Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth, Jonathan Blount and Denise M. Clark founded Essence Communications Inc. ( ECI ) in 1968, and it began publishing Essence magazine in May 1970.

* 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director ( d. 1959 )

With his quick wits and the assistance of drunken gunslinger Jim ( Gene Wilder ), also known as " The Waco Kid " (" I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille "), Bart works to overcome the townsfolk's hostile reception.

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Cecil DeMille attended Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pennsylvania from the age of 15.

Cecil B. DeMille was known for being an instrumental catalyst for the rising status of many a struggling or unknown actor.

Cecil B. DeMille directing

From 1936 to 1944, DeMille hosted and acted as pitchman for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater, a popular dramatic radio show of the time.

The Golden Globe's annual Cecil B. DeMille Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the film industry.

Two schools are named after him, Cecil B. DeMille Middle school, in Long Beach, California, and Cecil B. DeMille elementary school in Midway City, California.

With DeMille renowned for his flamboyance and showmanship, Queen frontman Freddie Mercury famously said of his band, " We're the Cecil B. DeMille of rock and roll, always wanting to do things bigger and better ".

* Cleopatra ( 1934 film ), an American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

While Day turned down a tribute offer from the American Film Institute, she received and accepted the Golden Globe's Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in 1989.

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Insert shot in Old Wives for New ( Cecil B. DeMille, 1918 )

Cecil B. DeMille was a leading figure in the increased use of the Insert, and by 1918 he had reached the point of including about 9 Inserts in every 100 shots in The Whispering Chorus.

The first of these was Cecil B. DeMille, whose films, such as The Cheat ( 1915 ), brought out the moral dilemmas facing their characters in a more subtle way than Griffith.

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* 1981 – Cecil B. DeMille Award at Golden Globes.

In 2003 at the Golden Globes, Hackman was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for his " outstanding contribution to the entertainment field.

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.

* August 30-Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically powered vacuum cleaner in the U. K.

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.