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    August Wilson

    1945 - 2005 Male
    Playwright, Author
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    August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the twentieth century.read more

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    August Heinrich Petermann

    1822 - 1878 Male
    Cartographer

    August Heinrich Petermann was a German cartographer. "No issue without a map"

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    August Strindberg

    1849 - 1912 Male
    Swedish Playwright, Writer, and Painter

    Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics.read more

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    August Derleth

    1909 - 1971 Male
    Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet, Editor, Anthologist

    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P.

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    August Engelhardt

    1875 - 1919 Male
    Founder, Writer, Scientist

    August Engelhardt, was a German author and founder of a sect.

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    August Becker

    1900 - 1967 Male
    Lieutenant Colonel

    August Becker was during the Nazi regime in Germany (1933–1945) an SS lieutenant colonel and chemist in the Central Reich Security Office.

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    August Sangret

    1913 - 1943 Male
    Soldier

    August Sangret was a French-Canadian soldier of First Nations birth, convicted of murdering Joan Wolfe in Surrey, England and hanged. This murder case is also known as the Wigwam Murder.

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    August Busch IV

    Age 47 Male
    Board Member

    August Anheuser Busch IV is the former CEO of Anheuser-Busch who ended the family control of the company in 2008 when it was sold to InBev.