What Happened In August 1917 In History

Historical Events for August, 1917

• 6th » World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
• 18th » A Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 or Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
• 28th » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
• 30th » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn Thái Nguyên uprising named mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1917

• 3rd » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1995)
• 4th » John Fitch (racing driver) e.g John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 6th » Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 6th » Robert Mitchum, American actor and singer (d. 1997)
• 6th » Edward Jewesbury, English actor (d. 2002)
• 7th » Budd Lynch, Canadian-American sportscaster (d. 2012)
• 12th » Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author (d. 2008)
• 13th » Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• 15th » Jack Lynch, Irish politician, 5th Taoiseach called Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1999)
• 15th » Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (d. 1980)
• 16th » Matt Christopher, American author (d. 1997)
• 16th » Roque Cordero, Panamanian composer and educator (d. 2008)
• 18th » Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2006)
• 21st » Leonid Hurwicz, Russian economist and mathematician (d.2008)
• 22nd » John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 23rd » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1985)
• 24th » Dennis James, American game show host and actor (d. 1997)
• 25th » Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
• 25th » Lisbeth Movin, Danish actress and director (d. 2011)
• 25th » Lou van Burg, Dutch-German singer and game show host (d. 1986)
• 27th » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1986)
• 28th » Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)
• 29th » Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)

Famous Deaths for August 1917

• 1st » Frank Little (unionist) named Frank Little, American union leader (b. 1879)
• 3rd » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 7th » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English pilot and commander (b. 1891)
• 13th » Eduard Buchner, German chemist and zymologist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 15th » Thomas J. Higgins, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1831)
• 20th » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 29th » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)

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