To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the United States, in a well-known show down against Carl Lewis, leapt at the World Championships in Tokyo, setting the current men's world record which has now stood for over 20 years.

He went to Leipzig and Freiberg to visit Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann and his brother the mathematician August Naumann.

Morse also at one time adopted Wheatstone and Carl August von Steinheil's idea of broadcasting an electrical telegraph signal through a body of water or down steel railroad tracks or anything conductive.

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.

In 1837 however, Carl August von Steinheil of Munich, Germany found that by connecting one leg of the apparatus at each station to metal plates buried in the ground, he could eliminate one wire and use a single wire for telegraphic communication.

* August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor

* August 22 – Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player

* August 16 – Murderer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D. C. after killing about 20 people.

* August 27 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* August 2 – The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

* August 1 – The element oxygen is discovered for the third ( and last ) time – the second quantitatively following the somewhat earlier work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele ( 1771 – 1772 ) – by Joseph Priestley, who publishes the fact in 1775 and so names the element and usually gets all the credit.

* August 10 – Troops under Carl von Döbeln defeat a Russian attack in Kauhajoki.

* August 7 – Carl Switzer, American actor ( d. 1959 )

* August 8 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician ( d. 1796 )

* August 8 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer ( b. 1704 )

Baron Carl Otto Mörner ( 22 May 1781 – 17 August 1868 ), who was a Swedish courtier, and obscure member of the Diet, advocated for the succession.

It was then discovered, probably by the German scientist Carl August Steinheil in 1836 – 1837, that the ground could be used as the return path to complete the circuit, making the return wire unnecessary.

During the regencies of Anna Amalia ( 1758 – 1775 ) and her son Carl August ( 1809 – 1828 ), Weimar became an important cultural centre of Europe, having been home to such luminaries as Goethe, Schiller, and Herder ; and in music the piano virtuoso Hummel ( a pupil of Mozart ), Liszt, and Bach.

His father Carl ( Karl ) Alexander Frege ( 3 August 1809 – 30 November 1866 ) was the co-founder and headmaster of a girls ' high school until his death.

Other famous scholars who have taught at the University of Vienna are: Theodor W. Adorno, Manfred Bietak, Theodor Billroth, Ludwig Boltzmann, Franz Brentano, Anton Bruckner, Rudolf Carnap, Conrad Celtes, Viktor Frankl, Sigmund Freud, Eduard Hanslick, Edmund Hauler, Hans Kelsen, Adam František Kollár, Johann Josef Loschmidt, Fran Miklošič, Oskar Morgenstern, Otto Neurath, Johann Palisa, Pope Pius II, Baron Carl von Rokitansky, August Schleicher, Moritz Schlick, Ludwig Karl Schmarda, Joseph von Sonnenfels, Josef Stefan, Leopold Vietoris, Jalile Jalil, Carl Auer von Welsbach, and Olga Taussky-Todd.

Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

This figure includes 17 alumni, 14 non-alumni professors, and 4 professors who are also alumni ( Carl D. Anderson, Linus Pauling, William A. Fowler, and Edward B. Lewis ).

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

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* Physiology or Medicine – Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy

At Buckingham Palace on 22 July 1896, Prince Carl married his first cousin Princess Maud of Wales, youngest daughter of the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and his wife, Princess Alexandra of Denmark, eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

Born in Appleton House, Flitcham, Sandringham estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom to Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wales, ( daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom ), he was given the names and title of Alexander Edward Christian Frederik, Prince of Denmark.

* Carl Edward Bailey, governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941, lived for a time in Trumann.

The question of a King was again considered, and the Storting elected to offer the throne to the 33-year-old Prince Carl of Denmark, married to Princess Maud of Wales, the daughter of King Edward VII.

* Carl Edward Bailey, Arkansas Attorney General ( 1934 ) and Governor ( 1937-1941 )

* Carl Edward Bailey, 31st Governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941, was born in Bernie in 1894.

Composers included Arnold Bax and Frederick Delius in Great Britain ; Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson, Ferde Grofe and George Gershwin in the United States ; Carl Nielsen in Denmark ; Mieczysław Karłowicz in Poland and Ottorino Respighi in Italy.

The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews ; Robert Bartlett ; Frederick Russell Burnham ; George Kruck Cherrie ; James L. Clark ; Merian C. Cooper ; Lincoln Ellsworth ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes ; George Bird Grinnell ; Charles A. Lindbergh ; Donald Baxter MacMillan ; Clifford H. Pope ; George P. Putnam ; Kermit Roosevelt ; Carl Rungius ; Stewart Edward White ; Orville Wright. Byrd Memorial on Mount Victoria, Wellington, New ZealandAlso in 1927, the City of Richmond dedicated the Richard Evelyn Byrd Flying Field, now Richmond International Airport, in Henrico County, Virginia.

Reigning as Duke Carl Eduard, or Charles Edward, under the regency of the Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg until he came of age in 1905, the new duke also continued to use his British title, Duke of Albany.

His godparents were: King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ( his paternal grandparents ); the Dowager Empress of Russia ( his paternal grandaunt, for whom his paternal aunt Princess Victoria stood proxy ); Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ( his paternal grandaunt ); Prince Valdemar of Denmark ( his granduncle, for whom Prince George's uncle Prince Carl of Denmark stood proxy ); and Prince Louis of Battenberg ( his cousin ).

Through her son Charles Edward, Helena is the great-grandmother of Carl XVI Gustav, the current King of Sweden.

Carl Edward Bailey ( October 8, 1894 – October 23, 1948 ) was the 31st Governor of Arkansas from 1937 to 1941.

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Six years later, in 1936, Cobb was himself his party's unsuccessful gubernatorial nominee against the Democrat Carl Edward Bailey.

* Learning with Gaussian Processes by Carl Edward Rasmussen