* August 9-John Blagrave, English mathematician ( born c. 1561 )

* August 9-John Charles Fields ( born 1863 ), Canadian mathematician.

* August 19 – John Dryden, English writer ( d. 1700 )

Kenneth Wayne Dryden, PC, ( born August 8, 1947 ) is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender.

* August 8-Ken Dryden, ice hockey player, politician, lawyer, businessman and author

The mission ended August 6, 1985, with a landing at Dryden.

Tanya Reid ( born August 1, 1970 in Dryden, Ontario ) is a Canadian television actress.

Peterson joined NASA in August 1960 as an engineer at the Dryden Flight Research Center.

On August 17, 2008, Brad Dryden joined the Breaskfast Club as Kelly's replacement.

Here he became close to an old acquaintance from Alford, Anne Marbury, the daughter of Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden, and the couple was married on 9 August 1612 at the Church of Saint Mary Woolnoth on Lombard Street in London.

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

" Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: " Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist ".

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

Clark Ashton Smith ( 13 January 1893 – 14 August 1961 ) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

Ernest Lawrence Thayer ( August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940 ) was an American writer and poet who wrote " Casey at the Bat ".

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.

Ivar Andreas Aasen ( 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896 ) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright and poet.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971 ) was an American poet well known for his light verse.

Robert Calvert ( 9 March 1944 – 14 August 1988 ) was a writer, poet, and musician.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

Léopold Senghor, internationally known poet, politician, and statesman, was elected Senegal's first president in August 1960.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

Authors connected to Stockholm include the poet and songwriter Carl Michael Bellman ( 1740 – 1795 ), novelist and dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), and novelist Hjalmar Söderberg ( 1869 – 1941 ), all of whom made Stockholm part of their works.

* 1767 – August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet ( d. 1845 )

Edward James " Ted " Hughes, OM ( 17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998 ) was an English poet and children's writer.

* August 19 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet

* October 14 – August Sang, Estonian poet and literary translator ( b. 1914 )

* August 1 – Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician

* August 5 – Ron Silliman, American poet

* August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet ( suicide ) ( b. 1892 )

* August 1 – Theodore Roethke, American poet ( b. 1908 )

In Berlin, Munch involved himself in an international circle of writers, artists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual August Strindberg, whom he painted in 1892.

* 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and author ( d. 1819 )

Witold Marian Gombrowicz ( August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France ) was a Polish novelist and dramatist.

* August 15 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, and impersonator ( d. 1941 )

* August 23 – Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, biographer and dramatist.

* August 25 – Thomas Dekker, English dramatist ( b. c. 1572 )

* August 22 – Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet ( d. 1667 )

* August 20 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist ( d. 1709 )

* August 4 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist ( b. c. 1571 )

* May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( d. 1819 )

* August 1 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist and novelist ( d. 1644 )

Thomas Kyd ( baptised 6 November 1558 ; buried 15 August 1594 ) was an English dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.

Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872 ) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, art critic and literary critic.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist August von Kotzebue was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student at the University of Jena.

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (; 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936 ) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

Important precursors were the Swedish playwright August Strindberg and German actor and dramatist Frank Wedekind.

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH ( 10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943 ) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.

François Élie Jules Lemaître ( 27 April 1853-4 August 1914 ), was a French critic and dramatist.

General John Burgoyne ( 24 February 1722 – 4 August 1792 ) was a British army officer, politician and dramatist.

Thomas Corneille ( 20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709 ) was a French dramatist.

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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (; – ) was a German dramatist and author who also worked as a consul in Russia.