Died in August


1 August
1881: Muhammad Mohsin Bekas, Sindhi poet
1920: Gangadhar Tilak, Indian nationalist
2005: King Fahad, King of Saudi Arabia

2 August
1772: Ghulam Shah Kalhoro, ruler of Sindh
1922: Alexender Graham Bell, inventor of Telephone

3 August
1928: Justice Syed Ameer Ali, one of the founders of All India Muslim League

5 August
2009: Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban leader

7 August
1941: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Nobel laureate
1958: Major Tufail Muhammad, recipient of Nishan-e-Hyder

8 August
2005: Ahmed Deedat, South African Muslim missionary

9 August
833: Mamun-ur-Rasheed, 7th Abbasid Caliph
1980: Nazir Abbasi, Sindhi journalist
2012: Shamsher-ul-Hyderi, Sindhi poet

10 August
1980: General Yahya Khan, 3rd President of Pakistan

11 August
1989: Mir Ghous Bux Bizenjo, politician from Balochistan

13 August
1910: Florence Nightingale, founder of Nursing

15 August
1975: Shaikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, founder of Bangladesh

16 August
1961: Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu
2003: Idi Amin, President of Uganda

17 August
1988: General Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan

18 August
1227: Genghiz Khan, Mongol conqueror

19 August
1662: Blaise Pascal, French scientist

20 August
1762: Shah Waliullah, Islamic scholar
1895: Hassan Ali Effendi, founder of Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam
1971: Rashid Minhas, recipient of Nishan-e-Hyder

21 August
2007: Qurrat-ul-Ain Hyder, Urdu writer

22 August
1858: Rooplo Kolhi, Indian independence activist
1944: Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi, Islamic scholar

25 August
2008: Ahmed Faraz, Urdu poet
2012: Neil Armstrong, 1st man to step on moon

26 August
2006: Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, politician from Balochistan

27 August
1996: Kazi Abdul Majeed Abid, editor of Kawish

31 August
1997: Lady Daina, Princess of Wales

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