Historical Events
Event of Interest
Aug 4 George Washington becomes a master mason
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 3 Charles Stanhope, 3rd earl Stanhope, English radical politician and scientist, born in London (d. 1816)
Edmund Randolph (1753-1813)
Aug 10 US Founding Father, 1st US Attorney General (1789-94) and 2nd US Secretary of State (1794-95), born in Williamsburg, Virginia, British America
- Aug 12 Thomas Bewick, English wood-engraver and illustrator (A History of British Birds, Aesop's Fables), born in Mickley, England (d. 1828)
- Aug 17 Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
- Aug 22 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, German-Dutch composer, brother of Friedrich Christian Ruppe, born in Salzungen, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
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