August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It has 31 days.
Births[]
- August 1 — Donald Neilson is born in 1936.
- August 1 — George Williams is born in 1942.
- August 1 — Valery Skoptsov is born in 1951.
- August 1 — Moninder Singh is born in 1957.
- August 1 — Ángel Reséndiz is born in 1959.
- August 1 — Darcie Jo Baum is born in 1973.
- August 1 — Marc Hoffmann is born in 1973.
- August 2 — Tony Costa is born in 1944.
- August 2 — Mark Douglas Burns is born in 1950.
- August 2 — Major Morris is born in 1952.
- August 2 — Johnny Johnson is born in 1957.
- August 2 — Curtis Don Brown is born in 1958.
- August 3 — Leslie Burchart is born in 1949.
- August 3 — Francisco del Junco is born in 1957.
- August 3 — Dellmus Colvin is born in 1959.
- August 3 — Mei Leung (victim) is born in 1974.
- August 4 — Faye Copeland is born in 1921.
- August 4 — David Mark Pruett is born in 1949.
- August 4 — Kenneth Granviel is born in 1950.
- August 5 — Robert Irwin is born in 1907.
- August 5 — Robert Biehler is born in 1934.
- August 5 — Andrei Barausov is born in 1961.
- August 5 — Amos Robinson is born in 1963.
- August 5 — Oto Biederman is born in 1973.
- August 5 — James Fairweather is born in 1998.
- August 6 — William Palmer is born in 1824.
- August 6 — Gwen Graham is born in 1963.
- August 6 — Anders Eklund is born in 1965.
- August 6 — Marco Bergamo is born in 1966.
- August 6 — Franklin Alix is born in 1975.
- August 6 — Joran van der Sloot is born in 1987.
- August 7 — Elizabeth Báthory is born in 1560.
- August 7 — Stella Nickell is born in 1942.
- August 7 — Stanley Rice is born in 1942.
- August 7 — Phillip Ingle is born in 1961.
- August 7 — Adam Leroy Lane is born in 1964.
- August 8 — Edward Surratt is born in 1941.
- August 8 — Mohamed Belahrach is born in 1956.
- August 8 — Patrick Tracy Burris is born in 1967.
- August 8 — Shawn Michael Grate is born in 1976.
- August 9 — Sergey Kashintsev is born in 1940.
- August 9 — Willy Van Coppernolle is born in 1943.
- August 9 — Benny Hodge is born in 1951.
- August 9 — Johnny Delome (victim) is born in 1955.
- August 9 — Robert White is born in 1960.
- August 9 — Dallen Bounds is born in 1971.
- August 9 — Dayvon Daquan Bennett is born in 1994.
- August 10 — James Gordy is born in 1866.
- August 10 — Benedito Moreira de Carvalho is born in 1910.
- August 10 — Charles Albright is born in 1933.
- August 10 — Marcel Barbeault is born in 1941.
- August 10 — Denise Oliverson (victim) is born in 1950.
- August 10 — Jack Jones is born in 1964.
- August 10 — Gerald Patrick Lewis is born in 1965.
- August 11 — Paul Durousseau is born in 1970.
- August 12 — Lois Jurgens is born in 1925.
- August 13 — Sadakichi Shimizu is born in 1837.
- August 13 — Richard Delage is born in 1944.
- August 13 — Cary Stayner is born in 1961.
- August 13 — Christina Aistrup Hansen is born in 1984.
- August 14 — Alex Ewing is born in 1960.
- August 14 — Ronald Gray is born in 1965.
- August 14 — Christopher Revak is born in 1972.
- August 14 — Jacques Plumain is born in 1973.
- August 15 — Marie Besnard is born in 1896.
- August 15 — Igor Korovnikov is born in 1964.
- August 16 — Nancy Staffleback is born in 1832.
- August 16 — Gheorghe Toma is born in 1941.
- August 16 — Jack Unterweger is born in 1950.
- August 16 — Zhang Yongming is born in 1955.
- August 16 — Jayne MacDonald (victim) is born in 1960.
- August 16 — Henry Eugene Hodges is born in 1966.
- August 16 — Terrell Lewis is born in 1984.
- August 17 — Donald Merrett is born in 1908.
- August 17 — Charles Anthony Boyd is born in 1959.
- August 18 — Boris Serebryakov is born in 1941.
- August 18 — David Silva is born in 1953.
