Historical Events
- Aug 1 "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 9 performances
- Aug 1 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres
- Aug 1 USA/USSR Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica
- Aug 1 British athlete Linford Christie (32) becomes the oldest man to win an Olympic 100m gold medal edging Frankie Fredericks in Barcelona
- Aug 1 American sprinter Gail Devers wins an incredibly close blanket finish in the women's 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, with 5 athletes within 0.06 seconds of Devers (10.82)
- Aug 2 "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 performances
Hall of Fame
Aug 2 Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser & Bill McGowan are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Aug 2 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 2 Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus becomes the first gymnast to win 6 gold medals at one Olympics in Barcelona, also first to win 4 gold in one day's competition (pommel, vault, rings & parallel bars)
- Aug 3 Paramount inaugurates New York Street on TV/movie lot
Film Premiere
Aug 3 "Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1993)
- Aug 4 The diving competition at the Barcelona Olympics concludes with Chinese athletes dominant, winning 3 of 4 gold medals contested - American Mark Lenzi wins 3m springbaord
- Aug 4 In its debut at the Barcelona Olympics the badminton singles gold medals are both won by Indonesian athletes, whilst both men's & women's doubles go to South Korea
- Aug 4 Italian fencer Giovanna Trillini wraps up gold medals in both women's foil events at the Barcelona Olympics as part of the winning team
Rodney King Riots
Aug 5 4 officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, acquttied on charges of beating Rodney King, are indicted on civil rights charges
- Aug 5 Cuba wins baseball's inaugural gold medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, beating Chinese Taipei 11-1
Olympic Gold
Aug 6 The US track team sweeps the medals in the long jump at the Barcelona Olympics as Carl Lewis wins gold (28 feet, 5 1/2 inches), Mike Powell silver and Joe Greene bronze
Sports History
Aug 7 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal
Music History
Aug 8 Metallica singer and guitarist James Hetfield suffers second and third-degree burns during a pyrotechnics explosion on stage at Olympic Stadium, Montreal
Olympic Gold
Aug 8 The original US 'Dream Team' wins the basketball gold at the Barcelona Olympics 117-85 over Croatia; features superstars Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing
- Aug 8 Bulgarian canoeist Nikolay Bukhalov completes the C-1 500 / 1,000 double winning the latter at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 8 Germany goes through the field hockey competition undefeated to win gold with a 2-1 win over Australia in the men's final at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 8 Spanish centre forward Kiko scores twice as the home team takes the football Olympic gold medal with a 3-2 win over Poland in front of 95,000 at Camp Nou, Barcelona
- Aug 8 Fermín Cacho wins Spain's first ever Olympic gold medal in a running event when he takes out the 1,500m at the Barcelona Games
- Aug 9 "Streetcar Named Desire" closes at Ethel Barrymore NYC after 137 performances
Sports History
Aug 9 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower
- Aug 9 Record temperature in Berlin-Dahlem 99.3°F (37.4°C)
- Aug 9 Future 6-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US beats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics
- Aug 9 Cuban boxer Félix Savón wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic heavyweight gold medals when he dominates Nigerian David Izonritei on points at the Barcelona Games
- Aug 10 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launched
- Aug 10 Soyuz TM-15 lands
- Aug 12 Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
- Aug 13 25th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at DoubleTree Hotel
- Aug 15 Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
- Aug 15 Striker Brian Deane scores both goals for Sheffield United in a season-opening 2-1 home win over Manchester United at Bramall Lane; first of Deane's goals is the first in EPL's inaugural season
- Aug 16 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. Charles CC: American Sherri Steinhauer wins first of 2 majors (British Open 2006) by 3 from Judy Dickinson
PGA Championship
Aug 16 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Bellerive CC: Nick Price of Zimbabwe wins by 3 from John Cook, Nick Faldo, Jim Gallagher & Gene Sauers
- Aug 16 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs world 3,000m record 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany
Sports History
Aug 16 British Williams driver Nigel Mansell finishes second in Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- Aug 17 Hurricane Andrew forms south-east of Barbados in the Caribbean
- Aug 17 Kevin Gross of Dodgers tosses only 9-inning no-hitter of season, a 2-0
- Aug 18 "Real Inspector Hound" opens at Criterion NYC for 61 performances
- Aug 19 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
- Aug 19 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia
- Aug 20 England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
- Aug 21 US Marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho to apprehend him on firearms charges; an 11 day stand-off ensues
Sports History
Aug 22 Greg Matthews (4/76) & Shane Warne (3/11) spin Australia to a famous 16-run win v Sri Lanka in 1st cricket Test in Colombo
- Aug 22 FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
- Aug 23 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to record 40 saves in 4 different seasons
- Aug 23 Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
- Aug 24 1st structural steel beams are erected at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio
- Aug 24 NFL Cleveland Browns suffer their worst pre-season loss, 56-3, to Minnesota Vikings
- Aug 24 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded
- Aug 24 Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
- Aug 24 Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
- Aug 25 Jamie Solinger, of Iowa, crowned 10th Miss Teen USA
- Aug 26 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 46 performances
- Aug 26 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Louisiana as Category 3 storm after causing deaths and severe damage in Florida
- Aug 27 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
- Aug 27 Mets trade David Cone to Toronto for Jeff Kent & Ryan Thompson
- Aug 28 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with AL record 31 hits in 9 innings
- Aug 28 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo
- Aug 29 Largest wrestling crowd outside US (75,000) at Wembley Stadium, London
- Aug 29 Randy Myers blows his 6th save of the season & it marks the 5th time he's blown a potential win for Greg Harris
- Aug 29 Brave's Charlie Leibrandt 1,000th strikeout. He decides to keep the ball by rolling it to the dugout, allowing Ricky Jordan to take second base on error.
