Historical Events
- Aug 8 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
Historic Invention
Aug 9 Rudolf Diesel of Germany patents the diesel internal combustion engine
Rudolf Diesel
- Aug 9 Rudolf Diesel obtains patent #608,845 for his internal combustion engine, later known as the diesel engine
- Aug 12 Hawaii is formally annexed to US
- Aug 12 Peace protocol ends Spanish-American War, signed
Event of Interest
Aug 13 US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American War
George Dewey
- Aug 16 Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
- Aug 22 18th U.S. Men's National Championship: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight F. Davis (3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1)
- Aug 25 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen are slaughtered by the Turks in Heraklion, Greece.
- Aug 28 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
- Aug 29 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Morris Stoloff, violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Aug 3 Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper
- Aug 8 Paul Belmondo, French sculptor (Bathing Woman, Orleans)
- Aug 8 Alexis Minotis [Alexandros Minotakis], Greek actor (The Merchant of Venice, King Lear), born in Chania, Crete, Greece (d. 1990)
- Aug 9 David de Jong, Dutch writer (Mutiny on the Canal)
- Aug 11 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, politician/trade unionist
- Aug 12 Oscar Homolka, Hungarian actor (Sabotage, The Seven Year Itch, Ball of Fire, I Remember Mama), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1978)
- Aug 13 Jean Borota, French tennis champ (35 Wimbledons between 1922-64)
- Aug 13 Regis Toomey, American actor (Burke's Law, Petticoat Junction), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
- Aug 15 Lillian Carter, US President Jimmy Carter's (1977-1981) mom, born in Richland, Georgia (d. 1983)
- Aug 15 Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (The Beetle), born in Zhmerynka, Ukraine (d. 1966)
- Aug 17 Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian
- Aug 20 G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
- Aug 20 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
- Aug 20 Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973)
- Aug 22 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), born in Verdun, France (d. 1975)
- Aug 24 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and physician (Nobel 1974), born in Longlier, Belgium (d. 1983)
- Aug 24 Malcolm Cowley, American author (Flowering of New England), born in Belsano, Pennsylvania (d. 1989)
- Aug 24 Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Curacao
- Aug 25 Helmut Hasse, German mathematician, born in Kassel, Germany (d. 1979)
- Aug 25 Arthur Wood, English cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), born in Bradford, Yorkshire (d. 1973)
- Aug 26 Peggy Guggenheim, American art patron & collector, born in NYC, New York (d. 1979)
- Aug 28 Ludwig Turek, German writer, born in Stendal, Germany (d. 1975)
- Aug 29 Preston Sturges [Edmund Biden], American director and screenwriter (Sullivan's Travels), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1959)
Shirley Booth
Aug 30 Shirley Booth, American actress (Hazel), born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)
Shirley Booth
Famous Deaths
- Aug 8 Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
- Aug 9 Gardner Quincy Colton, American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84
- Aug 17 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer, dies at 56
- Aug 21 Nicola van Westerhout, composer, dies at 40
- Aug 23 Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
- Aug 27 John Hopkinson, British physicist and electrical engineer (Hopkinson's Law) dies with three of his children in a mountaineering accident in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland at 49