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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of August 0069 | EVENT | Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under the leadership of Gaius Julius Civilis. |
| 1st of August 0527 | EVENT | Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. |
| 1st of August 0607 | EVENT | Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). |
| 1st of August 0902 | EVENT | Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army. |
| 1st of August 1203 | EVENT | Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Fourth Crusade. |
| 1st of August 1291 | EVENT | The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. |
| 1st of August 1492 | EVENT | Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile drive the Jews out of Spain. |
| 1st of August 1498 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. |
| 1st of August 1619 | EVENT | First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. |
| 1st of August 1664 | EVENT | The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvar. |
| 1st of August 1759 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French. In Britain this was one of a number of events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759 and is celebrated as Minden Day by certain British Army regiments. |
| 1st of August 1798 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) : Battle begins when a British fleet engages the French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action. |
| 1st of August 1800 | EVENT | The Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| 1st of August 1801 | EVENT | First Barbary War: The American schooner USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya. |
| 1st of August 1820 | EVENT | London's Regent's Canal opens. |
| 1st of August 1828 | EVENT | Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic. |
| 1st of August 1831 | EVENT | A new London Bridge opens. |
| 1st of August 1832 | EVENT | The Black Hawk War ends. |
| 1st of August 1834 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force. |
| 1st of August 1838 | EVENT | Non-labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated. |
| 1st of August 1840 | EVENT | Labourer slaves in most of the British Empire are emancipated. |
| 1st of August 1842 | EVENT | Lombard Street Riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. |
| 1st of August 1855 | EVENT | First ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps. |
| 1st of August 1876 | EVENT | Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. |
| 1st of August 1894 | EVENT | The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. |
| 1st of August 1902 | EVENT | The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. |
| 1st of August 1907 | EVENT | Start of First Scout camp on Brownsea Island. |
| 1st of August 1914 | EVENT | Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I |
| 1st of August 1927 | EVENT | The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. |
| 1st of August 1937 | EVENT | Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. |
| 1st of August 1941 | EVENT | The first Jeep is produced. |
| 1st of August 1944 | EVENT | Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary. |
| 1st of August 1944 | EVENT | Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. |
| 1st of August 1948 | EVENT | The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. |
| 1st of August 1957 | EVENT | The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). |
| 1st of August 1960 | EVENT | Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. |
| 1st of August 1960 | EVENT | Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal. |
| 1st of August 1960 | EVENT | Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. |
| 1st of August 1964 | EVENT | The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo. |
| 1st of August 1966 | EVENT | Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
| 1st of August 1966 | EVENT | Charles Whitman kills 16 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. |
| 1st of August 1967 | EVENT | Israel annexes East Jerusalem. |
| 1st of August 1968 | EVENT | The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. |
| 1st of August 1975 | EVENT | CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. |
| 1st of August 1977 | EVENT | Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he is flying in Los Angeles |
| 1st of August 1980 | EVENT | Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland. |
| 1st of August 1980 | EVENT | Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the first democratically elected female head of state |
| 1st of August 1981 | EVENT | MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. |
| 1st of August 1984 | EVENT | Commercial peat-cutters discovers a the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, North West England. |
| 1st of August 1993 | EVENT | The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. |
| 1st of August 1995 | EVENT | The first Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. |
| 1st of August 1996 | EVENT | Michael Johnson breaks the 200m world record by 0.30 seconds with a time of 19.32 seconds at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1st of August 2001 | EVENT | An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia. |
| 1st of August 2001 | EVENT | Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency. |
| 1st of August 2001 | EVENT | Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office. |
| 1st of August 2004 | EVENT | A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asuncion, Paraguay. |
| 1st of August 2007 | EVENT | The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour. |
| 1st of August 2009 | EVENT | A shooting attack at the Gay and Lesbian Association building in Tel-Aviv, Israel, results in the deaths of two people. |
| 1st of August 0126 | BIRTHDAY | Pertinax, Roman Emperor (d. 193) |
| 1st of August 1313 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Kogon of Japan (d. 1364) |
| 1st of August 1377 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) |
| 1st of August 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (d. 1622) |
| 1st of August 1555 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (d. 1597) |
| 1st of August 1579 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Velez de Guevara, Spanish writer (d. 1644) |
| 1st of August 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (d. 1676) |
