maynard Keynes (concept of the "multiplier"), born in London, England (d. 1989)
- Aug 11 Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- Aug 14 Nicolás Cotoner, 23rd Marquess of Mondéjar, Spanish nobleman and military officer, born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (d. 1996)
- Aug 16 Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code), born in Bromberg, German Empire (d. 1980)
- Aug 18 Peter Paul Kreuder, German-Austrian pianist and film score composer, born in Aachen, Germany (d. 1981)
- Aug 19 Fitzhugh Lee, American vice-admiral (WW II - Navy Cross x2), born in Batangas, Philippines (d. 1992)
- Aug 19 Jacques de Menasce, Austrian-American composer, born in Bad Ischl, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1960)
- Aug 20 (Weldon Leo) "Jack" Teagarden, American jazz trombonist (Paul Whiteman, 1933-38; Louis Armstrong's All-Stars, 1946-51), singer ("Basin Street Blues"), and bandleader, born in Vernon, Texas (d. 1964)
- Aug 20 Duncan Macrae, Scottish actor (Casino Royale, The Little Kidnappers), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1967)
- Aug 20 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet, born in Poznań, Poland (d. 1973)
- Aug 21 Friz Freleng, American animator for Warner Bros cartoons (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1995)
- Aug 21 Stan Worthington, English cricket all-rounder (9 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 128, 8 wickets, BB 2/19; Derbyshire CCC, Northumberland CCC), born in Bolsover, England (d. 1973)
- Aug 22 Wade Crosby, American actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1975)
- Aug 23 (John) "Rags" Ragland, American burlesque comedian, and stage and screen character actor (Whistling In The Dark), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1946)
- Aug 23 (Leonard) Constant Lambert, British composer (The Rio Grande; Horoscope; Summer's Last Will and Testament), and music director (Vic-Wells/Royal Ballet, 1931-47), born in Fulham, London (d. 1951)
- Aug 24 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist ("That's Alright"), born in Forest, Mississippi (d. 1974)
- Aug 24 Don Douglas, Scottish actor (The Black Castle), born in Kinleyside, Scotland (d. 1945)
- Aug 24 Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (1971-85), born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
- Aug 25 Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic saint, nun and mystic, born in Głogowiec, Poland (d. 1938)
- Aug 25 Undine Smith Moore, African-American composer, born in Jarratt, Virginia (d. 1989)
- Aug 27 Frederick O'Neal, American actor, theatre producer and television director (Pinky, Car 54 Where Are You), born in Brooksville, Mississippi (d. 1992)
- Aug 28 Cyril Walters, Welsh cricketer (solid England batsman of 30's), born in Bedlinog, Glamorgan, Wales (d. 1992)
- Aug 28 Sam Levene, American Broadway actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang), born in Russia (d. 1980)
- Aug 29 Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist, executed without a trial for his beliefs, born in Juva, Finland (d. 1941)
- Aug 29 Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player (Olympic gold 1928, 1932, 1936; birthday 29/8 celebrated as India's National Sports Day), born in Allahabad, India (d. 1979)
- Aug 29 Lan Adomian, Russian-born American composer, born in Moghiler-Podolsk (d. 1979)
- Aug 29 Martinus A. Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), born in Amsterdam (d. 1983)
- Aug 31 Dore Schary, American producer, writer and director (Act 1, Boys Town, Big City), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1958)
- Aug 31 Sal Tas, Dutch journalist (Het Parool), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1976)
- Aug 31 Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1997)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 20 David Wark, Irish-born Canadian senator (1867-1905) who served almost 38 years in office, dies at 101
- Aug 21 Jules Oppert, French-German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
- Aug 21 Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's author (St. Nicholas Magazine), editor and writer (Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates), dies at 74
