* 1759 – Friedrich August Wolf, German archaeologist ( d. 1824 )

The new gate was officially dedicated on 23 August 1824.

* August 8 – Eugène Boudin, French painter ( b. 1824 )

* August 14 – Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan ( b. 1824 )

* February 15 – Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist and archaeologist ( d. 1824 )

Marie Antoinette's situation became more precarious when, on 6 August 1775, her sister-in-law, the comtesse d ' Artois, gave birth to a son, the duc d ' Angoulême ( who later became the presumptive heir to the French throne when his father, the comte d ' Artois, became King Charles X of France in 1824 ).

* Peayasis ( better known as François Desjarlais, Chief of the Beaver River Cree or Amisk Sipi Wi Iniwak, a subgroup of the Woodland Cree ( Sakāwithiniwak ), born 1824 at the Beaver River, son of Ladoucoeur dit Desjarlais and Josephte Suzette Cardinal, signed on 8 August 1876 the Treaty 6, participated in battle of Battle River )

Assisted by Antonio José de Sucre, Bolívar decisively defeated the Spanish cavalry at the Battle of Junín on August 6, 1824.

Battle of Junín, August 1824

Eliakam Ashton won the contract to construct the building and completed it on a lot along Main Street on August 9, 1824, at a cost of $ 295.

Charles X ( Charles Philippe ; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836 ) was known for most of his life as the Comte d ' Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830.

In the spring of 1824, August returned to Paris for final studies and examination preparations at the Paris Opera.

* John Taylor of Caroline ( December 19, 1753 – August 21, 1824 ) was a politician and writer.

Twenty-one years later, the Sac ( Sauk ), Meskwaki ( Fox ), and Iowa Native American nations ceded their tribal land to the U. S. government under two treaties in August 1824.

Belgian priest Charles Nerinckx ( 2 October 1761, Herfelingen – 12 August 1824 ) and three Kentucky frontier women founded the Sisters of Loretto, the first native American order of Roman Catholic nuns, in 1812.

His final church for the Commissioners ' was the Gothic St Peter's Church, Brighton ( 1824 – 28 ) which he won in a design competition on the 4 August 1823 and was his first building to win acclaim.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had:

President James Monroe invited Lafayette to visit the United States from August 1824 to September 1825, in part to celebrate the nation's 50th anniversary.

Lafayette arrived from France at Staten Island in New York, on 15 August 1824, to an artillery salute.

Friedrich August Wolf ( 15 February 1759 – 8 August 1824 ) was a German philologist and critic.

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 ).

Alexander Henry ' The Elder ' ( August 1739 – 4 April 1824 ) was one of the leading pioneers of the British-Canadian fur trade following the British Conquest of New France ; a partner in the North West Company, and a founding member and vice-chairman of the Beaver Club.

He left Odessa on July 21, 1824, and arrived on August 9.

Charlotte responded by finishing and sending a second manuscript in August 1847, and six weeks later Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, was published.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

On August 11, 1857, Colonel Ebey was murdered and beheaded by Haida who traveled from the Queen Charlotte Islands when he was 39 years old.

* August 7 – Twins Samantha Ronson and Charlotte Ronson, British DJ and designer

* August 22 – The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.

* August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress

* August 1 – Charlotte Hughes ( née Milburn ), the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom ( d. 1993 )

* August 23 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )

* August 11 – Charlotte Mary Yonge-English Author ( d. 1901 )

* August 17 – Charlotte Gilman, noted American poet and playwright ( b. 1860 )

The couple had three daughters: Charlotte Janelle ( born August 8, 1981 ), Emily Claire ( born July 25, 1983 ), and Georgia Rose ( born September 3, 1984 ).

His brother Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 1754 – Pau, 8 August 1813 ) was eventually made 1st Baron Bernadotte and married Marie Anne Charlotte de Saint-Paul.

* August 18 – Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau, Roman Catholic nun ( d. 1640 )

The German Emperor Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, Duke Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Ernst August of Brunswick were Edward's nephews ; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Duchess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen were his nieces ; Haakon VII of Norway was both his nephew by marriage and his son-in-law ; George I of Greece and Frederick VIII of Denmark were his brothers-in-law ; Albert I of Belgium, Charles I and Manuel II of Portugal, and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria were his second cousins.

# Margravine Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 August 1676 – 13 March 1731 ) married Johann Reinhard III of Hanau-Lichtenberg and had issue, including Charlotte of Hanau, wife of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

* Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte, born at Laken on 11 May 1864, and died at the Archabbey of Pannonhalma in Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary, on 23 August 1945.

* Marie-José Charlotte Sophie Amélie Henriette Gabrielle, Princess of Belgium ( born Ostend 4 August 1906 – 27 January 2001 ).

On August 13, 2004 Charlotte County was devastated when Hurricane Charley came ashore near Port Charlotte as a Category 4 hurricane.

The Sun Belt Conference was founded on August 4, 1976 with New Orleans, South Alabama, Georgia State, Jacksonville, Charlotte and South Florida.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935 ) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

On August 13, 2004, Hurricane Charley first made mainland landfall at the mouth of Charlotte Harbor.

* John Hill Wheeler, the first US ambassador to Nicaragua and head of the US Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina was born in Murfreesboro on August 2, 1806.

In August 2008 Burke recalled that he'd hired musicians from Charlotte, North Carolina, to play at a gig in Long Island and he drafted them in to play the instrumental riff on " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.