Events in History
Birthdays in History
Hugh S. Johnson (1881-1942)
Aug 5 American head of the National Recovery Administration and member of FDR's Brain Trust, born in Fort Scott, Kansas
Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Aug 6 Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland
- Aug 6 Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist, born in Freeport, Illinois (d. 1972)
François Darlan (1881-1942)
Aug 7 French Admiral of the Fleet during WWII and Vichy Prime Minister (1941-42), born in Nérac, France
- Aug 8 Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front)
- Aug 10 Albrecht M Sprenger, landbuilder
- Aug 13 Jacqueline Reyneke van Stuwe, Dutch author, born in Muntok, Indonesia (d. 1955)
- Aug 15 Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist, born in Görlitz, Imperial Germany (d. 1956)
- Aug 20 Edgar Albert Guest, English-American poet and newspaperman, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1959)
- Aug 23 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1943)
- Aug 29 Valery-Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist and translator (Enfantines), born in Vichy, France (d. 1957)
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