August 1



Named in honor of Emperor Augustus in 8 B.C., August is the 8th Month of the year.

It's August 1st

In 1980 - Siouxsie and the Banshees released "Kaleidoscope"


In 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video,
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.


1984 – Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called
Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.

Facial reconstruction of Lindow Man

Birthdays:

Nicke Andersson


John Carrol Lynch
as Norm Gunderson in "Fargo"


Chuck D


Coolio


Robert Cray


Tommy Bolin


Boz Burrell


Giancarlo Giannini
as Christian in "Libido"

as Inspector Tellini in "The Black Belly of the Taratula"


Jerry Garcia


"How MK-Ultra Created the Grateful Dead"

Robert James Waller


Terry Kiser
as Preacher in "Rachel, Rachel"


Dom DeLuise
as Sgt. Collins in "Fail Safe"

as Father Fyodor in "The Twelve Chairs"

Ramblin' Jack Elliot


Geoffrey Holder

Julie Bovasso
as Romona in "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon"


Jack Shea

Marcia Mae Jones
as Sarah in "The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe"


Arthur Hill
as Dr. Jeremy Stone in "The Andromeda Strain"


J. Lee Thompson


Alan Moore
Moore's portrayal of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after it was liberated.


Jack Delano
"Chicago Union Station 1943"


Henry Jones
as Leroy Jessup in "The Bad Seed"

as Coroner in "Vertigo"


Gego


James Henry Govier
"At the Piano"


Isobel Lilian Gloag
"The Kiss of the Enchantress"


Herman Melville
Books by Melville at Project Gutenberg

Sebastiano Ricci
"Venus and Satyr"


Edward Kelley

Statue of Kelley at Hněvín Castle in Most, Czech Republic

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