Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Aug 2 England cricket all-rounder Ian Botham takes 5 for 11 to end Australia's chase of 151 target, all out 121 for 29 run defeat in 4th Test at Edgbaston
Ian Botham
- Aug 9 52nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
Golf Major
Aug 9 PGA Championship, Atlanta Athletic Club: Larry Nelson wins by 4 strokes from Fuzzy Zoeller
Larry Nelson
Event of Interest
Aug 10 Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
Pete Rose
Stan Musial
- Aug 13 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 200m butterfly (2:05.96)
Event of Interest
Aug 14 Phils Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career HR off NY Met Mike Scott
Mike Schmidt
- Aug 15 Ian Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
- Aug 15 Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
- Aug 16 Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
- Aug 16 Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93)
- Aug 18 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
Golf Tournament
Aug 23 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
Beth Daniel
Birthdays in Sport
Roger Federer
Aug 8 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player (20 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland
Roger Federer
- Aug 9 Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
- Aug 10 Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
- Aug 12 Tony Capaldi, Northern Ireland footballer
- Aug 12 Djibril Cissé, French footballer
- Aug 14 Matthew Etherington, English footballer
- Aug 14 Julius Jones, American football player
- Aug 15 Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
- Aug 15 Oliver Perez, American baseball player
- Aug 16 Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer, born in Asunción, Paraguay
- Aug 18 César Delgado, Argentine footballer, born in Rosario, Argentina
- Aug 18 Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer, born in Thessaloniki, Greece
- Aug 20 Lauri Illy, Virginia Beach Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics 1996)
- Aug 20 Bernard Mendy, French footballer
- Aug 21 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player, born in Chania, Greece
- Aug 21 Jarrod Lyle, Australian professional golfer, born in Shepparton, Australia
- Aug 22 Alex Holmes, American football player, born in San Diego, California
- Aug 23 Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer, born in Pforzheim, Germany
- Aug 23 Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer, born in Madrid, Spain
- Aug 26 Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman
- Aug 26 Tino Best, West Indian cricketer
- Aug 28 Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer, born in Zürich, Switzerland
- Aug 28 Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer
- Aug 28 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
- Aug 28 Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver
- Aug 28 Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
- Aug 29 Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist
- Aug 31 Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
- Aug 31 Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
Deaths in Sport
- Aug 14 Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies at 70
- Aug 27 Valery Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- Aug 28 Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer and coach (Benfica, 100 year curse), dies at 82
- Aug 31 Victor Trumper Jr, Australian cricketer (7 games for NSW, 74 runs 12 wkts), dies at 67