The elector Clemens August ( ruled 1723-1761 ) ordered the construction of a series of Baroque buildings which still give the city its character.

Next to the market place is the Old Town Hall, built in 1737 in Rococo style, under the rule of Clemens August of Bavaria.

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.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

* 1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal ( d. 1946 )

William Roger Clemens ( born August 4, 1962 ) is an American baseball starting pitcher.

On August 19, 2010, a federal grand jury at the U. S. District Court in Washington, D. C., indicted Clemens on six felony counts involving perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress.

On August 20, 2012, it was announced that Clemens would sign with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

The grand jury indicted Clemens on August 19, 2010 on charges of making false statements to Congress about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.

On August 18, 2007, Roger Clemens got his 1, 000th strikeout as a Yankee.

* August 4 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player

* March 16 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal ( d. 1946 )

* August 17 – Clemens August of Bavaria ( d. 1761 )

Clemens August of Bavaria.

Clemens August ( Clementus Augustus ) was born in Brussels, the son of Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska and the grandson of King John III Sobieski of Poland.

His uncle Joseph Clemens, Elector and Archbishop of Cologne, saw to it that Clemens August received several appointments in Altötting, the Diocese of Regensburg, and at the Prince-Provostry of Berchtesgaden, and he soon received papal confirmation as Bishop of Regensburg, and later of Cologne.

Clemens August, who mostly sided with the Austrian Habsburg-Lorraine side during the War of the Austrian Succession, personally crowned his brother Charles VII emperor at Frankfurt in 1742.

After Charles's death in 1745, Clemens August then again leaned toward Austria.

Clemenswerth Palace near Sögel built as a hunting lodge for Clemens August

Clemens August patronised the arts ; among others he ordered to build the palaces of Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia, listed on the UNESCO cultural world heritage list, and the church of St Michael in Berg am Laim in Munich.

Clemens August and his mistress Mechthild Brion had a daughter:

In March 1761, shortly after his death, Pope Clement XIII rejected the succession of Clemens August's brother Cardinal John Theodore of Bavaria as Archbishop and Prince-Elector of Cologne since the pope entertained some doubt on John Theodore's " moral conduct ".

Her nephews and nieces included Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne.

The palaces were built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Clemens August of Bavaria of the Wittelsbach family.

* Joseph Clemens of Bavaria ( 5 December 1671 – 12 November 1723 ) Elector and Archbishop of Cologne died unmarried.

She was mother of ten children by her husband, including Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, though only half of them survived till adulthood.

There he served as a musician at the court of Prince-Archbishop-Elector of Cologne Clemens August of Bavaria, rising to the post of Kapellmeister in 1761.

* Joseph Clemens Kajetan, Duke of Bavaria ( succeeded 4 November 1685 ; resigned 29 September 1694 )

* 1706 Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, and Joseph Clemens, Elector of Cologne, for supporting France in the War of the Spanish Succession ( reversed 1714 )

Henry Clemens Van de Velde () ( 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957 ) was a Belgian Flemish painter, architect and interior designer.

The Astros had also developed an excellent pitching staff, anchored by Roy Oswalt ( 20 – 12, 2. 94 ), Andy Pettitte ( 17 – 9, 2. 39 ), and Roger Clemens ( 13 – 8 with a league-low ERA of only 1. 87 ).

Clemens finished the season with a 17 – 9 record and a 3. 91 ERA.

On November 17, 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens, stating that their relationship lasted for more than a decade, and that it ended when Clemens refused to leave his wife to marry McCready.

Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano ( January 16, 1838 – March 17, 1917 ) was an influential German philosopher and psychologist whose influence was felt by other such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Edmund Husserl, Kazimierz Twardowski and Alexius Meinong, who followed and adapted his views.

In 2005, a 10 – 1 Oregon team ( favored by 3 points while ranked 6th in the nation ) playing without its star quarterback Kellen Clemens lost 17 – 14 to a surging Oklahoma squad that had won six out of its last seven.

Georg Clemens Perthes ( 17 January 1869 – 3 January 1927 ) was a German surgeon and X-ray diagnostic pioneer born in Moers, Germany.

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He was the only pitcher other than Roger Clemens to win 12 decisions in a row 3 times, including 17 consecutive at one time.

On November 17, 2008, McCready spoke in more detail to Inside Edition about her affair with Clemens.

The Chinese Muslim Kansu Braves engaged in combat against Clemens von Ketteler and the German marines at the Legations on June 17.

* Clemens August ( 1700 – 1761 ), Archbishop of Cologne, Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim, Bishop of Paderborn