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.

Their feature film for Paramount Pictures, Easy Come, Easy Go, was canceled when Berry, as well as the film's director and other crew members, were seriously injured in a railroad accident while shooting the movie in Chatsworth, California in August 1965.

In August 25, 1983, fire struck the Paramount Studios.

On August 16, 1926, Bow's agreement with Paramount was renewed into a five-year deal: " Her salary will start at $ 1700 a week and advance yearly to $ 4000 a week for the last year ".

But in August 2012, IMAX and Paramount Pictures announced a one-week exclusive re-release of Raiders of the Lost Ark on September 7, 2012, to promote the release of the Blu-Ray collection.

In August 1982, Williams stormed off the set and filed a $ 20, 000, 000 lawsuit against Paramount.

The Truman Shows original theatrical release date was August 8, 1998, but Paramount Pictures considered pushing it back to around Christmas.

In August 1924, for Paramount Records, he recorded " Papa's Lawdy Lawdy Blues " and " Airy Man Blues ", the first commercially successful, self-accompanied recordings by a male singer of the blues.

After trying to sell the story to Universal in 1935, and the Saturday Evening Post in 1938 under the title Biography of a Bum, Sturges finally sold it to Paramount on August 19, 1939 for $ 10 on the condition that he be allowed to direct it.

Ngwenyama Sobhuza II ( July 22, 1899 – August 21, 1982 ) was the Paramount Chief and later King of Swaziland.

* 2004: August 10, Viacom merged the international television banners of CBS Broadcast International and Paramount International Television to form CBS Paramount International Television.

On August 20, 2007, CBS Television Distribution introduced a new closing logo to replace the old logos of King World, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, Paramount Television, and others.

In August 1978, with rumors of an impending meltdown at Abel swirling, Trumbull approached Paramount offering to step in and do the effects with partner Richard Yuricich.

A direct-to-video sequel called Road Trip: Beer Pong was released on August 11, 2009, this time by Paramount Famous Productions as Paramount Pictures had acquired DreamWorks ' back catalog in its 2006 purchase of the company ( since undone ).

The song first appeared in the soundtrack of the Martin and Lewis comedy film The Caddy, released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1953.

On August 21, 2011, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films became full joint venture labels of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.

On August 21, 2006, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films became full labels of the Paramount Motion Pictures Group.

Blues ( August, 1960, Paramount ), no.

Prior to joining MyNetworkTV, WFTC was affiliated with the United Paramount Network ( UPN ), from September 8, 2002 to August 31, 2006.

However, despite the universal appeal of Brook Evans-it made the New York Herald Tribune's Best-Seller List in August, 1928-its widespread critical acclaim, and its adaptation into the Paramount Pictures film The Right to Love ( 1931 ), the publishing world was to neglect the novel for over seventy years, until Persephone Books revived it with a new edition in 2001.

It was released by Paramount Pictures on August 10, 1990.

On August 17, 2004, Paramount released a DVD set containing all nineteen episodes on three discs.