John T. Scopes, American educator (died 1970)

John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes trial, and was found guilty and fined $100.

August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 150 days remain until the end of the year.