Month August 1926 Calendar

About Month of August Calendar

• 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, 1926

• Day of Week 5th » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• Day of Week 6th » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1926

• 1st » Theo Adam, German opera singer
• 1st » George Hauptfuhrer, American basketball player and lawyer (d. 2013)
• 2nd » Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist
• 3rd » Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 3rd » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (d. 2004)
• 4th » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (d. 2000)
• 4th » Perry Moss, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
• 5th » Betsy Jolas, French composer
• 6th » Elisabeth Beresford, French-English author (d. 2010)
• 6th » Frank Finlay, English actor
• 6th » Clem Labine, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007)
• 6th » Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 2013)
• 6th » János Rózsás, Hungarian author (d. 2012)
• 6th » Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 7th » Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer
• 7th » Géza Kádas, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1979)
• 8th » Richard Anderson, American actor
• 8th » Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, English lawyer, academic, and politician
• 10th » Marie-Claire Alain, French organist and educator (d. 2013)
• 11th » Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate
• 11th » Claus von Bülow, Danish-English lawyer
• 12th » John Derek, American actor, director, and cinematographer (d. 1998)
• 12th » Joe Jones (singer) named Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
• 12th » Wallace Markfield, American author (d. 2002)
• 13th » Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba
• 14th » Alice Ghostley, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
• 14th » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (d. 1977)
• 14th » Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist
• 14th » Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter
• 15th » Julius Katchen, American pianist (d. 1969)
• 15th » Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author and playwright
• 15th » Kenneth Newman, English police officer
• 15th » John Silber, American philosopher and academic (d. 2012)
• 15th » Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Greek politician, 6th President of Greece
• 16th » Ronnie Bowlby, English bishop
• 17th » Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012)
• 17th » George Melly, English singer (d. 2007)
• 17th » Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 18th » John P. Finnegan, American actor (d. 2012)
• 19th » Annie Palmen, Dutch singer (d. 2000)
• 19th » Arthur Rock, American businessman
• 19th » Angus Scrimm, American actor
• 20th » Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach
• 23rd » Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2006)
• 23rd » Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 26th » Anahit Tsitsikian, Armenian violinist and educator (d. 1999)
• 27th » Pat Coombs, English actress (d. 2002)
• 27th » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
• 28th » Dixie Evans, American model and ancer (d. 2013)
• 29th » Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and educator
• 29th » Betty Lynn, American actress

Famous Deaths for August 1926

• 14th » John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
• 22nd » Charles William Eliot, American academic (b. 1834)
• 23rd » Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (b. 1895)

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