- Aug 30 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 160 performances
- Aug 30 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 229 performances
- Aug 30 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
- Aug 30 David Lewett & Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun
- Aug 31 44th Emmy Awards: Northern Exposure (best drama & drama writing),Christopher Lloyd (Road To Avalonlea) & Dana Delany (China Beach) win
- Aug 31 Dynamite explosion in a mine in the Philippines kills 500
- Aug 31 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM
Famous Birthdays
Cole Sprouse
Aug 4 Cole Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Riverdale), born in Arezzo, Italy
Dylan Sprouse
Aug 4 Dylan Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy
- Aug 4 Tiffany Evans, American pop and R&B singer, born in The Bronx, New York City
- Aug 4 Flavien Prat, French jockey (Kentucky Derby 2019; Preakness Stakes 2021; Prix Marcel Boussac 2013), born in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, France
- Aug 10 Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress
- Aug 11 Allison Lozano, Mexican actress
- Aug 11 Jose Ortiz Jr., Puerto Rican jockey (Belmont Stakes 2016), born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico
- Aug 12 Cara Delevingne, English fashion model, actress, and LGBT activist, born in London, England
- Aug 13 Katharine Close, American Scripps National Spelling Bee champion (2006)
- Aug 16 Quentin Fillon Maillet, French biathlete (Olympic gold 20k individual, 12.5k pursuit 2022), born in Champagnole, France
- Aug 18 Frances Bean Cobain, American artist and daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love, born in Los Angeles, California
- Aug 18 Riko Narumi, Japanese actress and model, born in Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
Demi Lovato
Aug 20 Demi Lovato, American actress (Camp Rock) and singer-songwriter ("Unbroken"), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Aug 21 Brad Kavanagh, British stage and screen actor (House of Anubis - "Fabian"), and singer-songwriter, born in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
- Aug 22 Naomi Ackie, English actress (The End of the F***ing World), born in London, England
- Aug 25 Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer (Pink Cres), born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- Aug 26 Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast, born in Huadu, Guangzhou, China
- Aug 27 Carissa Moore, American surfer (WSL Women's World Tour Champion 2011, 13, 15, 19), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Aug 27 Daniel Ståhl, Swedish athlete (Olympic gold discus 2020; World C'ship gold 2019), born in Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Aug 29 Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter, born in São Paulo, Brazil
Famous Weddings
Janeane Garofalo
Aug 16 Comedian Janeane Garofalo (27) weds writer Robert Cohen in Las Vegas
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Chico Alvarez, trumpeteer (Stan Kenton Orchestra), dies of cancer at 72
- Aug 1 Kenny Sacha, American actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer film), dies of AIDS at 39
- Aug 1 Stanley Dudek, US platform diver (watershows), dies
- Aug 1 Margarita Aliger, Russian poet (Zoja), dies at 76
- Aug 2 Ephraim Katz, Israeli American writer and filmmaker (The Film Encyclopedia), dies at 60
- Aug 2 Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44
- Aug 2 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/American journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
- Aug 2 Michel Berger [Hamburger], French singer-songwriter, and record producer. dies of a heart attack at 44
- Aug 3 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Comm Party (1973-76), dies
- Aug 4 František Tomášek, 34th Archbishop of Prague and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Bohemia, dies at 93
- Aug 4 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
- Aug 5 Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (Toto - "Rosanna"; "Africa"), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
Robert Muldoon
Aug 5 Robert Muldoon, New Zealand politician (Prime Minister, 1975-1984), dies at 70
- Aug 7 John Anderson, American actor (Psycho, Ride the High Country, Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies of heart attack at 69
- Aug 7 Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
- Aug 8 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian influential Shia Islamic scholar, dies at 92
- Aug 8 Alison L Gertz, US aids-activist, Esquire women of year, dies of aids at 26
- Aug 8 Arthur Lang, American boxer and businessman, dies at 115