- August 18 — Jorge Avila-Torrez is born in 1988.
- August 19 — Wesley Peery is born in 1924.
- August 19 — Mary Anne Pesce (victim) is born in 1953.
- August 19 — Anthony Sowell is born in 1959.
- August 19 — Samuel Legg is born in 1969.
- August 20 — William Suff is born in 1950.
- August 20 — Luo Shubiao is born in 1954.
- August 20 — Georgann Hawkins (victim) is born in 1955.
- August 20 — Thomas Huskey is born in 1960.
- August 20 — Richard Holman is born in 1961.
- August 21 — Sachiko Eto is born in 1947.
- August 21 — David Alan Gore is born in 1953.
- August 21 — Alis Johns is born in 1961.
- August 21 — Tsutomu Miyazaki is born in 1962.
- August 21 — William Huff is born in 1963.
- August 21 — Jaroslava Fabiánová is born in 1965.
- August 22 — Patricia Allanson is born in 1937.
- August 22 — Jorge José Sagredo is born in 1955.
- August 22 — Clark Perry Baldwin is born in 1961.
- August 23 — Giorgio Vizzardelli is born in 1922.
- August 23 — Anjette Lyles is born in 1925.
- August 23 — Marie Noe is born in 1928.
- August 23 — Henry Lee Lucas is born in 1936.
- August 23 — Rodney Alcala is born in 1943.
- August 23 — Henry Lee Jones is born in 1963.
- August 24 — Paul Bateson is born in 1940.
- August 24 — Richard Biegenwald is born in 1940.
- August 24 — Harold Meade is born in 1941.
- August 24 — Patrick Tissier is born in 1952.
- August 24 — James Randall is born in 1954.
- August 24 — Dontae Morris is born in 1985.
- August 25 — Robert Danielson is born in 1946.
- August 26 — Vera Millward (victim) is born in 1937.
- August 26 — Carol Bundy is born in 1942.
- August 26 — John Getreu is born in 1944.
- August 26 — Amina Agisheff (victim) is born in 1946.
- August 26 — Wayne Garrison is born in 1959.
- August 26 — Benjamin Atkins is born in 1968.
- August 27 — Ed Gein is born in 1906.
- August 27 — Peter Tobin is born in 1946.
- August 27 — Frederick Cox is born in 1953.
- August 27 — John Taylor is born in 1956.
- August 27 — Timothy Gribble is born in 1963.
- August 27 — Paul Bernardo is born in 1964.
- August 27 — Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa is born in 1988.
- August 28 — Danny Bible is born in 1951.
- August 28 — Agustín Ramón Martínez is born in 1961.
- August 28 — Ray Jackson is born in 1967.
- August 28 — Heather Pressdee is born in 1982.
- August 28 — Artyom Varushkin is born in 1982.
- August 29 — Richard Angelo is born in 1962.
- August 29 — Elias Abuelazam is born in 1976.
- August 30 — Lonnie Franklin is born in 1952.
- August 30 — Jack Owen Spillman is born in 1969.
- August 30 — Ralph Faba is born in 1977.
- August 30 — Samantha Koenig (victim) is born in 1993.
- August 31 — Ángel Nieves Díaz is born in 1951.
- August 31 — Billy Carroll (victim) is born in 1959.
- ? — Aladár Donászi is born in 1954.
- ? — Joanna Dennehy is born in 1982.
Deaths[]
- August 1 — Leslie Burchart died in 2002.
- August 1 — Viktor Malyuk died in 2004.
- August 1 — Morris Solomon Jr. died in 2024.
- August 2 — Edgar Antonsen died in 1993.
- August 2 — Sergey Golovkin died in 1996.
- August 2 — Antonis Daglis died in 1997.
- August 2 — Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández died in 1999.
- August 2 — Yasunori Suzuki died in 2019.
- August 3 — Petros Koulaxidis died in 1932.
- August 3 — James Phillip Barnes died in 2023.
- August 4 — Oleg Kuznetsov died in 2000.
- August 5 — Sarah Dazley died in 1843.
- August 5 — Alfred Leonard Cline died in 1948.
- August 5 — Andrei Sibiryakov died in 1991.
- August 5 — Charles Anthony Boyd died in 1999.
- August 5 — Robert Spangler died in 2001.
- August 5 — Francisco Benitez died in 2013.
