Birthdays in History
- Aug 2 George Malcolm Thomson, British journalist, born in Leith, Scotland (d. 1996)
- Aug 4 Ezra Taft Benson, 13th President of Latter-day Saints and US Secretary of Agriculture, born in Whitney, Idaho (d. 1994)
- Aug 9 Armand Salacrou, French playwright, born in Rouen, France (d. 1989)
- Aug 9 P.L. [Pamela Lyndon] Travers, Australian British writer (Mary Poppins), born in Maryborough, Australia (d. 1996)
- Aug 12 Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary)
- Aug 19 Franz C. Schmelkes, Czech-born Chemist who discovered azochloramid (chlorazodin), widely used as a disinfectant to sterilize wounds and burns, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Aug 20 Hanns Lilje, German Lutheran bishop and antifascist (Church und Welt), born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1977)
- Aug 24 Johan Fabricius, Dutch novelist (Island of Demons) and adventurer, born in Bandung, Java, Indonesia (d. 1981)
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
Aug 24 Argentine short-story writer of fiction (Ficciones, El Aleph, The Book of Sand), essayist and poet, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Aug 24 Ruth Schaumann, German painter, writer and sculptor (Rose, Black King), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
- Aug 26 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter, born in Oaxaca, Mexico (d. 1991)
- Aug 27 C. S. Forester, English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1966)
- Aug 29 Lyman Lemnitzer, United States Army Marine Corps general (WWII), born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1988)
- Aug 31 Paul E Garber, American founder/1st curator of National Air & Space Museum, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 1992)
Weddings in History
James Cash Penney
Aug 24 Businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess
Deaths in History
- Aug 9 Edward Frankland, British structural chemist who co-discovered helium and developed the theory of valence, dies on holiday in Norway at 74
Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)
Aug 16 German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner, dies at 88
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