* The Natural Period of a Transmission Line and the Frequency of lightning Discharge Therefrom, The Electrical World, August 27, 1898.

Beatty then took command of Fateh between October 1897 and August 1898 when the gunboats were frequently in action advancing along the Nile ahead of the army.

In the meantime, after a period of secret police repression and internal confusion that followed the first party Congress in 1898, Iskra succeeded in convening the party's 2nd congress in London in August 1903.

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

The first Protestant worship service was conducted on 28 August 1898 by an American military chaplain named Rev.

Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Pavel Uryson () ( February 3, 1898, Odessa – August 17, 1924, Batz-sur-Mer ) was a Jewish mathematician who is best known for his contributions in the theory of dimension, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology.

Created and developed in 1893 and introduced as " Brad's Drink ", it was later renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, then to Pepsi in 1961.

René François Ghislain Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967 ) was a Belgian surrealist artist.

* August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and writer ( b. 1898 )

* August 26 – Art Baker, American actor ( b. 1898 )

* August 11 – Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1898 )

* August 5 – Queenie Smith, American actress ( b. 1898 )

* August 31 – Lee Garmes, American cinematographer ( b. 1898 )

* August 21 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist ( d. 1898 )

* August 5 – Eliza Tibbets, mother of the California orange industry ( d. 1898 )

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

* Edward August Bond ( 1813 – 1898 ), English scientist

The first ascent of Grand Teton that is substantiated was made by William O. Owen, Frank Petersen, John Shive and Franklin Spencer Spalding on August 11, 1898.

They moved to Malang on the East side of the island of Java and had two children, Norman-John MacLeod ( 30 January 1897 – 27 June 1899 ) and Louise Jeanne MacLeod ( 2 May 1898 – 10 August 1919 ).

In August 1898 a murder in Lambeth committed by a member of the gang drew further attention to the word which was immediately popularized by the press.

The London-based newspaper Daily Graphic wrote in an article on 22 August 1898, " The avalanche of brutality which, under the name of ' Hooliganism ' ... has cast such a dire slur on the social records of South London ".

* HH HIH Princess Rukiye Sabiha Sultan Hanım Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, 19 March / 1 April 1894 – Istanbul, 26 August 1971 ), married to her cousin HIH Prince Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Istanbul, 27 / 29 February 1898 – 28 March 1969 / 1971 ), son of Abdülmecid II, at the Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, on 29 April 1920 as his first wife.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was the oldest of four children, with his siblings being brother Charles Hay ( 29 August 1865 – 8 November 1939 ) and sisters Ethel Marian ( 30 October 1867 – 4 February 1943 ) and Katharine Elizabeth ( 1871 – 1939 ).

A painting commissioned in the last year of Macnaghten's life, by James Atkinson ( Persian scholar ) | James Atkinson. Sir William Hay Macnaghten, 1st Baronet ( 24 August 1793 – 23 December 1841 ) was a British civil servant in India, who played a major part in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

Denys Hay ( 29 August 1915-14 June 1994 ) was a historian specializing in medieval and Renaissance Europe, and notable for demonstrating the influence of Italy on events in the rest of the continent.

* in Afghanistan, a kingdom entitled to a gun salute of 21 guns ( the highest rank among princely states, not then among Sovereign monarchs ): the first British Residents were Sir Alexander Burnes ( 1837 – 2 November 1841 ); William Hay McNaghten ( 7 August 1839 – 23 December 1841 ); Eldred Pottinger ( December 1841 – 6 January 1842 ). After that, four native Vakils acted on behalf of the British government: Nawab Foujdar Khan ( 1856 – April 1859 ), Ghulam Husain Khan Allizai ( April 1859 – 1865 ), Bukhiar Khan ( February 1864 – January 1868, acting ), Attah Muhammad Khan Khagwani ( January 1868 – 1878 ); then there were two more British Residents Louis Napoleon Cavagnari ( 24 July 1879 – 3 September 1879 ), Henry Lepel-Griffin ( 1880 ); next came two Military Commanders ( 8 October 1879 – 11 August 1880 ) and until 1919 ten native British Agents, one of whom served two non-consecutive terms.

The half hour weekly Will Hay Programme began in August 1944, and was broadcast live from the Paris Cinema, which still exists in a basement just off Piccadilly Circus.

-the breakout was 5 August 1944-a large number of Japanese POWs were transferred to Hay and placed in the three high-security compounds.

In August 2007, Ruby Tuesday Inc. ventured back into other concepts with their newly acquired Asian dining restaurant, Wok Hay.

The cycle-hire centre at Parsley Hay on a busy August weekend.

Roy Hay ( born Roy Ernest Hay, 12 August 1961, Southend, Essex, England ) is the guitarist / keyboardist with Culture Club, one of the more popular bands of the 1980s, fronted by Boy George.

Working with Sears Roebuck stores by providing them with the receivers, those present at the stores were able to see Bill Hay, ( the announcer for Amos ' n ' Andy ), present a variety show from the Daily News building, on August 27, 1930.

The continued persecutions of the Jews of Romania, her violations of the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin, and the greatly increased proportions which the Romanian emigration to the United States assumed in consequence, as also the failure to conclude a naturalization convention between the two countries, because Romania would not recognize the rights of American citizens who were Jews, moved Secretary of State John Hay to address on 11 August 1902, identical instructions to the representatives of the United States in Russia, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Turkey upon the subject of Romania's attitude.

Elizabeth, Duchess of Wellington ( 27 September 1820 – 13 August 1904 ) was born Lady Elizabeth Hay, a daughter of the eighth Marquess of Tweeddale.

Each August Meckling and its neighboring town Gayville, the Hay Capital of the World host the Annual Hay Days.

In March 2009 Arts Council Wales agreed to support a bid from Hay Festival to run Brecon Jazz from August 2009.

* Harry Thomas William Hay, Baron Hay ( b. Basingstoke, 8 August 1984 )

* George Hay ( succeeded 3 December 1778 – retired 24 August 1805 )

Edward Douglas John Hay, 13th Marquess of Tweeddale ( 6 August 1947 – 1 February 2005 ), a Scottish aristocrat best known for his speech in the House of Lords debate ( 1996 ) on the Bosnian civil war.

Edward Douglas John Hay was born on 6 August 1947 the elder of twin sons.

*** 19 August 1758: 15th Earl of Erroll ( James Hay, 20 April 1726 – 3 July 1778 )

John Hay Whitney ( 17 August 1904 – 8 February 1982 ), colloquially known as " Jock " Whitney, was U. S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Whitney family.