Historical Events
- Aug 8 70 disciples of Gaon of Vilnius, arrive in Palestine
- Aug 10 Ecuador declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (commander at Battle of the Alamo), born in Saluda County, South Carolina (d. 1836)
Alfred Tennyson
Aug 6 Alfred Tennyson, British Poet Laureate of Great Britain (Charge of the Light Brigade), born in Somersby, Lincolnshire (d. 1892)
Alfred Tennyson
- Aug 27 Hannibal Hamlin, American attorney and 15th Vice President of U.S. (1861-65), born in Paris, Massachusetts (d. 1891)
- Aug 29 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
- Aug 30 Adolf Friedrich Hesse, German composer, born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1863)
