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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of August 1056 | EVENT | Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later without children to succeed the throne, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. |
| 31st of August 1218 | EVENT | Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil. |
| 31st of August 1314 | EVENT | King Hakon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo. |
| 31st of August 1422 | EVENT | King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. |
| 31st of August 1422 | EVENT | Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months. |
| 31st of August 1803 | EVENT | Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning. |
| 31st of August 1813 | EVENT | At the final stage of the Peninsular War British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastian), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. |
| 31st of August 1864 | EVENT | During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 31st of August 1876 | EVENT | Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II. |
| 31st of August 1886 | EVENT | An earthquake kills 100 in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 31st of August 1888 | EVENT | Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. |
| 31st of August 1897 | EVENT | Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. |
| 31st of August 1907 | EVENT | Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance. |
| 31st of August 1920 | EVENT | Polish-Bolshevik War: a decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarow. |
| 31st of August 1920 | EVENT | The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit, Michigan. |
| 31st of August 1939 | EVENT | Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe. |
| 31st of August 1940 | EVENT | Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938. |
| 31st of August 1943 | EVENT | The USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. |
| 31st of August 1945 | EVENT | The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies. |
| 31st of August 1948 | EVENT | Actor Robert Mitchum is arrested in a Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess marijuana and sentenced to 60 days in prison. |
| 31st of August 1949 | EVENT | The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War. |
| 31st of August 1957 | EVENT | The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 31st of August 1958 | EVENT | A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. |
| 31st of August 1962 | EVENT | Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. |
| 31st of August 1963 | EVENT | Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia |
| 31st of August 1965 | EVENT | The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight. |
| 31st of August 1978 | EVENT | William and Emily Harris, founders of the Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. |
| 31st of August 1980 | EVENT | Zimbabwe establishes diplomatic relations with Algeria. |
| 31st of August 1986 | EVENT | The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423. |
| 31st of August 1986 | EVENT | Aeromexico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground. |
| 31st of August 1991 | EVENT | Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 31st of August 1992 | EVENT | Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo . |
| 31st of August 1993 | EVENT | HMS Mercury closes after 52 years in commission. |
| 31st of August 1994 | EVENT | The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a ceasefire. |
| 31st of August 1997 | EVENT | Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. |
| 31st of August 1998 | EVENT | North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyongsong-1, its first satellite. |
| 31st of August 1999 | EVENT | The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. |
| 31st of August 1999 | EVENT | A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground. |
| 31st of August 2005 | EVENT | A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people. |
| 31st of August 2006 | EVENT | Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. |
| 31st of August 0012 | BIRTHDAY | Gaius Caligula, Roman Emperor (d. 41) |
| 31st of August 0161 | BIRTHDAY | Commodus, Roman Emperor (d. 192) |
| 31st of August 1569 | BIRTHDAY | Jahangir, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1627) |
| 31st of August 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1675) |
| 31st of August 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1708) |
| 31st of August 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker (d. 1705) |
| 31st of August 1721 | BIRTHDAY | George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775) |
| 31st of August 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Paul Egide Martini, French composer (d. 1816) |
| 31st of August 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Joy McCracken, Irish political activist, founder of the Society of United Irishmen (d. 1798) |
| 31st of August 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Husein Gradascevic, Bosnian general (d. 1834) |
| 31st of August 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann von Helmholtz, German scientist (d. 1894) |
| 31st of August 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Galusha A. Grow, American politician (d. 1907) |
| 31st of August 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (d. 1886) |
| 31st of August 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, American publisher, journalist, suffragist and civil rights leader (d. 1924) |
| 31st of August 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1919) |
| 31st of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Montessori, Italian educator (d. 1952) |
| 31st of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | James E. Ferguson, American politician, 26th Governor of Texas (d. 1944) |
| 31st of August 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Jarvis, American sprinter (d. 1933) |
| 31st of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Alma Mahler, Austrian socialite, wife of composer Gustav Mahler (d. 1964) |
| 31st of August 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Taisho of Japan (d. 1926) |
| 31st of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (d. 1962) |
