Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.

A resistance movement called Otechestven front ( Fatherland front, Bulgarian: Отечествен фронт ) was set up in August 1942 by the Communist Party, the Zveno movement and a number of other parties to oppose the elected government, after a number of Allied victories indicated that the Axis might lose the War.

Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877 ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.

Paul Jackson Pollock ( January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 ), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994 ) was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.

The studio originally functioned as a center for the Resistance movement in French radio, which in August 1944 was responsible for the first broadcasts in liberated Paris.

The revolution of August 1904 began as a popular movement, but Liberal rule quickly degenerated into factional feuding, military coups, and civil war.

The Equatoria Corps mutinied at Torit on 18 August 1955, just before independence, prompting the formation of the Anyanya guerilla movement and the First Sudanese Civil War.

The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August ended these hopes and also fatally damaged the chances of the orthodox communist parties drawing many recruits from the student protest movement.

* August 18 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.

* August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

* August 20 – Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian from Keene, New Hampshire, is murdered in Hayneville, Alabama while working in the American civil rights movement.

* August 7 – Gideon T. Stewart, American temperance movement leader ( d. 1907 )

William Wilberforce ( 24 August 1759 – 29 July 1833 ) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

In response to the anti-war movement, the U. S. Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment to prohibit further U. S. military intervention in Vietnam in June 1973 and reduced aid to South Vietnam in August 1974.

Gerard Groote ( October 1340 – 20 August 1384 ), otherwise Gerrit or Gerhard Groet, in Latin Gerardus Magnus, was a Dutch preacher and founder of the Brethren of the Common Life and a key figure in the Devotio Moderna movement.

On August 23, Margaret of Parma, the Habsburg Regent or Governor-general, whose capital of Brussels was unaffected by the movement, agreed to an " Accord " with the group of aristocratic Protestant leaders known as the " Compromise " or Geuzen (" Beggars "), by which freedom of religion was granted, in exchange for allowing Catholics to worship unmolested and an end to the violence.

He participated in the Civil Rights movement and lobbied with historian August Meier " to end the practice of the Southern Historical Association of holding meetings at segregated hotels ".

Within the movement for gay and lesbian rights, a debate between advocates of sexual liberation and of social integration was taking shape, with Andrew Sullivan publishing an essay " Here Comes the Groom " in The New Republic in August 1989 arguing for same-sex marriage: " A need to rebel has quietly ceded to a desire to belong ", he wrote.

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre ( 22 February 1895 – 2 August 1979 ) was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) political movement.

He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing abhorrence of the Petitioners, and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Groups associated with this tradition include the No Turning Back Group and Conservative Way Forward, whilst Enoch Powell and Sir Keith Joseph are usually cited as early influences in the movement.

One of the leaders of this movement, Sir Grantley Adams, founded the Barbados Labour Party in 1938, then known as the Barbados Progressive League.

One of the leaders of this movement, Sir Grantley Adams, founded the Barbados Progressive League ( now the Barbados Labour Party ) in 1938.

Charles Thomson's painting, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, as Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely " signature piece " for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art.

On his retirement in 1933, and impatient with what he considered the inability of democracy to adopt military reforms, Fuller became involved with Sir Oswald Mosley and the British Fascist movement.

In 1916, Sir Arthur Keith stated in an address to the Royal Anthropological Institute, that the expedition had engendered " the most progressive and profitable movement in the history of British anthropology.

He passed on the request to Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of the Air Staff, who answered that " We should use available effort in one big attack on Berlin and attacks on Dresden, Leipzig, and Chemnitz, or any other cities where a severe blitz will not only cause confusion in the evacuation from the East, but will also hamper the movement of troops from the West ".

Although organic farming is prehistoric in the widest sense, Sir Albert Howard is widely considered to be the " father of organic farming " in the sense that he was a key founder of the post-industrial-revolution organic movement.

* Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Bt ( founder of the world Scouting movement ) ( 1857 – 1941 )

: A competing theory, propounded by conductor Sir Andrew Davis, is that this movement is about Helen Weaver, to whom Elgar was engaged for fourteen months.

Other people who have lived in Deptford, range from the First Governor of the Honourable East India Company, and Ambassador to the court of Russia, Sir Thomas Smith, whose magnificent house was destroyed by fire in 1618 ; to early members of the Chartist movement, John Gast and George Julian Harney ; and the Cleveleys, John Cleveley the Elder and his sons John and Robert, a family of marine artists who also worked as tradesmen in the Dockyard.

It was only three years after Sir Robert Baden-Powell founded the movement in England.

The song “ Captain Sterling ’ s Little Problem ” accompanied the closing credits of Sir, No, Sir, a documentary about the GI anti-war movement.

These were influenced by the garden city movement, launched around 1900 by Ebenezer Howard and Sir Patrick Geddes and the work of Raymond Unwin, and manifested at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

Manuscripts 33118 ); Carlisle Correspondence ; Beresford Correspondence ; Stanhope Miscellanies ; for the Catholic question, W Anshurst, History of Catholic Emancipation ( 2 vols., London, 1886 ); Sir Thomas Wyse, Historical Sketch of the late Catholic Association of Ireland ( London, 1829 ); W. J. MacNeven, Pieces of Irish History ( New York, 1807 ) containing an account of the United Irishmen ; for the volunteer movement Thomas MacNevin, History of the Volunteers of 1782 ( Dublin, 1845 ); Proceedings of the Volunteer Delegates of Ireland 1784 ( Anon.

Sir Ralph Abercromby had equally well accomplished his task by capturing the town of Hoorn, on the coast of the Zuiderzee, and placing himself in a favourable position for completing the turning movement.

The attempts made to preserve the earlier building, championed by the later Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, led to the formation of The Victorian Society and heralded in the modern conservation movement.

Another author in the Spiritualist movement, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included a chapter about Spiritism in his book " History of Spiritualism " confirming that Spiritism is Spiritualist ( but not vice-versa ).

These grew out of the garden city movement, launched around 1900 by Ebenezer Howard and Sir Patrick Geddes and the work of Raymond Unwin, and manifested at Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire.

The first UWC college, the United World College of the Atlantic, located in a 12th Century castle set in 90 hectares of grounds in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales, United Kingdom, was founded in 1962 with the initiative of Kurt Hahn, a German educationalist who had previously founded Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and the Outward Bound movement ; the castle was gifted to UWC by Antonin Besse II, the son of Sir Antonin Besse.