André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

On August 7, 1998, Andrés Pastrana was sworn in as the President of Colombia.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ), led by the warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, attacked in August 1998, backed by Rwandan and Ugandan troops.

They were later to turn against Kabila and backed a rebellion against him in August 1998.

He took office on August 10, 1998.

Constitutional changes enacted by a specially elected National Constitutional Assembly in 1998 took effect on August 10, 1998.

In the United States, the primary standard for full-featured EVM systems is the ANSI / EIA-748A standard, published in May 1998 and reaffirmed in August 2002.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

Following the 1998 resignation of Suharto, on 30 August 1999, the people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum.

In August 1998, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on an Extended Fund Facility ( EFF ) under President B. J Habibie that included significant structural reform targets.

The rupiah, which had been in the Rp 2, 600 / USD1 range at the start of August 1997 fell to 11, 000 / USD1 by January 1998, with spot rates around 15, 000 for brief periods during the first half of 1998.

Despite the 31 August 1998 North Korean missile test which overflew the Home Islands, Japan has maintained its support for the Korean Energy Development Organization ( KEDO ) and the Agreed Framework, which seeks to freeze the North Korean nuclear program.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

In August 1998, Polgár became the first woman to ever win the U. S. Open held at the Kona Surf Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Kazakhstan's economy turned downward in 1998 with a 2. 5 % decline in GDP growth due to slumping oil prices and the August financial crisis in Russia.

In 1997, Kid Rock added drummer / vocalist Stefanie Eulinberg to his band, joining Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden and Joe C .. On August 18, 1998, Atlantic released Devil Without a Cause behind the single " Welcome 2 The Party.

Russia withdrew its troops by 31 August 1994, but maintained several hundred technical specialists to staff an OSCE-monitored phased-array ABM radar station at Skrunda until 31 August 1998.

Conditions remained tumultuous, including an August 1994 coup by Letsie III, until 1998 when the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) came to power in elections which were deemed fair by international observers.

The protests culminated in a violent demonstration outside the royal palace in early August 1998 and in an unprecedented level of violence, looting, casualties, and destruction of property.

Star Arvizo changed his account a third time in a police interview on August 13, 2003, when he claimed Jackson had placed his hand inside the front of his brother's boxer shorts.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

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.

On 3 September 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory having spent August on holiday with his family.

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

Eocene fossil flower, collected August 2010 from Clare family fossil quarry, Florissant, Colorado

A private memorial for family and colleagues was held on 3 August 2004.

When the Brunswick Manifesto of July 1792 once more threatened the French population with Austrian ( Imperial ) and Prussian attacks, Louis XVI was suspected of treason and taken along with his family from the Tuileries Palace in August 1792 by insurgents supported by a new revolutionary Paris Commune.

The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died.

At age 10 in August 1995, Prince Harry attended the 50th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day at the Cenotaph in London and saluted the officers in the military parade, one of the most important ceremonies in the royal family agenda.

He died at home, on August 12, 2010, surrounded by his family.

On August 2, 1600, after refusing to convert to Catholicism, Kepler and his family were banished from Graz.

* August Wilson's 1990 play, The Piano Lesson, contains a reference in Act One, Scene 2 wherein one character, Doaker, in describing his family history during slavery says, " See that?

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Rust's return to Germany on 3 August 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the assembled journalists ; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine Stern for DM 100, 000.

Musharraf and his family left for Pakistan on one of the last safe trains in August 1947, a few days before the partition of India took effect.

He died in August 1672 and his body was entombed in the east wall of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, which sits on the site of Stuyvesant ’ s family chapel.

In August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru became the prime minister of independent India, and the family settled in Allahabad, and then at Lucknow, where Feroze became the editor of the National Herald newspaper ( founded by Motilal Nehru ).

On August 28, 2009, a Swedish public news outlet reported that Romanov family jewelry, found in 2008 in the archives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was returned.

Their son Hopper Jack Penn, born August 6, 1993, is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

Wilde summered with his family at Worthing, where he wrote the play quickly in August.

* August 14 – Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

* August 4 – The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

In August, 1896, George Carmack, Kate Carmack, Keish, Dawson Charlie and Patsy Henderson, members of a Tagish First Nations family group, discovered rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza ( Rabbit ) Creek, Yukon, Canada.