| 31st of August 1885 | BIRTHDAY | DuBose Heyward, American playwright (d. 1940) |
| 31st of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Laskine, French harpist (d. 1988) |
| 31st of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Facey, Australian writer (d. 1982) |
| 31st of August 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Felix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and novelist (d. 1982) |
| 31st of August 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Fredric March, American actor (d. 1975) |
| 31st of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943) |
| 31st of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Godfrey, American television host (d. 1983) |
| 31st of August 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Jankelevitch, French philosopher (d. 1985) |
| 31st of August 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Sanford Meisner, American actor and teacher (d. 1997) |
| 31st of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 31st of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | William Shawn, American editor (d. 1992) |
| 31st of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Magsaysay, 7th President of the Philippines (d. 1957) |
| 31st of August 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Altiero Spinelli, Italian advocate of European federalism (d. 1986) |
| 31st of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | William Saroyan, American novelist (d. 1981) |
| 31st of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Brongersma, Dutch politician, writer and political activist (d. 1998) |
| 31st of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Bernard Lovell, English radio astronomer |
| 31st of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Levitt, American photographer (d. 2009) |
| 31st of August 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 31st of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Schorr, American journalist (d. 2010) |
| 31st of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Litwhiler, American baseball player and coach |
| 31st of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | John S. Wold, American politician |
| 31st of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (d. 1986) |
| 31st of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005) |
| 31st of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (d. 2010) |
| 31st of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | G. D. Spradlin, American actor |
| 31st of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Williams, Welsh academic (d. 1988) |
| 31st of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian (d. 2003) |
| 31st of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Sin, Philippine cardinal and patriot (d. 2005) |
| 31st of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 31st of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Beliveau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 31st of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Xanthopoulos, Greek actor |
| 31st of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998) |
| 31st of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager |
| 31st of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Parker, American blues-rock guitarist |
| 31st of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Berlinger, American actor |
| 31st of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Bell, British journalist |
| 31st of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Gleeson, Chief Justice of Australia |
| 31st of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Allison, American drummer (The Crickets) |
| 31st of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Thompson, Australian actor |
| 31st of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Newman, British-born American television actor and writer (d. 2010) |
| 31st of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | William DeWitt, Jr., American businessman |
| 31st of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Ivashov, Russian general |
| 31st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Lloyd, Guyanese West Indies cricketer |
| 31st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Dean, English artist |
| 31st of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 31st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Van Morrison, Northern Irish singer-songwriter |
| 31st of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Itzhak Perlman, Israeli violinist |
| 31st of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Corsi, American writer |
| 31st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mona Marshall, American voice actress |
| 31st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Yumiko Oshima, Japanese manga artist |
| 31st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Somchai Wongsawat, 26th Prime Minister of Thailand |
| 31st of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Luca di Montezemolo, Italian businessman |
| 31st of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lowell Ganz, American screenwriter |
| 31st of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ken McMullen, English film director |
| 31st of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (d. 1982) |
| 31st of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach |
| 31st of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions) |
| 31st of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Gere, American actor |
| 31st of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | H. David Politzer, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 31st of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Reul, German politician |
| 31st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Guerra, Argentine racing driver |
| 31st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Gyorgy Karoly, Hungarian author |
| 31st of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 31st of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Brown, American actress, singer-songwriter and screenwriter |
| 31st of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Moses, American hurdler |
| 31st of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Olek Krupa, Polish actor |
