Famous People: August
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All Figures for August (29 results)
Kishore Kumar
Legendary Playback Singer, Actor, Composer & Director
Leon Trotsky
Marxist Revolutionary, Founder and Commander of the Red Army, Soviet Commissar for War & Theorist of Permanent Revolution
Lionel Murphy
22nd Attorney-General of Australia, High Court Justice, Creator of the Family Court & Legal Aid Pioneer
Lucy Stone
Pioneering American Abolitionist, Suffragist, Orator & Co-Founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association
Mother Teresa
Catholic Nun, Humanitarian & Nobel Peace Laureate
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, Sufi Maestro & Global Vocal Virtuoso
Paul Dirac
1933 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Theoretical Physicist, Predictor of Antimatter & Creator of the Dirac Equation
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Polymath & Nobel Laureate
Shammi Kapoor
Legendary Indian Actor, "The Elvis Presley of India" & Pioneer of Bollywood Musical Romances
Shamsur Rahman
Supreme Modern Bengali Poet, Journalistic Pioneer & Voice of Bangladesh’s Freedom
Sheikh Russel
Youngest Son of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman & Symbol of Children's Rights
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Nobel Laureate in Physics (1983), Mathematical Astrophysicist & Discoverer of the Chandrasekhar Limit
Umberto Boccioni
Italian Futurist Painter, Sculptor & Creator of "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"