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 was submitted to the jury with the two remaining defendants: Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno ( former Alternative Tentacles label manager ).

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.

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

* Pope John Paul II's Angelus Message, August 11, 1996 ( The same in Italian ) This is a brief modern reflection by a Pope that refers directly to Hesychasm, indicating that its defense was in conflict with certain aspects of Roman Catholic teaching

The celebration of Stockhausen was centred on two large-scale concerts on 2 August 2008, and complementing Vaughan Williams's interest in folk music, the first Sunday was given over to a celebration of various aspects of British folk, including free events in Kensington Gardens and the Albert Hall, and ending with the first-ever céilidh in the Albert Hall itself.

Rocker was particularly impressed by the writings of Constantin Franz, a federalist and opponent of Bismarck's centralized German Empire ; Eugen Dühring, an anti-Marxist socialist, whose theories had some anarchist aspects ; novels like Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward ; as well as the traditional socialist literature such as Karl Marx's Capital and Ferdinand Lasalle and August Bebel's writings.

Each year, during the first week of August, Coldstream hosts a traditional " Civic Week " where it includes historical aspects of the town's history such as the Torchlight procession and horse-rides to the Battle of Flodden battlefield.

In August 2006 Rob Andrew left the Falcons to be in overall charge of the England set-up ahead of the 2007 World Cup in a wide-ranging role that encompasses all aspects of the professional representative game in England.

The Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases ( ITD ) was formed in August 1997 and encompasses all of the laboratory-based research in the School as well as that on the clinical and epidemiological aspects of infectious and tropical diseases.

The Blueprint notwithstanding, Indianapolis has criminalized aspects of homelessness, such as making panhandling a misdemeanor ; and the City-County Council has twice ( in April 2002, and August 2005 ) denied the zoning necessary to open a new shelter for homeless women.

In response to the faltering results of the England National Team on August 18, 2006 Rob Andrew was appointed by the RFU to undertake the post of Director of Elite Rugby to oversee all aspects of representative rugby in England, from the regional academies to the full senior side, including senior team selection powers and the power to hire and fire coaches at all levels of English rugby.

These included the ecological determinism of Ellsworth Huntington ; biological racism, though only to the extent of seeing characteristics which grew out of ecology ; the economic geography and location theory ; and some aspects of Marxist modes of production and stages of history, especially through the influence of Karl August Wittfogel.

In August 2001 therefore, in an effort to prevent this failure to learn from history from happening again, the UK Government launched three inquiries into various aspects of the crisis.

The expansion, titled NoxQuest, was released as a free download on August 1, 2000 and focused on the multiplayer aspects of the game.

One of the more colorful aspects of Caldwell's term came on August 10, 1945, during the surrender of Japan in World War II, when Caldwell issued a proclamation urging bars and other alcohol-selling establishments to close in order to prevent a frenzy of drunken celebration in the streets.

18 August 2006 he was appointed by the RFU to undertake the post of Director of Elite Rugby to oversee all aspects of representative rugby in England, from the regional academies to the full senior side.

The Life interview with Richard Meryman, published on August 3, 1962 — just two days before her death — included her reflections on the positive and negative aspects of fame.

Since his death in August 1994 there are now several school teaching the Lee style T ' ai Chi based in the British Isles each of which emphasize different aspects of the Lee style Taoist Arts.

*" Off The Lip " ( aspects and The Bees, August 2004 )

From 1850 to 1854 he filled the position of assistant in the college, and soon embarked upon original work, not in organic chemistry where the inspiration of his teacher, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, might have been expected to lead him, but on new compounds of selenium.

He had obtained the samples for his research on selenium cyanide from August Hofmann years earlier.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner ( 1852 – 1904 ), and an Austrian – Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal ( 1841 – 1915 ).

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes first identified ololiuhqui as Turbina corymbosa and the chemical composition was first described on August 18, 1960, in a paper by Dr. Albert Hofmann.

In 1853, at the precocious age of 15, Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London ( now part of Imperial College London ), where he began his studies under August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

In 1878, Wiley travelled overseas where he attended the lectures of August Wilhelm von Hofmann — the celebrated German discoverer of several organic tar derivatives, including aniline.

The earliest use of the term was in an article by August Wilhelm Hofmann in 1855.

The first known use of the word " aromatic " as a chemical term — namely, to apply to compounds that contain the phenyl radical — occurs in an article by August Wilhelm Hofmann in 1855.

In 1856, William Henry Perkin, age 18, given a challenge by his professor, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, sought to synthesize quinine, the anti-malaria drug.

Famous researchers, such as the chemist August Wilhelm Hofmann, the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, the mathematicians Ernst Eduard Kummer, Leopold Kronecker, Karl Weierstrass, the physicians Johannes Peter Müller, Albrecht von Graefe, Rudolf Virchow and Robert Koch, contributed to Berlin University's scientific fame.

* August von Hofmann proposes the now standard system of hydrocarbon nomenclature and invents the Hofmann voltameter.

* August 27-Eduard von Hofmann ( born 1837 ), Austrian forensic pathologist.

* Copley Medal: August Wilhelm Hofmann

* August von Hofmann isolates sorbic acid.

Abegg received his PhD on July 19, 1891 under August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the University of Berlin.

He then attended the University of Berlin, from which he received his doctorate under August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

* August 14 – Leopold Hofmann, composer ( died 1793 )

Hofmann, the son of a merchant, in August 1914 volunteered for service in the First World War.

**** Hugo August Peter ( Hofmann ) von Hofmannsthal ( 1841 – 1915 ) ∞ Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner ( 1852 – 1904 )

***** Hugo ( Laurenz August Hofmann, Edler ) von Hofmannsthal ( playwright ; pseudonyms: Loris, Loris Melikow, Theophil Morren, 1874, Salesianergasse, Landstraße, Vienna-1929, Rodaun ) ∞ Gertrud " Gerty " Schlesinger, the daughter of a Viennese banker

In 1865, when he succeeded August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the School of Mines, he undertook the duty of making monthly reports to the registrar-general on the character of the water supplied to London, and these he continued down to the end of his life.

August Wilhelm von Hofmann ( 8 April 1818 – 5 May 1892 ) was a German chemist.