Historical Events
- Aug 10 Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
Event of Interest
Aug 29 Domitila de Castro meets her long-term lover Dom Pedro I, then Prince of Portugal and later Emperor of Brazil, for the first time in São Paulo
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 5 Johann Georg Herzog, German composer and organist, born in Hummendorf, ingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1909)
- Aug 15 Virginia Clemm Poe, American wife of writer Edgar Allan Poe, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1847) [1]
- Aug 15 Wilhelm Rust, German musicologist and composer, born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1892)
- Aug 22 George Stoneman, US Union general-major and Governor of California (1883-87), born in Busti, NY (d. 1894)
- Aug 31 Fitz John Porter, American Major General (Union Army), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (d. 1901)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 12 Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822)
Aug 19 French mathematician and astronomer (The History of Astronomy), dies at 72
- Aug 19 Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (Santiago de Compostela cathedral), dies at 62
William Herschel (1738-1822)
Aug 25 German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83
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