Events in History
Birthdays in History
Constantine I (1868-1923)
Aug 2 King of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), born in Athens, Greece
Hugo Eckener (1868-1954)
Aug 10 German inventor and commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin during its record-setting flights, born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein
- Aug 10 Paul Warburg, German-American investment banker who influenced and encouraged the design of the Federal Reserve, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1932)
- Aug 12 Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 22nd Governor of New South Wales (1908-13) and Viceroy of British India (1916-21), born in London, England (d. 1933)
- Aug 16 Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
- Aug 22 Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
- Aug 23 Paul Otlet, Belgian author, lawyer and peace activist (created the Universal Decimal Classification scheme), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1944)
Weddings in History
Wilfrid Laurier
Aug 13 Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier (26) weds Zoé Lafontaine (27) in Montreal, Canada
Deaths in History
- Aug 5 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (discovered flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley), dies at 79
- Aug 10 Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian military leader and revolutionary who fought against Ottoman rule, killed in battle at 28
- Aug 11 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 1849-53 1859-68), dies at 76
- Aug 25 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
- Aug 25 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
- Aug 25 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist (The Adopted Son), dies at 66
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