Historical Events
- Aug 2 San Francisco Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
Event of Interest
Aug 9 Henry Morton Stanley's party reaches Boma, Congo, after 999 days, losing half of the 228 members.
Henry Morton Stanley
Historic Invention
Aug 12 Thomas Edison completes 1st model for the phonograph, a device that recorded sound onto tinfoil cylinders
Thomas Edison
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain)
- Aug 1 Jan van den Tempel, Dutch politician (SDAP)
- Aug 4 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist, born in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England (d. 1970)
- Aug 5 Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (d. 1917)
- Aug 6 Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (d. 1952)
- Aug 7 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949)
- Aug 10 Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance
- Aug 10 Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
- Aug 11 Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)
- Aug 16 Karl L Hoschna, composer
- Aug 25 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train), born in NYC, New York (d. 1965)
- Aug 27 Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd)
- Aug 27 Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist
- Aug 27 Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1963)
- Aug 29 Dudley Pound, British admiral of the fleet and 1st Sea Lord (Jutland, WW II), born in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1943)
Famous Deaths
Brigham Young
Aug 29 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies of peritonitis at 76
Brigham Young