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August 1999 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
- August 2 - M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense is released into theaters.
- August 8 - ABC's Who wants to be a Millionaire premieres hosted by Regis Philbin and give the contestants a chance at $1,000,000
- August 8 - The first edition of the Callatis Festival, the largest music &culture festival in Romania.
- August 9 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet
- August 10 - Buford O. Furrow, Jr. wounds five and kills one during the August 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
- August 10 - Atlantique Incident occurs as an intruding Pakistan Navy plane is shot down in India. The incident sparks tensions between the two nations, coming just a month after the end of the Kargil War.
- August 11 - Total solar eclipse in Europe and Asia
- August 11 - An F-2 tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.
- August 17 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Istanbul and northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000. This earthquake was the first of a long series of unrelated but frequent earthquakes throughout the world during the years 1999 and 2000. Some connected the earthquake to the fact that the Umbra of the solar eclipse of August 11, was right above Istanbul.
- August 19 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević
- August 22 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 crashed in Hong Kong
- August 26 - Michael Johnson captures the 400 M. world record.
- August 26 - The pilot episode of SmackDown! aired
