Atle Selberg ( 14 June 1917 – 6 August 2007 ) was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory.

He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

Emil Theodor Kocher ( 25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917 ) was a Swiss physician, medical researcher, and Nobel laureate for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.

There were 149 Civil-White Guards in Finland ( local units in towns and rural communes ) on 31 August 1917, 251 on 30 September, 315 on 31 October, 380 on 30 November 1917 and 408 on 26 January 1918.

The shooting of an agricultural worker during a local strike on 9 August at Ypäjä created widespread anger ; November 1917 seemed to offer momentum for a revolt.

There were approximately 20-60 Worker's Guards in Finland between 31 August and 30 September 1917, but after the defeat in the October Parliamentary elections the number of the Guards began to substantially increase.

The first victim of non-war violence between the Finns, an agricultural worker, died at the beginning of August 1917 at Ypäjä, during a local strike.

He became a permanent major on 1 August 1917 and was again promoted acting lieutenant-colonel, this time confirmed as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, on 15 October.

He was taken a prisoner of war on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917 and was held at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained until December 1918.

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where he was raised.

August 28, 1917

This state lasted just over two years ( 13 December 1917 to 26 August 1920 ) before surrendering to the Bolshevik authorities, who then sought to preserve Russian control under a new political system.

After an unsuccessful pro-Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, Trotsky was arrested on 7 August 1917, but was released 40 days later in the aftermath of the failed counter-revolutionary uprising by Lavr Kornilov.

He is today best remembered for the Kornilov Affair, an unsuccessful endeavor in August / September 1917 that purported to strengthen Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government, but which led to Kerensky eventually having Kornilov arrested and charged with attempting a coup d ' état.

In August 1917 Nikola Tesla outlined a concept for primitive radar units.

The book contained a resolution, dated August 13, 1917, to print 15, 000 leaflets to be mailed to men who had passed exemption boards.

On August 1, 1917, the Senate passed a resolution containing the language of the amendment to be presented to the states for ratification.

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

* August 18 – The Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 in Greece destroys 32 % of the city, leaving 70, 000 individuals homeless.

* August 6 – Andrew Taylor Still, father of osteopathy ( d. 1917 )

* August 2 – Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer ( b. 1917 )

* August 14 – Albert Ball, British World War I fighter ace, Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1917 )

* August 29 – Teddy Turner, English actor ( b. 1917 )

The LSE records that the proposal to establish the school was conceived during a breakfast meeting on 4 August 1894, between the Webbs, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw.

The plans for SOPAC were first conceived in the mid-1990s, and in the early 2000s the project was set into motion, with Seton Hall University partnering with SOPAC and construction in August 2004.

In August of 1875 construction began of the Waynesburg and Washington Railroad, conceived by John Day in 1874 and chartered in 1875.

World AIDS Day was first conceived in August 1987 by James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two public information officers for the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

The film was originally intended to be the last in a trilogy, until director Robert Rodriguez conceived Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, released on August 19, 2011.

Nigel Kneale conceived the character of Quatermass in 1953, when he was assigned in his capacity as a BBC television staff drama writer to create a new six-part serial to run on Saturday nights in July and August.

Royal Navy frogman in August 1945, here equipped with a Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus | Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis ( inventor ) | Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set.

The first public, commercial American Internet café was conceived and opened by Jeff Anderson in August 1994, at Infomart in Dallas, Texas and was called The High Tech Cafe.

Christian conceived her own convention, Claudia Con UK, which took place in the United Kingdom on August 13 – 14, 2011.

Randolph remarried after May 1808 and before December 1809 to Mitchie B. Pryor of Buckingham County, and they conceived a son before Randolph died in August 1815. Jefferson Family Bible, LVA </ ref >

In August 1954 Warwick Charlton conceived the idea to construct a reproduction of the Mayflower to commemorate the wartime cooperation between the United Kingdom and the USA.

Green was conceived in early-to mid-1940 and the plan was drawn up in August 1940, under three weeks after Hitler issued his initial warning order for Operation Sea Lion on 16 July 1940.

The Madras Crocodile Bank was conceived in 1973 and started on 26 August 1976 by herpetologist Romulus Whitaker and his wife Zai Whitaker at the time when the Indian government protected all three species of Indian crocodilians under the Wild Life Protection Act of 1972.

Patty gave birth on August 2, 1977, meaning she had to have conceived Paige in either late October 1976 or early November 1976, meaning that she was still with Victor at the time of Paige's conception, as shown in the 1976 Christmas video from " Thank You For Not Morphing " ( she was roughly a month or so pregnant with Paige in the video ).

| " Aruna ", a 60-year-old Indian woman, from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, gave birth to a son in August 2001, conceived by IVF treatment with oocytes donation.

Furthermore, according to Trevor Marriott, an expert on the Jack the Ripper case, Alice " must have been conceived between 18 July and 11 August 1884 ".

The school opened in August 2002, after being conceived and planned by a group of concerned parents, community members and educators.

British navy frogman in August 1945, here equipped with a Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus | Davis apparatus, a rebreather originally conceived in 1910 by Robert Davis ( inventor ) | Robert Davis as an emergency submarine escape set