Famous People Who Died In August

August 1

• Richard Kuhn

  Biochemist

  Austria

• Corazon Aquino

  Politician

  Tarlac, Philippines

• Theodore Roethke

  Poet

  Michigan, United States of America

• Tadeusz Reichstein

  Chemist

  Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Poland

August 2

• James Douglas

  Politician

  Guyana

• Michel Jean-Pierre Debre

  Politician

  France

• Alexander Graham Bell

  Educator

  Scotland, united Kingdom

• Wild Bill Hickok

  Folk Hero

  Illinois, United States of America

August 3

• Richard Arkwright

  Inventor

  Lancashire, United Kingdom

• Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  Author

  Stavropol Krai, Russia

• John Gardner

  Writer

  England, United Kingdom

• Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photographer

  France

August 4

• Hans Christian Andersen

  Author

  Funen, Denmark

• Pearl White

  Actress

  Missouri, United States of America

• Frederick Chapman Robbins

  Pediatrician

  Alabama, United States of America

• Edgar Adrian

  Electrophysiologist

  England, United Kingdom

August 5

• Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger

  Cardinal

  France

• Eugen Suchon

  Composer

  Bratislava, Slovakia

• Marilyn Monroe

  Actress

  California, United States of America

• Richard Burton

  Actor

  Wales, United Kingdom

August 6

• Robin Day

  Broadcaster

  England, United Kingdom

• Betty Cuthbert

  Athlete

  New South Wales, Australia

• Feodor Lynen

  Biochemist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Andre Weil

  Mathematician

  France

August 7

• Rabindranath Tagore

  Poet

  West Bengal, India

• Konstantin Stanislavski

  Actor

  Russia

• Nancy Wake

  Politician

  New Zealand

• Leonard Wood

  Doctor

  New Hampshire, United States of America

August 8

• Louise Brooks

  Actress

  Kansas, United States of America

• John H. Johnson

  Businessman

  Arkansas, United States of America

• Mary MacKillop

  Nun

  Victoria, Australia

• Joaquin Torres Garcia

  Artist

  Uruguay

August 9

• Gregory Hines

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Dmitry Shostakovich

  Composer

  Russia

• Frank Whittle

  Scientist

  West Midlands, United Kingdom

• Cecil Frank Powell

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

August 10

• Isaac Hayes

  Actor

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Henry Moseley

  Physicist

  Dorset, United Kingdom

• Walter Gerlach

  Physicist

  Rhineland Palatinate, Germany

• Buddy Baker

  Sportsman

  North Carolina, United States of America

August 11

• Jackson Pollock

  Painter

  Wyoming, United States of America

• Andrew Carnegie

  Industrialist

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Thaddeus Stevens

  Lawyer

  Vermont, United States of America

• Herb Brooks

  Sportsman

  Minnesota, United States of America

August 12

• John Cage

  Composer

  California, United States of America

• William Blake

  Artist

  London, United Kingdom

• Karl Ziegler

  Chemist

  Hesse, Germany

• Anna Held

  Actress

  Poland

August 13

• Eduard Buchner

  Chemist

  Bavaria, Germany

• Charles Walters

  Choreographer

  California, United States of America

• Julia Child

  Chef

  California, United States of America

• René Laennec

  Physician

  Brittany, France

August 14

• Bob Johnston

  Recordist

  Texas, United States of America

• David Farragut

  Military Leader

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Frédéric Joliot-Curie

  Physicist

  France

• Enzo Ferrari

  Businessman

  Modena, Italy

August 15

• Will Rogers

  Actor

  Oklahoma, United States of America

• Jacques Verges

  Lawyer

  Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand

• Grazia Deledda

  Novelist

  Sardinia, Italy

• Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

  Politician

  Bangladesh

August 16

• Andrew Marvell

  Poet

  United Kingdom

• Abune Paulos

  Patriarch

  Tigray, Ethiopia

• Elvis Presley

  Singer

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Jacob Bernoulli

  Mathematician

  Switzerland

August 17

• Rudolf Hess

  Military Leader

  Egypt

• Frederick II

  Royalty

  Berlin, Germany

• Otto Stern

  Physicist

  Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Architect

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

August 18

• Honore De Balzac

  Author

  France

• Kim Dae Jung

  Politician

  Jeollanam-do, South Korea

• Learned Hand

  Judge

  New York, United States of America

• Richard Laurence Millington Synge

  Biochemist

  England, United Kingdom

August 19

• Otto Frank

  Entrepreneur

  Hesse, Germany

• Linus Pauling

  Biochemist

  Oregon, United States of America

• Blaise Pascal

  Mathematician

  France

• Augustus

  Emperor

  Lazio, Italy

August 20

• Paul Ehrlich

  Immunologist

  Poland

• B. K. S. Iyengar

  Teacher

  Karnataka, India

• William Booth

  Salvation Army

  Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

• Jerry Lewis

  Film Director

  New Jersey, United States of America

August 21

• George Jackson

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Leon Trotsky

  Revolutionary

  Ukraine, Russia

• Danitra Vance

  Actress

  Illinois, United States of America

• Felix Mitchell

  Criminal

  California, United States of America

August 22

• Anders Zorn

  Painter

  Dalarna, Sweden

• Diana Vreeland

  Consultant

  France

• Richard III of England

  Royalty

  England, United Kingdom

• Jomo Kenyatta

  Politician

  Kenya

August 23

• Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photographer

  Prussia, Germany

• Stanford Moore

  Biochemist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Oscar Hammerstein II

  librettist

  New York, United States of America

• John Kendrew

  Biochemist

  England, United Kingdom

August 24

• Richard Attenborough

  Filmmaker

  England, United Kingdom

• Julie Harris

  Actress

  Michigan, United States of America

• Sadi Carnot

  Physicist

  France

• Bayard Rustin

  Civil Rights Activist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

August 25

• Michael Faraday

  Physicist

  London, United Kingdom

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosopher

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• James Cronin

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Truman Capote

  Author

  Louisiana, United States of America

August 26

• Frederick Reines

  Physicist

  New Jersey, United States of America

• Andrew Mellon

  Banker

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• William James

  Doctor

  New York, United States of America

• Georg Wittig

  Chemist

  Berlin, Germany

August 27

• Le Corbusier

  Architect

  Neuchatel, Switzerland

• Haile Selassie

  Emperor

  Oromia, Ethiopia

• Ernest Lawrence

  Physicist

  South Dakota, United States of America

• W. E. B. Du Bois

  Author

  Massachusetts, United States of America

August 28

• Melvin Schwartz

  Physicist

  New York, United States of America

• John Davis Long

  Politician

  Maine, United States of America

• Emmett Till

  Activist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Frederick Law Olmsted

  Architect

  Connecticut, United States of America

August 29

• Kazi Nazrul Islam

  Poet

  West Bengal, India

• Eamon De Valera

  Politician

  New York, United States of America

• Bruce Kingsbury

  Australian Soldier

  Victoria, Australia

• Gene Wilder

  Actor

  Wisconsin, United States of America

August 30

• Seamus Heaney

  Academic

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Charles Bronson

  Actor

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Wilhelm Wien

  Nobel Laureate

  Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia

• Wes Craven

  Director

  Ohio, United States of America

August 31

• Rocky Marciano

  Sportsman

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• John Bunyan

  Journalist

  England, United Kingdom

• Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosopher

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Princess Diana

  Royalty

  Norfolk, United Kingdom