Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )

* Colonel Safar Abiyev ( June – August 1993 )

* Maj .- Gen. Vahid Musayev ( August – September 1993 )

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 1920 – Polish – Soviet War: the Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25.

:: K. Commodus ( 31 August 161 – 31 December 192 ), died without issue

* 1867 – Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian ( b. 1785 )

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1921 – August Kowalczyk, Polish actor, director, and Holocaust survivor ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.

* 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

* 1920 – Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

Alexander I or Aleksandar Obrenović ( Cyrillic: Александар Обреновић ; 14 August 1876 – 11 June 1903 ) was king of Serbia from 1889 to 1903 when he and his wife, Queen Draga, were assassinated by a group of Army officers, led by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević

Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 – 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

From the dry ground in late summer ( August in zone 7 ) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30 – 60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.

On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* " The Nobels in Baku " in Azerbaijan International, Vol 10. 2 ( Summer 2002 ), 56 – 59.

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper and actor ( Westside Connection )

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

* Architect / Designer III: Licensed architect or non-registered graduate with 8 – 10 years of experience ; responsible for significant aspects of projects.

* 10 BC – Claudius, Roman emperor ( d. 54 )

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue

* 1903 – Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists only for 10 days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

* Article 10 – All treaty states will discourage activities by any country in Antarctica that are contrary to the treaty ;

Joseph Dongell, professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, states " the most conscipuous feature of Ephesians 1: 3 – 2: 10 is the phrase ' in Christ ', which occurs twelve times in Ephesians 1: 3 – 4 alone ... this means that Jesus Christ himself is the chosen one, the predestined one.

* 1957 – Dennis Drew, American keyboard player ( 10, 000 Maniacs )

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

* 1991 – A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around, killing at least 138, 000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.

To determine palatability, different levels of amaranth grain flour were mixed with the wheat flour and baking ingredients ( 1 % salt, 2. 5 % fat, 1. 5 % yeast, 10 % sugar and 52 – 74 % water ), fermented, molded, pan-proved and baked.

It has a short stem bearing a tuft of long, narrow, arching leaves 10 – 35 cm long and 1 – 2 cm broad, and a central flower stalk 25 – 60 cm tall, ending in an umbel of 20-30 white, or bright blue, funnel-shaped flowers, each flower 2. 5 – 5 cm diameter.