| 31st of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Webb, American journalist (d. 2004) |
| 31st of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Balazova, Slovak painter |
| 31st of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Masashi Tashiro, Japanese television performer |
| 31st of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) |
| 31st of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Colm O'Rourke, Irish footballer and commentator |
| 31st of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Tilbrook, English singer and guitarist (Squeeze) |
| 31st of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Blanco, French rugby union footballer |
| 31st of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Krueger, Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 31st of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Whitley, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005) |
| 31st of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Vali Ionescu, Romanian long jumper |
| 31st of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Bradley Baker, American voice actor |
| 31st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Reb Beach, American guitarist (Winger, Whitesnake) |
| 31st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Carty, Irish actor |
| 31st of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Silooy, Dutch footballer |
| 31st of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond P. Hammond, American poet and editor |
| 31st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bernhardt, Swiss actor |
| 31st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer |
| 31st of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Celine Bonnier, French-Canadian actress |
| 31st of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Einar Thorsen, Norwegian alpine skier |
| 31st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Avery, New Zealand weightlifter |
| 31st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Cake, British actor |
| 31st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Hoglan, American drummer (Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad, Testament, Fear Factory) |
| 31st of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Moen, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 31st of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player |
| 31st of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player |
| 31st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Bouvier, French alpine skier |
| 31st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Cunanan, American spree killer (d. 1997) |
| 31st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor |
| 31st of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Javagal Srinath, Indian cricketer |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Gibson, American singer |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Arie van Lent, Dutch-born German footballer |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nikola Gruevski, 6th Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Rania of Jordan |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Stein, American photographer |
| 31st of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Zack Ward, Canadian actor |
| 31st of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Padraig Harrington, Irish golfer |
| 31st of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Tucker, American actor and comedian |
| 31st of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andriy Medvedev, Ukrainian tennis player |
| 31st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer |
| 31st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | John Grahame, American ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Harding, British conductor |
| 31st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Ramirez, American actress |
| 31st of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Takahiro Suwa, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 31st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Delerm, French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer |
| 31st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Roque Junior, Brazilian footballer |
| 31st of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Radek Martinek, Czech ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Nicholls, Australian singer and guitarist (The Vines) |
| 31st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Hardy, American wrestler |
| 31st of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Harte, Irish footballer |
| 31st of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Christanval, French footballer |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Hensley, American baseball player |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mickie James, American professional wrestler |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film music composer |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Neil, Scottish singer and guitarist (Biffy Clyro) |
| 31st of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Santiago, Dominican baseball player |
| 31st of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Budden, American rapper |
| 31st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby union footballer |
| 31st of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Duhon, American basketball player |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian sprinter |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Crocker, American swimmer |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Kroeger, American baseball player |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-born Russian ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Manuel Reina, Spanish footballer |
| 31st of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Rugolo, Italian racing driver |
| 31st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Deniz Aydogdu, Turkish footballer |
| 31st of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Fitzgerald, American football player |
| 31st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Ligety, American alpine skier |
| 31st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matti Breschel, Danish road bicycle racer |
