August 1st All Events |
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| August 1st, 2033 (August 01 2033) | Event | Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic. | |
| August 1st, 2010 (August 01 2010) | Birth | Claudius, Roman Emperor (died in 54) | |
| August 1st, 2007 (August 01 2007) | Event | The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed during the evening rush hour. | |
| August 1st, 2007 (August 01 2007) | Death | Tommy Makem, Irish folk singer (born in 1932) | |
| August 1st, 2006 (August 01 2006) | Death | Jason Rhoades, American installation artist (born in 1965) | |
| August 1st, 2006 (August 01 2006) | Death | Bob Thaves, American cartoonist (born in 1924) | |
| August 1st, 2006 (August 01 2006) | Death | Iris Marion Young, American feminist and political scientist (born in 1949) | |
| August 1st, 2005 (August 01 2005) | Death | Al Aronowitz, American music journalist (born in 1928) | |
| August 1st, 2005 (August 01 2005) | Death | King Fahd of Saudi Arabia (born in 1923) | |
| August 1st, 2005 (August 01 2005) | Death | Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (born in 1920) | |
| August 1st, 2005 (August 01 2005) | Death | Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (born in 1918) | |
| August 1st, 2004 (August 01 2004) | Event | A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asuncion, Paraguay. | |
| August 1st, 2004 (August 01 2004) | Death | Philip Abelson American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1913) | |
| August 1st, 2003 (August 01 2003) | Death | Guy Thys, Belgian football coach (born in 1922) | |
| August 1st, 2003 (August 01 2003) | Death | Marie Trintignant, French actress (born in 1962) | |
| August 1st, 2001 (August 01 2001) | Event | An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia. | |
| August 1st, 2001 (August 01 2001) | Event | Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency. | |
| August 1st, 2001 (August 01 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. | |
| August 1st, 2001 (August 01 2001) | Death | Korey Stringer, American football player (born in 1974) | |
| August 1st, 1999 (August 01 1999) | Death | Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian-born writer (born in 1897) | |
| August 1st, 1998 (August 01 1998) | Birth | Khamani Griffin, American actor | |
| August 1st, 1998 (August 01 1998) | Death | Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born actress (born in 1927) | |
| August 1st, 1997 (August 01 1997) | Death | Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (born in 1915) | |
| August 1st, 1996 (August 01 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. | Michael Johns Quotes |
| August 1st, 1996 (August 01 1996) | Death | Frida Boccara, French singer (born in 1940) | |
| August 1st, 1996 (August 01 1996) | Death | Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1897) | |
| August 1st, 1996 (August 01 1996) | Death | Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (born in 1929) | |
| August 1st, 1993 (August 01 1993) | Event | The Great Flood of 1993 comes to a peak. The Mississippi River crested at St. Louis, hitting a record 49.58 feet above flood stage. The Missouri River would peak the next day (August 2) in St. Charles, Missouri at a record 39.6 feet above flood stage. | |
| August 1st, 1990 (August 01 1990) | Death | Norbert Elias, German sociologist (born in 1897) | |
| August 1st, 1990 (August 01 1990) | Death | Graham Young, British serial killer (born in 1947) | |
| August 1st, 1989 (August 01 1989) | Death | John Ogdon, English pianist (born in 1937) | |
| August 1st, 1986 (August 01 1986) | Birth | Bastian Schweinsteiger, German footballer | |
| August 1st, 1986 (August 01 1986) | Birth | Andrew Taylor, English footballer | |
| August 1st, 1986 (August 01 1986) | Birth | Anton Stralman, Swedish ice hockey player | |
| August 1st, 1986 (August 01 1986) | Birth | Elena Vesnina, Russian Tennis Player | |
| August 1st, 1984 (August 01 1984) | Birth | Valery Ortiz, Puerto Rican actress | |
| August 1st, 1982 (August 01 1982) | Birth | Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress | |
| August 1st, 1981 (August 01 1981) | Event | MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles. | |
| August 1st, 1981 (August 01 1981) | Birth | Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer | |
| August 1st, 1981 (August 01 1981) | Birth | Ashley Parker Angel, North American singer and actor | |
| August 1st, 1981 (August 01 1981) | Death | Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (born in 1923) | |
| August 1st, 1980 (August 01 1980) | Event | Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland. | |
| August 1st, 1980 (August 01 1980) | Birth | Mancini, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 1st, 1980 (August 01 1980) | Death | Patrick Depailler, French Formula 1 driver (born in 1944) | |
| August 1st, 1980 (August 01 1980) | Death | Strother Martin, American actor (born in 1919) | |
| August 1st, 1979 (August 01 1979) | Birth | Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer | |
| August 1st, 1979 (August 01 1979) | Birth | Jason Momoa, American actor | |
| August 1st, 1979 (August 01 1979) | Birth | Honeysuckle Weeks, English actress | |
| August 1st, 1978 (August 01 1978) | Birth | Dhani Harrison, English musician | |
| August 1st, 1978 (August 01 1978) | Birth | Edgerrin James, American football player | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Event | Former Lockheed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Birth | Marc Denis, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Birth | Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author | |
| August 1st, 1977 (August 01 1977) | Death | Gary Powers, American spy plane pilot (born in 1929) | |
| August 1st, 1976 (August 01 1976) | Birth | Kevin Joseph, American baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1976 (August 01 1976) | Birth | Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer | |
| August 1st, 1976 (August 01 1976) | Birth | Hasan Sas, Turkish footballer | |
| August 1st, 1976 (August 01 1976) | Birth | Soren Jochumsen, Danish footballer | |
| August 1st, 1975 (August 01 1975) | Event | CSCE Final Act creates the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe. | |
| August 1st, 1974 (August 01 1974) | Birth | Beckie Scott, Canadian cross-country skiing athlete | |
| August 1st, 1974 (August 01 1974) | Death | Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian Catholic cardinal (born in 1898) | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Birth | Gregg Berhalter, American footballer | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Birth | Tempestt Bledsoe, American actress | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Birth | Veerle Dejaeghere, Belgian athlete | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Birth | Eduardo Noriega, Spanish actor | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Death | Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (born in 1882) | |
| August 1st, 1973 (August 01 1973) | Death | Walter Ulbricht, German communist statesman (born in 1893) | |
| August 1st, 1972 (August 01 1972) | Birth | Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler | Devo Quotes |
| August 1st, 1972 (August 01 1972) | Birth | Nicke Royale, Swedish musician (The Hellacopters) | |
| August 1st, 1972 (August 01 1972) | Birth | Tanya Reid, Canadian actress | |
| August 1st, 1971 (August 01 1971) | Event | Concert for Bangladesh. | |
| August 1st, 1971 (August 01 1971) | Birth | Stuart Wade, English actor | |
| August 1st, 1970 (August 01 1970) | Event | Powder Ridge Rock Festival. | |
| August 1st, 1970 (August 01 1970) | Birth | David James, English footballer | |
| August 1st, 1970 (August 01 1970) | Death | Frances Farmer, American actress (born in 1913) | Frances Farmer Quotes |
| August 1st, 1970 (August 01 1970) | Death | Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1883) | |
| August 1st, 1969 (August 01 1969) | Birth | Kevin Jarvis, American baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1969 (August 01 1969) | Birth | David Wain, American actor | |
| August 1st, 1968 (August 01 1968) | Event | The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. | |
| August 1st, 1968 (August 01 1968) | Birth | Dan Donegan, American musician (Disturbed) | |
| August 1st, 1968 (August 01 1968) | Birth | Stacey Augmon, American basketball player | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Event | Israel annexes East Jerusalem. | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Birth | Gregg Jefferies, American baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1967 (August 01 1967) | Death | Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1900) | |
