August 1885 Day Of The Week - 1885 August Calendar Month View

About Month of August Calendar

August is the eighth month of the year (between July and September) in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

August symbols: The birthstones of August are the peridot and sardonyx. Its birth flower is the gladiolus or poppy, meaning beauty, strength of character, love, marriage and family. The zodiac signs for the month of August are Leo (until August 22) and Virgo (from August 23 onwards).

Day of Week 8th » More than 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.

1st » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
11th » Stephen Butterworth, English physicist (d. 1958)
12th » Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
12th » Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1959)
15th » Edna Ferber, American author (d. 1968)
18th » Vance and Nettie Palmer or Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic (d. 1964)
20th » Dino Campana, Italian poet (d. 1932)
21st » Édouard Fabre, Canadian runner (d. 1939)
22nd » Thomas Cooke (footballer) called Thomas Cooke, American soccer player (d. 1964)
26th » Jules Romains, French author and poet (d. 1972)
28th » Vance and Nettie Palmer or Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (d. 1959)
31st » DuBose Heyward, American author and playwright (d. 1940)