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Magicpedia:Selected anniversaries/August
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_1
- 1829 - George Devol was born.
- 1908 - Dr. Carlo was born.
- 2003 - Milt Kort died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_2
- 1900 - Paul Le Paul was born Paul Shields Braden in Olney, Illinois.
- 1921 - Carl Hertz was summoned to the British House of Commons to prove that his act did not harm the birds.
- 1998 - Shari Lewis died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_3
- 1941 - Bob White was born.
- 1950 - Kim Yen Soo and Company (K. T. Kuma) played a return engagementat the Palace Theater, New York.
- 1955 - Theodore T. Golden, noted Washington D.C. Lawyer and President of the Society of American Magicians from 1937 to 1938, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_4
- 1894 - Cliff Green was born.
- 1904 - Ren Clark was born.
- 1939 - David Goodsell was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_5
- 1862 - W.D. Le Roy was born in LaSalle, Illinois.
- 1911 - John Calvert was born.
- 1926 - Harry Houdini performed his last and greatest feat by emerging from a coffin submerged in a water tank after spending 91 minutes inside.
- 1972 - Silent Mora, who made most of his own apparatus, died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_6
- 1930 - Jim Rainho was born
- 1934 - Arnold De Biere, a professional performer in England, dies.
- 2018 - Phil Temple died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_7
- 1842 - Edouard-Joseph Raynaly was born in Paris, France.
- 1892 - Wallace Lee was born in Lone Oak, Georgia
- 1912 - John Booth was born
- 1928 - James Randi was born.
- 1979 - George Blake died.
- 1982 - Merlin, Doug Henning's second Broadway show, began its run at the Mark Hellenger Theartre in New York.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_8
- 1906 - Brian Baxter, a schoolmaster by profession and semi-professional magician, is born.
- 1935 - William Zavis, a FISM-award-winning amateur magician, is born.
- 2017 - Eugene Burger passed away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_9
- 1959 - Karl Germain died.
- 1978 - Martin L. Sunshine died.
- 1987 - American Museum of Magic proclaims August 9 as "Neil Foster Day."
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_10
- 1836 - Pioneer Vaudeville performer, Joseph Michael Hartz was born in Liverpool, England.
- 1927 - Francis J. Werner died.
- 1937 - Scotty York was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_11
- 1853 - Adelaide Herrmann was born.
- 1989 - Aldini died.
- 2000 - O'Quinn Cairo III died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_12
- 1908 - Moreno was born.
- 1926 - Phoa Yan Tiong was born Robin Geoffrey Yan Tiong in Batavia.
- 1921 - C.L. Boardé was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_13
- 1955 - Daryl was born.
- 1965 - Ade Duval died.
- 1989 - Charlie Miller died.
- 1970 - Jay Palmer died.
- 1971 - The magazine Talisman ended publication.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_14
- 1873 - Max Malini was born.
- 1877 - Gertrude Larsen, mother of William Larsen, was born.
- 1959 - Jean Hugard dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_15
- 1906 - Clayton Rawson was born.
- 2006 - David Copperfield claims he found the "Fountain of Youth" in the southern Bahamas, amid islands he bought for $50-million.
- 2010 - J.C. Wagner died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_16
- 1815 - St. John Bosco was born.
- 1926 - Channing Pollock was born.
- 1936 - Annual picnic at Crinda Park of the Oakland Magic Circle.
- 1964 - Mac Ronay and Harry Lorayne appeared at Ed Sullivan Show.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_17
- 1849 - Carl Willmann was born.
- 1914 - Dr John Henry Grossman was born.
- 1980 - Broadway show "Blackstone! The Magnificent Musical Magic Show" by Harry Blackstone, Jr. finished its run of 104 performances at the Majestic Theatre in New York City.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_18
- 1872 - John Northern Hilliard was born in Palmyra, New York.
- 1887 - Grover George was born.
- 1980 - Cecil K. Browning died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_19
- 1875 - Eugene Laurant was born.
- 1917 - Paul Curry, creator of Out Of This World, was born.
- 1974 - David Bamberg, performing as Fu Manchu, passes away.
- 2008 - Geoff Latta passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_20
- 1884 - Max Holden was born
- 1929 - Clarence S. Miller was born.
- 1965 - Clement de Lion dies
- 1991 - Johnny Paul dies
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_21
- 1910 - Winston Freer was born.
- 1949 - Joseph J. Kolar passes away.
- 1992 - Dai Vernon passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_22
- 1922 - Horace Goldin passes away.
- 1955 - The 20th Abbott's Get-Together starts at Sturgis, Michigan.
- 2009 - David Avadon, working professional magician with a trademark specialty pickpocket act, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_23
- 1861 - Ed Reno was born Edward Munn Reno in Baldwinsville, New York.
- 1870 - John Petrie was born in New Haven.
- 1936 - William W. Larsen, Sr. spent Sunday afternoon with Charlie Miller.
- 1976 - Noel Maskelyne dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_24
- 1887 - Carl Waring Jones, publisher of Greater Magic, was born.
- 1998 - David Drake, professional magician, from Toronto, Canada, died of cancer. He was one of the organizers of the F.F.F.F. convention where he regularly Emceed the shows.
- 2008 - Barry Price passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_25
- 1911 - Orville Meyer was born.
- 1914 - Franz Kukol applied for US citizenship.
- 1933 - Pr. Morris Loewy passes away.
- 1983 - The second New York Magic Symposium kicked off featuring Stan Allen, Harry Anderson, Max Maven, Larry Jennings, Frank Garcia, Jeff McBride, Charlie Miller and Terry Seabrooke.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_26
- 1903 - Fred Haenchen, founder of Haenchen Magic Company, was born.
- 1960 - Percy Abbott died.
- 2007 - Jerry Andrus died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_27
- 1915 - Hardin Jasper Burlingame died.
- 1947 - Allan Slaight wrote a letter to Stewart James.
- 1949 - Cantu died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_28
- 1888 - John H. Percival was born.
- 1889 - Anton Kratky-Baschik dies.
- 1910 - Gogia Pasha was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_29
- 1919 - Jay Marshall born.
- 1964 - Benjamin Kleinman was in The New Empire Theatre of Calcutta with Sorcar.
- 1999 - Al Mann passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_30
- 1829 - George Heubeck, who became one of Hofzinser's favorite pupils, was born in Vienna.
- 1924 - Ed Voorhees, who became a magic shop owner in the Philadelphia area, was born.
- 1952 - The annual convention of The Texas Association of Magicians starts at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth.
- 2006 - Igor Kio, a Russian illusionist with the Russian Circus Association, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/August_31
- 1867 - Mme. Reno was born.
- 1881 - Stanley Collins was born.
- 1902 - S.H. Sharpe was born.