| August 1st, 1966 (August 01 1966) | Event | Charles Whitman kills 15 people at The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. | |
| August 1st, 1966 (August 01 1966) | Event | Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People s Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. | |
| August 1st, 1966 (August 01 1966) | Death | Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (shot by police) (born in 1941) | |
| August 1st, 1965 (August 01 1965) | Event | Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her engagement to Claus von Amsberg. | |
| August 1st, 1965 (August 01 1965) | Birth | Sam Mendes, British stage and film director | |
| August 1st, 1964 (August 01 1964) | Event | The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo. | |
| August 1st, 1964 (August 01 1964) | Birth | Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows) | |
| August 1st, 1964 (August 01 1964) | Death | Johnny Burnette, American singer (born in 1934) | |
| August 1st, 1963 (August 01 1963) | Birth | Coolio, American rapper | |
| August 1st, 1963 (August 01 1963) | Birth | Demian Bichir, Mexican actor | |
| August 1st, 1963 (August 01 1963) | Birth | John Carroll Lynch, American actor | |
| August 1st, 1963 (August 01 1963) | Birth | Dean Wareham, New Zealand musician (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) | |
| August 1st, 1962 (August 01 1962) | Birth | Robert Clift, British field hockey player | |
| August 1st, 1962 (August 01 1962) | Birth | Jacob Matlala, South African boxer | |
| August 1st, 1960 (August 01 1960) | Event | Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France. | |
| August 1st, 1960 (August 01 1960) | Event | Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in Senegal. | |
| August 1st, 1960 (August 01 1960) | Event | Islamabad declared as the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan. | |
| August 1st, 1960 (August 01 1960) | Birth | Chuck D, American rapper (Public Enemy) | Chuck D Quotes |
| August 1st, 1960 (August 01 1960) | Birth | Richard Roeper, American columnist and film critic | |
| August 1st, 1959 (August 01 1959) | Birth | Joe Elliott, English musician (Def Leppard) | |
| August 1st, 1959 (August 01 1959) | Birth | Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician | |
| August 1st, 1958 (August 01 1958) | Birth | Adrian Dunbar, Northern Irish actor | |
| August 1st, 1958 (August 01 1958) | Birth | Rob Buck, American musician (10,000 Maniacs) (died in 2000) | |
| August 1st, 1958 (August 01 1958) | Birth | Tor Hakon Holte, Norwegian cross country skier | |
| August 1st, 1958 (August 01 1958) | Birth | Kiki Vandeweghe, American basketball player | |
| August 1st, 1958 (August 01 1958) | Birth | Michael Penn, American singer and songwriter | |
| August 1st, 1957 (August 01 1957) | Event | The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). | |
| August 1st, 1956 (August 01 1956) | Birth | Tom Leykis, American radio personality | |
| August 1st, 1955 (August 01 1955) | Birth | Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer | |
| August 1st, 1953 (August 01 1953) | Birth | Robert Cray, American singer | |
| August 1st, 1953 (August 01 1953) | Birth | Charles Gilpin, American Scientist (died in 1998) | |
| August 1st, 1953 (August 01 1953) | Birth | Howard Kurtz, American journalist | |
| August 1st, 1952 (August 01 1952) | Birth | Zoran Dindic, Prime Minister of Serbia (died in 2003) | |
| August 1st, 1951 (August 01 1951) | Birth | Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (Deep Purple) (died in 1976) | |
| August 1st, 1951 (August 01 1951) | Birth | Pete Mackanin, American baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1950 (August 01 1950) | Birth | Jim Carroll, American poet and actor | |
| August 1st, 1949 (August 01 1949) | Birth | Kurmanbek Bakiyev, President of Kyrgyzstan | |
| August 1st, 1948 (August 01 1948) | Event | The U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded. | |
| August 1st, 1947 (August 01 1947) | Birth | Chris L. Barnard, Welsh footballer | |
| August 1st, 1947 (August 01 1947) | Birth | Dennis Zine, Los Angeles City Councilman | |
