Historical Events
Sports History
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
- 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 White Sox
- 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
PGA Championship
Aug 5 PGA Championship, Southern Hills CC: Raymond Floyd fires an opening round 9-under-par 63, tying the tournament 18-hole record
- 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 Men's Golf, Southern Hills CC: Ray Floyd wins his second PGA C'ship by 3 shots from fellow American Lanny Wadkins
- 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 American MLB Milwaukee Brewers' relief pitcher Rollie Fingers becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
- Aug 22 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
- 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 satellite
- 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
Historic Event
Aug 30 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut
- Aug 31 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 1 Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress, born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Aug 1 Caroline Shaw, American violinist, singer, and Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Partita for 8 Voices), born in Greenville, North Carolina
- Aug 2 Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer, born in Vila do Conde, Portugal
- Aug 2 Grady Sizemore, American baseball player, born in Seattle, Washington
- Aug 5 LoLo Jones, American track and field athlete and bobsledder,born in Des Moines, Iowa
- Aug 5 Ryu Seung Min, Korean table tennis player, bon in Seoul, South Korea
- Aug 5 Tobias Regner, German rock singer, born in Teisendorf, Bavaria, West Germany
- Aug 6 Romola Garai, British actress (I Capture the Castle; Atonement), born in British Hong Kong
- 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, born in Lexington, Kentucky
- Aug 10 Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
- Aug 11 Alan Halsall, British actor
- Aug 12 Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
- Aug 12 River Butcher, American stand-up comedian, writer, and podcaster, born in Akron, Ohio
- Aug 13 Shani Davis, American speed skater (Olympic gold 2006, 10), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Aug 13 Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor (Captain America: The Winter Soldier; I, Tonya), born in Constanța, Romania
- Aug 13 Sarah Sanders, American political operative, Trump's White House Press Secretary (2017-19), born in Hope, Arkansas
- Aug 13 Ibram X. Kendi, American author and antiracist activist, born in Queens, New York
- 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 (Sheffield United), born in Sale, England
- Aug 17 Cheeleader Melissa [Melissa Anderson], American professional wrestler, born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 17 Mark Salling, American actor and musician (Glee), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2018)
- Aug 19 Erika Christensen, American actress (Parenthood), born in Seattle, Washington
- Aug 19 J. J. Hardy, American baseball player, born in Tuscon, Arizona
- Aug 19 Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter, born in Ekeren, Belgium
- Aug 19 Melissa Fumero [Gallo], American actress (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), born in Lyndhurst, New Jersey
- Aug 19 Stipe Miocic, American mixed martial artist (UFC), born in Euclid, Ohio
- Aug 20 Cléber Luis Alberti, Brazilian football goalkeeper, born in Palmital, Brazil
- Aug 20 Youssouf Hersi, Ethiopian football midfielder, born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- Aug 20 Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer (Australia national soccer team), born in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia
- Aug 20 Barney Rogers, Zimbabwean cricketer, born in Harare, Zimbabwe
- 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 23 Laurin Talese, American jazz singer and songwriter ("This Love"), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Aug 24 Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer, born in Sandviken, Sweden
- Aug 26 David Long, New Zealand dance and soundtrack composer (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, born in São Paulo, Brazil
- Aug 28 Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer, born in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
- Aug 28 Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer, born in Dundee, Scotland
LeAnn Rimes
Aug 28 (Margaret) LeAnn Rimes [Cibrian], American country singer ("Blue"; "How Do I Live"), born in Jackson, Mississippi
Andy Roddick
Aug 30 Andy Roddick, American tennis player (2003 US Open), born in Austin, Texas
- Aug 31 José Reina, Spanish football goalkeeper (Villarreal ), born in Madrid, Spain
- Aug 31 Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver
- Aug 31 Ian Crocker, American swimmer, born in Portland, Maine
- Aug 31 Chris Duhon, American basketball player, born in Mamou, Louisiana
- Aug 31 Josh Kroeger, American baseball player, born in Davenport, Iowa
- Aug 31 Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born ice hockey player
- Aug 31 Patrick Nuo, Swiss pop singer, born in Lucerne, Switzerland
- Aug 31 G. Willow Wilson, American journalist and comic book writer
Famous Weddings
John Malkovich
Aug 2 "Dangerous Liaisons" actor John Malkovich (28) weds film and stage actress Glenne Headly (27)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 2 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
- Aug 2 Rudolf Maros, Hungarian composer (Sirato/Lament; Euphonies), and pedagogue, dies at 65
- Aug 4 Bruce Goff, American Architect (b. 1904)
- Aug 5 Wanda Rotha, Austrian 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 (De Weerlozen), dies at 63
- Aug 8 Eric Brandon, British racing driver, dies at 62
- Aug 9 Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-French filmmaker (pinscreen animation) and 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 Leiviskä, Finnish composer, dies at 80
Henry Fonda
Aug 12 Henry Fonda, American stage and screen actor (Mr. Roberts; 12 Angry Men; On Golden Pond), dies of heart disease at 77
- Aug 12 Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (WBC, lineal featherweight title 1980-82), dies in a traffic accident at 23
- 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 (Axel) Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 1955, for discovery of oxidoreductase enzymes), dies at 79 [1]
- 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, Paramount Chief and Ngwenyama of Swaziland (1899-1982) who holds the record for the longest reign of any monarch in recorded history, dies at 83
- Aug 23 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
- Aug 23 Stanford Moore, American biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies at 68
- Aug 23 Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman and heir to the Bloomingdale's department store, dies at 66
- 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 Geoff Chubb, South African cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 21 wickets; Border), dies at 71
- Aug 28 Nini de Boël, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
Ingrid Bergman
Aug 29 Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies on her 67th birthday
