August

July - August - September

August 1

1933 - Dom DeLuise is born.

1939 - Terry Kiser is born.

1979 - Jason Momoa is born.

2020 - Wilford Brimley dies.

August 2

1970 - Kevin Smith is born.

1976 - Fritz Lang dies.

1982 - Matt Linneman is born.

1986 - Laputa: Castle in the Sky is released into Japanese theaters.

1998 - Shari Lewis dies.

August 3

1940 - Martin Sheen is born.

1970 - Masahiro Sakurai is born.

August 4

1920 - Helen Thomas is born.

1942 - Don S. Davis is born.

1955 - Alberto Gonzales is born.

1961 - Barack Obama is born.

1970 - Michael DeLuise is born.

2001 - Lorenzo Music dies.

August 5

1862 - Joseph Merrick is born.

1930 - Neil Armstrong is born.

1966 - Jonathan Silverman is born.

1993 - Magic: The Gathering is released.

2000 - Alec Guinness dies.

August 6

1911 - Lucille Ball is born.

1945 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

1970 - M. Night Shyamalan is born.

1996 - NASA announces Martian meteorite contains evidence of primitive life.

2004 - Rick James dies.

August 7

1936 - Clyde Slone is born.

1955 - Wayne Knight is born.

1960 - David Duchovny is born.

1978 - Cirroc Lofton is born.

1982 - Joshua J. Slone is born.

August 8

1919 - Dino De Laurentiis is born.

1935 - Donald P. Bellisario is born.

1953 - Sam Beckett is born.

2006 - Ned Lamont defeats Joe Lieberman in the U.S. Senate Connecticut Democratic primary.

August 9

1945 - Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.

1974 - Philip J. Fry is born.

1976 - Audrey Tautou is born.

2003 - Gregory Hines dies.

August 10

1969 - Brian Drummond is born.

1980 - Chester Kelsey is born.

August 11

1933 - Jerry Falwell is born.

1944 - Ian McDiarmid is born.

1953 - Hulk Hogan is born.

1984 - Josh Teeters is born.

1994 - Peter Cushing dies.

2014 - Robin Williams dies.

August 12

1962 - Miss Cleo is born.

1971 - Michael Ian Black is born.

1981 - IBM PC is released.

August 13

1899 - Alfred Hitchcock is born.

1946 - H. G. Wells dies.

1991 - Super Mario World releases in North America.

2016 - Kenny Baker dies.

August 14

1945 - Steve Martin is born.

1950 - Gary Larson is born.

1965 - Brannon Braga is born.

1995 - Virtual Boy releases in the United States.

August 15

1877 - Thomas Edison makes the first audio recording.

1914 - The Panama Canal is opened.

1982 - Toby Tobias is born.

August 16

1954 - James Cameron is born.

1963 - Steve Carell is born.

1977 - Elvis Presley dies.

August 17

1913 - Mark Felt is born.

2004 - Dune: The Battle of Corrin is released.

2009 - Joshua J. Slone gets his Xbox 360.

August 18

1952 - Patrick Swayze is born.

1970 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner is born.

2004 - Elmer Bernstein dies.

2009 - Robert Novak dies.

August 19

1871 - Orville Wright is born.

1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth is born.

1921 - Gene Roddenberry is born.

1924 - William Marshall is born.

1938 - Diana Muldaur is born.

1946 - Bill Clinton is born.

1952 - Jonathan Frakes is born.

1963 - John Stamos is born.

August 20

1940 - Gisaburo Sugii is born.

1943 - Sylvester McCoy is born.

2017 - Jerry Lewis dies.

August 21

1906 - Friz Freleng is born.

1991 - Super Nintendo Entertainment System begins arriving in American stores.

2003 - Wesley Willis dies.

August 22

1920 - Ray Bradbury is born.

1961 - Rick Sloane is born.

August 23

1960 - Rodney Alan Greenblat is born.

2005 - Jeff Chapman dies.

August 24

79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts.

1934 - Kenny Baker is born.

1951 - Orson Scott Card is born.

1958 - Steve Guttenberg is born.

1962 - Craig Kilborn is born.

1974 - Jennifer Lien is born.

1995 - Windows 95 is released.

2006 - The International Astronomical Union redefines the term planet.  Pluto is demoted to the status of dwarf planet.

2006 - Rob Corddry makes his final appearance as a regular The Daily Show correspondent.

August 25

1930 - Sean Connery is born.

1958 - Momofuku Ando announces the invention of the instant ramen noodle.

1958 - Tim Burton is born.

1982 - Brad Uhrig is born.

2009 - Ted Kennedy dies.

2012 - Neil Armstrong dies.

August 26

1980 - Macaulay Culkin is born.

2009 - Janie L. O'Dell becomes an LPN.

August 27

1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson is born.

1952 - Paul Reubens is born.

August 28

1965 - Amanda Tapping is born.

1969 - Jack Black is born.

2006 - Joshua J. Slone gets his DS Lite.

August 29

1936 - John McCain is born.

1958 - Michael Jackson is born.

1962 - Hiroki Kikuta is born.

2016 - Gene Wilder dies.

August 30

1948 - Lewis Black is born.

1958 - Frank Conniff is born.

1951 - Timothy Bottoms is born.

August 31

1979 - Mike Webb is born.

1983 - Brandon Pittman is born.