| 31st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Kesler, American ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer |
| 31st of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Foster, Australian rules footballer |
| 31st of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player |
| 31st of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer |
| 31st of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ondrej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player |
| 31st of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dezmon Briscoe, American football player |
| 31st of August 0651 | DEATH | Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and missionary (birth date unknown) |
| 31st of August 0683 | DEATH | Pacal II, ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque (Born 603) |
| 31st of August 1218 | DEATH | Al-Adil I, Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia (Born 1145) |
| 31st of August 1234 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (Born 1212) |
| 31st of August 1372 | DEATH | Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (Born 1301) |
| 31st of August 1422 | DEATH | King Henry V of England (Born 1387) |
| 31st of August 1645 | DEATH | Francesco Bracciolini, Italian poet (Born 1566) |
| 31st of August 1654 | DEATH | Ole Worm, Danish physician (Born 1588) |
| 31st of August 1688 | DEATH | John Bunyan, English writer (Born 1628) |
| 31st of August 1730 | DEATH | Gottfried Finger, Czech composer |
| 31st of August 1741 | DEATH | Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (Born 1681) |
| 31st of August 1772 | DEATH | William Borlase, English naturalist (Born 1695) |
| 31st of August 1795 | DEATH | Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, French chess player (Born 1726) |
| 31st of August 1799 | DEATH | Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect (Born 1720) |
| 31st of August 1814 | DEATH | Arthur Phillip, British admiral (Born 1738) |
| 31st of August 1817 | DEATH | John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1747) |
| 31st of August 1867 | DEATH | Charles Baudelaire, French poet (Born 1821) |
| 31st of August 1869 | DEATH | Mary Ward, Irish scientist (Born 1827) |
| 31st of August 1888 | DEATH | "Polly" Nichols, British victim of Jack the Ripper (Born 1845) |
| 31st of August 1920 | DEATH | Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (Born 1832) |
| 31st of August 1920 | DEATH | Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student (Born 1896) |
| 31st of August 1924 | DEATH | Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (Born 1881) |
| 31st of August 1927 | DEATH | William Carver, American sharpshooter & show hoster (Born 1851) |
| 31st of August 1940 | DEATH | Georges Gauthier, French-Canadian religious figure (Born 1871) |
| 31st of August 1941 | DEATH | Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (Born 1892) |
| 31st of August 1948 | DEATH | Billy Laughlin, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 31st of August 1952 | DEATH | Henri Bourassa, French-Canadian politician (Born 1868) |
| 31st of August 1954 | DEATH | Elsa Barker, American writer (Born 1869) |
| 31st of August 1963 | DEATH | Georges Braque, French painter (Born 1882) |
| 31st of August 1967 | DEATH | Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (Born 1891) |
| 31st of August 1969 | DEATH | Rocky Marciano, American boxer (Born 1923) |
| 31st of August 1973 | DEATH | John Ford, American film director (Born 1894) |
| 31st of August 1974 | DEATH | Norman Kirk, New Zealand prime minister (Born 1923) |
| 31st of August 1974 | DEATH | William Pershing Benedict, American pilot (Born 1928) |
| 31st of August 1978 | DEATH | John Wrathall, Rhodesian politician (Born 1913) |
| 31st of August 1979 | DEATH | Sally Rand, American dancer and actress (Born 1904) |
| 31st of August 1979 | DEATH | Tiger Smith, England cricketer (Born 1886) |
| 31st of August 1984 | DEATH | Audrey Wagner, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (Born 1927) |
| 31st of August 1985 | DEATH | Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1899) |
| 31st of August 1986 | DEATH | Henry Moore, English sculptor (Born 1898) |
| 31st of August 1986 | DEATH | Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician (Born 1900) |
| 31st of August 1995 | DEATH | Barry Lee Fairchild, American convicted murderer (Born 1954) |
| 31st of August 1997 | DEATH | Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (Born 1955) |
| 31st of August 1997 | DEATH | Diana, Princess of Wales (Born 1961) |
| 31st of August 2000 | DEATH | Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (Born 1912) |
| 31st of August 2000 | DEATH | Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (Born 1925) |
| 31st of August 2000 | DEATH | Dolores Moore, American baseball player (Born 1932) |
| 31st of August 2002 | DEATH | Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer, guitarist and pianist (Born 1944) |
| 31st of August 2002 | DEATH | George Porter, English chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1920) |
| 31st of August 2002 | DEATH | Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player (Born 1908) |
| 31st of August 2004 | DEATH | Carl Wayne, English singer (Born 1943) |
| 31st of August 2005 | DEATH | Joseph Rotblat, Polish-born British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1908) |
| 31st of August 2005 | DEATH | Michael Sheard, British actor (Born 1940) |
| 31st of August 2006 | DEATH | Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (Born 1983) |
| 31st of August 2006 | DEATH | Tom Delaney, British racing driver (Born 1911) |
| 31st of August 2006 | DEATH | Derrick Wayne Frazier, American convicted murderer (Born 1977) |
| 31st of August 2007 | DEATH | Jean Jacques Paradis Canadian general (Born1928) |
| 31st of August 2007 | DEATH | Gay Brewer, American golfer (Born 1932) |
| 31st of August 2007 | DEATH | Karloff Lagarde, Mexican professional wrestler (Born 1928) |
| 31st of August 2008 | DEATH | Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (Born 1939) |
| 31st of August 2008 | DEATH | Ike Pappas, American news correspondent (Born 1933) |
| 31st of August 2009 | DEATH | Erano Manalo, Filipino religious figure (Born 1925) |
| 31st of August 2010 | DEATH | Laurent Fignon, French bicycle racer (Born 1960) |