Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in August |
1st - First
Andrew Melville 1545.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815.
Maria Mitchell 1818. | 11th - Eleventh
Jean Victor Moreau 1761.
Octave Feuillet 1821.
Signer Crispi 1901. | 21 - Twenty-first
Lady Mary Montagu 1762.
Jules Michelet 1798.
John Tyndall 1820.
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2nd - Second
Thomas Gainsborough 1788.
Elisha Gray 1835.
Marion Crawford 1854.
William Watson 1859.
| 12th - Twelfth
Robert Southey 1774.
Francis Horner 1778.
Edith Thomas 1854.
Katherine Lee Bates 1859.
| 22 - Twenty-second
John Gough 1817.
Warren Hastings 1818.
G. W. De Long 1844.
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3rd - Third
John Henley 1692.
Henry Cuyler Bunner 1855.
Eugene Sue 1857.
| 13th - Thirteenth
Jeremy Taylor 1667.
Dr. William Wotton 1669.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward 1844.
Elizabeth Prentiss 1878.
Sir John Millais 1896.
| 23 - Twenty-third
Rowland Hill 1744.
Louis XVI 1754.
William E. Henley 1849.
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4th - Fourth
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792.
Edward Irving 1792.
Walter H. Pater 1839.
| 14th - Fourteenth
Dr. Meric Casaubon 1599.
Dr. Charles Button 1737.
Walter Besant 1836.
Ernest Thompson Seton 1860.
Florence Nightingale 1910.
| 24 - Twenty-fourth
William Wilberforce 1759.
William Thomas Moncrieff 1794.
Theodore Parker 1810.
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5th - Fifth
John Eliot 1604.
John, Lord Wrottesley, 1798.
Richard Lord Howe 1799.
| 15th - Fifteenth
Jeremy Taylor baptized 1613.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769.
Sir Walter Scott 1771.
Thomas de Quincey 1785.
| 25 - Twenty-fifth
Thomas Chatterton 1770.
Sir William Herschel 1822.
Francis Bret Harte 1902.
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6th - Sixth
Ben Jonson 1637.
Franηois Fιnelon 1651.
Daniel O'Connell 1775.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809.
| 16th - Sixteenth
Ralph Thoresby 1658.
Dr. Thomas Fuller 1661.
Dr. Matthew Tindal 1733.
| 26 - Twenty-sixth
Sir Robert Walpole 1676.
Adam Clarke 1832.
Henry Fawcett 1833.
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7th - Seventh
Battle of Thermopylae b.c. 480.
Frederick William (Dean) Farrar 1831.
Alexander M. Bell 1905.
| 17th - Seventeenth
Dr. William Carey 1761.
David Crockett 1786.
Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton) 1896.
| 27 - Twenty-seventh
William Woollett 1735.
James Thomson 1748.
George W. F. Hegel 1770.
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8th - Eighth
Charles A. Dana 1819.
Laurence Hutton 1843.
Cecile Chaminade 1861.
| 18th - Eighteenth
Virginia Dare, first English child in America, 1587.
Dr. Henry Hammond 1605.
Robert Williams Buchanan 1841.
John Russell 1792. | 28 - Twenty-eighth
Johann W. von Goethe 1749.
Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel 1809.
Jones Very 1813.
Count Lyoff (Leo) Tolstoy 1828.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones 1833.
Leigh Hunt 1859.
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9th - Ninth
Izaak Walton 1593.
John Dryden 1631.
Francis Scott Key 1780.
Joseph Jacques Tissot 1902.
| 19th - Nineteenth
Augustus Cζsar a.d.14.
James Watt 1819.
Robert Bloomfield 1823.
Honore Balzac 1850.
| 29 - Twenty-ninth
John Locke 1632.
John Fawcett 1768.
Frederick Maurice 1805.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809.
Maurice Maeterlinck 1862.
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10th - Tenth
Founding of Greenwich Observatory 1675.
Sir Charles Napier 1782.
George Park Fisher 1827.
| 20th - Twentieth
Saint Bernard 1153.
Robert Herrick 1591.
John and Cornelius De Witt killed 1672.
Francis Asbury 1745.
Henry P. Liddon 1829.
Benjamin Harrison, Ohio, twenty-third President United States, 1833.
| 30 - Thirtieth
Cleopatra b.c. 30.
William Paley 1743.
Julian A. Weir 1852.
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| | 31st - Thirty-first
John Bunyan 1686.
Charles James Lever 1806.
Theophile Gautier 1811.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland 1880.
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