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
PGA Championship
Aug 9 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Larry Nelson wins by 4 strokes from Fuzzy Zoeller
Larry Nelson
- Aug 9 All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos)
Event of Interest
Aug 10 Pete Rose, 3,631 career hit, breaks Stan Musial's NL hit record
Pete Rose
Stan Musial
- Aug 13 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 200 m butterfly record (2:05.96) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin
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 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women's 100 m butterfly record (57.93) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin; holds 100/200m double WR
- Aug 18 Football running back, Herschel Walker, of U of Georgia, takes out a Lloyd's of London insurance policy for $1 million
Event of Interest
Aug 28 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
Sebastian Coe
- Aug 29 28th Walker Cup: US wins 15-9
- Aug 29 Phillies minor leaguer Jeff Stone steals pro baseball record 121st base en route to 122 (Spartanburg (South Atlantic League))
- Aug 30 Bill Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win a $1 million thoroughbred horse race when John Henry takes the inaugural Arlington Million by a nose over The Bart
- Aug 31 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
Birthdays in Sport
Roger Federer
Aug 8 Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player (20 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland
Roger Federer
- Aug 8 Candie Kung, American golfer (US Open 2009 runner-up), born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 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, born in Truro, United Kingdom
- Aug 14 Julius Jones, American football player, born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia
- Aug 15 Brendan Hansen, American swimmer (Olympic gold, 4x100m medley relay 2004, 08, 12; 6 x World C'ship gold), born in Havertown, Pennsylvania
- 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 (Paris Saint-Germain), born in Évreux, France
- Aug 21 Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player, born in Chania, Greece
- 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 26 Birdie Kim, South Korean golfer (US Open 2005), born in Iksan, South Korea
- Aug 28 Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer, born in Zürich, Switzerland
- Aug 28 Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer, born in Larissa, Greece
- Aug 28 Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter, born in Żywiec, Poland
- Aug 28 Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Aug 28 Martin Erat, Czech hockey player, born in Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
- Aug 29 Geneviève Jeanson, French Canadian cyclist, born in Montreal, Quebec
- Aug 31 Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer
- Aug 31 Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
Deaths in Sport
- Aug 2 Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (Olympic gold 10m platform 1920), dies at 81
- Aug 14 Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (34 Tests for South Africa, 2960 runs), dies at 70
- Aug 15 Pappy Waldorf, American College Football Hall of Fame tackle and coach (Northwestern, California), dies at 78
- 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 28 Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (Olympic gold individual epée, team epée 1912), dies at 99
- Aug 31 Victor Trumper Jr, Australian cricketer (7 games for NSW, 74 runs 12 wkts), dies at 67