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, 1899
Day of Week 10th » the Norwegian football club Viking FK is founded.
Famous Birthdays on August in 1899
1st » Raymond Mays, English race car driver (d. 1980)
2nd » Charles Bennett (screenwriter) known as Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
3rd » Louis Chiron, Monegasque race car driver (d. 1979)
4th » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
9th » P. L. Travers, Australian-English author and actress (d. 1996)
12th » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1963)
13th » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (d. 1980)
13th » Soledad Mexia, Mexican–American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
14th » Evelyn Kozak, American super-centenarian (d. 2013)
19th » Charlie Hall (actor) e.g Charlie Hall, English-American actor (d. 1959)
19th » Colleen Moore, American actress (d. 1988)
24th » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian-Swiss author, poet, and critic (d. 1986)
24th » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
24th » Gaylord DuBois, American author (d. 1993)
25th » Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (d. 1978)