Historical Events
Event of Interest
Aug 1 Cecil Rhodes' colonists reach Lundi
Cecil Rhodes
- Aug 5 British and French accord to divide African colonization
- Aug 6 Denton True "Cy" Young pitches and wins his 1st major league baseball game
- Aug 6 At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes first person to be executed by electric chair
- Aug 9 First 44 Javans arrive in Suriname to work 5 years on sugar plantations
- Aug 14 Cecil Rhodes' colonists reach Mashonaland (Fort Victoria)
- Aug 16 Alexander Clark, journalist and lawyer, named minister to Liberia
- Aug 25 Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford washed out
- Aug 27 10th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Henry Slocum (6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-1)
Event of Interest
Aug 30 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
Benjamin Harrison
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 2 Pauline Hall, composer
- Aug 2 Marin Sais, American actress (The Pony Express Girl), born in San Rafael, California (d. 1971)
- Aug 4 Erich Weinert, German communist writer, born in Magdeburg (d. 1953)
- Aug 4 Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 1957)
- Aug 5 Erich Kleiber, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46), born in Vienna, Austria
- Aug 5 Hans Gál, Austrian-British composer (d. 1987)
- Aug 5 Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower)
- Aug 9 Cesar Cortinas, composer
- Aug 9 Eino Kaila, Finnish psychologist/philosopher
- Aug 9 Sandor Jemnitz, composer
- Aug 10 Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
- Aug 11 Erich Wichman, Dutch fascist painter/sculptor
- Aug 12 Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
- Aug 13 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, African American advocate in Virginia
- Aug 15 Jacques Ibert, composer (Escales), born in Paris, France
- Aug 15 Elizabeth Bolden, American Supercentenarian (oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death), born in Somerville, Tennessee (d. 2006)
- Aug 15 Elvin M. Jellinek, American Physiologist and pioneer in the study of alcoholism, born in New York City
- Aug 17 Harry L Hopkins, US politician (Loan & Lease law)
- Aug 17 Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
- Aug 18 Walther Funk, German economist and Nazi politician, born in Danzkehmen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (d. 1960)
- Aug 19 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
- Aug 20 H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1937)
- Aug 22 Floyd Henri Allport, American psychologist and sociologist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1979)
- Aug 24 Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer (Olympics 3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24), born in Waikiki, Honolulu County, Hawaii (d. 1968)
- Aug 24 Franz Philipp, German composer, born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (d. 1972)
- Aug 24 Jean Rhys [Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams], British writer (Voyage in the Dark), born in Roseau, Dominica (d. 1979)
- Aug 26 Tommy Andrews, cricketer (NSW & Aussie player of the 1920's)
- Aug 27 Man Ray, American artist and photographer (Dada), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1976)
- Aug 28 Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet, born in Gloucester (d. 1937)