Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery ( born 25 August 1930 ) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards ( one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award ) and three Golden Globes ( including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award ).

* August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents an electric vacuum cleaner in the United Kingdom.

* August 6 – Cecil H. Green, British-born geophysicist and businessman ( d. 2003 )

* August 12 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer ( d. 1959 )

* August 4 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman ( b. 1520 )

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley ( sometimes spelled Burleigh ), KG ( 13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598 ) was an English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State ( 1550 – 1553 and 1558 – 1572 ) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.

Having survived all his children except Robert and Thomas, Burghley died at his London residence, Cecil House on 4 August 1598, and was buried in St Martin's Church, Stamford.

By August 1565, less than a month after the marriage, William Cecil heard that Darnley's insolence drove Lennox from the Scottish court.

King James raised him to the peerage on 20 August 1603 as Baron Cecil, of Essendon in the County of Rutland, before creating him Viscount Cranborne in 1604 and then Earl of Salisbury in 1605.

Dornford Yates was the pseudonym of the British novelist, Cecil William Mercer ( 7 August 1885 – 5 March 1960 ), whose novels and short stories, some humorous ( the Berry books ), some thrillers ( the Chandos books ), were best-sellers in the 21-year interwar period between the First and Second world wars.

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC ( 3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903 ), styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years.

But Oxford died in August 1562, and his son Edward, the 17th earl, became a ward in the house of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, in The Strand.

* August 28 – Walter Cecil Macfarren

That same year the county renamed the airport Meadows Field ( by a board of minute order on August 6, 1957 ), after Cecil Meadows.

Never having been at war with Spain, he devoted his efforts to bringing the long Anglo – Spanish War to an end, and in August 1604, thanks to skilled diplomacy on the part of Robert Cecil and Henry Howard, now Earl of Northampton, a peace treaty was signed between the two countries, which James celebrated by hosting a great banquet.

More recently, Charles Cecil spoke in a Eurogamer interview dated August 10, 2006, of his admiration for the work done by ScummVM and the resulting interest in a sequel.

Cecil Frank Powell, FRS ( 5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969 ) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion ( pi-meson ), a heavy subatomic particle.

Cecil Dale Andrus ( born August 25, 1931 ) was an American politician who served as Governor of Idaho from 1971 to 1977, and again from 1987 to 1995 ; and in Washington as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981, during the Carter administration.

Of the force aiming for Hill Q, one battalion of the 6th Gurkhas commanded by Major Cecil Allanson and joined by disparate New Army men, moved to within 200 feet of Hill Q by 6 p. m. on 8 August where they sought shelter from the heavy Ottoman fire.

A battalion of Gurkhas from the Indian Brigade, commanded by Major Cecil Allanson, reached a secondary objective, the neighbouring summit of Hill Q, on 9 August but were forced to retreat shortly afterwards.

* Lady Mary Arabella Arthur Cecil ( 26 April 1850 – 18 August 1903 ), married Alan Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway

In August 1605, he attended the king at Oxford, and received an honorary master-of-arts degree in an elaborate ceremony at which the Duke of Lennox, the earls of Oxford and Northumberland, and Cecil received degrees.

At age 17, Booth made his stage debut on August 14, 1855, in the supporting role of the Earl of Richmond in Richard III at Baltimore's Charles Street Theatre.

* August 26 – Herbert Booth, the third son of William and Catherine Booth ( d. 1926 )

* August 2 – George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington ( b. 1675 )

* August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer ( b. 1622 )

Booth received his first patents on February 18 and August 30, 1901.

Booth held Cheshire until the end of August when he was defeated by General Lambert.

In August – September 2010, Swit starred in the world premier of the Mark Miller play, Amorous Crossings at the Alhambra Dinner Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, directed by Todd Booth.

Open since August 2003, Booth Museum is the second largest art museum in the state of Georgia, and houses the largest permanent exhibition space for Western art in the country.

Starting in 1995, Hampshire Police began a series of at least 56 raids, code named ' Operation Washington ', that eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front ( ALF ) Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group ( ALFSG ) newsletter editor Simon Russell.

In 1920, Colman went to America and toured with Robert Warwick in The Dauntless Three, and subsequently toured with Fay Bainter in East is West ; at the Booth Theatre, New York, in January 1921 he played the Temple Priest in William Archer's play The Green Goddess, with George Arliss ; at the 39th Street Theatre in August 1921 he appeared as Charles in The Nightcap ; and in September 1922 he made a great success as Alain Sergyll at the Empire Theatre ( New York City ) in the hit play La Tendressse.

The manor of Staley remained in the possession of the Booth family until the death of George Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington on 2 August 1758.

* August 30 – Shirley Booth, actress ( died 1992 )

William Booth ( 10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912 ) was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General ( 1878 – 1912 ).

* Herbert Booth ( 26 August 1862 – 25 September 1926 )

Starting in 1995, the Hampshire Police under ' Operation Washington ' began a series of at least 56 raids, which eventually resulted in the August to November 1997 Portsmouth trial of Green Anarchist editors Stephen Booth, Saxon Wood, Noel Molland and Paul Rogers, as well as Animal Liberation Front Press Officer Robin Webb and Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group newsletter editor Simon Russell.

Starting in 1995, the Hampshire police under " Operation Washington " began a series of at least 56 raids, which resulted in the August – November 1997 trial in Portsmouth of Green Anarchist editors Steven Booth, Saxon Burchnall-Wood, Noel Molland, and Paul Rogers, as well as the ALF UK press officer Robin Webb and ALF SG newsletter editor Simon Russell.

Booth Gardner ( born August 21, 1936 ) was the 19th Governor of the U. S state of Washington between 1985 and 1993.

As detailed in Justice League of America # 29 ( August 1964 ), the Crime Syndicate of America originally lived on Earth-Three, a world where history was " reversed " from the real world ( e. g., Christopher Columbus discovered Europe, British colonists declared their independence from America, and President John Wilkes Booth was assassinated by Abraham Lincoln ).

Based on the Goodspeed production, with most of the cast and creative team intact, a Broadway revival began previews at the Booth Theatre on January 24, 1992, officially opened on February 13, and closed on August 30 after 229 performances.

Booth draws specific attention to the elegiac quality of the final lines of " The School in August ": " And even swimming groups can fade / Games mistresses turn grey ".

His son John Frederick Booth, who lived in Canada, married ... and had a daughter Lois Frances Booth ( born Ottawa, Ontario, 2 August 1897 ; died Copenhagen, 26 February 1941 ), who was married in Ottawa, Ontario, on 11 February 1924 to Count Erik of Rosenborg, whom she divorced in 1937 ; they had two children.