Historical Events
The Age of Zeppelins
Aug 8 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight
- Aug 8 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
- Aug 10 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
- Aug 11 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes first MLB player to hit 500 home runs (off Willis Hudlin) in 6-5 loss to Indians at League Park, Cleveland
- Aug 11 Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
- Aug 11 Russian-Chinese border fights
- Aug 14 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
- Aug 20 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
- Aug 21 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
- Aug 23 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
- Aug 24 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
- Aug 24 Turkey & Persia sign friendship treaty
US Open Women's Tennis
Aug 24 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Wills Moody beats England's Phoebe Holcroft Watson 6-4, 6-2 for her 3rd straight and 6th overall US singles title
German History
Aug 25 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage
- Aug 28 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent v Middlesex at Lord's; his 100th first-class hundred
Event of Interest
Aug 29 Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight
- Aug 29 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Young Plan
Aug 31 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Ann Calvello, American roller derby queen, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 2006)
- Aug 2 John Gale, British theatrical producer (Chichester Festival), born in Chigwell, Essex, England
- Aug 2 John Hannam, British Conservative politician (MP for Exeter 1970-97, disability rights)
- Aug 2 Lord David Waddington, British politician (Home Secretary 1989-90), born in Burnley (d. 2017)
- Aug 3 Bethel Leslie, American entertainer (Capt Newman MD, Rabbit Trap), born in New York City (d. 1999)
- Aug 4 Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor, born in Khandwa, Central Provinces, British India (d. 1987)
- Aug 6 Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic silver 1956)
- Aug 6 Mike Elliott, British-Jamaican ska-pop-rock saxophonist (The Foundations - "Baby Now That I've Found You"), born in Jamaica, British West Indies
- Aug 6 Roch La Salle, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
- Aug 7 Don Larsen, American MLB pitcher (only perfect game in World Series history, Game 5 1956; World Series MVP 1956; NY Yankees), born in Michigan City, Indiana (d. 2020)
- Aug 7 James Pilditch, British designer, born in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- Aug 7 Jo Baer [Josephine Kleinberg], American painter and minimalist artist, born in Seattle, Washington
- Aug 7 Richard T. Schulze, American politician (Rep-R-PA, 1975-93), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 7 Ruth Carter-Stapleton, American evangelist, born in Plains, Georgia (d. 1983)
- Aug 8 Gudrun Burwitz [Himmler], German daughter of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, born in Munich, Weimar Republic (d. 2018)
- Aug 8 Josef Suk, Czech concert violinist (Artist of Merit, 1977), violist, and namesake of composer grandfather, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2011)
- Aug 8 Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
- Aug 8 Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (Great Train Robbery of 1963), born in Stockwell, London, England (d. 2013) [1]
- Aug 8 William Nolde, US Army officer, last US soldier killed during Vietnam War, born in Menominee, Michigan (d. 1973)
- Aug 9 Mick Loftus, Irish Gaelic footballer (Mayo) and executive (President Gaelic Athletic Association 1985–88), born in Kiltoom, Ireland (d. 2023)
- Aug 10 John Alldis, English choral master, and conductor (Duke Ellington’s Third Sacred Concert), born in Ilford, England (d. 2010)
- Aug 11 Alun Hoddinott, Welsh composer (Floriture), born in Bargoed, Glamorganshire, Wales (d. 2008)
- Aug 11 Cora de Man-Canne Meyer, Dutch mezzo-soprano (Figaro, Carmen), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2020)
- Aug 12 (Alvis) "Buck" Owens, American "Bakersfield Sound" country singer-songwriter ("Under Your Spell Again"), bandleader (The Buckaroos - "Act Naturally"), and TV personality (Hee Haw), born in Sherman, Texas (d. 2006)
- Aug 12 Charles Moore, American 400m hurdler (Olympic gold & silver 1952), born in Coatsville, Pennsylvania (d. 2020)
- Aug 12 Joji Yuasa, Japanese composer, born in Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan
- Aug 13 Augustyn Bloch, Polish composer, born in Grudziądz (d. 2006)
- Aug 13 Michael Beavis, British deputy Commanding-in-Chief (Allied Forces Central Europe) (d. 2020)
- Aug 13 Pat Harrington Jr, American actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time), born in New York City (d. 2016)
- Aug 14 Dick Tiger, Nigerian professional boxer, born in Amaigbo, Nigeria (d. 1971)