| August 1st, 1946 (August 01 1946) | Birth | Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist | |
| August 1st, 1946 (August 01 1946) | Birth | Boz Burrell, British bass guitarist (King Crimson, Bad Company) (died in 2006) | |
| August 1st, 1945 (August 01 1945) | Birth | Douglas D. Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| August 1st, 1945 (August 01 1945) | Birth | Sandi Griffiths, American singer, The Lawrence Welk Show | |
| August 1st, 1944 (August 01 1944) | Event | Anne Frank makes the last entry in her diary. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| August 1st, 1944 (August 01 1944) | Event | Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland. | |
| August 1st, 1942 (August 01 1942) | Birth | Jerry Garcia, American musician (The Grateful Dead) (died in 1995) | Jerry Garcia Quotes |
| August 1st, 1942 (August 01 1942) | Birth | Andre Gagnon, French Canadian pianist and composer | |
| August 1st, 1942 (August 01 1942) | Birth | Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor | |
| August 1st, 1941 (August 01 1941) | Event | The first Jeep is produced. | |
| August 1st, 1941 (August 01 1941) | Birth | Etienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (died in 2004) | |
| August 1st, 1937 (August 01 1937) | Event | Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. | |
| August 1st, 1937 (August 01 1937) | Birth | Al D Amato, United States Senator from New York | |
| August 1st, 1936 (August 01 1936) | Event | Olympic Games: Summer Olympic GamesThe Games of the XI Olympiad open in Berlin. | |
| August 1st, 1936 (August 01 1936) | Birth | Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (died in 2008) | |
| August 1st, 1933 (August 01 1933) | Birth | Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian | |
| August 1st, 1933 (August 01 1933) | Birth | Jesse Corti, Venezuelan-born actor and comedian | |
| August 1st, 1933 (August 01 1933) | Birth | Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player | |
| August 1st, 1933 (August 01 1933) | Birth | Dusan Trestik, Czech historian (died in 2007) | |
| August 1st, 1932 (August 01 1932) | Birth | Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (died in 1990) | |
| August 1st, 1932 (August 01 1932) | Birth | Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (died in 1972) | |
| August 1st, 1930 (August 01 1930) | Birth | Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (died in 2002) | |
| August 1st, 1930 (August 01 1930) | Birth | Lionel Bart, English song-writer (died in 1999) | Lionel Bart Quotes |
| August 1st, 1930 (August 01 1930) | Birth | Julie Bovasso, American actor and writer (died in 1991) | |
| August 1st, 1929 (August 01 1929) | Birth | Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (died in 2006) | |
| August 1st, 1929 (August 01 1929) | Death | Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer (born in 1870) | |
| August 1st, 1927 (August 01 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. | |
| August 1st, 1927 (August 01 1927) | Birth | Raymond Leppard, English conductor | |
| August 1st, 1926 (August 01 1926) | Birth | Theo Adam, German bass-baritone | |
| August 1st, 1925 (August 01 1925) | Birth | Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer (died in 2000) | |
| August 1st, 1924 (August 01 1924) | Birth | Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| August 1st, 1924 (August 01 1924) | Birth | Marcia Mae Jones, American actress (died in 2007) | |
| August 1st, 1922 (August 01 1922) | Birth | Pat McDonald, Australian actress (died in 1990) | |
| August 1st, 1921 (August 01 1921) | Birth | Jack Kramer, American tennis player | |
| August 1st, 1920 (August 01 1920) | Death | Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist leader (born in 1856) | |
| August 1st, 1918 (August 01 1918) | Death | John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (born in 1854) | |
| August 1st, 1917 (August 01 1917) | Death | Frank Little, American labor organizer (lynched) (born in 1879) | |
| August 1st, 1916 (August 01 1916) | Birth | Anne Hebert, French Canadian author and poet (died in 2000) | |
| August 1st, 1914 (August 01 1914) | Event | Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I | |
| August 1st, 1914 (August 01 1914) | Birth | J. Lee Thompson, British film director (died in 2002) | |