| 1st of August 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (d. 1673) |
| 1st of August 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1780) |
| 1st of August 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (d. 1782) |
| 1st of August 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Francois Dugommier, French general (d. 1794) |
| 1st of August 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (d. 1829) |
| 1st of August 1770 | BIRTHDAY | William Clark, American explorer (d. 1838) |
| 1st of August 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (d. 1843) |
| 1st of August 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851) |
| 1st of August 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (d. 1882) |
| 1st of August 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (d. 1889) |
| 1st of August 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Melville, American writer (d. 1891) |
| 1st of August 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930) |
| 1st of August 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926) |
| 1st of August 1856 | BIRTHDAY | George Coulthard, Former Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1883) |
| 1st of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Rott, Austrian composer (d. 1884) |
| 1st of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Gaston Doumergue, French President (d. 1937) |
| 1st of August 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Jones, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1951) |
| 1st of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | John Lester, American cricketer (d. 1969) |
| 1st of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (d. 1940) |
| 1st of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966) |
| 1st of August 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gerlach, German physicist (d. 1979) |
| 1st of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (d. 1968) |
| 1st of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Kinsan Ginsan, Japanese identical twins who lived to ages 107 and 108, respectively. |
| 1st of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | King Alexander I of Greece (d. 1920) |
| 1st of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927) |
| 1st of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Nothling, Former Australian cricketer and rugby union footballer (d. 1965) |
| 1st of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (d. 1925) |
| 1st of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Shipton, British mountaineer (d. 1977) |
| 1st of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | James Henry Govier, British artist (d. 1974) |
| 1st of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Scharf, American composer (d. 2003) |
| 1st of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer (d. 1963) |
| 1st of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Ormes, American cartoonist (d. 1985) |
| 1st of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 1st of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | J. Lee Thompson, British film director (d. 2002) |
| 1st of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Hebert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000) |
| 1st of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal |
| 1st of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kramer, American tennis player (d. 2009) |
| 1st of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Val Bettin, American voice actor |
| 1st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 1st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Worrell, Former West Indian cricketer (d. 1967) |
| 1st of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (d. 2000) |
| 1st of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Adam, German bass-baritone |
| 1st of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Calvello, Roller Derby queen (d. 2006) |
| 1st of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (d. 2002) |
| 1st of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Bart, English song-writer (d. 1999) |
| 1st of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (d. 1991) |
| 1st of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Goddard, Former South African cricketer |
| 1st of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972) |
| 1st of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990) |
| 1st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (d. 2009) |
| 1st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player |
| 1st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dusan Trestik, Czech historian (d. 2007) |
| 1st of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian |
| 1st of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000) |
| 1st of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer |
| 1st of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | W.D. Hamilton, British evolutionary biologist (d. 2000) |
| 1st of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008) |
| 1st of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Al D'Amato, United States Senator from New York |
| 1st of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mervyn Kitchen, Former Somerset cricketer and cricket international umpire |
| 1st of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director |
| 1st of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 1st of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer |
| 1st of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (d. 1995) |
| 1st of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor |
| 1st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show |
| 1st of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Boz Burrell, British musician (King Crimson, Bad Company) (d. 2006) |
| 1st of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist |
| 1st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer |
| 1st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Zine, Los Angeles city councilman |
| 1st of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan |
| 1st of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Nettles, professional football player (d. 2009) |
| 1st of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Carroll, American poet and actor (d. 2009) |
| 1st of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bunkhouse Buck, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Mackanin, American baseball player |
| 1st of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Bolin, American musician (Deep Purple) (d. 1976) |
| 1st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Zoran ?in?ic, Prime Minister of Serbia (d. 2003) |
| 1st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Yajurvindra Singh, Former Indian cricketer |
| 1st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Kurtz, American journalist |
| 1st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cray, American singer |
| 1st of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Benno Mohlmann, German footballer |
| 1st of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Arun Lal, Former Indian cricketer |
| 1st of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (d. 2006) |
| 1st of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Leykis, American radio personality |
| 1st of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (d. 2000) |
| 1st of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter |
| 1st of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tor Hakon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier |
| 1st of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player |
| 1st of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard) |
| 1st of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician |
| 1st of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic |
| 1st of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck D, American activist and rapper (Public Enemy) |
| 1st of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Borrego, American actor |
| 1st of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Matlala, South African boxer |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Coolio, American rapper |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Demian Bichir, Mexican actor |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Carroll Lynch, American actor |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lynette Sadleir, New Zealand Olympic synchronised swimmer |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Koichi Wakata, Japanese astronaut |
| 1st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) |
| 1st of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows) |
| 1st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Mendes, British stage and film director |
| 1st of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | James St. James, American author and nightlife personality |
| 1st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player |
| 1st of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed) |
| 1st of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey Augmon, American basketball player |
| 1st of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Japanese baseball player |
| 1st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Wain, American actor |
| 1st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player |
| 1st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Thorpe, Former England cricketer |
| 1st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | David James, English footballer |
| 1st of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tanya Reid, Canadian actress |
| 1st of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters) |
| 1st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor |
| 1st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress |
| 1st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Berhalter, American footballer |
| 1st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Edurne Pasaban, Spanish mountaineer |
| 1st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete |
| 1st of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete |
| 1st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress |
| 1st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | S?ren Jochumsen, Danish footballer |
| 1st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer |
| 1st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Stoica, Romanian-born Italian rugby player |
| 1st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer |
| 1st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author |
| 1st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshi Tatsu, Japanese professional wrestler and boxer |
| 1st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Edgerrin James, American football player |
| 1st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dhani Harrison, English musician |
| 1st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Blignaut, Former Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 1st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer |
| 1st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Momoa, American actor |
| 1st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Honeysuckle Weeks, Welsh-born actress |
| 1st of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mancini, Brazilian footballer |
| 1st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer |
| 1st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Parker Angel, American singer and actor |
| 1st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress |
| 1st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | David Gervasi, Swiss decathlete |
| 1st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress |
| 1st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer |
| 1st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Gavazzi, Italian cyclist |
| 1st of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Jones (baseball), American baseball player |
| 1st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Simon, Argentine footballer |
| 1st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 1st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Taylor, English footballer |
| 1st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player |
| 1st of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rumi Hiiragi, Japanese actress |
| 1st of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer |
| 1st of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany (Stephanie Hwang), American-born South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) |
| 1st of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player |
| 1st of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jack O'Connell, English actor (Skins) |
| 1st of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Puntoriere, Italian footballer |
| 1st of August 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Thomas III, American actor |
| 1st of August 1999 | BIRTHDAY | Khamani Griffin, American actor |
| 1st of August 0371 | DEATH | St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (Born 283) |
| 1st of August 0527 | DEATH | Emperor Justin I (Born 450) |
| 1st of August 1137 | DEATH | King Louis VI of France (Born 1081) |
| 1st of August 1227 | DEATH | Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (Born 1179) |
| 1st of August 1252 | DEATH | Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Italian explorer (Born c.1180) |
| 1st of August 1402 | DEATH | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (Born 1341) |
| 1st of August 1457 | DEATH | Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (Born c.1406) |
| 1st of August 1464 | DEATH | Cosimo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (Born 1386) |
| 1st of August 1541 | DEATH | Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (Born 1493) |
| 1st of August 1546 | DEATH | Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (Born 1506) |
| 1st of August 1557 | DEATH | Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (Born 1490) |
| 1st of August 1580 | DEATH | Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (Born 1524) |
| 1st of August 1589 | DEATH | Jacques Clement, French assassin of Henry III of France (Born 1567) |
| 1st of August 1675 | DEATH | Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip's War (Born 1635) |
| 1st of August 1714 | DEATH | Queen Anne of Great Britain (Born 1665) |
| 1st of August 1787 | DEATH | Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (Born 1696) |
| 1st of August 1795 | DEATH | Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist(Born 1735) |
| 1st of August 1796 | DEATH | Robert Pigot, British army officer (Born 1720) |
| 1st of August 1798 | DEATH | Francois-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (Born 1753) |
| 1st of August 1807 | DEATH | John Walker, British lexicographer (Born 1732) |
| 1st of August 1812 | DEATH | Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (Born 1763) |
| 1st of August 1851 | DEATH | William Joseph Behr, German writer (Born 1775) |
| 1st of August 1866 | DEATH | John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Born 1790) |
| 1st of August 1903 | DEATH | Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (Born 1853) |
| 1st of August 1911 | DEATH | Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter (Born 1852) |
| 1st of August 1911 | DEATH | Samuel Arza Davenport, American politician (Born 1843) |
| 1st of August 1917 | DEATH | Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (Born 1879) |
| 1st of August 1918 | DEATH | John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (Born 1854) |
| 1st of August 1920 | DEATH | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (Born 1856) |
| 1st of August 1929 | DEATH | Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (Born 1870) |
| 1st of August 1938 | DEATH | John Aasen, American actor (Born 1890) |
| 1st of August 1943 | DEATH | Lydia Litvyak, Soviet female flying ace (Born 1921) |
| 1st of August 1944 | DEATH | Manuel L. Quezon, First President of the Philippine Commonwealth (Born 1878) |
| 1st of August 1966 | DEATH | Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (Born 1941) |
| 1st of August 1967 | DEATH | Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1900) |
| 1st of August 1970 | DEATH | Frances Farmer, American actress (Born 1913) |
| 1st of August 1970 | DEATH | Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1883) |
| 1st of August 1973 | DEATH | Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (Born 1882) |
| 1st of August 1973 | DEATH | Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (Born 1893) |
| 1st of August 1974 | DEATH | Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (Born 1898) |
| 1st of August 1977 | DEATH | Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (Born 1929) |
| 1st of August 1980 | DEATH | Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (Born 1944) |
| 1st of August 1980 | DEATH | Strother Martin, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 1st of August 1981 | DEATH | Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (Born 1923) |
| 1st of August 1989 | DEATH | John Ogdon, British pianist (Born 1937) |
| 1st of August 1990 | DEATH | Norbert Elias, German sociologist (Born 1897) |
| 1st of August 1990 | DEATH | Graham Young, British serial killer (Born 1947) |
| 1st of August 1996 | DEATH | Frida Boccara, French singer (Born 1940) |
| 1st of August 1996 | DEATH | Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1897) |
| 1st of August 1996 | DEATH | Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (Born 1929) |
| 1st of August 1997 | DEATH | Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (Born 1915) |
| 1st of August 1998 | DEATH | Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (Born 1927) |
| 1st of August 1999 | DEATH | Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (Born 1897) |
| 1st of August 2001 | DEATH | Korey Stringer, American football player (Born 1974) |
| 1st of August 2003 | DEATH | Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (Born 1922) |
| 1st of August 2003 | DEATH | Marie Trintignant, French actress (Born 1962) |
| 1st of August 2004 | DEATH | Philip Abelson, American physicist, (Born 1913) |
| 1st of August 2005 | DEATH | Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (Born 1928) |
| 1st of August 2005 | DEATH | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (Born 1923) |
| 1st of August 2005 | DEATH | Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (Born 1920) |
| 1st of August 2005 | DEATH | Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (Born 1918) |
| 1st of August 2006 | DEATH | Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (Born 1965) |
| 1st of August 2006 | DEATH | Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (Born 1924) |
| 1st of August 2006 | DEATH | Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (Born 1949) |
| 1st of August 2007 | DEATH | Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (Born 1932) |
| 1st of August 2008 | DEATH | Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (Born 1916) |
| 1st of August 2009 | DEATH | Corazon Aquino, Former President of the Philippines (Born 1933) |
| 1st of August 2010 | DEATH | Lolita Lebron, Puerto Rican nationalist (Born 1919) |
| 1st of August 2010 | DEATH | Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (Born 1910) |