- August 5 — John Errol Ferguson died in 2013.
- August 5 — Joe Metheny died in 2017.
- August 7 — Willie Steelman died in 1986.
- August 8 — Albert Burrows died in 1923.
- August 8 — Euzebe Vidrine died in 1924.
- August 8 — Dean Corll is murdered by Wayne Henley in 1973.
- August 8 — Rio Alex Bulo died in 2008.
- August 9 — Mary Ann Britland died in 1886.
- August 10 — John Dickman died in 1910.
- August 10 — Hilda Nilsson died in 1917.
- August 10 — John Haigh died in 1949.
- August 10 — Ramiro Matildes Siqueira died in 1981.
- August 10 — George Kent Wallace died in 2000.
- August 10 — Aladár Donászi died in 2001.
- August 10 — Michael Sumpter died in 2001.
- August 11 — Giorgio Vizzardelli died in 1973.
- August 11 — James Otto Earhart died in 1999.
- August 11 — Robert Diaz died in 2010.
- August 13 — George Joseph Smith died in 1915.
- August 13 — Casimir Dankerque died in 1936.
- August 13 — Waneta Hoyt died in 1998.
- August 14 — Gary Evans died in 1998.
- August 15 — John Makin died in 1893.
- August 15 — Monte Merz died in 1965.
- August 15 — Joël Matencio is apprehended in 1974.
- August 15 — Arthur Ream died in 2024.
- August 16 — Ah Young died in 1883.
- August 16 — Abdallah al-Hubal died in 1998.
- August 17 — Thomas Griffiths Wainewright died in 1847.
- August 17 — Jane Toppan died in 1938.
- August 17 — Stephen Richard Smith died in 1986.
- August 18 — Johann Berchtold died in 1925.
- August 18 — Siegfried Rautenberg died in 1975.
- August 18 — Herbert Mullin died in 2022.
- August 19 — Philippe Dutartre died in 1841.
- August 19 — "Robert Hicks Murray" died in 1912.
- August 19 — Vladimir Tretyakov died in 1979.
- August 19 — Francisco García Escalero died in 2014.
- August 20 — Charles Barr died in 1926.
- August 20 — Euphemia Mondich died in 1961.
- August 20 — Leroy McGahuey died in 1962.
- August 20 — Andrew Six died in 1997.
- August 20 — Ramon Berloso died in 2010.
- August 21 — Elizabeth Báthory died in 1614.
- August 21 — Mary Ann Geering died in 1849.
- August 21 — Claus Blixt died in 1925.
- August 21 — Stephen Nash died in 1959.
- August 21 — Frank Duane Welch died in 2007.
- August 21 — Robert Hansen died in 2014.
- August 21 — Stephen Farrow died in 2023.
- August 22 — Gholamreza Khoshroo Kurdieh died in 1997.
- August 22 — Mark Beckles died in 2003.
- August 22 — Gary Ray Bowles died in 2019.
- August 22 — Charles Albright died in 2020.
- August 23 — Rebecca Smith died in 1849.
- August 23 — Jean-Baptiste Thiébaut died in 1852.
- August 24 — Micajah Harpe died in 1799.
- August 24 — Darcie Jo Baum died in 1999.
- August 25 — Fredric Manalli died in 1976.
- August 26 — John Balaban died in 1953.
- August 26 — Arthur Leigh Allen died in 1992.
- August 26 — James Allridge died in 2004.
- August 27 — Anatoly Onoprienko died in 2013.
- August 28 — François-Onésime Baillet died in 1891.
- August 28 — Hensley Neville died in 1992.
- August 28 — Stephen Akinmurele died in 1999.
- August 29 — John Gambill died in 1989.
- August 29 — Anne Grigg-Booth died in 2005.
- August 30 — Nikolai Fefilov died in 1988.
- August 30 — Warren James Bland died in 2001.
- ? — Graham Young died in 1990.
- ? — Tom Begeja died in 2002.
- ? — Matias Cerón died in 2003.
- ? — Mohamed Belahrach died in 2010.
Captures[]
- August 1 — Anthony Joyner is apprehended in 1983.
- August 1 — Beate Schmidt is apprehended in 1991.
- August 1 — Sabine Hilschenz is apprehended in 2005.
- August 1 — Arsen Bayrambekov is apprehended in 2015.
- August 2 — Nathaniel White is apprehended in 1992.
