What Happened In August 1882 In History

Historical Events for August, 1882

• 5th » The Esso called Standard Oil of New Jersey is established.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1882

• 2nd » Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
• 6th » Ernst Eklund (actor) named Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (d. 1971)
• 8th » Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1965)
• 15th » Marion Bauer, American composer and critic (d. 1955)
• 16th » Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968)
• 16th » Christian Mortensen, Danish-American super-centenarian (d. 1998)
• 18th » Herman Groman, American runner (d. 1954)
• 22nd » Raymonde de Laroche, French pilot (d. 1919)
• 26th » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)

Famous Deaths for August 1882

• 25th » Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (b. 1803)

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