* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

In 1919 Irving Babbitt, founder of a movement called the " New Humanism ", wrote a critique of what he called " sentimental humanitarianism ", for which he blamed Rousseau.

* Babbitt, Irving ( 1991 ).

** Irving Babbitt, American literary critic ( d. 1933 )

** Irving Babbitt, American literary critic ( b. 1865 )

* Irving Babbitt: Romantic Melancholy

New Humanism or neohumanism were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More.

*" Irving Babbitt ", in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Collins was infatuated with the writings of prominent humanists of his day, including Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt.

Under the Collins editorship The Bookman carried articles conforming to his conservative views, influenced by Irving Babbitt, and promoted humanism and distributism.

More collaborated with Irving Babbitt from before 1900 in the project later labelled New Humanism.

John Crowe Ransom supervised his thesis, titled The Revolt against Humanism, a critique of the humanism of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More.

) In this he was probably influenced by Irving Babbitt.

Eliot in his 1926 essay The Humanism of Irving Babbitt, a review of Democracy and Leadership, had become equivocal, finding Babbitt's humanism not sufficiently receptive to Christian dogma ; his position vis-à-vis religion is still debated.

The position of Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature was endowed by Harvard University in 1960.

The National Humanities Institute runs an Irving Babbitt Project.

* The Humanism of Irving Babbitt ( 1931 ) F. E. McMahon

* Humanism and Naturalism: A Comparative Study of Ernest Seillière, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More ( 1937 ) Folke Leander

* Irving Babbitt ( 1941 ) edited by F. Manchester and O. Shepard

* Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study ( 1984 ) Thomas R. Nevin

* Irving Babbitt in Our Time ( 1986 ) edited by George A. Panichas and Claes G. Ryn

* Irving Babbitt ( 1987 ) Stephen C. Brennan and Stephen R. Yarbrough,

* Irving Babbitt, Literature, and the Democratic Culture ( 1994 ) Milton Hindus

* The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt: An Appreciation ( 1999 ) George A. Panichas

Irving Langmuir ( 31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957 ) was an American chemist and physicist.

* August 16 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1881 )

* August 26 – Irving Stone, American writer ( b. 1903 )

Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed in Irving on August 2, 1985.

In August 1983, Irving Azoff signed Barry to the MCA Records for North America, Gibb was signed for a few million dollars to a multi-album deal, but in the end the MCA released only one album called Now Voyager, released in 1984 ( His third solo album Moonlight Madness was rejected by MCA ) The first single released on the album " Shine, Shine " it reached No. 34 in the US and reached No. 10 in the US Adult Contemporary Charts, the second single " Fine Line " did not chart in US or UK.

In August 2010, LuPone appeared in a three-day run of Irving Berlin ’ s Annie Get Your Gun, in which she played the title role opposite Patrick Cassidy, at the Ravinia Festival, directed by Lonny Price.

* Recorded live August 2, 2003 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX and August 3, 2003 at Texas Stadium in Irving, TX on the Summer Sanitarium Tour

Bert Lahr ( born Irving Lahrheim ; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967 ) was an American actor and comedian.

Irving Thalberg Jr. ( August 25, 1930 – 1988 ) was the son of 1930s Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg and Academy award-winning actress Norma Shearer.

Edward Irving ( 4 August 1792 – 7 December 1834 ) was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.

* The radio drama MEridian 7-1212 by Irving Reis, produced by the Columbia Workshop August 24, 1939, ( available from the Internet Archive ), dealt with the New York Telephone time service at a time when the announcements were still read live.

Irving Stone ( born Tannenbaum, July 14, 1903, San Francisco, California – August 26, 1989, Los Angeles, California ) was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo.

Irving B. Harris ( August 4, 1910-September 25, 2004 ) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

* Kristol, Irving ( August 1971 ) " The Best of Intentions, the Worst of Results " The Atlantic-discusses Moynihan and his critics

Arthur Conan Doyle was born 22 May ; Knut Hamsun was born 4 August ; and Washington Irving died 28 November.

George Irving Bell ( August 4, 1926 in Evanston, Illinois – May 28, 2000 ) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley.

Jerome Irving Rodale ( surname accented on second syllable ) ( August 16, 1898 – June 8, 1971 ), was a playwright, editor, author, and founder of Rodale, Inc.

Irving Gifford Fine ( December 3, 1914 – August 23, 1962 ) was an American composer.

Irving Fine died in Natick, Massachusetts in August 1962.

* Droid Interrogation: An Exclusive Interview with Frazer Irving on Gutsville, Batman & Robin, Days Missing … and More !, Hypergeek, August 21, 2009

Irving Ezra Segal ( September 13, 1918 – August 30, 1998 ) was a mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics.

Irving Raskin Levine ( August 26, 1922 – March 27, 2009 ) was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News.