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.

The Duke of Hamilton led an invasion of England to free the King, but he was defeated by Oliver Cromwell in August 1648 at the Battle of Preston.

According to the National Security Archive, in an August 23, 1986 e-mail to John Poindexter, Oliver North described a meeting with a representative of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega: " You will recall that over the years Manuel Noriega in Panama and I have developed a fairly good relationship ", North writes before explaining Noriega's proposal.

* August 7 – Oliver Hardy, American actor ( b. 1892 )

* August 2 – Oliver La Farge, American writer ( b. 1901 )

* August 29 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer ( d. 1894 )

* August 14 – In protest at the Stamp Act, Bostonians attack the home of official Andrew Oliver.

* August 13 – James Oliver Curwood, America novelist and conservationist ( b. 1878 )

* August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( b. 1785 )

* August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* August 15 – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

* August 9 – Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell divides England into 11 districts under major-generals.

One computer program run by Dan Oliver of Scottsdale, Arizona, according to an article in The New Yorker, came up with a result on August 4, 2004: After the group had worked for 42, 162, 500, 000 billion billion monkey-years, one of the " monkeys " typed, "< tt > VALENTINE.

Oliver F. Atkins ' photo of Nixon leaving the White House shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974

Oliver F. Atkins ' photo of Nixon leaving the White House shortly before his resignation became effective, August 9, 1974

Johnny Dodds ( April 12, 1892 – August 8, 1940 ) was an American New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe " King " Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong.

* Oliver Belmont, son of August Belmont

On August 14, 1765 Andrew Oliver, distributor of stamps for Massachusetts, was hanged in effigy " from a giant elm tree at the crossing of Essex and Orange Streets in the city ’ s South End.

Lionel Bart ( 1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999 ) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!

Jeremy Taylor ( 15 August 1613 – 13 August 1667 ) was a cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

* August 13-James Oliver Curwood, American novelist & conservationist ( born 1878 )

Reprisals against the establishment which had developed under Oliver Cromwell were constrained under the terms of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act which became law on 29 August 1660.

Oliver G Pike premièred his first film, In Birdland, at the theatre in August 1907.

On Sundays in August and September 2010, while still performing in Oliver !, she returned to the Discovering Lost Musicals series, as Alice Challice in Darling of the Day, earning warm reviews.