Historical Events
- Aug 1 American Greg Louganis becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives in winning 3m springboard gold, World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Aug 1 H Aaron, F Robinson, T Jackson, & H Chandler inducted in Hall of Fame
- Aug 1 Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut
- Aug 1 East German swimmer Petra Schneider breaks her own 400m medley world record by 0:19 (4:36.10) at the World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Aug 1 After the first 13 runnings of the midsummer classic, Darryl Waltrip becomes the first driver the win the Talladega 500 twice
Baseball Record
Aug 2 Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win v Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era
Rickey Henderson
- Aug 2 Roger Ebert's "Movie News" premieres on ABC FM network
- Aug 3 Pitching coach Clyde King becomes NY Yankees 3rd manager of the season replacing Gene Michaels after Yanks swept at home by Chicago WS
- Aug 4 Outfielder Joel Youngblood becomes only MLB player to get hits for 2 different teams in 2 different cities on the same day; singles for Mets in Chicago day game; traded, then singles for Expos in Philadelphia night game
- Aug 5 Stephabue Hix, of Alabama, 18, crowned Miss National Teen-Ager
- Aug 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Event of Interest
Aug 5 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Raymond Floyd fires an opening round 9-under-par 63, tying the tournament 18-hole record
Ray Floyd
- Aug 6 Curtis Cup Golf, Denver CC: United States beats Great Britain & Ireland 14½-3½
- Aug 6 WQXI (Atlanta) is 1st to use Harris Corp AM stereo system
- Aug 6 Three ANC members are sentenced to death in South Africa
- Aug 8 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins 2nd PGA C'ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins
- Aug 8 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
- Aug 11 Twins Terry Felton loses & runs career to 0-14 (en route to 0-16)
- Aug 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 11 The South African Defence Force (SADF) raids Southern Angola
- Aug 14 Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over Padres
- Aug 14 Iran "Ramadan-offensive" in Iraq
- Aug 15 Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
- Aug 17 LA Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 6-5, in 21 innings (game completed 8/18)
- Aug 17 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin
- Aug 17 First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
- Aug 18 1st time NYSE tops 100 M figure, 132.69 M shares traded
- Aug 18 NYSE sets trading record of 132,690,000 shares traded
- Aug 18 Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance
- Aug 18 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
- Aug 18 Japanese election law is amended to allow for proportional representation.
- Aug 19 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
- Aug 19 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
- Aug 20 Don Lever becomes first captain of NHL New Jersey Devils
- Aug 20 US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
- Aug 21 Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut
- Aug 21 Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
- Aug 22 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
- Aug 22 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf
- Aug 23 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
- Aug 23 Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
- Aug 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Aug 24 KCs' John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
- Aug 26 NASA launches Telesat-F
- Aug 27 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark
- Aug 27 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth
- Aug 28 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 performances
- Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 28 The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
- Aug 28 39th Venice Film Festival: "The State of Things" directed by Wim Wenders wins Golden Lion
- Aug 29 38°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August
Baseball Record
Aug 29 George Brett gets his 1,500th hit
George Brett
Event of Interest
Aug 30 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
Yasser Arafat
- Aug 31 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress, born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Aug 2 Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
- Aug 2 Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
- Aug 5 LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete
- Aug 5 Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player
- Aug 5 Tobias Regner, German singer
- Aug 6 Adrianne Curry, American model and reality television personality
- Aug 6 Karl Davies, British actor
- Aug 6 Justin Germano, American baseball player
- Aug 6 Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
- Aug 6 Ryan Sypek, American actor
- Aug 7 Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer, born in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Aug 7 Vasileios Spanoulis, Greek basketball player, born in Larissa, Greece
- Aug 8 David Florence, British canoeist
- Aug 9 Tyson Gay, American sprinter
- Aug 9 Danieal Manning, American football player
- Aug 10 Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
- Aug 11 Alan Halsall, British actor
- Aug 12 Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
- Aug 13 Shani Davis, American speed skater
- Aug 15 Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
- Aug 16 Cam Gigandet, American actor, born in Tacoma, Washington
