What Happened In August 1850 In History

Famous Birthdays on August in 1850

• 3rd » Reginald Heber Roe, English-Australian swimmer, tennis player, and academic (d. 1926)
• 5th » Guy de Maupassant, French author and poet (d. 1893)
• 25th » Charles Richet, French physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

Famous Deaths for August 1850

• 6th » Edward Walsh (poet) or Edward Walsh, Irish poet and songwriter (b. 1805)
• 17th » José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778)
• 18th » Honoré de Balzac, French author and playwright (b. 1799)
• 22nd » Nikolaus Lenau, Romanian-Austrian poet (b. 1802)
• 26th » Louis Philippe I of France (b. 1773)

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