• ARTHUR KOESTLER
    • ER (3 Septembre 1905-1983) English writer who born in Budapest of Hungarian parents. Koestler spent his early years inVienna and Palestine. An influential Communist journalist inBerlin in the early 1930s, Koestler was...
    • John Dalton
    • ton (6 September 1766_ 27 July 1844) John Dalton, British chemist and physicist developed the atomic theory of matter and hence is known as one of the fathers of modern physical science. Dalton was the son of a Qua...
    • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
    • ky (5 September 1857–19 September 1935) Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics. He was born in Izhevskoye (now in Spassky District, Ryazan Oblast), Russia in...
    • Tommaso Campanella
    • la (September 5, 1568 - May 21, 1639) Giovan Domenico Campanella, born inStilo,Calabria (southern tip of the Italian peninsula), was a child prodigy. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Dominican order and...
    • Theodor H.E. Svedberg
    • erg (30 Aug 1884- 25 Feb 1971) The Svedberg, right, with colleague, 1926 Swedish chemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1926 for his studies in the chemistry of colloids and for his invention of the ultr...
    • Sergei Nikolayevich Winogradsky
    • Russian microbiologist who helped to establish bacteriology as a major biological science. He was first to isolate the bacteria responsible for nitrification and nitrogen fixation by soil bacteria ...
    • Pierre de Coubertin
    • tin Father of the Modern Olympics (January 1, 1863 _September 2,1937) The story of the revival of the Olympic Games is very much the story of Pierre de Coubertin, the undisputed father of the modern Olympics. Co...
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
    • Sr. (August 29, 1809 - October 8, 1894) Oliver Wendell Holmes the elder, was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. He was bor...
    • Maurice Maeterlinck
    • nck (1862-1949) Maurice Maeterlinck, born inGhent, Belgium, came from a well-to-do family. He was educated at a Jesuit college and read law, but a short practice as a lawyer in his home town convinced him that he was ...
    • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    • the (August 28, 1749–March 22, 1832) was a German writer, scientist, and philosopher. As a writer, Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Romanticism during and around the 18th an...
    • aIvan Turgenev
    • ev (November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883) Ivan Turgenev, photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, poet, and writer, most famous for his novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev wa...
    • Guillaume du Vair
    • air (March 7, 1556 - August 3, 1621) Guillaume du Vair was a French author and lawyer. He was born inParis. After taking holy orders, he exercised only legal functions for most of his career. However, from 1617 till ...
    • Frank Macfarlane Burnet
    • net (September 3, 1899 - August 31, 1985) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet was born atTraralgon, Victoria, Australia, onSeptember 3rd, 1899. He is the son of the Manager of the branch of the Colonial Bank in that town....
    • Ernest Rutherford
    • ord (August 30th 1871_ October 19 1937) Ernest Rutherford is one of the most illustrious scientists of all time. He is to the atom what Darwin is to evolution, Newton to mechanics, Faraday to electricity and Einstein...
    • Cleopatra VII of Egypt
    • Egypt (December, 70 BC or January, 69 BC - August 12?, 30 BC) Cleopatra VII Philopator was pharaoh of ancient Egypt. She was the last member of the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to rule Egypt. Her father was Ptole...
    • Charles F. Kettering
    • ing ( August 29 , 1876 - November 25 , 1958 ) Charles Franklin Kettering was born in northern Ohio . He was a farmer, school teacher, mechanic, engineer, scientist, inventor and social philosopher. He had poor...
    • Augustine of Hippo
    • ppo (Nov 13,354- August 28, 430) Early Life and Conversion Augustine was born at Thagaste (modern Souk-Ahras, Algeria), a small town in the Romanprovince of Numidia. He received a classical education that both scho...
    • Albert Heim
    • eim ( 12 April 1849 - 31 August 1937) Albert Heim was born inZurich and died there. It was already fascinated as a child of the mountains and joined already with 17 years Swiss alpine club. InZurich and Berlin he st...
    • William Kelly
    • KELLY, William, inventor, born in Pittsburg,Pennsylvania; died in Louisville, Kentucky. At an early age he evinced great fondness for mechanics by constructing a tin steam-engine and bo...
    • Mother Teresa
    • sa (August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997) Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God...
    • Montgolfier brothers
    • ers Joseph Michel Montgolfier (August 26, 1740 - June 26, 1810) and Jacques Étienne Montgolfier (January 6, 1745 - August 2, 1799)       The sons of a paper manufacturer at Annonay,...
    • James Henry Breasted
    • ed (August 27, 1865 - December 2, 1935) James Henry Breasted was born in Rockford,Illinois and was an archaeologist and historian. He was educated at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Yale University (MA 1891) and theUn...
    • Hans Adolf Krebs
    • bs (August 25, 1900 - November 22, 1981) Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was born at Hildesheim, Germany. He is the son of Georg Krebs, M.D., an ear, nose, and throat surgeon of that city, and his wife Alma,née Davidson. Krebs wa...
    • Confucius
    • us (traditionally June 551 BC –August  479 BC) Confucius (born Kong Qiu, styled Zhong Ni) was born in the village of Zou in the country of Lu in 551 B.C., a poor descendant of a deposed noble family. As a child, h...
    • Charles Augustin de Coulomb
    • omb (14 June 1736-23 Aug 1806) Charles Augustin Coulomb was a French physicist. Born in Angoulême, France. He chose the profession of military engineer, spent three years, to the decided injury of his health, at Fort B...
    • Antoine Lavoisier
    • er (August 26, 1743 - May 8, 1794) The son of a wealthy Parisian lawyer, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier completed a law degree in accordance with family wishes. His real interest however was in science, which he pursued with...