| August 1st, 1912 (August 01 1912) | Birth | Henry Jones, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| August 1st, 1910 (August 01 1910) | Birth | James Henry Govier, British artist (died in 1974) | Henry James Quotes |
| August 1st, 1910 (August 01 1910) | Birth | Walter Scharf, American composer (died in 2003) | |
| August 1st, 1907 (August 01 1907) | Event | First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island. | |
| August 1st, 1903 (August 01 1903) | Death | Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman (born in 1853) | |
| August 1st, 1902 (August 01 1902) | Event | The United States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. | |
| August 1st, 1901 (August 01 1901) | Birth | Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (died in 1925) | |
| August 1st, 1894 (August 01 1894) | Event | The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. | |
| August 1st, 1894 (August 01 1894) | Birth | Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (died in 1927) | |
| August 1st, 1893 (August 01 1893) | Birth | King Alexander I of Greece (died in 1920) | |
| August 1st, 1891 (August 01 1891) | Birth | Karl Kobelt, Swiss politician (died in 1968) | |
| August 1st, 1889 (August 01 1889) | Birth | Walter Gerlach, German physicist (died in 1979) | |
| August 1st, 1885 (August 01 1885) | Birth | George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1966) | |
| August 1st, 1881 (August 01 1881) | Birth | Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician (died in 1940) | |
| August 1st, 1876 (August 01 1876) | Event | Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state. | |
| August 1st, 1871 (August 01 1871) | Birth | John Lester, American cricketer (died in 1969) | |
| August 1st, 1866 (August 01 1866) | Death | John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (born in 1790) | |
| August 1st, 1858 (August 01 1858) | Birth | Hans Rott, Austrian composer (died in 1884) | |
| August 1st, 1858 (August 01 1858) | Birth | Gaston Doumergue, French President (died in 1937) | |
| August 1st, 1851 (August 01 1851) | Death | William Joseph Behr, German writer (born in 1775) | |
| August 1st, 1843 (August 01 1843) | Birth | Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln; United States Secretary of War (died in 1926) | Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| August 1st, 1842 (August 01 1842) | Event | Lombard Street Riot erupts | |
| August 1st, 1838 (August 01 1838) | Event | Slaves in Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated. | |
| August 1st, 1837 (August 01 1837) | Birth | Mother Jones, American labor organizer (died in 1930) | |
| August 1st, 1834 (August 01 1834) | Event | Slavery is abolished in the British Empire. | |
| August 1st, 1832 (August 01 1832) | Event | The Black Hawk War ends. | |
| August 1st, 1831 (August 01 1831) | Event | A new London Bridge opens. | |
| August 1st, 1828 (August 01 1828) | Event | Bolton and Leigh Railway opens to freight traffic. | |
| August 1st, 1820 (August 01 1820) | Event | London s Regent s Canal opens. | |
| August 1st, 1819 (August 01 1819) | Birth | Herman Melville, American writer (died in 1891) | Herman Melville Quotes |
| August 1st, 1818 (August 01 1818) | Birth | Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (died in 1889) | |
| August 1st, 1815 (August 01 1815) | Birth | Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer, politician, and author (died in 1882) | |
| August 1st, 1812 (August 01 1812) | Death | Yakov Kulnev, Russian general (killed in battle) (born in 1763) | |
| August 1st, 1800 (August 01 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. | |
| August 1st, 1798 (August 01 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. | |
| August 1st, 1798 (August 01 1798) | Death | Francois-Paul Brueys D Aigalliers, French admiral (killed in battle) (born in 1753) | |
| August 1st, 1796 (August 01 1796) | Death | Robert Pigot, British army officer (born in 1720) | |
| August 1st, 1787 (August 01 1787) | Death | Alphonsus Liguori, Italian founder of the Redemptionist order (born in 1696) | |
| August 1st, 1779 (August 01 1779) | Birth | Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist (died in 1843) | Francis Scott Key Quotes |
