- Aug 3 Wheatland Hop Riot on a California farm, 4 die in one of the first farm labour disputes
- Aug 8 Richard Corfields "Camel Corps" opens "Mad Mullah" in Burao Somalia
- Aug 10 Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria cedes territory
- Aug 13 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England
A Royal Fantasy!
Aug 13 Otto Witte, German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania
- Aug 16 Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
- Aug 19 Frenchman Adolphe Célestin Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
- Aug 20 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
- Aug 20 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
Event of Interest
Aug 22 Jack London's 15,000-square-foot stone mansion, called Wolf House, burns down two weeks before he planned to move in with his family
US Men's Championship
Aug 26 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Defending champion Maurice McLoughlin beats R. Norris Williams 6-4, 5-7, 6-3, 6-1
- Aug 27 Lt Pyotr Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
- Aug 27 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper
Peace Palace Opens
Aug 28 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration [1]
- Aug 29 Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
- Aug 30 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled
- Aug 31 Massive protest rally on Sackville Street attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police; two strikers killed by the police
- Aug 31 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists