hr: Nicolaus Steno

hr: August Horch

hr: August Strindberg

* August 21 – Rare Bear, a highly modified Grumman F8F Bearcat, sets a new piston-engined speed record of 528. 33 mph ( 850. 77 km / hr ).

hr: August von Mackensen

hr: August Krogh

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Despite the injury he still managed to earn American League Player of the Month honors in September (. 337, 10 hr, 26 rbi ) and was the Rangers Player of the Month in both August and September.

hr: August von Platen

* August 19 – A U. S. Navy Curtiss 18-T-1 triplane sets a new world speed record of 163 mph ( 232. 32 km / hr ).

* August 21 – Flying a Vought F8U-1 Crusader fighter, U. S. Navy Commander R. W. " Duke " Windsor sets a U. S. national speed record over a course, averaging 1, 015. 428 mph ( 1, 635. 150 km / hr ) at China Lake, California.

hr: August Macke

hr: August Šenoa

hr: August Cesarec

hr: Heinrich August Rudolf Grisebach

hr: Otto Preminger

hr: Otto Skorzeny

hr: Otto von Habsburg

hr: Otto Wallach

hr: Otto Heinrich Warburg

hr: Otto Stern

hr: Otto Fritz Meyerhof

hr: Otto Wagner

hr: Otto Liman von Sanders

hr: Otto Loewi

hr: Otto Strasser

hr: Otto Robert Frisch

hr: Otto Weddigen

hr: Otto von Emmich

hr: Otto von Below

hr: Otto Meißner

Nicholas of Kues ( 1401 – August 11, 1464 ), also referred to as Nicolaus Cusanus and Nicholas of Cusa, was a cardinal of the Catholic Church from Germany ( Holy Roman Empire ), a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer.

T. Nicolaus Tideman (, not ; born August 11, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois ) is a Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Eleonora Maria Jauch's ( 1732 – 1797 ) father-in-law was the dean of Bardowick Kaspar Nicolaus Overbeck, in whose foster-parental home August Hermann Francke 1687 had been guest when he experienced his so-called " Lüneburg conversion " ( Lüneburger Bekehrung ), making him one of the earliest leaders of Pietism.

Many of these early polymaths were also religious priests and theologians: for example, Alhazen and al-Biruni were mutakallimiin ; the physician Avicenna was a hafiz ; the physician Ibn al-Nafis was a hafiz, muhaddith and ulema ; the botanist Otto Brunfels was a theologian and historian of Protestantism ; the astronomer and physician Nicolaus Copernicus was a priest.

The first person to build a working four stroke engine, a stationary engine using a coal gas-air mixture for fuel ( a gas engine ), was German engineer Nicolaus Otto.

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From 1878 Grassi worked first at Messina in the Oceanographic Station founded by Nicolaus Kleinenberg and Anton Dohrn where he studied Chaetognatha then at Heidelberg with Karl Gegenbaur and Otto Bütschli.