* Ambrós ( Miguel Ambrosio Zaragoza ( 31 August 1913 – 30 September 1992 )), a distinguished comic strip cartoonist, most famous for the comic book series Capitán Trueno ( Captain Thunder ).

In a letter to R. B. Fuller Esq., dated 1 August 1913, McCormick described the circumstances that inspired him to write Advance Australia Fair:

Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.

* 1840 – August Bebel, German politician ( d. 1913 )

* 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 )

Gilbert Cesbron ( 13 January 1913, Paris – 13 August 1979, Paris ) was a French novelist.

* Pécs ( 1913 – August 31, 1960 )

On 30 August 1913, the barquentine Amaranth ( C. W.

He undertook further studies at the University of Leipzig and the University of Göttingen in 1913 and 1914 with leading Indo-Europeanists August Leskien, Karl Brugmann, as well as Hermann Oldenberg, a specialist in Vedic Sanskrit.

(,, Munahayyim Beeghin, Menakhem Vol ' fovich Begin, 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992 ) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel.

He composed his first two piano concertos around this time, the latter of which caused a scandal at its premiere ( 23 August 1913, Pavlovsk ).

* Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d ' Arenberg ( 3 August 1896 – 1913 )

* August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor ( b. 1913 )

* August 6 – Cordwainer Smith, American author ( b. 1913 )

* August 23 – Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia ( d. 1913 )

* August 17 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia ( d. 1913 )

* August – Bernardo Reyes, Mexican general ( d. 1913 )

* August 20 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist, and inventor ( d. 1913 )

* August 1 – Philip Abelson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1913 )

* Treaty of 10 August 1913, at the end of the Second Balkan War

They were also involved in what came to be known as the Wheatland Hop Riot on August 3, 1913.

* German — Beckmann, Max: Pierrot and Mask ( 1920 ), Before the Masked Ball ( 1922 ), Carnival ( 1943 ); Campendonk, Heinrich: Pierrot with Mask ( 1916 ), Pierrot ( with Serpent ) ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Sunflower ( 1925 ); Faure, Amandus: Standing Artist and Pierrot ( 1909 ); Heckel, Erich: Dead Pierrot ( 1914 ); Hofer, Karl: Circus Folk ( c. 1921 ); Leman, Ulrich: The Juggler ( 1913 ); Macke, August: Many works, including Ballets Russes ( 1912 ), Clown ( Pierrot ) ( 1913 ), Face of Pierrot ( 1913 ), Pierrot and Woman ( 1913 ); Mammen, Jeanne: The Death of Pierrot ( n. d .); Nolde, Emil: Pierrot and White Lilies ( c. 1911 ), Women and Pierrot ( 1917 ); Schlemmer, Oskar: Pierrot and Two Figures ( 1923 ); Werner, Theodor: Pierrot lunaire ( 1942 ).

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

To this effect, Chinna Venkatadri was sent to negotiate with the local Governor on August 4, 1687.

In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.

On August 25, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Lucas would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit.

* 1704 4 August – The Governor Diego de Salinas surrendered the town to Prince George of Hesse, who took it in the name of Archduke, as Charles III, king of Castile and Aragon.

Coincidentally the first Australian-born Governor, Sir John Northcott on 1 August 1946, was also the first Australian-born Governor of any state.

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

* Kamerun was split on 20 July 1922 into British Cameroons ( under a Resident ) and French Cameroun ( under a Commissioner until 27 August 1940, then under a Governor ), on 13 December 1946 transformed into United Nations Trust Territories, again a British ( successively under senior district officers officiating as Resident, a Special Resident and Commissioners ) and a French Trust ( under a Haut Commissaire )

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

The last Governor, Sir John Shaw Rennie served as the first Governor-General until 27 August 1968.

New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey announced that he was a " gay American " in August 2004.

In August 2012, the California State Assembly approved a bill to prohibit children and teenagers from undergoing conversion therapy, which Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on September 29, 2012.

On 1 August 1834, an unarmed group of mainly elderly blacks being addressed by the Governor at Government House about the new laws, began chanting: " Pas de six ans.

In August 1835, at the strong urging of Ohio's Congressmen, President Jackson removed Mason as Michigan's Territorial Governor and appointed John S. (" Little Jack ") Horner in his stead.

On the morning of Sunday, August 17, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller called festival organizer John Roberts and told him he was thinking of ordering 10, 000 New York State National Guard troops to the festival.

* August 6 – Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey

* August 18 – Walter Joseph Hickel, 2nd and 8th Governor of Alaska ( d. 2010 )

* August 25 – George Wallace, Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

* August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Former Working President of KVK, Cuttack ; Past District Governor of Lions Club International 322C & Former Chairman of IITM cuttack & is known as liondayon.

* August 29 – James Florio, Governor of New Jersey

* August 14 – Richard A. Snelling, Governor of Vermont ( b. 1927 )

* August 18 – HRH The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, is installed as Governor of the Bahamas.

* August 15 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

* August 3 – Nathan Post, 7th and 10th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1938 )