Events in History
- Aug 5 Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England
- Aug 11 Harry S Parmelee patents sprinkler head
- Aug 26 16 blacks kidnapped from Gibson County Jail and lynched in Trenton, Tennessee
Birthdays in History
Herbert Hoover
Aug 10 Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (R: 1929-1933), born in West Branch, Iowa (d. 1964)
- Aug 14 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist and nationalist activist, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1908)
- Aug 15 Joseph Klausner, Polish-Israeli new testament expert, born in Valkininkai, Lithuania (d. 1958)
- Aug 21 Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1942)
- Aug 22 Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1928)
- Aug 26 Zona Gale, American novelist and playwright, 1st woman to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1921), born in Portage, Wisconsin (d. 1938)
- Aug 27 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931), born in Cologne, German Empire (d. 1940)
- Aug 31 Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (father of modern educational psychology), born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts (d. 1949)
Deaths in History
- Aug 14 Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida) and Presbyterian minister, dies at 52
- Aug 22 Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet, dies at 50
- Aug 27 Johan George Schwartze, painter, dies
- Aug 27 John Henry Foley, Irish sculptor (Prince Albert Memorial), dies at 56
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