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			Web Calendar 2008

AUGUST  2008
Flowers of the Month: Poppy & Gladiolus (splendid Beauty), Sword Lily, Link 2
Dates and Birthdays:

08/01/10B.C. - Claudius I - Roman Emperor
08/01/1779 - Francis Scott Key - Composer/Lawyer/Poet & Author, Link 2
08/01/1818 - Maria Mitchell - Astronomer
08/01/1819 - Herman Melville - Novelist, poet, Link 2
08/01/1942 - Jerry Garcia - Musician, The Grateful Dead

08/02/1892 -  Jack Leonard Warner - Co-founder of Movie Studio
08/02/1871 - John Sloan - Artist, Link 2, Link 3

08/03/1926 - Tony Bennett - Singer
08/03/1811 - Elisha Otis - Inventor
08/03/1887 - Rupert Brooke - Poet

08/04/1901 - Louis Armstrong - Jazz Musician/Composer
08/04/1900 - Queen Mother Elizabeth
08/04/1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Writer/Poet

08/05/1930 - Neil Armstrong - Astronaut, First man on the Moon, Link 2

08/06/2003 - Transfiguration of the Lord - Christian
08/06/1911 - Lucille Ball - Comedian/Actress
08/06/1928 - Andy Warhol - Artist/Painter
08/06/1809 - Alfred Tennyson  - Poet 08/06/1924 - James Baldwin - Author

08/07/1876 - Mata Hari - Dancer/German Spy

08/08/1879 - Emiliano Zapata - Mexican Revolutionary
08/08/1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Author
08/08/1857 - Cecile Chaminade - Composer
 
08/09/1963 - Whitney Houston - Singer
08/09/1942 - Jack De Johnette - Jazz Drummer/Bandleader/Composer
07/09/1683 - Giovanni Batista Piazzetta - Painter

08/10/1909 - Leo Fender - Inventor, Electric Guitar Creator
08/10/1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover - 31st US President

08/11/1921 - Alex Palmer Haley - Author, Link 2

08/12/30BC - Death of Cleopatra - Last Queen of Egypt
08/12/1955 - Pat Metheny - Guitarist/Composer
08/12/1324 -John Wycliffe - Religious Reformer, Link 2

08/13/1655 - Johann Christoph Denner - Clarinet Inventor
08/13/1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - Writer, Producer/Director

08/14/1966 - Halle Berry - Actress/Model
08/14/1953 - James Horner - Composer

08/15/2003 - Assumption of Mary - Feast Day, Christian
08/15/1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte - Emperor of France, Link 2
08/15/1969 - Woodstock Music Festival

08/16/1958 - Madonna - Pop Singer 
08/16/1929 - Bill Evans - Jazz Pianist, Composer

08/17/1601 - Pierre de Fermat - Mathematician - Philosopher
08/17/1943 - Robert De Niro - Actor
08/17/1892 - Mae West - Stage/Screen Actress
08/17/1786 - Davy Crockett - Explorer

08/18/1750 - Antonio Salieri - Composer, Link 2

08/19/1871 - Orville Wright - Aviator, Airplane Inventor
08/19/1921 - Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry - Writer/Creator of Star Trek
08/19/1952 - Jonathan Frakes - Actor
08/19/1946 - Bill Clinton - 42nd US President

08/20/1823 - Benjamin Harrison - 23rd US President
08/20/1942 - Isaac Hayes - Singer/Composer
08/20/1948 - Robert Plant - Singer of Led Zeppelin

08/21/1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Jazz Pianist/Composer

08/22/1862 - Achille Claude Debussy - Composer, Link 2
08/22/1917 - John Lee Hooker - Blues Artist/Composer

 
08/23/1912 - Gene Kelly - Singer/Dancer
08/23/1934 - Barbara Eden - Actress
 
08/24/79AD - Mount Vesuvius Disaster
08/24/2003 - St. Bartholomew - Feast Day, Link 2
 
08/25/1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Conductor/Composer
08/25/1930 - Sean Connery - Actor
 
08/26/2003 - Women's Equality Day
08/26/1960 - Branford Marsalis - Saxophonist/Jazz Musician
 
08/27/1770 - Georg William Friedrich Hegel - Philosopher
08/27/1908 - Lyndon Baines Johnson - 36th US President
08/27/1910 - Mother Teresa - Christian Missionary

08/28/2003 - St Augustine - Feast Day
08/28/1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Writer/Scientist/Philosopher, Link 2
08/28/1828 - Count Leo Lev Nikolgevich Tolstoy - Author

 
08/29/1958 - Michael Jackson - Singer
08/29/ - - - - Death of John the Baptist - Christian
08/29/1809 - Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes - Writer/Scientist/Scholar
08/29/1920 - Charlie Parker - Jazz Saxophonist/Composer

08/30/1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Writer
08/30/1918 - Ted Williams - Baseball Hall of Famer

08/31/1945 - Van Morrison - Singer/Songwriter
08/31/1945 - Itzhak Perlman - Violinist
08/31/1997 - Death of Princess Diana Frances Spencer