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What Happened In August 1867 In History

Historical Events for August, 1867

  • 28th » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1867

  • 2nd » Ernest Dowson, English author and poet (d. 1900)
  • 3rd » Stanley Baldwin, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1947)
  • 4th » Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1918)
  • 7th » Emil Nolde, German painter (d. 1956)
  • 9th » Evelina Haverfield, Scottish nurse and activist (d. 1920)
  • 12th » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator (d. 1963)
  • 14th » Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
  • 14th » John Galsworthy, English author and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
  • 22nd » Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939)
  • 23rd » Edgar de Wahl, Ukrainian-Estonian linguist and educator (d. 1948)
  • 25th » James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (d. 1951)
  • 28th » Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)

Famous Deaths for August 1867

  • 3rd » Philipp August Böckh, German historian and scholar (b. 1785)
  • 23rd » Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy, French poet (b. 1796)
  • 25th » Michael Faraday, English physicist and chemist (b. 1791)
  • 31st » Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821)

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