August Euler applied for German Patent No. DRP 248. 601 for a fixed forward mounting on an airplane for a machine gun in 1910.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

August Schleicher ( 1821 – 1868 ) and his Stammbaumtheorie are often quoted as the starting point of evolutionary linguistics.

* 1821 – August Schleicher, German linguist ( d. 1868 )

The first evidence of helium was observed on August 18, 1868 as a bright yellow line with a wavelength of 587. 49 nanometers in the spectrum of the chromosphere of the Sun.

Returning home in August 1866, an account of this expedition, entitled A Journey in Brazil, was published in 1868.

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).

* 1790 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician ( d. 1868 )

August Vilhelm Saabye sculpted a statue of him in 1868 based on contemporary portraits.

* Helium was first detected during the total solar eclipse of August 18, 1868 in parts of India.

* November 17 – August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1868 )

* February 19 – August Schleicher, German linguist ( d. 1868 )

* August 13 – Mary Hunter Austin, American writer of fiction and non-fiction ( b. 1868 )

* August 25 – King Ludwig I of Bavaria ( d. 1868 )

Baron Carl Otto Mörner ( 22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868 ), who was a Swedish courtier, and obscure member of the Diet, advocated for the succession.

In August 1868, he made his last trip to Grenoble where lived his sister and her family.

Duncan Forbes ( April 28, 1798 – August 17, 1868 ) was a Scottish linguist.

In August he made an extended journey south to Naples and Pompeii, where he was unimpressed with the former but delighted with the latter: " Here you live with the ancients ; you see their temples, their theatres, their houses in which you find their furniture, their kitchen utensils ..." Bizet began sketching a symphony based on his Italian experiences, but made little immediate headway ; the project, which became his Roma symphony, was not finished until 1868.

The Alabama state legislature changed the name to Jones County on August 6, 1868.

In 1868 he was invited by the German geographer August Petermann to participate in the 1869-1870 2nd German North Polar Expedition ( Germania under Carl Koldewey ).

The Allen County Jail, a strong stone structure, was built at a cost of $ 10, 000, in county bonds, which were voted in August, 1868.

It was renamed " Allen " in honor of Captain Allen on August 17, 1868.

The place was at first known as Turnersport and was given a post office with that name in August 1868.

The post office from North Shade in Gratiot County was transferred here on August 3, 1868, with Hiram T. Sherman as the first postmaster.

It was first called " Stevens ' Landing " and had a post office with that name from January 1856 until January 1860 and from February 1863 until August 1868.

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.