A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.

In August 1943, a secret meeting was held in the town of Mukje between the anti-communist Balli Kombëtar ( National Front ) and the Communist Party of Albania.

In August 1943, Churchill appointed Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) with promotion to the acting rank of full admiral.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

Extremes range from, recorded on February 16, 1943, to 103 ° F ( 39 ° C ), recorded on August 2, 1975.

Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998 ) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards.

August 6, 1943

He attended Munali Training Centre in Lusaka ( August 1941 – 1943 ).

Boxing contests were held later on 14 June 1943, 12 August 1944, 4 October 1951 and 10 September 1952.

In August 1943 the Uderzeniowe Bataliony Kadrowe attacked the village of Mittenheide ( Turośl ) in southern Masuria

Pervez Musharraf (; born: 11 August 1943 ), is a retired four-star general and a politician who served as the tenth President of Pakistan from 2001 until 2008.

He was born on 11 August 1943 in Delhi, British India, four years before the partition of India.

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Two: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943.

On August 26, 1943, Albert Speer called a meeting with Hans Kammler, Dornberger, Gerhard Degenkolb, and Karl Otto Saur to negotiate the move of A-4 main production to an underground factory in the Harz mountains.

As the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's " Sleeping & Living Quarters " ( to specifically target scientists ), then the " Factory Workshops ", and finally the " Experimental Station " on the night of August 17 / 18, 1943.

On August 26, 1943, at a meeting in Albert Speer's office, Hans Kammler suggested moving the A-4 Development Works to a proposed underground site in Austria.

* August 29 – Dudley Pound, British admiral ( d. 1943 )

* August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar ( d. 1943 )

* August 16 – Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia ( b. 1943 )

He was eventually posted to Delhi in India as Lieutenant-Colonel in Military Intelligence in August 1943, having declined at least two jobs carrying the rank of full colonel in the now-moribund North African theatre and having offered to drop in rank to major in order to get a posting to the Far East.

Construction on B Reactor began in August 1943 and was completed just over a year later, on September 13, 1944.

The " slapping incident " of Private Charles H. Kuhl of August 3, 1943, nearly ended Patton's career.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance.

* August 15 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian poet, critic, journalist and political activist ( d. 1916 )

* August 23 – Emperor Ivan VI of Russia ( d. 1764 )

* August – English explorer Richard Chancellor enters the White Sea and reaches Arkhangelsk, going on to the court of Ivan IV of Russia, opening up trade between England and Russia.

* August 25 – Ivan IV of Russia ( d. 1584 )

Ivan Novikoff ( August 26, 1899 – March 20, 2002 ) was a ballet master.

Vitus Jonassen Bering ( baptised 5 August 1681 in Horsens, Denmark – 8 December 1741 on Bering Island, Russia ) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy as ( eventually Captain-Komandor ) Витус Ионассен Беринг, known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich Bering.

Master Sergeant Gary Ivan Gordon ( August 30, 1960 – October 3, 1993 ) is a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (, Ivan Chetvyorty Vasilyevich ; 25 August 1530 – ), known in English as Ivan the Terrible (, Ivan Grozny ; lit.

Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern ( November 19, 1770 – August 24, 1846 ;, Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern ), was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

George Ivan ( Van ) Morrison was born on 31 August 1945, at 125 Hynford Street, Bloomfield, East Belfast, Northern Ireland as the only child of George Morrison, a shipyard electrician, and Violet Stitt Morrison, a singer and tap dancer in her youth.

Ivan Stang, born Douglass St. Clair Smith ( August 21, 1953 ) in Washington, D. C., raised in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended the St. Mark's School of Texas.

Six months after his humiliating peace with the Polish monarch, Ivan IV was glad to conclude a truce with Sweden also on a uti possidetis basis at Plussa, on August 5, 1582.

Ivan Meštrović (; August 15, 1883 – January 16, 1962 ) was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor and architect.

* August 3 – Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher ( d. 1914 )

* Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky ( August 18, 1904-November 18, 1905 )

* On August 16, 1997, in the 8th inning of a 5-5 tie against the New York Yankees, the Texas Rangers made several defensive changes, including moving DH Ivan Rodriguez to catcher, thereby losing their DH.

* August 4, 1878 – Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky stabs General Nikolai Mezentsov, head of the Tsar's secret police, to death in response to the execution of Ivan Kovalsky.

Ivan Mažuranić (; 11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890 ) was a Croatian poet, linguist and politician — probably the most important figure in Croatia's cultural life in the mid-19th century.

During Ivan the Terrible's war of conquest against the Khanate of Kazan, in August 1552, the Chuvash Orsai and Mari Akpar Tokari princes swore their loyalty to the Grand Duchy of Muscovy at Alatyr on the Suvarley River.