* 1884 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-American writer and publisher ( d. 1967 )

Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.

Publisher Hugo Gernsback eventually settled with Wollheim and the other authors out of court for $ 75, but when Wollheim submitted another story to Gernsback under the pseudonym " Millard Verne Gordon ," he was again not paid.

When Hugo Gernsback published the first scientifiction magazine, Amazing Stories in 1926, he allowed for a large letter column which printed reader's addresses.

Frederik Pohl, in his autobiography The Way the Future Was, said that the origins of the Futurians started with the Science Fiction League founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1934, the New York City local chapter of which was called the " Brooklyn Science Fiction League " or BSFL, and headed by G. G. Clark.

Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as " The Father of Science Fiction ".

Hugo Gernsback watching a television broadcast from his WRNY station as shown on the cover of the November 1928 issue of Radio News.

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At the beginning of August 2008, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his colleagues from Argentina and Brazil spoke about Latin American integration and Chavez threw an ambitious idea out: a train that would connect Venezuela's capital ( Caracas ) with Argentina's ( Buenos Aires ), and cities in between.

* August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1903 )

* August 29 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Hugo Grotius are imprisoned by Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange.

* August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral ( d. 1916 )

* August 28 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer ( b. 1583 )

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner ( 1852 – 1904 ), and an Austrian – Italian bank manager, Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal ( 1841 – 1915 ).

The city was also the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which Adolf Hitler was presented the Iron Cross ( First Class ) on recommendation from his superior officer, a Jewish Lieutenant named Hugo Gutmann.

Hugo Eugenio Pratt ( June 15, 1927 – August 20, 1995 ) was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese.

" Thomas ( born August 7, 1942, Hugo, Oklahoma ) is an American popular singer.

The magazine has since won its first Hugo Award in August 2009 at the 2009 Worldcon in Montreal, two Hugo Award nominations in subsequent years, and its first World Fantasy Award nomination in more than 17 years.

Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell ForMemRS ( 6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982 ) was a Swedish scientist and Nobel Prize laureate in medicine.

Other prominent members included Clara Zetkin, Paul Frölich, Hugo Eberlein, Franz Mehring, August Thalheimer, and Ernst Meyer.

He was the first in Europe to interpret characters from August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Luigi Pirandello, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

His enthusiasm for the subject was so great that he traveled to Germany in July 1930 to meet with Hugo Otto Georg Hans Westphal ( August 26, 1873 – September 15, 1934 ), a great-grandson of Accum's.

Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma ( 8 April 1930-18 August 2010 ) was the elder son of Xavier.

In August 2008, World Jewish Congress and Venezuelan Jewish community leaders met in Caracas with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frias.

Hugo Ernst Bleicher ( 9 August 1899-August 1982 ) was a German senior non-commissioned officer of the Abwehr who worked against French Resistance in German-occupied France.

However, Federico died in late August, and a week later Luis was born in an old house at 81 Víctor Hugo Road in Paris, a few blocks away from the Arc de Triomphe.

... Une flûte invisible, ( Hugo ), August 1900