- August 3 — Joseph Riaud is apprehended in 1875.
- August 3 — Franz Schmidt is apprehended in 1984.
- August 3 — Charles Wooten is apprehended in 1993.
- August 3 — Vladimir Krishtopa is apprehended in 1995.
- August 3 — Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman ("Phoenix Serial Shooter") are apprehended in 2006.
- August 3 — Eliakim Nampindi is apprehended in 2011.
- August 4 — Joseph Vacher is apprehended in 1897.
- August 4 — Howard Allen is apprehended in 1987.
- August 4 — Francisco de Assis Pereira is apprehended in 1998.
- August 5 — Donald Evans is apprehended in 1991.
- August 5 — Charles Duffy is apprehended in 1997.
- August 5 — Vincent Johnson is apprehended in 2000.
- August 5 — Kevin Sweat is apprehended in 2011.
- August 5 — Robert Edwards is apprehended in 2022.
- August 6 — John Wille is apprehended in 1985.
- August 6 — Nathaniel Code is apprehended in 1987.
- August 6 — Marco Bergamo is apprehended in 1992.
- August 6 — Joey Miller is apprehended in 1992.
- August 6 — Siswanto is apprehended in 1996.
- August 6 — Hugo Bustamante Pérez is apprehended in 2020.
- August 7 — Anthony LaRette is apprehended in 1980.
- August 7 — Karel Šťovíček is apprehended in 2020.
- August 8 — Ryuun Daimai is apprehended in 1915.
- August 8 — Monroe Hickson is apprehended in 1957.
- August 8 — Wayne Henley is apprehended in 1973.
- August 8 — Roberto Arguelles is apprehended in 1992.
- August 8 — Anthony Balaam is apprehended in 1996.
- August 8 — Chang Jen-bao is apprehended in 2003.
- August 8 — Michelle Knotek is apprehended in 2003.
- August 8 — Yevgeny Petrov is apprehended in 2003.
- August 9 — David Brooks is apprehended in 1973.
- August 9 — Pierre Chanal is apprehended in 1988.
- August 9 — Lam Kwok-wai is apprehended in 1993.
- August 9 — Ronald Macon is apprehended in 1999.
- August 9 — Abdelali Amer is apprehended in 2005.
- August 9 — Kuldeep Gangwar (suspect) is apprehended in 2024.
- August 10 — Johann Mayer is apprehended in 1922.
- August 10 — David Berkowitz is apprehended in 1977.
- August 10 — Tammy Corbett is apprehended in 1989.
- August 10 — Jeffrey Feltner is apprehended in 1989.
- August 10 — Sietske Hoekstra is apprehended in 2009.
- August 11 — Leo Hannan is apprehended in 1950.
- August 11 — Péter Kovács is apprehended in 1967.
- August 11 — Randy Greenawalt is apprehended in 1978.
- August 11 — Carol Bundy is apprehended in 1980.
- August 11 — Elias Abuelazam is apprehended in 2010.
- August 12 — Sarah Jane Robinson is apprehended in 1886.
- August 12 — Doug Clark is apprehended in 1980.
- August 12 — Clifford Olson is apprehended in 1981.
- August 12 — Raymond Eugene Brown is apprehended in 1987.
- August 12 — Eugene Barrett is apprehended in 1995.
- August 13 — Lester Harrison is apprehended in 1973.
- August 13 — Marc Dutroux is apprehended in 1996.
- August 14 — Ray Gardner is apprehended in 1949.
- August 14 — Quincy Allen is apprehended in 2002.
- August 15 — Gerald Stanley is apprehended in 1980.
- August 15 — Benny Hodge and Roger Epperson are apprehended in 1985.
- August 15 — John William Kelley is apprehended in 2012.
- August 16 — Ted Bundy is apprehended in 1975.
- August 16 — Don Miller is apprehended in 1978.
- August 16 — John W. Hopkins is apprehended in 1979.
- August 16 — Clinton Bankston is apprehended in 1987.
- August 16 — Garry Artman is apprehended in 2022.
- August 17 — Lam Kor-wan is apprehended in 1982.
- August 17 — Harrison Graham is apprehended in 1987.
- August 18 — Stephen Kiyoshk is apprehended in 1939.
- August 18 — Ezekiel Mwangi Sakwa is apprehended in 2024.
- August 19 — Lemuel Smith is apprehended in 1977.
