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.

DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.

Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987 ) was an American film director.

In August 1987, the criminal trial ended with a hung jury.

The line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August.

In August 1987, Apple Computer released HyperCard for the Macintosh line at the MacWorld convention.

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

In August 1987, Jones returned to Headquarters Marine Corps, where he served as senior aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

The Docklands Light Railway was opened on 31 August 1987 and was included in the zonal Travelcard ticketing scheme.

Lee Marvin ( February 19, 1924 – August 29, 1987 ) was an American film actor.

He died of a heart attack on August 29, 1987 after being hospitalized for more than two weeks because of " a run-down condition related to the flu.

* The Whales of August ( 1987 )

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai ( 6 August 194727 September 1996 ), better known mononymously as Najibullah or Najib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the Mujahideen took over Kabul.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

* Emergency Number Day, proclaimed by President Reagan on August 26 in 1987.

A cartridge version, using battery-backed memory, was released in the United States on August 22, 1987, and Europe on November 27, 1987.

The Stems had performed at their last live show on 31 August 1987, but it wasn't officially announced until November 1987.

TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the, is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989.

A second Torpedo Town festival was held in August 1987 at Bramdean Common near Winchester.

* 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal ( d. 1947 )

In August 2007, the top categories of lead criminal charges resulting from FBI investigations were:

On August 28, the FBI New York field office requested that a criminal case be opened to determine whether Mihdhar was still in the United States, but the request was refused.

In August 2007, the Supreme Court of Liberia allowed the criminal prosecution for this to proceed in the lower courts.

* August 12 – Willie Horton, American criminal

In August 1976, Science published a retrospective cohort study by Educational Testing Service psychologist Herman Witkin and colleagues that screened the tallest 16 % of men ( over 184 cm ( 6 ' 0 ") in height ) born in Copenhagen from 1944 – 1947 for XXY and XYY karyotypes, and found an increased rate of minor criminal convictions for property crimes among sixteen XXY and twelve XYY men may be related to the lower intelligence of those with criminal convictions, but found no evidence that XXY or XYY men were inclined to be aggressive or violent.

Eventually Meinhof, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe were jointly charged on 19 August 1975, with four counts of murder, fifty-four of attempted murder, and a single count of forming a criminal association.

* Super-Girl — In Superman # 123 ( August 1958 ), Jimmy Olsen uses a magic totem to wish a " Super-Girl " into existence as a companion and helper for Superman ; however, the two frequently get in each other's way until she is fatally injured protecting Superman from a Kryptonite meteor that a criminal has dropped towards him.

In August of that year an order was made to erect the first Court House, to cost not to exceed $ 5, 000, in the Public Square ; The first circuit court for the trial of civil and criminal causes was held on the 3d of July 1887.

Since August 1995, all criminal cases which go to court are tried at the district court first.

It emerged as an academic discipline in the 1920s, beginning with Berkeley police chief August Vollmer who established a criminal justice program at the University of California, Berkeley in 1916.

Employers among the unofficial members at the Legislative Council defeated a bill to repeal these penal clauses in August 1941, but the Employers and Workers Bill, passed on 27 April 1943, finally removed breach-of-labour-contract from the criminal code and enabled British Honduras's infant trade unions to pursue the struggle for improving labour conditions.

On 22 August 1772 Gustavus III of Sweden abolished torture and thereafter comprehensively revised the criminal code, the revision coming into effect on 20 January 1779.

He was " de-arrested " on 31 August 2004, but kept in prison whilst a U. S. extradition case was developed and British authorities drew up further criminal charges of their own.

However, Clark was acquitted of all criminal charges on August 29, 2002.

August " Gus " Vollmer ( March 7, 1876 – November 4, 1955 ) was a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century.

Hoffman and Rubin were arguably the most colorful of the seven defendants accused of criminal conspiracy and inciting to riot at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The criminal trial ended in August 1990 with a conviction for only one possession incident, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another.

After the Constituent Assembly, he became president of the criminal tribunal of Paris, but was arrested by Danton during the insurrection of 10 August 1792.

On 12 August 2002, in a speech at the opening of the Specialised Applied Research Centre of the Victoria University of Wellington, Dame Silvia questioned whether longer sentences would reduce criminal reoffending rates.

The judge certified her extradition to the Secretary of State on May 1, 1973, and on August 7, 1973, Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan became the first Nazi war criminal extradited from the United States to Germany.

In August 1984, known criminal Gerry Boudreault claimed Talwinder Parmar showed him a suitcase stuffed with $ 200, 000, payment to plant a bomb, but decided " I had done some bad things in my time, done my time in jail, but putting a bomb on a plane … not me.