Let's Study Famous Folks - August Calendar of Famous People

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Let’s Study Famous Folks – August Calendar Of Famous People & Fun Activities

August is one of the best summer months! summer activities, camping, visiting family and friends, and trips. Road trips, hiking trips, bike trips camping trips. It is the season to enjoy the outdoors. But some days are too hot and other times everyone just needs a down day. Oftentimes, boredom can creep in during the lay days of summer that come with August. Some families say ‘Hello August” just so they can avoid the heat and the boredom. They use the month to gently ramp up to a full school schedule. The August Calendar of famous people’s fun activities is a perfect way to get started back to school, prevent summer boredom and enjoy a down day of fun, relaxed learning.

The August calendar is full of ways you can say ‘Hello August!’ with creativity and curiosity! Homeschool moms are loving that they can hand it off to their kids and let them add it to their daily summer routine. Get your August Famous People Calendar of Activities at the end of this post.

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Homeschool Ideas For August

How are you going to add some fun to your homeschool in August? The August calendar of famous people and fun activities is the perfect way to get back into the homeschool routine. Simply adding a creative activity that nourishes curiosity is a perfect way to keep the minds of your teens and tweens active and engaged! August’s daily dose of famous folks is perfect for adding something special for your middle and high school student.

The Let’s Study Famous Folks – August calendar of famous people will enrich homeschool learning without overwhelming or stressing anyone out as they enjoy summer. It’s perfect for the season we live in. Trying to promote independent learning? This printable allows you to hand it off to your kids. It helps them learn how to learn independently – such a valuable life skill to learn.

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August’s Calendar of Famous People is a perfect tool of inspiration for lazy summer days Learning about famous authors, scientists, humanitarians, and world leaders are just a couple of categories to explore with a bit of ‘light learning’. It is full of learning for every day of the month. There are also 60 famous people who celebrate their birthday in August. From famous explorers to famous athletes, middle schoolers and high schoolers are sure to satisfy their curiosity with this list of famous people to learn about.

Here’s The List Of Famous People For August

Writers/Poets/Artists/Musicians

Herman Melville – American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), born in NYC, New York.
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi – French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), born in Colmar, France.
Louis Armstrong – American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly; What A Wonderful World), born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Alfred Tennyson – British Poet Laureate of Great Britain (Charge of the Light Brigade), born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
Enid Blyton – English children’s writer, fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure), born in London, England
Alex Haley – American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), born in Ithaca, New York
Alfred Hitchcock – English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window), born in Leytonstone, England.
Claude Debussy – French composer (La Mer; Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Man Ray – American artist and photographer (Dada), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German writer and social philosopher (Faust), born in Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
Jack Kirby – American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America), born in NYC, New York
John Locke – English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and “Father of Liberalism” (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England
Mary Shelley – English author (Frankenstein), born in London, England

Scientists/Explorers/Inventors

William Clark – American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor who claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States, born in Ladysmith, Virginia.
Neil Armstrong – American X-15 pilot and astronaut – 1st man on the Moon (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), born in Wapakoneta Ohio.
Alexander Fleming – Scottish bacteriologist (discovered/invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland.
Paul Dirac – English physicist (quantum electrodynamics, Nobel 1933), born in Bristol, England.
Steve Wozniak – American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and co-founder of Apple Computer, born in San Jose, California.
Erwin Schrodinger – Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate (wave mechanics), born in Vienna, Austria.
John Logie Baird – Scottish inventor and father of the television, born in Helensburgh, Scotland.
Hans Christian Ørsted – Danish physicist and chemist (View of Chemical Law), born in Rudkøbing, Denmark.
Meriwether Lewis – American explorer, soldier, and public administrator who helped lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition, born in Ivy, Virginia.
Orville Wright – American aviator (Wright Brothers), born in Dayton, Ohio.
Albert Sabin [Abram Saperstein] – Polish American physician who invented the oral polio vaccine, born in Bialystok, Russian Empire.
Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson], – New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand.

Historical Leaders/Heroes/”Baddies”

Claudius – Roman Emperor (41-54), born in Lugdunum, Gaul (France).
Edith Roosevelt [Carrow] – US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, born in Norwich, Connecticut.
Nathanael Greene – American Military Leader (major general during the American Revolutionary War), born in Potowomut, Rhode Island.
Ralph Bunche – American diplomat to the UN (Nobel Peace Prize1950), born in Detroit, Michigan.
Herbert Hoover – the 31st US President, born in West Branch, Iowa.
Alexei Nikolaevich (1904), Learn about hemophilia and the last Tsarevich of Russia, born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.
Pius VII [Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti] – Italian bishop of Imola and Pope, born in Cesena, Italy.
Napoleon Bonaparte – French military leader and Emperor of France, born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
Davy Crockett – American frontiersman, adventurer, and politician, born in Greene County, Tennessee.
Marcus Garvey – Jamaican-born black nationalist who began the back-to-Africa movement among US African Americans, born in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
Franz Joseph I – Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), born in Vienna, Austria.
Benjamin Harrison – the 23rd President of the United States, born in North Bend, Ohio.
Louis XVI – King of France eventually guillotined (along with his famous Queen), born in Versailles, Yvelines, France.
William Wilberforce – British politician, philanthropist, and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade, born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England.
Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible] – the 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia.
Robert Walpole – 1st British Prime Minister (Whig: 1721-42), born in Houghton, Norfolk, England.
Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu] – Albanian-born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), born in Skopje, Ottoman Empire.
Lyndon B. Johnson – the 36th US President, born in Stonewall, Texas.
Alexander Lukashenko – the 1st and only President of Belarus, born in Kopys, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union.
Caligula [Gaius Caesar] – the 3rd Roman Emperor (37-41 AD), born in Anzio, Italy.

Other Interesting Famous Folks To Learn About

Tony Bennett [Benedetto] – American singer (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
Tom Brady- American NFL quarterback, born in San Mateo, California.
Louis Vuitton – French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH, born in Anchay, France.
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon – the Queen Mother; British consort of King George VI (and Queen Mother after his death), born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England.
Lucille Ball – American comedienne and actress (I Love Lucy; Mame), born in Jamestown, New York.
Roger Federer – Swiss tennis player (20 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland.
Amedeo Avogadro – Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro’s law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23), born in Torino, Italy.
Cecil B. DeMille – American filmmaker (The Ten Commandments), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses]- American sharp-shooter (Buffalo Bill’s Wild West), born in North Star, Ohio.
Earvin “Magic” Johnson – American Basketball Hall of Fame point guard & Olympic gold medalist, born in Lansing, Michigan.
T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], British author, soldier, and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales.
Samuel Goldwyn [Shmuel Gelbfisz] – Jewish Polish American movie producer (MGM), born in Warsaw, Poland.
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel -French fashion designer (Chanel), born in Saumur, France
Usain Bolt – the Jamaican sprinter (Olympic gold 100m/200m 2008, 12, 16), born in Sherwood Content, Jamaica.
Maria Montessori – the Italian educator (spontaneous response), born in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy.

Everyone Can Say, “Hello August!”

There is at least one person you can find in this month’s birthday list that will inspire your kids to learn just a bit more about something that piques their historical interest.

Music & Literature are covered too with reading suggestions and resources to get the most out of the day’s activity.

Notebooking Ideas

If you are wanting to make sure your kids are doing active learning, incorporate notebooking pages allowing them to capture important details while watching videos, reading articles, and interacting with each person in this month’s calendar.

This is the perfect month to start using notebooking pages. Learn how to use them with virtual learning, and you will find they are welcome additions that allow you to step away from workbooks and teach your child how to listen, observe, and respond to what they are learning in a natural way.