Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

Jacques-Louis David was born into a prosperous family in Paris on 30 August 1748.

* August 13 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( d. 1748 )

* August 27 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* August 12 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

By August 1748, Richardson was in poor health.

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

* The Vampire by Heinrich August Ossenfelder ( 1748 ).

# Jean Philippe, dit le Chevalier d ' Orléans ( Chilly-Mazarin, 28 August 1702-Paris, 16 June 1748 )

John Balguy ( August 12, 1686 – September 21, 1748 ) was an English divine and philosopher.

In 1748 he accompanied August Heinrich, Count Friesen, to Paris as secretary, and he is said by Rousseau to have acted for some time as reader to Frederick, the young hereditary prince of Saxe-Gotha.

In August 1748, her unit was sent to an expedition to capture the French colony of Pondicherry in India.

* August 12-John Balguy, philosopher ( died 1748 )

The earliest predecessor synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was constituted on August 25, 1748, in Philadelphia.

Rodney took his ship back to Plymouth where it was decommissioned on 13 August 1748.

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Clary ( Marseille, 22 November 1693 – Marseille, 30 August 1748 ), son of Jacques Clary and his wife Catherine Barosse, paternal grandson of Antoine Clary and wife Marguerite Canolle, and maternal grandson of Angelin Barosse and his wife Jeanne Pélissière, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 February 1724 ) Françoise-Agnès Ammoric ( Marseille, 6 March 1705 – Marseille, 21 December 1776 ), daughter of François Ammoric and his wife Jeanne Boisson.

* William Cocke ( 1748 – August 22, 1828 ) American lawyer, pioneer, and statesman.

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( 13 August 1662 – 2 December 1748 ), sometimes referred to as the " Proud Duke ".

Mir Qamar-ud-din Khan Siddiqi ( 20 August 1671 – 1 June 1748 ) was a Mughal nobleman the founder of the Asaf Jahi dynasty.

Końskie received city rights from King August III Sas on December 30, 1748.

Anders Erikson Sparrman ( 27 February 1748, Tensta, Uppland – 9 August 1820 ) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

Work only stopped in time of drought, extreme frost or problems with the silk supply, although unofficial holidays were taken during elections and Derby races in August 1748.

Note: From 1748 to 1764 he was assisted by Johann Gottfried Bürger, the father of poet Gottfried August Bürger.

Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun ( or sometimes Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun ), ( August 27, 1677 – February 18, 1748 ) was an Austrian Generalfeldmarschall.

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.