Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* August 24 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist, contributor to thermodynamics ( b. 1822 )

* August 28 – John Stark, American Revolutionary War general ( d. 1822 )

* August 12, 1822 – St David's College ( now the University of Wales, Lampeter ) is founded by Bishop Thomas Burgess.

* August 4 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, British poet ( d. 1822 )

* May 31 – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician ( d. 1822 )

Frederick Law Olmsted ( April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903 ) was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer.

On July 26 and 27, 1822, Bolívar held the Guayaquil conference with the Argentinian General José de San Martín, who had received the title of Protector of Peruvian Freedom in August 1821 after having partially liberated Peru from the Spanish.

John Stark ( August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822 ) was a general who served in the American Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

* Edward Bunker ( August 1, 1822 – November 17, 1901 ), Mormon pioneer for whom Bunkerville is named

The bathers stayed in Doberan and played on slot machines ( the ducal resort coffers collected 30, 000 thalers of royalties from Doberan's casinos ), dancing, and horse racing ( probably the first horse race in Germany took place here on 10 August 1822 ).

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC ( Ire ) ( 18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822 ), usually known as Lord Castlereagh ( ), was an Irish and British statesman.

Castlereagh was also leader of the British House of Commons in the Liverpool government from 1812 until his death by suicide in August 1822.

On 9 August 1822 he had an audience with King George IV in which he appeared distracted and mentally disturbed.

He then served as ambassador to Prussia ( 1821 ) and the Kingdom of Great Britain ( 1822 ), and even rose to the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 28 December 1822 – 4 August 1824 ).

John Stark ( August 28, 1728 – May 8, 1822 ) was a New Hampshire native who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius ( born Rudolf Gottlieb ; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888 ), was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre ( 19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822 ) was a French mathematician and astronomer.

Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg ( May 31, 1750November 26, 1822 ) was a Prussian statesman and Prime Minister of Prussia.

He travelled some during 1822, and visited his childhood friend James Crossley in Edinburgh during August.

Tegucigalpa could not maintain its opposition, however, and recognized its annexation to Mexico on August 22, 1822.

On August 27, 1822.

* August 4-Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet ( died 1822 )

* August 12 – Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, British foreign secretary ( suicide ) ( b. 1769 )

On 12 August, although his wife had succeeded in removing razors from his possession and even though his doctor was in attendance, Castlereagh managed to find a pen knife with which he committed suicide by cutting his own throat.

Castlereagh and the city of Kent in Washington in the United States signed up as sister cities partners on 1 August 2000.

Very conscious of the stressful loneliness of command and of the suicide both of Captain Stokes and of his uncle Viscount Castlereagh, who had cut his own throat in 1822 while in government office, he approached Beaufort in August 1831 and asked him to find a suitable gentleman companion for the voyage.

As Captain Castlereagh MP he travelled to northern France in the first weeks of the war and reached Paris on 29 August 1914 having been gazetted ADC to General William Pulteney the previous day.

In August 1822, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, who was both the Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, had an audience with King George IV saying he was being blackmailed, and that " I am accused of the same crime as the Bishop of Clogher.

Their first senior match was a local derby against Ards at Castlereagh Park on August 20, 1927.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

In August 1926 Ivo Bligh ( now Lord Darnley ) displayed the Ashes Urn at the Morning Post Decorative Art Exhibition held in the Central Hall, Westminster.

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

CERT and Citizen Corps were transferred to the Office of Domestic Preparedness ( now the Office of Grants and Training ) in August 2004.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

Austria itself was now facing the direct threat of invasion from across the border in Bavaria where the state's Elector, Maximilian Emanuel, had declared for the Bourbons in August the previous year.

Shortly after the Hiscock's gully gold rush of 1851 following the discovery of gold at Hiscock's, 3 kilometres west of Buninyong ( now Magpie approximately 10 kilometres south of Eureka ), the newly created Victorian colonial government announced in August 1851 that it would charge a licence fee to miners on the crown land.

In August 2007, the now defunct Warner Independent Pictures announced that television producer Kurt Sutter would be remaking the film as a noir-style thriller entitled Awaken the Dragon.

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Blair now contributed regularly to Adelphi, with " A Hanging " appearing in August 1931.

In 1770 Lessing became librarian at the ducal library, now the Herzog August Library ( Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Bibliotheca Augusta ), in Wolfenbüttel.

A new version of the RuneQuest rules, now titled " RuneQuest Sixth Edition " has been produced in August 2012, but Gloranthan material has not yet been updated specifically for this edition.

The second and last incumbent of the office, Yusof bin Ishak, kept the style at the 31 August 1963 unilateral declaration of independence and after the 16 September 1963 accession to Malaysia as a state ( so now as a constitutive part of the federation, a non-sovereign level ).

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

His astronomical telescope is now housed in the rooms of the August Derleth Society.

On 25 August Collins wrote to the Príomh Aire, Éamon de Valera, to inform him " the Volunteer affair is now fixed ".

Only 7 employees now remain employed at the company's original site and the outlet shop will close at the end of August 2009.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.