The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.

After the 1930s, popular interest in Prokosch's writing declined, but he continued to write steadily and to solidify his reputation as a writer ’ s writer with an elite following that included Thomas Mann, André Gide, Sinclair Lewis, Albert Camus, Thornton Wilder, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Burgess, Raymond Queneau, Somerset Maugham, Lawrence Durrell, Gore Vidal, and T. S.

* Engineers: Jeff Bakos, Nate Dube, David McNair, Noah Simon, Peter Thornton, Greg Trampe, André Zweers

During the 1937 trip, he also met with many other literary figures, including Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas ( the lover of Oscar Wilde ), Thomas Mann, and André Gide.

In 1977, Thornton and his son Andy ( André Jr .) were injured in an automobile accident that took the life of his wife Gertrude and three-year old daughter Theresa Gertrude.

Alain Prost was born near the town of Saint-Chamond, close to the city of Saint-Etienne in the département of Loire, France, to André Prost and Marie-Rose Karatchian, born in France of Armenian descent.

Jean Michel André Jarre ( born 24 August 1948 in Lyon ) is a French composer, performer and music producer.

Villechaize was born in Paris to English-born Evelyn ( Recchionni ) and raised there by her and his stepfather André Villechaize, a French surgeon who adopted him.

Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany to André and Georgette ( Signoret ) Kaminker as the eldest of three children, with two younger brothers.

Andrew Lortie ( born André Lortie ), a leading Huguenot theologian and writer who led the exiled community in London, became known for articulating Huguenot criticism of the Holy See and transubstantiation.

* Jarl André Storbæk ( born 1978 ), Norwegian football ( soccer ) player

* André Courrèges ( born 1923 ), fashion designer

* André Hoekstra, retired professional football player, was born in Baarn on 5 April 1964

* André Glucksmann ( born 1937 ), political philosopher, writer

Lamarck's first son, André, was born on April 22, 1781, and he made colleague André Thouin the child's godfather.

Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (), ( né Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat ; born 11 June 1934 ), is the husband of the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II.

* His Royal Highness Frederik André Henrik Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 26 May 1968.

André Masséna ( born Andrea Massena ) 1st Duc de Rivoli, 1st Prince d ' Essling ( May 6, 1758 – April 4, 1817 ) was a French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

André Masséna was born in Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the son of a shopkeeper Jules Masséna ( Giulio Massena ) and wife Marguerite Fabre, married on August 1, 1754.

He was born in Uccle, son of father Charles Harmel and mother Eusibie André.

** Prince Jean André Guillaume Marie Gabriel Marc d ' Aviano of Nassau, Prince Guillaume's youngest son, was born on July 13, 2004.

* May 20 — André Léo, French novelist and journalist ( born 1824 )

** André Morellet, French economist and philosopher ( born 1727 )

* January 10-Joseph Chénier, French poet and dramatist, brother of André Chénier ( born 1764 )

** André Chénier, French poet ( born 1762 ; executed by guillotine )

Saint André Bessette, C. S. C., (; 9 August 1845 – 6 January 1937 ), born Alfred Bessette and since his canonization sometimes known as Saint André of Montreal ,< ref >

André was born in Alès in the Cévennes, into a mining family.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

In August Sartre and de Beauvoir went to the French Riviera seeking the support of André Gide and André Malraux.

* August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician ( b. 1906 )

François-André Danican Philidor ( September 7, 1726 – August 31, 1795 ), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess player.

Company president, Jean Daninos having been obliged to resign in August 1961 in response to the company's financial problems, the new boss, a former oil company executive called André Belin, gave strict instructions to the after-sales department to respond to customer complaints about broken Facellia engines by replacing the units free of charge without creating " difficulties ".

* 11 August 1952 – André Marie succeeds Lapie as Minister of National Education.

He was triumphantly acquitted on 31 May, and on 12 August was again arrested and accused, together with André Buffet, Jules Guérin and others, of conspiracy against the republic.

* André Lamy – August 1980 to June 1985

It opened on 22 August 1833, and it is now the home for the earthly remains of André Breton, Gaston Calmette, Blaise Cendrars, Benjamin Péret, and Paul Verlaine, among others.

Pierre François André Méchain ( 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804 ) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets.

Turbomeca was founded August 29, 1938 by Joseph Szydlowski and André Planiol following their patent of a supercharger in 1937.

Following reports from General Joseph Vuillemin of the French Air Force after a visit to Germany about the strength of the Luftwaffe, and a memo from André François-Poncet, the French Ambassador to Germany, on 18 August 1938 stating it was quite likely that Adolf Hitler planned to attack Czechoslovakia sometime soon, Bonnet began quite insistent that a joint Anglo-French warning be sent to Berlin against plans to invade Czechoslovakia.

* August 22-Émile André ( died 1933 )

Many styles of modern art, including Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Abstract art, Surrealism are represented with works by Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Le Douanier Rousseau, Paul Signac, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Emil Nolde, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Marc Chagall, Natalia Gontcharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Rodchenko, Kupka, Mondrian, Theo Van Doesburg, Paul Klee, Vassili Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Jacques Villon, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Georges Rouault, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Brancusi and Calder, Soutine, Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Kees Van Dongen, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Man Ray, Alberto Giacometti, René Iché, Nicolas de Staël, André Masson, Tanguy, Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon.

A third to half the space in the early years of transition was given to translations, some of which done by Maria McDonald Jolas ; French writers included: André Breton, André Gide and the Peruvian Victor Llona ; German and Austrian poets and writers included Hugo Ball, Carl Einstein, Yvan Goll, Rainer Maria Rilke, René Schickele, August Stramm, Georg Trakl ; Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Yiddish, and Native American texts were also translated.

* August 22-Émile André, architect and designer ( d. 1933 )

* Pierre André Prévost de La Prévostière, August 1718 – 11 October 1721