August Gallery
Here you can read what happened on every day of August. Please click on the inages or the articles below to read more. Every article contains a direct link to PictRS where you can have your favourite image printed as a picture or on cups etc.
Happy Birthday Jason Momoa (1979)
01 Aug
Jason Momoa (born August 1, 1979) is an American actor and film producer. He made his acting debut as Jason Ioane on the syndicated action drama series Baywatch: Hawaii (1999–2001), which was followed by portrayals of Ronon Dex on the Syfy science fiction series Stargate Atlantis (2005–2009), and Khal Drogo in the first two seasons of the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones (2011–2012).
Happy Birthday Frank Biela (1964)
02 Aug
Frank Biela (born 2 August 1964) is a German auto racing driver, mainly competing in touring cars and sportscar racing. He has raced exclusively in cars manufactured by the Audi marque since 1990. Biela notably won the 1991 Deutsche Tourenwagen Miesterschaft and the 1996 British Touring Car Championship, as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans five times and the 12 Hours of Sebring four times between 2000 and 2007...
Happy Birthday Michael Ealy (1973)
03 Aug
Michael David Brown (born August 3, 1973), known professionally as Michael Ealy, is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films such as Barbershop (2002), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Takers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), About Last Night (2014), Think Like a Man Too (2014)...
Happy Birthday Jeff Gordon (1971)
04 Aug
Jeffery Michael Gordon (born August 4, 1971) is an American stock car racing executive and former professional stock car racing driver who currently serves as the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports...
Happy Birthday Colin McRae (1968)
05 Aug
Colin McRae MBE (5 August 1968 – 15 September 2007) was a British rally driver. He was the 1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion, and in 1995 became the first British driver to win the World Rally Championship Drivers' title...
Happy Birthday Dorian Harewood (1950)
06 Aug
Dorian Harewood (born August 6, 1950) is an American actor, best known for playing Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story (1984), Det. Paul Strobber on Strike Force (1981–1982), and Rev. Morgan Hamilton in 7th Heaven (1996–2003). He also played Dr. Julian Wilkes in the NBC (later syndicated) TV series Viper,..
Happy Birthday Bruce
Dickinson (1958)
07 Aug
Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day..
Happy Birthday Nigel Mansell (1953)
08 Aug
Nigel Mansell (born 8 August 1953) is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1980 to 1995. Mansell won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1992 with Williams, and won 31 Grands Prix across 15 seasons. In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship...
Rudolf Diesel is Granted the Patent for the Diesel Engine in the US (1898)
09 Aug
A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is also called a compression-ignition engine (or CI engine).
FlixBus is founded (2011)
10 Aug
lixBus (styled FLiXBUS) is a German brand that offers intercity bus services in 45 countries in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania, with over 300,000 daily connections. It is owned by Flix SE , which also operates FlixTrain, Kâmil Koç and Greyhound Lines...
Happy Birthday Luca DiGrassi (1984)
11 Aug
Lucas Tucci di Grassi (born 11 August 1984) is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in Formula E for Lola Yamaha ABT. In formula racing, di Grassi competed in Formula One in 2010, and won the 2016–17 Formula E Championship with Abt. In endurance racing, di Grassi was runner-up in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2016 with Audi.
Happy Birthday Parnelli Jones (1933)
12 Aug
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones (August 12, 1933 – June 4, 2024) was an American professional racing driver and racing team owner. He is notable for his accomplishments while competing in the Indianapolis 500 and the Baja 1000 desert race, and the Trans-Am Championship series...
Happy Birthday Jean Claude Andruet (1940)
13 Aug
Jean-Claude Andruet (born 13 August 1940 in Montreuil) is a retired French professional rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship. Andruet took three WRC event wins during his career; 1973 Monte Carlo Rally, 1974 Tour de Corse and 1977 San Remo Rally...
Happy Birthday Halle Berry (1966)
14 Aug
Halle Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and beauty contestant becoming Miss Ohio USA in 1986, first runner-up in Miss USA 1986 and placing sixth in Miss World 1986...
Happy Birthday Carl Edwards (1979)
15 Aug
Carl Michael Edwards Jr. (born August 15, 1979) is an American former professional stock car racing driver and a current analyst for NASCAR on Prime Video. Edwards last competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing...
Happy Birthday Russell
Brookes (1945)
16 Aug
Russell Brookes (16 August 1945 – 30 October 2019) was a British rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985...
Happy Birthday Nelson Piquet (1952)
17 Aug
Nelson Piquet (born 17 August 1952) is a Brazilian former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1978 to 1991. Piquet won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1981, 1983, and 1987, and won 23 Grands Prix across 14 seasons.
Happy Birthday Didier Auriol (1958)
18 Aug
Didier Auriol (born 18 August 1958) is a French former rally driver. Born in Montpellier and initially an ambulance driver, he competed in the World Rally Championship throughout the 1990s...
Happy Birthday Gerald McRaney (1947)
19 Aug
Gerald Lee McRaney (born August 19, 1947) is an American television and film actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, Promised Land and House of Cards...
Happy Birthday Egon Kaur (1987)
20 Aug
Kaur started rallying in 2004, and made his World Rally Championship debut on the 2006 Wales Rally GB in a Renault Clio. His next WRC appearances came in the 2008 season in Sweden and Wales, behind the wheel of a Subaru Impreza WRX STi...
Happy Birthday Paul Menard (1980)
21 Aug
Kaur started rallying in 2004, and made his World Rally Championship debut on the 2006 Wales Rally GB in a Renault Clio. His next WRC appearances came in the 2008 season in Sweden and Wales, behind the wheel of a Subaru Impreza WRX STi...
Cadillac is founded
(1902)
22 Aug
Cadillac Motor Car Division, or simply Cadillac , is the luxury vehicle division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM). Its major markets are the United States, Canada, and China; Cadillac models are also distributed in 34 additional markets worldwide...
Happy Birthday Kenny Wallace (1963)
23 Aug
Kenny Wallace (born August 23, 1963) is an American race car driver and former reporter for Fox NASCAR. He retired from NASCAR in 2015 after driving in the national series since 1988...
Happy Birthday Rodger McCluskey (1930)
24 Aug
Roger McCluskey (August 24, 1930 – August 29, 1993) was an American IndyCar driver. He was raised in Tucson, Arizona. McCluskey won championship titles in three divisions of the United States Auto Club: Sprints, Stocks, and Champ Cars...
Maiden Flight of the
Airbus A319 (1995)
25 Aug
The Airbus A319 is a member of the Airbus A320 family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger twin-engine jet airliners manufactured by Airbus. The A319 carries 124 to 156 passengers and has a maximum range of 3,700 nmi (6,900 km; 4,300 mi)...
Maiden Flight of the
Cessna 401/402 (1965)
26 Aug
The Cessna 401 and 402 are a series of 6 to 10 seat, light twin-piston engine aircraft.All seats are easily removable so that the aircraft can be used in an all-cargo configuration. Neither the Cessna 401 nor the 402 were pressurised, nor were they particularly fast for the installed power.
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-51-I (1985)
27 Aug
STS-51-I was the 20th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. During the mission, Discovery deployed three communications satellites into orbit...