august

• 1 Herman Melville, novelist and poet, b. New York City 1819
• 2 James Baldwin, novelist, b. New York 1924
• 3 Rupert Brooke, poet, b. Rugby 1887
• 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet and writer, b. near Horsham, Sussex 1792
• 5 John Huston, film director, b. Nevada 1906
• 6 Robert Mitchum, actor, b. Bridgeport, Connecticult 1917
• 7 Mata Hari, spy, b. Netherlands 1876
• 8 Sara Teasdale, poet, b. St Louis, Missouri 1884
• 9 Philip Larkin, poet and novelist, b. Coventry 1922
• 10 Laurence Binyon, poet and dramatist, b. Lancaster 1869
• 11 Charlotte M. Yonge, novelist, b. Otterbourne, Hampshire 1823
• 12 Cecil B. de Mille, film producer, b. Massachusetts 1881
• 13 Alfred Hitchcock, film director, b. London 1899 (More? CLICK HERE)
• 14 John Galsworthy, novelist, b. Surrey 1867
• 15 Ethel Barrymore, actor, b. 1879
• 16 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet, b. Somersby, Lincolnshire 1809
• 17 Davy Crockett, frontiersman, b. Tennessee 1786
• 18 Meriwether Lewis, explorer, b. Virginia 1774
• 19 Coco Chanel, fashion designer, b. France 1883
• 20 Howard Phillips Lovecraft, writer, b. Providence, Rhode Island 1890
• 21 Aubrey Beardsley, artist, b. Brighton 1872
• 22 Dorothy Parker, writer and critic, b. New Jersey 1893
• 23 Gene Kelly, dancer and actor, b. Pennsylvania 1912
• 24 William Wilberforce, anti-slavery campaigner, b. Hull, Yorkshire 1759
• 25 Ivan the Terrible of Russia (Ivan IV), b. Moscow 1530
• 26 John Buchan, novelist, b. Perthshire 1875
• 27 Theodore Dreiser, novelist, b. Indiana 1871
• 28 Count Leo Tolsty, novelist, b. Yasnaya Polyana, Tula, Russia 1828
• 29 Ingrid Bergman, actor, b. Stockholm 1915
• 30 Mary Wollstonecragt Shelley, novelist, b. London 1797
• 31 Maria Montessori, educator, b. Chiaravelle, Italy, 1870