What Happened in August 1868

Historical Events

Aug 2 King of Greece (1913-17, 20-22), born in Athens, Greece

Aug 5 Oskar Merikanto [Ala-Kanto], Finnish pianist, organist, and composer, born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland (d. 1924)
Aug 6 Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (L'Otage-1909), born in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, France (d. 1955)
Aug 7 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), born in London (d. 1946)
Aug 7 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (Poisson distribution) and economist, born in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia (d. 1931)

Aug 10 German inventor and commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin during its record-setting flights, born in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Aug 10 Paul Warburg, German-American investment banker who influenced and encouraged the design of the Federal Reserve, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1932)
Aug 12 Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, 22nd Governor of New South Wales (1908-13) and Viceroy of British India (1916-21), born in London, England (d. 1933)
Aug 14 Leone Sinigaglia, Italian composer, born in Turin, Italy (d. 1944)
Aug 16 Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate, credited with beginning the culture of health and fitness in the United States, born in Mill Spring, Missouri (d. 1955)
Aug 16 Charles Sanford Skilton, American composer (Suite Primeval), born in Northhampton, Massachusetts (d. 1941)
Aug 20 Ellen Roosevelt, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1890), born in Rosedale, New York (d. 1954)
Aug 22 Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
Aug 23 Paul Otlet, Belgian author, lawyer and peace activist (created the Universal Decimal Classification scheme), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1944)
Aug 25 Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1942)

Aug 13 Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier (26) weds Zoé Lafontaine (27) in Montreal, Canada

Aug 5 Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (discovered flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley), dies at 79
Aug 10 Hadzhi Dimitar, Bulgarian military leader and revolutionary who fought against Ottoman rule, killed in battle at 28
Aug 11 Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (Brudefaerden i Hardanger), dies at 52
Aug 11 Thaddeus Stevens, US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 1849-53 1859-68), dies at 76
Aug 25 Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
Aug 25 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
Aug 25 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist (The Adopted Son), dies at 66
Aug 27 Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, Swiss composer, dies at 82