Events in Sport
- Aug 3 Basketball Association of America (BAA) & National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form National Basketball Association (NBA), Maurice Podoloff elected head of new league
- Aug 6 Future Hall of Famer Luke Appling appears in a MLB record 2,154th (en route to 2,218) game at shortstop for the Chicago White Sox
Boxing Title Fight
Aug 10 Ezzard Charles TKOs Gus Lesnevich in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
Ezzard Charles
Birthdays in Sport
- Aug 3 Valeri Vasiliev, Soviet ice hockey defenceman (2x Olympic gold),born in Gorky, Soviet Union (d. 2012)
- Aug 4 John Riggins, NFL running back (NY Jets, Wash Redskins)
- Aug 8 Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver
- Aug 13 Bobby Clarke, NHL player and coach (Philadelphia Flyer), born in Flin Flon, Manitoba
- Aug 14 Bob Backlund, American wrestler, born in Princeton, Minnesota
- Aug 20 Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer, born in Que, Que, Southern Rhodesia
- Aug 22 Diana Nyad, American journalist and long-distance swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979), born in NYC, New York
- Aug 22 Doug Bair, American baseball player, born in Defiance, Ohio
- Aug 23 Geoff Capes, British shot putter, born in Holbeach, England
- Aug 26 John Baldwin, light middleweight boxer (Olympic bronze 1968), born in Detroit, Michigan
- Aug 27 Doug Tewell, American golfer (PGA Senior C'ship 2000, The Tradition 2001), born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Deaths in Sport
- Aug 30 Arthur Fielder, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies at 72