Month August 1908 Calendar

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).

Historical Events for August, 1908

• Day of Week 17th » 'Fantasmagorie (1908 film) e.g Fantasmagorie', the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1908

• 4th » Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
• 5th » Harold Holt, Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
• 6th » Helen Jacobs, American tennis player (d. 1997)
• 6th » Will Lee, American actor (d. 1982)
• 6th » Lajos Vajda, Hungarian painter (d. 1941)
• 8th » Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990)
• 10th » Rica Erickson, Australian botanist, historian, and author (d. 2009)
• 10th » Billy Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
• 11th » Don Freeman, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
• 11th » Torgny T:son Segerstedt, Swedish sociologist and philosopher (d. 1999)
• 13th » Gene Raymond, American actor, singer, and pilot (d. 1998)
• 14th » Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984)
• 16th » Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (d. 2010)
• 16th » William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American author (d. 2000)
• 18th » Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, 139th Prime Minister of France (d. 1988)
• 18th » Bill Merritt (cricketer) known as Bill Merritt, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1977)
• 20th » Al Lopez, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• 21st » M. M. Kaye, Indian-English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 22nd » Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (d. 2004)
• 22nd » Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993)
• 23rd » Hannah Frank, Scottish sculptor (d. 2008)
• 24th » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 26th » Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)
• 26th » Bill Hunt (cricketer) or Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)
• 26th » Aubrey Schenck, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1999)
• 26th » Gilly Flower, English actress (d. 2001)
• 27th » Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 27th » Lyndon B. Johnson, American commander and politician, 36th President of the United States (d. 1973)
• 27th » Kurt Wegner, German painter (d. 1985)
• 28th » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (d. 1996)
• 31st » William Saroyan, American author and playwright (d. 1981)

Famous Deaths for August 1908

• 11th » Khudiram Bose, Indian activist (b. 1889)
• 25th » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 26th » Tony Pastor, American actor, singer, and manager (b. 1837)
• 31st » Leslie Green, English architect (b. 1875)

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