- Aug 14 Lorez Alexandria [Taylor] American jazz and gospel singer (Alexandria the Great), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2001)
- Aug 14 Louise Slaughter, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Lynch, Kentucky (d. 2018)
- Aug 14 Oliver Neville, English educator (principal of RADA Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2021)
- Aug 14 Thomas Meehan, American writer (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray), born in Ossining, New York (d. 2017)
- Aug 15 Jerry Groom, American College Football HOF center (Notre Dame; NFL Pro Bowl 1954; Chicago Cardinals), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2008)
- Aug 16 Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (Peace Piece; Waltz For Debbie), born in Plainfield, New Jersey (d. 1980)
- Aug 16 Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
- Aug 16 Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
- Aug 16 Wyatt Tee Walker, African-American pastor, civil rights leader, chief of staff for Martin Luther King, Jr. and cultural historian, born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 2018)
Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977)
Aug 17 American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, born in Jenkins, Kentucky
- Aug 18 Hugues Aufray, French songwriter, singer, guitarist, and Bob Dylan translator, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Aug 21 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, born in Schweizer-Reneke (d. 2017)
- Aug 21 X. J. Kennedy, American poet and author (Nude Descending a Staircase), born in New Jersey, Iowa
- Aug 22 Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Labour) spokesperson on Home Affairs, born in British India
- Aug 22 Harry McPherson, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, born in Tyler, Texas (d. 2012)
Peter Thomson (1929-2018)
Aug 23 Australian golfer (British Open 1954, 55, 56, 58, 65; PGA Seniors' Championship 1984), born in Brunswick, Victoria
Vera Miles (94 years old)
Aug 23 American actress (Psycho;The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), born in Boise City, Oklahoma
- Aug 24 Willie Winfield, American doo-wop singer (Harptones - "Life Is But A Dream"; “A Sunday Kind of Love”), born in Surrey, Virginia (d. 2021)
Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)
Aug 24 Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, born in Cairo, Egypt
- Aug 27 Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic silver 1952)
Ira Levin (1929-2007)
Aug 27 American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), born in New York City
- Aug 28 István Kertész, Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1973)
- Aug 28 Roxie Roker, Bahamian-American actress (The Jeffersons- Helen Willis), born in Miami, Florida (d. 1995)
- Aug 29 Thom Gunn, British poet (The Wound), born in Kent, England (d. 2004)
- Aug 30 Geghuni Chitchian, Armenian pianist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Leninakan, Armenia SSR, USSR (now Gyumri, Armenia
- Aug 31 Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Peruvian writer, born in Lima, Peru (d. 1994)
Famous Weddings
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Aug 21 Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Syd Gregory, Australian cricket batsman and captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), dies at 59
- Aug 2 Mae Costello [Altschuk], American actress (The Joys of a Jealous Wife), dies of heart disease at 47
- Aug 3 Emil Berliner, German-born telephone and recording pioneer (flat phonograph record, founded Deutsche Grammophon), dies at 78
- Aug 3 Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), dies at 72
- Aug 4 Carl Auer von Welsbach, Austrian scientist and inventor of the gas mantle and metal filament light bulb, dies at 70 [1]
- Aug 5 Millicent Fawcett, English suffragist, dies at 82
- Aug 9 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71
- Aug 10 Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch female doctor and women's suffrage activist, dies at 75
- Aug 10 Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
- Aug 16 Frank Valentine der Stucken, American-Belgian composer, dies at 70
- Aug 17 Horace Alderman, American smuggler who murdered two coast guards and a secret service agent, hanged at 38
- Aug 19 Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet director (founder of the Ballets Russes), dies freom complications of diabetes at 57
- Aug 22 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey during WWI, dies at 74
- Aug 23 Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
- Aug 24 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer and poet (God at Sea), dies at 51
- Aug 25 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
- Aug 26 Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat and scholar, dies at 86
- Aug 27 Herman Potočnik, Slovenian rocket scientist, dies at 36