- Aug 8 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker and advisor, dies at 58
- Aug 8 Lou Krugman, American actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78
- Aug 8 Thomas J. McIntyre, American senator and writer (Fear Brokers), dies at 77
- Aug 9 Christopher Todd [Todd Wangberg], American performer, dies of AIDS at 30
- Aug 9 Jan van Baal, Dutch anthropologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea, dies (b. 1909)
- Aug 9 Patrick Devlin, English judge and legal philosopher, dies at 86
- Aug 9 Thomas J. McIntyre, American politician (Sen-NH, 1963-79), dies at 77
- Aug 9 William Russell [Russell William Wagner], American violinist, modern composer (Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments), and musicologist (Oh, Mister Jelly), dies at 87
- Aug 10 Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
- Aug 12 John Cage, American composer (4′33″; Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O), dies of a stroke at 79
- Aug 12 Patricia Harmsworth, Lady Rothermere [Bubbles], English socialite and actress, dies at 59
- Aug 12 Mazoon al-Mashani, 2nd wife of Sultan Said bin Taimur and Queen Mother of Oman, dies at about 72
- Aug 13 Bill Elverman, American playwright and actor (After Hours), dies at 40
- Aug 13 Clifford Allison, American stock-car racer, dies in a practice race at 27
- Aug 13 David Kaplan, American news producer (ABC), shot and killed reporting in Sarajevo Yugoslavia at 44 or 45
- Aug 13 Jan Elburg [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Geen letterheren), dies at 72
- Aug 14 Alexander Rosemeier, Indonesian-Dutch painter, dies at 104
- Aug 14 Flora Benson, American wife of Ezra Taft Benson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 91
John Sirica
Aug 14 John Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings), dies at 88
- Aug 14 Marion P Ames, American advocate/activist, dies
- Aug 14 Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters, 1953-59 - "Only You"; "Great Pretender"), dies at 64
- Aug 15 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, American author (American Glass Animals), dies
- Aug 15 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
- Aug 15 Marie Paxton, English actress, dies at 82
- Aug 15 Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
- Aug 15 Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
- Aug 15 Jackie Edwards, Jamaican songwriter (Keep On Running), dies at 53 or 54
- Aug 16 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
- Aug 17 Andre de Villiers, South African farmer and ANC informant, murdered at 42
- Aug 17 Barbara Morgan, American photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92
- Aug 17 Tommy Nutter, English fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs at 49
- Aug 18 Gerard Sonder, Dutch radio host (AVRO), dies
- Aug 18 John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82
- Aug 18 Christopher McCandless, subject of the book Into the Wild (b. 1968)
- Aug 19 Feliks Arons, Dutch director and actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
- Aug 19 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron, dies of a brain tumor at 80
- Aug 19 Norvel Lee, American boxer (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 67
- Aug 20 Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
- Aug 20 William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
- Aug 21 Lucille Brown, actress (Farina-Our Gang), dies after illness at 74
- Aug 21 Theo van Tijn, Marxist/social-historian, dies at 65
- Aug 21 Dai Vernon [David Frederick Wingfield Verner], Canadian magician, dies at 98
- Aug 21 Theodor Berger, Austrian composer. (Sinfonia Parabolica), dies at 87
- Aug 22 Paul Winter, American classical and session violinist (NBC Orchestra, 1937-58), dies at 78
- Aug 23 Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way), dies at 85
- Aug 23 Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
- Aug 24 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74
- Aug 24 Larrie Londin [Ralph Gallant], American session drummer (Motown and Nashville), dies of a heart attack at 48
- Aug 25 Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
- Aug 25 Frederick O'Neal, American actor, theatre producer and television director (Pinky, Car 54 Where Are You), dies from natural causes at 86
- Aug 25 Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
- Aug 26 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Tintin, Kuifje), dies at 66
- Aug 26 Arthur Leigh Allen, American suspected of being the Zodiac killer) (b. 1933)
- Aug 29 Mary Norton, English children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88
- Aug 29 Teddy Turner, English comedian (Coronation Street), dies at 75
