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August Cesarec
August Cesarec (1893–1941) was a Croatian writer, publicist, and communist revolutionary, prominent in the Croatian leftist literary avant-garde; he was executed by Ustaša authorities in 1941.
August Coppola
August Coppola (1934-2009), American literature professor and dean of Creative Arts at San Francisco State, creator of the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome, father of Nicolas Cage and brother of Francis Ford Coppola.
August Desch
August "Gus" Desch was an American track and field athlete who won bronze in the 400 meters hurdles at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, competing for Notre Dame.
August Detlev Christian Twesten
August Detlev Christian Twesten (1789–1876) was a German evangelical-Lutheran theologian who succeeded Friedrich Schleiermacher as professor of systematic theology at the University of Berlin in 1835.
August Eduard Cunitz
August Eduard Cunitz, also published as Édouard Cunitz (1812–1886), was a Strasbourg Protestant theologian and professor of New Testament exegesis who co-edited the Strasbourg edition of Calvin's Opera.
August Erséus
August Erséus is a Swedish technology founder who co-founded the legal-AI company Legora, formerly Leya, in Stockholm in 2023 and served as its Chief Product Officer.
August Gailit
August Gailit (1891–1960) was an Estonian novelist and short-story writer, best known for Toomas Nipernaadi (1928) and Ekke Moor, and a founding member of the Siuru literary group of 1917.
August Gottlieb Spangenberg
August Gottlieb Spangenberg (1704–1792) was a German theologian and bishop of the Moravian Church who founded its North American branch in Philadelphia and succeeded Count Zinzendorf as its major leader.
August Gustafsson
August Gustafsson (Per August Gustafsson, 1875-1938) was a Swedish police officer from Göteborgs Polismäns IF who won tug-of-war gold for Sweden at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the only non-Stockholm policeman on the team.
August Güttinger
August Güttinger (1892–1970), Swiss artistic gymnast, two-time Olympic champion: parallel bars gold and team bronze at Paris 1924, team gold at Amsterdam 1928; four Olympic medals total.
August H. Doermann
August H. Doermann, known as "Gus," was an American geneticist and pioneer in bacteriophage genetics who spent his last two decades at the University of Washington.
August Heinrich Sieberg
August Heinrich Sieberg (1875–1945) was a German seismologist and geophysicist at Jena whose 12-grade earthquake intensity scale shaped European practice, and whose 1927 tsunami intensity scale was the first of its kind.
August Heitmann
August Heitmann (1907-1971), German freestyle swimmer born in Kalymnos, Greece; 1926-27 European 4x200 m relay champion with a 9:49.6 world record, 1928 Olympian, later emigrated to Chile.
August Hermann Cremer
August Hermann Cremer (1834–1903) was a German Protestant theologian, chief pastor at St. Marien and professor at Greifswald, whose lexicon of New Testament Greek ran through eleven editions.
August Hermann Francke
August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) was a German Protestant theologian, educator, and social reformer, a leading figure of Pietism who built a famous complex of schools and orphanages at Halle.
August Home
August Home is an American company making the August Smart Lock, a retrofit smart lock that fits over an existing deadbolt, acquired by ASSA ABLOY in 2017.
August Kayser
August Kayser (1821–1885) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor at Stossweier and Neuhof in Alsace and professor of theology at Strasbourg, known for his 1874 work on the pre-exilic history of Israel.
August Kekulé
August Kekulé, born Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist whose theory of chain-forming carbon and 1865 hexagonal benzene ring unified organic chemistry.
August Krogh
August Krogh (Schack August Steenberg Krogh) was a Danish physiologist at the University of Copenhagen who won the 1920 Nobel Prize for showing how working muscle regulates its oxygen supply through capillaries.
August Kubizek
August Kubizek (1888, Linz) was an Austrian musician and conductor, Adolf Hitler's close friend from 1905 to 1908, and author of a 1953 memoir about him.
August Küntzmann Damm
August Küntzmann Damm (1843–1877) was a French brewer from Alsace who settled in Barcelona in 1871 and founded the brewery that became S.A. Damm, brewer of Estrella Damm.
August Landmesser
August Landmesser (1910–1944), German Blohm & Voss shipyard worker and former NSDAP member engaged to Jewish woman Irma Eckler; identified, though disputed against Gustav Wegert, as the arms-crossed man refusing the Nazi salute in the 1936 Horst Wessel launch photograph.
August Macke
August Robert Ludwig Macke (1887–1914), German Expressionist painter of Der Blaue Reiter and leading Rhenish Expressionist, formed by French Impressionism, Fauvism, Delaunay's Orphism, and the 1914 Tunisia journey with Klee and Moilliet; killed in World War I at 27.
August Neander
August Neander, born David Mendel, was a German Protestant church historian (1789–1850), baptized in Hamburg in 1806, who held Berlin's first church history chair from 1813.
August Nilsson
August Nilsson (1872–1921), Swedish athlete of IK Stockholm; won tug-of-war gold for a mixed Danish/Swedish team at the 1900 Paris Olympics, Sweden's first Olympic medal, and placed 8th in pole vault and 9th in shot put.
August Oetker
August Oetker (1862–1918) was a German pharmacist who founded the Dr. Oetker food business in Bielefeld in 1891, selling Backin baking powder in small, fixed-dose sachets.
August Pfluger
August Pfluger, born in 1978, is an American politician and Republican who has represented Texas's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2021, after 26 years as an Air Force colonel.
August Pi i Sunyer
August Pi i Sunyer (1879–1965) was a Catalan physiologist and federal-republican politician who founded Barcelona's Institut de Fisiologia and rebuilt his physiology school in Caracas after exile in 1939.
August Prize
The August Prize (Augustpriset) is an annual Swedish literary award given by the Swedish Publishers' Association since 1989 to the best new Swedish-language books, named after August Strindberg.
August Raspet
August "Gus" Raspet (1913–1960) was an American aerodynamicist at Mississippi State whose drag reduction research carried the United States to world leadership in sailplane design.