Famous Person Research Project Resources

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Let’s Study Famous Folks – August Calendar

Unleash your students’ inner historian with this famous person research project resource – Famous People Born in August.

Celebrate Summer with this August calendar.

Summer is in full swing! How will you avoid the summer slide? Inspire learning all month long by learning about famous people born in August. Use this August calendar to simply add one of these creative activities to nourish curiosity in your 6th-12th graders’ daily routine.

The August calendar is full of 60+ daily study gems that are perfect for adding that something special to inspire your middle and high school student.

Get your ‘go-to’ goodness that will enrich your learning without overwhelming or stressing anyone out. It’s perfect for the season we live in and you can even hand it off to your kids and let them learn independently if that how you need to roll with learning at home.

31 Days to Celebrate Famous People Born in August

Stay connected with your tweens and teens, by learning about famous people.

The Let’s Study Famous Folks – August Calendar is 31 Days of Fun Learning Opportunities!

You’ll find a brief description of each person born in August below in this article. Your middle & high schoolers will enjoy learning about:

Writers/Poets/Artists/Musicians

Herman Melville
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
Louis Armstrong
Alfred Tennyson
Enid Blyton
Alex Haley
Alfred Hitchcock
Claude Debussy
Man Ray
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jack Kirby
John Locke
Mary Shelley

Scientists/Explorers/Inventors

William Clark
Neil Armstrong
Alexander Fleming
Paul Dirac
Steve Wozniak
Erwin Schrodinger
John Logie Baird
Hans Christian Ørsted
Meriwether Lewis
Orville Wright
Albert Sabin [Abram Saperstein]
Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson]

Historical Leaders/Heroes/”Baddies”

Claudius
Edith Roosevelt
Nathanael Greene
Ralph Bunche
Herbert Hoover
Alexei Nikolaevich
Pius VII
Napoleon Bonaparte
Davy Crockett
Marcus Garvey
Franz Joseph I
Benjamin Harrison
Louis XVI
William Wilberforce
Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible]
Robert Walpole
Mother Teresa
Lyndon B. Johnson
Alexander Lukashenko
Caligula

Other Interesting Famous Folks To Learn About

Tony Bennett [Benedetto]
Tom Brady
Louis Vuitton
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon – the Queen Mother
Lucille Ball
Roger Federer
Amedeo Avogadro
Cecil B. DeMille
Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses]
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia]
Samuel Goldwyn [Shmuel Gelbfisz]
Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
Usain Bolt
Maria Montessori

Whether you are studying ancient history or modern (or something in between) there are so many people 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 curiosity. Music & Literature are covered too with reading suggestions and resources to get the most out of the day’s activity.

With your August Calendar, you can inspire your middle and high school students and nourish their curiosity each day of the month.