He was the elder of two sons of Gulielma ( née Hollingsworth ) and Horace Franklin Cannon, a country doctor.

Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

* August 2 – Horace Mann, American educator and abolitionist ( b. 1796 )

* August 17 – Horace McMahon, American actor ( b. 1906 )

* August 14 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter ( d. 1835 )

Enlisting the vocals of Sinéad O ' Connor and Horace Andy, 100th Window was mastered in August 2002 and released in February 2003.

On August 16, 1963 Burke recorded three songs in New York, including " You're Good for Me ", which was written by Don Covay and Horace Ott, who also arranged it.

Horace Mann ( May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859 ) was an American education reformer.

" Gray, writing to Horace Walpole ( August, 1757 ), said that the author " seemed to have retrieved the true language of the stage, which has been lost for these hundred years ," but Samuel Johnson held aloof from the general enthusiasm, and averred that there were not ten good lines in the whole play ( Boswell, Life, ed.

French's personal friend General Grierson, GOC II Corps, had died suddenly on the train near Amiens, and French returned to GHQ on 17 August to find that Kitchener had appointed Lt-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, with whom he did not get on, to the command.

* Fox Island – An island in Lake Ontario, southeast of Grenadier Island ; once owned by former New York Governor Horace White ; island auctioned off August 24, 2007 for $ 3. 78 million to Vance Wilson, who claims he will keep the estate as it currently is.

In August 1792, the Genevan geologist and explorer Horace Bénédict de Saussure made the first measurement of the Matterhorn's height, using a 50-foot-long chain spread out on the Theodul glacier and a sextant.

On the other hand, Horace Kinder Mann, Reginald L. Poole, Peter Llewelyn ( Rome in the Dark Ages ), Karl Josef von Hefele, August Friedrich Gfrörer, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, and Francis Patrick Kenrick maintain that Pope John XI was sired by Alberic I of Spoleto, Count of Tusculum.

The malicious caricature of Sporus does Hervey great injustice, and he is not much better treated by Horace Walpole, who in reporting his death in a letter ( August 14, 1743 ) to Horace Mann, said he had outlived his last inch of character.

After Georgiana's death in 1851 he married secondly, Adelaide Horatia Seymour ( 1825 – 1877 ), daughter of Sir Horace Seymour and a great-granddaughter of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, on 9 August 1854.

General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC ( 26 May 1858 – 12 August 1930 ) was a British soldier and commander of the British II Corps and Second Army of the BEF during World War I.

On August 11, 1902, Holmes received a recess appointment from President Theodore Roosevelt naming Holmes to a seat on the United States Supreme Court vacated by Justice Horace Gray, who had retired in July 1902 as a result of illness.

* August 20 – Flying a U. S. Air Force North American F-100C Super Sabre, Horace A. Haines sets a world speed record of 822. 135 mph ( 1, 323. 889 km / h ).

Horace Parnell Tuttle ( March 17, 1837 – August 16, 1923 ) was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle ( Nov. 1, 1829-July 17, 1881 ).

Horace Welcome Babcock ( September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003 ) was an American astronomer.

Horace would eventually follow in his father's footsteps, becoming president of Twin City Rapid Transit until his death on August 22, 1931.

Horace Howard Furness ( November 2, 1833 – August 13, 1912 ) was the most important American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century.

On 2 August of that year Horace Walpole wrote that " old Cuzzoni " had been arrested for a debt of £ 30, and bailed by the Prince of Wales.

Horace W. Henderson ( November 22, 1904 – August 29, 1988 ), the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader.

128, 181 ; Pausanias 1. 7. 2, 5. 10. 8 ; Strabo ix. 39 ; Horace Carmine i. 18.

Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara ( née Dickson ) and Horace White.

Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon ( 7 May 1804-15 April 1863 ) was a French naturalist and doctor.

Horace White ( October 7, 1865 – November 27, 1943 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Contino got his big break on December 7, 1947 when he played Lady of Spain ( his signature piece ) and won first place in the Horace Heidt / Philip Morris talent contest in Fresno which was broadcast on national radio.

He also filmed a small role in the feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, released in June 2005, an episode of Dalziel and Pascoe, the little-seen film Halal Harry, and read Horace for BBC Radio 7.

Horace Augustus Curtis VC ( 7 March 1891 – 1 July 1968 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

During a long stay in the Macedonian theatre of war and bitter fighting, Horace earned promotion during 1916 from unpaid lance corporal on 7 February to full sergeant on 17 November 1916.

Horace Robert Martineau VC ( 31 October 1874 – 7 April 1916 ) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

With the drafting and development of Horace Grant, the Bulls traded Oakley to the New York Knicks for 7 ' 1 " center Bill Cartwright.

It is taken from the Odes of Horace, Book 1, Ode 7, line 27.

Horace B. Baker ( January 23, 1869 – December 7, 1941 ) was a U. S. politician who served as Acting Governor of the state of New Jersey.

The word "' ciborium '" was also used in classical Latin to describe such cups, although the only example to have survived is in one of Horace ’ s odes ( 2. 7. 21 – 22 ).

Horace and his uncle began feuding with Billy Kidman and the New Blood in April 2000, with Horace helping Hogan defeat Kidman at Slamboree 2000 on May 7, 2000.

Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln ( 23 February 1913 – 7 July 2001 ) was an Australian engineer.

Horace Boies ( December 7, 1827 – April 4, 1923 ) served as the 14th Governor of Iowa from 1890 to 1894 as a member of the United States Democratic Party.

On December 7, 1947, NBC launched The Horace Heidt Youth Opportunity Program and accordionist Dick Contino, the first winner of the $ 5, 000 prize, soon had his own show.

William Horace Lascelles ( 15 February 1868 – 7 May 1949 ), married Madeline Barton and had issue.