- August 20 — Yoshio Kodaira is apprehended in 1946.
- August 20 — Kevin Taylor is apprehended in 2001.
- August 20 — Yuri Sparikhin is apprehended in 2020.
- August 21 — Carl Großmann is apprehended in 1921.
- August 21 — Paul Stephani is apprehended in 1982.
- August 21 — Larry Eyler is apprehended in 1984.
- August 21 — Benjamin Atkins is apprehended in 1992.
- August 21 — James Armstrong is apprehended in 2011.
- August 22 — Patricia Allanson is apprehended in 1976.
- August 22 — Terry Childs is apprehended in 1985.
- August 22 — Jaroslava Fabiánová is apprehended in 2003.
- August 23 — André Pauletto is apprehended in 1967.
- August 23 — Regina Kaye is apprehended in 1997.
- August 23 — Vladimir Zhukov is apprehended in 2007.
- August 24 — Alexander Hernandez is apprehended in 2014.
- August 25 — Fernando Caro is apprehended in 1980.
- August 25 — Anthony Sully died in 1983.
- August 25 — Giancarlo Giudice is apprehended in 1986.
- August 25 — Ilshat Kuzikov is apprehended in 1995.
- August 25 — Shavkat Shayakhmedov is apprehended in 2021.
- August 26 — Yoshitomo Hori is apprehended in 2007.
- August 26 — Gao Chengyong is apprehended in 2016.
- August 27 — Raman Raghav is apprehended in 1968.
- August 27 — Ronald Glenn West is apprehended in 1999.
- August 28 — Sergey Tsukanov is apprehended in 1991 (first arrest).
- August 28 — Terry Hankins is apprehended in 2001.
- August 28 — Matthew Macon is apprehended in 2007.
- August 28 — Charles Gary Sullivan is apprehended in 2019.
- August 29 — Jarvis Catoe is apprehended in 1941.
- August 29 — Benedito Moreira de Carvalho is apprehended in 1952.
- August 29 — William Guatney is apprehended in 1979.
- August 29 — Ralph Harris is apprehended in 1995.
- August 29 — Timothy Krajcir is apprehended in 2007.
- August 29 — Ivars Grantiņš is apprehended in 2008.
- August 29 — Timofey Podshivalov is apprehended in 2011.
- August 30 — Marco Metzler is apprehended in 2006.
- August 30 — Marcelo Antelo is apprehended in 2010.
- August 30 — Armel Bazonzama is apprehended in 2010.
- August 30 — Nordahl Lelandais is apprehended in 2017.
- August 30 — Ronaldo Ricketts is apprehended in 2023.
- August 31 — Richard Ramirez is apprehended in 1985.
- August 31 — Billy Glaze is apprehended in 1987.
- August 31 — Luis Fernando Iribarren is apprehended in 1995.
- August 31 — Roman Barkovsky is apprehended in 2009.
- ? — Katsutaro Baba is apprehended in 1908.
- ? — Aleksandr Berlizov is apprehended in 1973.
- ? — Wayne Horton is apprehended in 1975.
- ? — Trevor Hardy is apprehended in 1976.
- ? — Juan Rodriguez Chavez is apprehended in 1995.
- ? — Sergey Kopay is apprehended in 1999.
- ? — Nikolai Litvin is apprehended in 1999.
- ? — Deniz Yağmur is apprehended in 2005.
- ? — Oleg Chizhov is apprehended in 2007.
- ? — Fredrick Scott is apprehended in 2017.
- ? — Andrei Tregubenko is apprehended in 2021.
Victims Murdered[]
- August 13 — Carmen Lorraine Colon is murdered by Joseph Naso in 1978.
- August 20 — Víctor Julio Hernández Sánchez and Aracelly María Astúa Calderón are murdered by "El Psicópata" in 1988.
- August 29 — Terry Milligan is murdered by "Green River Killer" in 1982.
Other Events[]
- August 10 — Nathaniel Cook is released from prison in 2018.
- August 17 — Ruben Watson (victim) is found in 1971.
- August 20 — Jozef Slovák is sentenced to Life imprisonment in 1993.
- August 21 — Marybeth Tinning is released from prison in 2018.
- August 21 — Lucy Letby is sentenced to Life imprisonment with a whole life order in 2023.
- August 30 — Kenneth Williams receives the Death penalty in 2000.