| August 1st, 1779 (August 01 1779) | Birth | Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (died in 1851) | |
| August 1st, 1774 (August 01 1774) | Event | The element oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time. | |
| August 1st, 1770 (August 01 1770) | Birth | William Clark, American explorer (died in 1838) | |
| August 1st, 1744 (August 01 1744) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist (died in 1829) | |
| August 1st, 1738 (August 01 1738) | Birth | Jacques Francois Dugommier, French general (died in 1794) | |
| August 1st, 1714 (August 01 1714) | Birth | Richard Wilson, Welsh painter (died in 1782) | |
| August 1st, 1714 (August 01 1714) | Death | Queen Anne of Great Britain (born in 1665) | Anne of Great Britain Quotes |
| August 1st, 1713 (August 01 1713) | Birth | Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died in 1780) | |
| August 1st, 1675 (August 01 1675) | Death | Weetamoo, sachem of Pocasetts, a band of the Wampanoag Indians her death winding up the end of King Philip s War | |
| August 1st, 1664 (August 01 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. | |
| August 1st, 1630 (August 01 1630) | Birth | Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English statesman (died in 1673) | |
| August 1st, 1619 (August 01 1619) | Event | First African slaves arrive in Jamestown, Virginia. | |
| August 1st, 1589 (August 01 1589) | Death | Jacques Clement, French assassin of Henry III of France (born in 1567) | |
| August 1st, 1580 (August 01 1580) | Death | Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (born in 1524) | |
| August 1st, 1579 (August 01 1579) | Birth | Luis Velez de Guevara, Spanish writer (died in 1644) | |
| August 1st, 1557 (August 01 1557) | Death | Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (born in 1490) | |
| August 1st, 1555 (August 01 1555) | Birth | Edward Kelley, English spirit medium (died in 1597) | |
| August 1st, 1546 (August 01 1546) | Death | Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (born in 1506) | |
| August 1st, 1545 (August 01 1545) | Birth | Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and religious reformer (died in 1622) | |
| August 1st, 1541 (August 01 1541) | Death | Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (born in 1493) | |
| August 1st, 1498 (August 01 1498) | Event | Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| August 1st, 1492 (August 01 1492) | Event | Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Jews out of Spain. | |
| August 1st, 1464 (August 01 1464) | Death | Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1386) | |
| August 1st, 1461 (August 01 1461) | Event | Edward IV is crowned king of England. | |
| August 1st, 1457 (August 01 1457) | Death | Lorenzo Valla, Italian humanist (bc. 1406) | |
| August 1st, 1402 (August 01 1402) | Death | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (born in 1341) | |
| August 1st, 1377 (August 01 1377) | Birth | Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (died in 1433) | |
| August 1st, 1313 (August 01 1313) | Birth | Emperor Kogon of Japan (died in 1364) | |
| August 1st, 1291 (August 01 1291) | Event | The Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter. | |
| August 1st, 1227 (August 01 1227) | Death | Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord (born in 1179) | |
| August 1st, 1203 (August 01 1203) | Event | Isaac II Angelus, restored Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son Alexius IV Angelus co-emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran Fourth Crusade. | |
| August 1st, 1137 (August 01 1137) | Death | King Louis VI of France (born in 1081) | |
| August 1st, 0902 (August 01 0902) | Event | Taormina, the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily, is captured by the Aghlabid army. | |
| August 1st, 0607 (August 01 0607) | Event | Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607). | |
| August 1st, 0527 (August 01 0527) | Event | Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the Byzantine Empire. | |
| August 1st, 0527 (August 01 0527) | Death | Emperor Justin I (born in c. 450) | |
| August 1st, 0371 (August 01 0371) | Death | St Eusebius of Vercelli, Italian bishop (born in c. 283) | |
| August 1st, 0126 (August 01 0126) | Birth | Pertinax, Roman Emperor (died in 193) | |
