Historical Events in August, Month of August Events
Here is a list of some historical events in August. You can learn What major event happened in August?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 20, 1914 | Pope Pius X (b. 1835) |
| August 15, 398 | Lan Han, official of the Xianbei state Lan Yan |
| August 31, 1986 | Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900) |
| August 13, 612 | Fabia Eudokia, Byzantine empress (b. 580) |
| August 31, 2012 | Joe Lewis, American martial artist and actor (b. 1944) |
| August 28, 2005 | Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910) |
| August 22, 2005 | Ernest Kirkendall, American chemist and metallurgist (b. 1914) |
| August 17, 1510 | Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462) |
| August 19, 1986 | Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906) |
| August 15, 1989 | Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (b. 1904) |
| August 21, 1763 | Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1710) |
| August 20, 1825 | William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753) |
| August 5, 1678 | Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican tenor and composer (b. 1619) |
| August 23, 2013 | Konstanty Miodowicz, Polish ethnographer and politician (b. 1951) |
| August 21, 2012 | William Thurston, American mathematician and academic (b. 1946) |
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