    • Napoleon Bonaparte
    • rte (15 August 1769 -5 May 1821) Napoleon Bonaparte was born on August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Through his military exploits and his ruthless efficiency, Napoleon rose from obscu...
    • Luigi Pulci
    • ci (15 Aug 1432 _ 1484) An Italian poet, born atFlorence,15 Aug., 1432; died atPadua in 1484. The Pulci gave many interesting writers to the history of Italian letters in the earlier period of the Renaissance . Luigi's b...
    • J. Norman Lockyer
    • yer (17 May 1836 _ 17 Aug 1870) Born in Rugby, England, on May 17 1836. He started working as a civil servant and pursued his interest in astronomy on an amateur basis. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on...
    • Giovanni Battista Benedetti
    • Giovanni Benedetti was taught philosophy, music and mathematics by his father. After the age of seven he seems to have had no formal education and certainly did not attend a universi...
    • Gabriel Lippmann
    • nn (August 16,1845-July 13,1921) French physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for producing the first colour photographic plate; He was known for the innovations that resulted from his search for ...
    • Emile Léger
    • Emile Léger's father was Claude Léger who was a professor of rhetoric at the Lycée de Mayence (the city ofMainz, now in Germany, which was occupied by the French at that time). Emile Léger ...
    • Sri Aurobindo
    • ndo (August 15, 1872-Decemer 5, 1950) For the last 40 years of his life in Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo worked tirelessly for the realisation of his vision of a divine life upon earth. He revealed his new message for ...
    • Wendell Meredith Stanley
    • ley (16 Aug 1904 _ 15 June 1971) American biochemist who received (with John Northrop and James Sumner ) the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946 for his work in the purification and crystallization of viruses, thus...
    • Pierre de Fermat
    • mat (17 Aug 1601-12 Jan 1665) Pierre de Fermat was born in the French town of Beaumont-de-Lomange.   Since he was born into a wealthy family, Fermat received his education from a local monastery, and then he...
    • Amos Alonzo Stagg
    • agg (16 Aug 1862-1965) Amos Alonzo Stagg was born in 1862, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was the fifth child of eight and his father was a laborer and cobbler. Early on, Stagg's family instilled moral, religious e...
    • Oliver Norvell Hardy
    • rdy (January 18, 1892_ August 7, 1957) Norvell Hardy was born in Harlem, Georgia, on January 18, 1892. Oliver was 48 in 1890 when he married Emily and he was not in the best of health. He died less than a year after ...
    • Niels Henrik Abel
    • bel (5 Aug 1802 - 6 April 1829) Niels Abel was one of the innovators in the field of elliptic functions, discoverer of Abelian functions and one of the leaders in the use of rigor in mathematics. His work was so ...
    • Marilyn vos Savant
    • ant ( August 11 , 1946 ) Marilyn vos Savant is an American newspaper columnist who deals with mathematical and logical puzzles, as well as more traditional self-help advice. Her column Ask Marilyn appears in Parade ...
    • JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
    • ventieth anniversary of the birth of television. John Logie Baird, the father of this pervasive technology, first publicly demonstrated television on 26 January 1926, in his small laboratory in the Soho district of London. Al...
    • Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
    • tro (12 Jan 1853-6 Aug 1925) Italian mathematician whose systematization of absolute differential calculus (the Ricci calculus) enabled Albert Einstein to derive the theory of relativity. Ricci-Curbastro was born i...
    • EMILIANO ZAPATA
    • ATA (August 8, 1879-April 10, 1919) He was born in 8 August 1879, in San Miguel de Anenecuilco, Morelos, in a farmer family. With a very elementary instruction, in March 1911 he was sent to the revolutionary fight w...
    • Danilo Blanusa
    • sa (December 7, 1903- Aug u st 8, 1987) Danilo Blanuša was a Croatian mathematician, physicist, engineer and a professor at the University of Zagreb. Blanuša was born in Osijek and attended elementary...
    • Wilhelm Steinitz
    • tz (May 18, 1836- August 12, 1900) 1st World Champion, 1886 - 1894 Wilhelm Steinitz was born at Prague, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) on May 18, 1836. He moved to Vienna, Austria, as a young man and worked as a...
    • Vladimir Solovyov
    • ov (28 January 1853-13 August 1900) Solovyov was born in Moscow. His father, Sergej Mikhailovich, a professor at Moscow University, is universally recognized as one of Russia's greatest historians. After attending s...
    • Svetlana Y. Savitskaya
    • aya ( August 8, 1948- ) First woman to walk in space Svetlana Savitskaya was born in Moscow on August 8, 1948. She began to take part in aviation sports when at school and worked as a flight instructor upon finis...
    • Aleksandr Danilovic Aleksandrov
    • rov (4 Aug 1912 - 27 July 1999) Aleksandr Danilovic Aleksandrov's father was the headmaster of a secondary school in St Petersburg and his mother was a teacher at the same school. In fact, although he was born i...
    • Milton Friedman
    • man (born July 31, 1912) Autobiography I was born July 31, 1912, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the fourth and last child and first son of Sarah Ethel (Landau) and Jeno Saul Friedman. My parents were born in Carpatho-Ruthenia (th...
    • Maria Mitchell
    • ell (August 01, 1818 _ June 28 , 1889) Maria Mitchell, the first person, male or female, appointed to the Vassar faculty (1865), was arguably the most famous American scientist of the 19th century. Born inNantu...
    • Jean – Baptist Lamarck
    • rck  (August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) French naturalist.He is noted for his study and classification of invertebrates and for his introduction of evolutionary theories. After varied careers he turned his attent...