This Week’s Birthdays – Week of August 8

August 8, 1901 – Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

August 9, 1593 – Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)

August 10, 1296 – King John of Bohemia (d. 1346)

August 11, 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)

August 12, 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American mystery writer (d. 1958)

August 13, 1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician

August 14, 1867 – John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)