August Wilhelm Schlegel

August Wilhelm Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German Indologist, poet, translator and critic, and with his brother Friedrich Schlegel the leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations of Shakespeare turned the English dramatist's works into German classics. Schlegel was also the professor of Sanskrit in Continental Europe and produced a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

8 September 1767

Born on the same birth day (8 September): Andy Ward (rugby union) • Bill Mamadou • Brian Cole (musician) • Chris Judd • David O'Halloran • Emperor Xuanzong of Tang • Gerard Autet • Howard Dietz • Jerzy Robert Nowak • John McDonnell • Louis, Grand Condé • Michael Lardie • Oswaldo Ibarra • Pope Gregory XVI • Sam Nunn • Tim Gajser

Born in the same month (September 1767): Wenzel Müller