Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2026
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These featured pictures, as scheduled below, have been chosen to appear as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in August 2026. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 2026#1]] for August 1).
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August 1
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August 2
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August 3
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Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. Armstrong received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance for Hello, Dolly! in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1972. His influence crossed musical genres, with inductions into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame, among others. This carbon print photograph shows Armstrong in 1947. Photograph credit: Harry Warnecke and Gus Schoenbaechler; restored by Wcamp9 and Yann Forget
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August 5
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August 6
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August 7
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August 8
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August 9
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Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil rights activist, and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. From 1955 to 1966, Player served as president of the historically black college, during a period of heightened civil rights activism in the South. She supported Bennett students who took part in the lengthy sit-ins started by the Greensboro Four to achieve integration of lunch counters in downtown stores. After leaving the Bennett presidency, Player was appointed in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first female Director of the Division of College Support in the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, serving until 1986. This 1930 photograph of Player is from the archives of The Crisis. Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
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August 10
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August 11
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Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. In the Shaivite tradition of Hinduism, Shiva is the Supreme Lord who creates, protects and transforms the universe. He is also significantly important to the Shakta and Smarta traditions, and is known as 'The Destroyer' within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity which also includes Brahma and Vishnu. This image shows a c. 750–800 CE gray schist three-headed standing Shiva from Kashmir, with a three-eyed yogi-king front facing form, his consort Parvati as the left head, and three-eyed Bhairava as right head. His sons Ganesha and Kumara stand at his feet, and a three-eyed Vrishabha, his mount, stands behind. Photograph credit: Cleveland Museum of Art
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August 12
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August 13
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August 14
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August 15
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James Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and was its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908. He was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. He started working at the age of seven, and from the age of 10 worked in the Lanarkshire coal mines. With a background in preaching, he became known as a talented public speaker and was chosen as a spokesman for his fellow miners. Hardie initially supported William Gladstone's Liberal Party, but later concluded that the working class needed its own party. He first stood for parliament in 1888 as an independent, and later that year helped form the Scottish Labour Party. Hardie won the English seat of West Ham South as an independent candidate in 1892, and helped to form the Independent Labour Party the following year. This photograph of Hardie was taken by George Grantham Bain in 1909. Photograph credit: George Grantham Bain; restored by Adam Cuerden
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August 16
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August 17
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August 18
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August 19
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August 20
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August 21
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August 22
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Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He was seen, during his lifetime and afterwards, as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means, he was admitted at the age of 10 to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 before achieving international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande. Debussy developed his own style in the use of harmony and orchestral colouring. His works have strongly influenced a wide range of composers, including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. This photograph of Debussy was taken by the studio of Nadar c. 1900. Photograph credit: Atelier Nadar; restored by [User:Adam Cuerden
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August 23
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August 24
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August 25
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August 26
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August 27
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August 28
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August 29
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August 30
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August 31
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