Events in History
Event of Interest
Aug 5 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
Event of Interest
Aug 19 Russian Tsar Nicholas II installs "Imperial Duma", without legislative powers
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)
Birthdays in History
- Aug 3 Maggie Kuhn, American activist and co-founder (Gray Panthers), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995)
- Aug 4 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, born in Kensington, London (d. 1995)
- Aug 8 Wachtang Ananjan, writer
- Aug 9 Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice, born in Bowden, Cheshire (d. 1988)
- Aug 10 Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
- Aug 10 Era Bell Thompson, American magazine editor (Ebony), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1986)
- Aug 10 Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
- Aug 11 Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)
- Aug 14 Nicolás Cotoner, 23rd Marquess of Mondéjar, Spanish nobleman and military officer, born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain (d. 1996)
- Aug 16 Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code), born in Bromberg, German Empire (d. 1980)
- Aug 17 John Hay Whitney, American diplomat and publisher (NY Herald Tribune 1961-67), born in Ellsworth, Maine (d. 1982)
- Aug 19 Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
- Aug 20 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet, born in Poznań, Poland (d. 1973)
- Aug 24 Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (1971-85), born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
- Aug 25 Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic saint, nun and mystic, born in Głogowiec, Poland (d. 1938)
- Aug 27 Alexander Johnston, CEO (Board of Inland Revenue)
- Aug 29 Martinus A. Jansen, Bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), born in Amsterdam (d. 1983)
- Aug 31 Sal Tas, Dutch journalist & CIA agent (Het Parool) [or 1897]
Deaths in History
- Aug 4 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, Tanzanian prophet and rebel leader, hanged for treason by German East African military
- Aug 14 Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies
- Aug 14 Simeon Solomon, English Pre-Raphaelite painter, dies at 64
- Aug 21 Jules Oppert, French-German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80
- Aug 21 Mary Mapes Dodge, American children's author (St. Nicholas Magazine), editor and writer (Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates), dies at 74
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