- Aug 2 1st trial run of San Francisco cable car, Clay Street between Kearny and Jones
Custer and Sioux Clash
Aug 4 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the 1st time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. 1 man killed on each side.
First Free US Kindergarten
Aug 26 First free kindergarten in the U.S. started by Susan Blow in Carondelet, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
- Aug 30 Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists