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Famous People Born in August 1808

  • Aug 1 Henry Darwin Rogers, American Geologist (theory of mountain building, first geological mapping of Pennsylvania), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1866)
  • Aug 3 Hamilton Fish, American politician (Governor of New York), born in New York City (d. 1893)
  • Aug 9 William Thomas Ward, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Amelia County, Virginia (d. 1878)
  • Aug 10 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, German composer, conductor, and music theorist, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1880)
  • Aug 15 Charles Fisher, Canadian politician and jurist (Premier of the Colony of New Brunswick 1854-56, 1857-51), born in Fredericton, New Brunswick (d. 1880) [or born 16 Sept] [1]
  • Aug 19 James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1890)
  • Aug 24 Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1891)
  • Aug 26 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Claiborne County, Mississippi (d. 1882)
  • Aug 29 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician and reformer, born in Delitzsch, Saxony (d. 1883)
  • Aug 30 Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Mother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, born in Munich (d. 1892)