Historical Events
First Aviation Exhibition Amsterdam
Aug 1 Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam
- Aug 4 Hungarian communist leader Béla Kun flees to Vienna after the Hungarian Soviet Republic is overthrown by the Romanian Army
Event of Interest
Aug 4 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor Auguste Rodin
Sports History
Aug 11 Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau - named after sponsor Indian Packing Company
- Aug 11 Weimar Republic begins in Germany
- Aug 13 American thoroughbred racehorse Man o' War's only defeat in 21 start career; Upset wins Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Race Course
- Aug 14 Chicago White Sox outfielder Happy Felsch ties MLB record of 4 outfield assists in a game in 15-6 loss to Boston Red Sox
- Aug 18 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois
- Aug 19 After nearly 100 years of British control, Afghanistan declares itself independent
- Aug 20 Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for .505 average)
- Aug 23 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
- Aug 24 Having pitched into the 9th inning Cleveland's Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning; goes on to record final out for Indians' 2-1 win over Philadelphia A's
- Aug 25 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
- Aug 30 Ernst Toller's "Die Wandlung" premieres in Berlin
- Aug 31 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
- Aug 31 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
- Aug 31 Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Stanley Middleton, British novelist (Holiday, Three Wise Men), born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 2009)
- Aug 2 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, born in London (d. 1997)
- Aug 2 Nehemiah Persoff, American painter and actor (An American Tail, Some Like It Hot), born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (d. 2022)
- Aug 6 Hugh Mendl, British record label executive (Decca/Deram Records), born in London (d. 2008)
- Aug 6 Pauline Betz Addie, American tennis player (5 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2011)
- Aug 7 John Hogan, American chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), born in Lowes, Kentucky (d. 2012)
- Aug 8 Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), born in Torre Annunziata, Italy (d. 2010)
- Aug 9 Joop [Johannes] den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (PVDA, 1973-77), born in Hilversum, Netherlands (d. 1987)
- Aug 9 Ralph Houk, American baseball catcher, coach, manager and executive (World Series champion 1947, 52-53, coach, 58; mgr 1961-62; NY Yankees), born in Lawrence, Kansas (d. 2010)
- Aug 10 Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
- Aug 11 Ginette Neveu, French child prodigy and concert violinist, born in Paris, France (d. 1949)
- Aug 11 June Hutton [Cowan], American pop vocalist (Charlie Spivak Orchestra; The Pied Pipers, 1944-50 - "I'll Never Smile Again"; Afterglow), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973) [1]
- Aug 11 Luis Olmo, pioneering Puerto Rican NBA player (Brooklyn Dodgers), born in Arecibo (d. 2017)
- Aug 12 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
- Aug 13 (Robert) "Baby Boy" Warren, American blues singer and guitarist, born in Lake Providence, Louisiana (d. 1977)
- Aug 13 George Shearing, British-American blind jazz pianist, and composer ("Lullaby of Birdland"), born in London, England (d. 2011)
- Aug 13 Rex Humbard, American television evangelist (Cathedral of Tomorrow), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 2007)
- Aug 15 Benedict Kiely, Irish author and broadcaster, born in Dromore, County Tyrone, Ireland (d. 2007)
- Aug 18 [Walter J] Wally Hickel, American politician (Governor-R-Alaska 1966-69, US Secretary of Interior 1969-71), born in Ellinwood, Kansas (d. 2010)
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
Aug 19 American publisher of Forbes Magazine, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Aug 22 Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, British major-general (d. 1999)
- Aug 22 Leo Pliatzky, British senior civil servant, born in Manchester (d. 1999)
- Aug 23 Robert Crichton-Brown, Australian businessman and CEO (Rothmans International), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2013)
- Aug 24 "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss-Dutch songwriter and singer, born in Thun, Switzerland (d. 2015)
- Aug 24 Bartolomé "Beny" Moré, Cuban guaracha and mambo singer, guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader, born in Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba (d. 1963)
- Aug 24 Enrique Llanes, Mexican professional wrestler, born in Otumba de Gómez Farías, Mexico (d. 2004)
- Aug 24 Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), born in Copenhagen (d. 2000)
George Wallace (1919-1998)
Aug 25 American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama
- Aug 26 Ronny Graham [Stringer], American composer, lyricist, screenwriter (M*A*S*H (TV series), and actor (Chico & the Man; Mel Brooks films), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
- Aug 27 Jan Cox, Belgian-American Expressionist painter, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1980)
- Aug 27 John Donkin Dormand, Baron Dormand of Easington, British politician (Labour Party), born in Haswell, County Durham, England (d. 2003)
- Aug 28 Ernest Harold Martin [Markowitz], American Broadway producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- Aug 28 Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor (CT scan, 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), born in Newark, England (d. 2004) [1]
- Aug 29 Sono Osato, American Japanese ballet dancer, born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2018)
- Aug 30 Kitty Wells [Ellen Deason], American country singer ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2012)
- Aug 30 Maurice R. Hilleman, American microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia, born in Miles City, Montana (d. 2005)
- Aug 31 Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author, born in Gujranwala, Pakistan (d. 2005)
Famous Weddings
Curly Lambeau
Aug 16 NFL player Curly Lambeau (21) weds high school sweetheart Marguerite Van Kessel in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Famous Deaths
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
Aug 11 Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 83
Laurence Doherty (1875-1919)
Aug 21 British tennis player (Wimbledon 1902-06, US Nationals 1903), dies of toxemia at 43
Louis Botha (1862-1919)
Aug 27 Boer general and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of South Africa (1910-19), dies at 56
- Aug 30 Jóhann Sigurjónsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung), dies at 39
