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August Rei
August Rei (1886–1963) was an Estonian Social Democratic politician, jurist, and diplomat who was State Elder in 1928–1929 and prime minister in exile from 1945 to 1963.
August Revolution
August Revolution (Cách mạng Tháng Tám), the Viet Minh's August 1945 seizure of power in Vietnam after Japan's 9 March coup and 15 August surrender, leading to Bảo Đại's abdication, Ho Chi Minh's 2 September 1945 independence declaration, and the DRV.
August Ringvold, Sr.
August Ringvold, Sr. (Carl August Ringvold, 1876–1960), Norwegian sailor and KNS Oslo member, won Olympic gold in the 8 metre class at Antwerp 1920 (Irene, walkover) and Paris 1924 (Bera, with his son).
August Rosiwal
August Rosiwal (1860–1923) was an Austrian geologist and mineralogist from Vienna known for the Rosiwal abrasion hardness scale and a linear method for measuring mineral composition of rocks.
August Rush
August Rush (2007) is a drama film directed by Kirsten Sheridan, starring Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Robin Williams, about a musical prodigy searching New York for his parents; Oscar-nominated song "Raise It Up."
August Sander
August Sander (1876–1964), German portrait photographer, creator of Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century), a seven-category typological portrait atlas of German society; Antlitz der Zeit (1929); suppressed by the Nazis.
August Sang
August Sang (1914–1969) was an Estonian poet, critic, and literary translator, member of the Arbujad circle, whose Estonian translation of Goethe's Faust is counted among his greatest achievements.
August Schellenberg
August Schellenberg (August Werner Schellenberg, 1936–2013) was a Canadian Mohawk-Swiss actor known for Free Willy's Randolph Johnson, Sitting Bull in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 Emmy nomination), a 1991 Genie for Black Robe, and the 2012 all-Aboriginal King Lear at Ottawa's National Arts Centre.
August Sedláček
August Sedláček (1843–1926) was a Czech historian, archivist, genealogist, and heraldist whose fifteen-volume Castles, Chateaux and Strongholds of the Kingdom of Bohemia, published 1882–1927, made him the founder of systematic Czech castle research.
August Šenoa
August Šenoa (1838–1881) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and journalist of Zagreb, regarded as the founder of the modern Croatian novel, best known for the historical novel Zlatarovo zlato (1871).
August Spies
August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), German-born Chicago anarchist, editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, Haymarket affair defendant hanged November 11, 1887 after the 1886 bombing trial.
August Storck
August Storck, known as Oberwelland, was a German confectioner who founded the Werther'sche Zuckerwarenfabrik in Werther, Westphalia, in 1903, the origin of August Storck KG.
August Stramm
August Stramm (1874–1915) was a German Expressionist poet and playwright, the leading contributor of Wortkunst to the journal Der Sturm, killed in action in World War I.
August Strindberg
August Strindberg (Johan August Strindberg, 1849–1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, and painter; naturalist dramas The Father, Miss Julie, Creditors; post-Inferno dream plays, Intima Teatern, chamber plays; major influence on expressionism, O'Neill, Beckett, Pinter, Bergman.
August Thyssen
August Thyssen (1842–1926) was a German steel industrialist who founded the Thyssen & Co. rolling mill near Mülheim in 1871 and built it into a conglomerate employing 77,000 by 1913.
August Underground
August Underground is a 2001 American found-footage horror film by Fred Vogel of Toe Tag Pictures, first of the trilogy with Mordum and Penance, a fake snuff tape that led to a 2005 Canadian obscenity arrest.
August Underground's Mordum
August Underground's Mordum (2003) is the second Toe Tag Pictures found-footage extreme horror film, following three serial killers who film their torture and murders; directed by Jerami Cruise with Fred Vogel, it was charged as obscene in Canada.
August Uprising
The August Uprising was a large-scale anti-Soviet rebellion in Georgia that began on 28 August 1924, aimed to restore independence lost to Soviet occupation in 1921, and was crushed within weeks amid mass executions.
August von Kruse
August Freiherr von Kruse (1779–1848), Nassau lieutenant general and agricultural reformer. Led the 2nd Nassau Regiment in the Peninsular War, defected to the British at Bayonne in 1813, and commanded the Nassau brigade at Waterloo.
August von Mackensen
August von Mackensen (1849-1945), Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and WWI commander, broke the Russian front at Gorlice-Tarnow 1915, led Serbia and Romania campaigns; last WWI field marshal, the Last Hussar.
August von Wassermann
August von Wassermann (1866–1925) was a German bacteriologist who introduced the Wassermann reaction, the first blood-serum test for syphilis, in 1906 with Albert Neisser and Carl Bruck.
August Weismann
August Weismann (1834–1914) was a German evolutionary biologist and first professor of zoology at Freiburg, known for his germ plasm theory and his mouse-tail experiments refuting the inheritance of acquired characters.
August Wilhelm Dieckhoff
August Wilhelm Dieckhoff (1823–1894) was a German confessional Lutheran theologian and professor of church history at the University of Rostock from 1860 until his death.
August Wilhelm Knobel
August Wilhelm Knobel (1807–1863) was a German Lutheran theologian and Old Testament exegete who was ordinary professor of theology at the University of Gießen from 1839 until his death.
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892) was a German organic chemist who established the structural chemistry of organic bases and helped found the aniline-dye industry from coal tar.
August Wilson
August Wilson (Frederick August Kittel, 1945–2005) was an American playwright of the ten-play American Century Cycle set in Pittsburgh's Hill District, winner of Pulitzer Prizes for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990).
August Wilson Theatre
August Wilson Theatre: Broadway house at 245 W. 52nd St., built 1925 as the Guild Theatre, later ANTA Playhouse and Virginia Theatre, renamed for playwright August Wilson in 2005, about 1,228 seats, owned by ATG Entertainment.
August Wingler
August Wingler (1898–1960) was a German chemist at Klinikum Leverkusen who reviewed synthetic malaria drugs in 1949 and studied food-dye toxicity in the early 1950s.
August Zátka
August Zátka (1847–1935) was a Czech lawyer and politician who headed the founding committee of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, predecessor of Budějovický Budvar, in 1894–1895.
August: Osage County
August: Osage County is Tracy Letts's 2007 three-act Oklahoma family drama, premiered at Steppenwolf and on Broadway from December 2007, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, adapted to film in 2013.