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August

Observing 30 Icons for August Comprehensive continental archive with authentic photographs, biographies, and quotes.

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Kishore Kumar

Legendary Playback Singer, Actor, Composer & Director

India Arts

Aug 4, 1929 — Oct 13, 1987

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Birthday

Leon Trotsky

Лев Давидович Троцкий

Revolutionary Theorist, Orator & Statesman

Russia Politics & Historical Milestones

Nov 7, 1879 — Aug 21, 1940

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Lionel Murphy

Lionel Keith Murphy QC

22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer

Australia Politics

Aug 30, 1922 — Oct 21, 1986

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Lucy Stone

Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association

United States Leadership

Aug 13, 1818 — Oct 18, 1893

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Birthday

Mother Teresa

Catholic Nun, Humanitarian & Nobel Peace Laureate

North Macedonia / India Peace

Aug 26, 1910 — Sep 5, 1997

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Birthday

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, Sufi Maestro & Global Vocal Virtuoso

Pakistan Arts

Oct 13, 1948 — Aug 16, 1997

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Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1933 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Theoretical Physicist, Predictor of Antimatter & Creator of the Dirac Equation

United Kingdom Science

Aug 8, 1902 — Oct 20, 1984

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Birthday

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, Polymath & Nobel Laureate

Bangladesh / India Literature

May 7, 1861 — Aug 7, 1941

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Shammi Kapoor

शम्मी कपूर (Shamsher Raj Kapoor)

Legendary Indian Actor, "The Elvis Presley of India" & Pioneer of Bollywood Musical Romances

India Cinema

Oct 21, 1931 — Aug 14, 2011

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Shamsur Rahman

শামসুর রাহমান

Supreme Modern Bengali Poet, Journalistic Pioneer & Voice of Bangladesh’s Freedom

Bangladesh Literature

Oct 23, 1929 — Aug 17, 2006

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Birthday

Sheikh Russel

শেখ রাসেল

Youngest Son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman & Symbol of Children's Rights

Bangladesh History

Oct 18, 1964 — Aug 15, 1975

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Birthday

Stanislaus Kostka

Stanisław Kostka

Polish Jesuit Novice & Patron Saint of Students and Youth

Poland History & Leadership

Oct 28, 1550 — Aug 15, 1568

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்

Nobel Laureate in Physics (1983), Mathematical Astrophysicist & Discoverer of the Chandrasekhar Limit

India Science

Oct 19, 1910 — Aug 21, 1995

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Umberto Boccioni

Italian Futurist Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Italy Art

Oct 19, 1882 — Aug 17, 1916

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