This Week's Birthdays - Week of August 22

August 22, 1811 – William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)

August 23, 1754 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)

August 24, 1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)

August 25, 1845 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria (d. 1886)

August 26, 1873 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)

August 27, 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1951)

August 28, 1899 – Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (d. 1951)