- Aug 16 Joleon Lescott, English footballer, born in Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Aug 17 Phil Jagielka, English footballer
- Aug 17 Melissa Anderson, American professional wrestler
- Aug 17 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (Glee), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2018)
- Aug 19 Erika Christensen, American actress
- Aug 19 J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
- Aug 19 Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
- Aug 19 Melissa Fumero [Gallo], American actress (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), born in Lyndhurst, New Jersey
- Aug 20 Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian footballer
- Aug 20 Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian footballer
- Aug 20 Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer
- Aug 20 Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer
- Aug 23 Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer, born in Vallejo, California
- Aug 23 YTCracker [Bryce Case, Jr.], American hip-hop artist, born in La Mirada, California
- Aug 23 Scott Palguta, American soccer player, born in Toms River, New Jersey
- Aug 24 Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer, born in Sandviken, Sweden
- Aug 26 David Long, New Zealand composer, worked on Peter Jackson's films
- Aug 26 John Mulaney, American comedian, writer and actor (Saturday Night Live), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Aug 28 Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
- Aug 28 Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer
- Aug 28 Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
- Aug 28 LeAnn Rimes [Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian], American country singer (Blue), born in Jackson, Mississippi
- Aug 29 Carlos Delfino, Argentinean basketball player
- Aug 29 A+ [Andre Levins], American rapper, born in Hempstead, New York
- Aug 30 Will Davison, Australian racing driver
Andy Roddick
Aug 30 Andy Roddick, American tennis player (2003 US Open), born in Austin, Texas
Andy Roddick
- Aug 31 Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
- Aug 31 José Reina, Spanish footballer
- Aug 31 Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
- Aug 31 Ian Crocker, American swimmer
- Aug 31 Chris Duhon, American basketball player
- Aug 31 Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
- Aug 31 Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
- Aug 31 Patrick Nuo, Swiss singer
- Aug 31 G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
Famous Weddings
- Aug 2 "Dangerous Liaisons" actor John Malkovich (28) weds film and stage actress Glenne Headly (27)
Wedding of Interest
Famous Deaths
- Aug 2 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
- Aug 2 Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65
- Aug 4 Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
- Aug 5 Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
- Aug 8 Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies
- Aug 8 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80
- Aug 8 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62
- Aug 8 Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies
- Aug 8 Eric Brandon, British racing driver, dies at 62
- Aug 9 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies
- Aug 9 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian-French painter and graphic artist, dies at 81
- Aug 11 Tom Drake [Alfred Sinclair Alderdice], American actor (Meet Me in St. Louis, Warlock), dies of lung cancer at 63
- Aug 12 Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80
Henry Fonda
Aug 12 Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77
Henry Fonda
- Aug 12 Salvador Sanchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
- Aug 12 Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (b. 1907)
- Aug 13 Charles Walters, American actor, choreographer and director (Lili, Easter parade), dies of lung cancer at 70
- Aug 13 Joe E Ross, American comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at 68
- Aug 13 Joe Tex [Joseph Arrington Jr.], American soul musician (Hold What You've Got, I Gotcha), dies at 49
- Aug 14 Patrick Magee [McGee], Northern Irish actor and director (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon), dies from a heart attack at 60
- Aug 14 Thruston B. Morton, American republican politician (Sen-Ky, 1957-69), dies at 74
- Aug 15 Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
- Aug 17 Barney Phillips [Bernard Philip Ofner], American actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies from cancer at 68
- Aug 17 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb
- Aug 18 Beverly Bayne, actress (Romeo & Juliet, Passionate Youth), dies at 87
- Aug 19 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
- Aug 20 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu, One Summer of Happiness), dies of bone cancer at 53
- Aug 21 Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland/Ngwane (1921-82), dies
- Aug 23 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
- Aug 23 Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies at 68
- Aug 24 Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for South Africa), dies
- Aug 24 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer (Solar physics), dies at 99
- Aug 25 John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
- Aug 27 Anandamayi Ma [Nirmala Sundari], Indian spiritual leader, dies at 86
- Aug 28 G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies
- Aug 28 Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
Ingrid Bergman
Aug 29 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies on her 67th birthday
Ingrid Bergman