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Famous August Birthdays
The following 7,639 famous people including celebrities were born in the month of August. A random sample was chosen for each day. Click the after the name to explore the birth date info. You might also want to browse the filtered celebrity birthdays in August.
Zodiac signs for August are Leo ♌ and Virgo ♍. The modern birthstone for August is Peridot while the mystical gemstone (based on Tibetan origin) is Diamond.
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August 1
1861
Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951)
1900
Otto Nothling, Australian cricketer and rugby player (d. 1965)
1930
Julie Bovasso, American actress (d. 1991)
1944
Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer
1963
Dean Wareham, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta)
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August 2
1455
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
1702
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769)
1916
Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990)
1942
Isabel Allende, Chilean-American journalist and author
1977
Mark Velasquez, American photographer
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August 3
1937
Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
1938
Terry Wogan, Irish-English radio and television host
1969
Doug Overton, American basketball player and coach
1973
Michael Ealy, American actor
1977
Justin Lehr, American baseball player
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August 4
1844
Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
1915
Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
1961
Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
1981
Ben Scott, English cricketer
1990
Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
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August 5
1301
Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1330)
1540
Joseph Justus Scaliger, French philologist and historian (d. 1609)
1912
Abbé Pierre, French priest and humanitarian (d. 2007)
1975
Haim Goldenberg, Israeli-Canadian television host
1998
Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
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August 6
1895
Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer (d. 1963)
1917
Barbara Cooney, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1957
Jim McGreevey, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
1985
Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
2001
Ty Simpkins, American actor
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August 7
1574
Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
1918
Poni Adams, American actress (d. 2014)
1921
Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor
1977
Charlotte Ronson, English-American fashion designer
1986
Altair Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
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August 8
1880
Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
1920
Leo Chiosso, Italian songwriter and producer (d. 2006)
1973
Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
1978
Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
1984
Norbert Michelisz, Hungarian race car driver
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August 9
1805
Joseph Locke, English engineer and politician (d. 1860)
1927
Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and academic
1927
Robert Shaw, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1928
Bob Cousy, American basketball player and coach
1928
Camilla Wicks, American violinist and educator
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August 10
1827
Lovro Toman, Slovenian lawyer and politician (d. 1870)
1938
Tony Ross, English author and illustrator
1941
Susan Dorothea White, Australian painter and sculptor
1958
Michael Dokes, American boxer (d. 2012)
1986
Andrea Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
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August 11
1932
Fernando Arrabal, Spanish actor, director, and playwright
1933
Jerzy Grotowski, Polish director and producer (d. 1999)
1965
Duane Martin, American actor and producer
1965
Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer, created ''Resident Evil''
1980
Lee Suggs, American football player
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August 12
1647
Johann Heinrich Acker, German pastor and educator (d. 1719)
1915
Michael Kidd, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
1925
Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (d. 1986)
1928
Dan Curtis, American director and producer (d. 2006)
1969
Tanita Tikaram, German-English singer-songwriter
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August 13
1917
Sid Gordon, American baseball player (d. 1975)
1944
Divina Galica, English skier and race car driver
1949
Philippe Petit, French tightrope walker
1950
Rusty Gerhardt, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1990
DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player
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August 14
1871
Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
1913
Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
1935
John Brodie, American football player and golfer
1947
Bruce Nash, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1981
Paul Gallen, Australian rugby player
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August 15
1858
E. Nesbit, English author and poet (d. 1924)
1915
Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (d. 2002)
1924
Werner Abrolat, Russian-German actor (d. 1997)
1928
Nicolas Roeg, English director and cinematographer
1982
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Japanese actor
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August 16
1904
Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1920
Charles Bukowski, German-American author and poet (d. 1994)
1928
Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
1972
George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian radio and television host
1982
Tomohiro Ito, Japanese sprinter
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August 17
1936
Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland
1938
Abu Bakar Bashir, Indonesian cleric and educator
1957
Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor
1961
Larry B. Scott, American actor, director, and producer
1977
Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist (Lostprophets, Public Disturbance, and No Devotion)
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August 18
1916
Don Keefer, American actor (d. 2014)
1916
Moura Lympany, English pianist (d. 2005)
1942
Judith Keppel, English game show contestant, first one-million pound winner on ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''
1969
Christian Slater, American actor and producer
1983
Cameron White, Australian cricketer
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August 19
1913
Peter Kemp, Indian-English soldier and author (d. 1993)
1928
Norman Brooks, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1966
Wilco Zeelenberg, Dutch motorcycle racer and manager
1972
Sammi Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988
Veronica Roth, American author
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August 20
1625
Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (d. 1709)
1719
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (d. 1783)
1943
Roger Gale, English journalist and politician
1955
Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and author
1989
Judd Trump, English snooker player
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August 21
1912
Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1940
Dominick Harrod, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2013)
1943
Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (d. 2014)
1986
Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
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August 22
1601
Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1667)
1834
Samuel Pierpont Langley, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1906)
1928
Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean academic and diplomat
1949
Diana Nyad, American swimmer and author
1973
Eurelijus Žukauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
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August 23
1872
Tanguturi Prakasam, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Andhra (d. 1957)
1931
Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
1974
Shifty Shellshock, American singer-songwriter and actor (Crazy Town)
1977
Jelena Rozga, Croatian singer (Magazin)
1985
Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer
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August 24
1893
Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (d. 1978)
1913
Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer (d. 2009)
1960
Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player and coach
1964
Dana Gould, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1966
Nick Denton, English-American journalist and businessman, founded Gawker Media
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August 25
1913
Walt Kelly, American illustrator and animator (d. 1973)
1930
György Enyedi, Hungarian economist and geographer (d. 2012)
1935
Charles Wright, American poet and academic
1959
Ian Falconer, American author and illustrator
1979
Marlon Harewood, English footballer
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August 26
1903
Caroline Pafford Miller, American author (d. 1992)
1908
Walter Bruno Henning, Prussian-American linguist and scholar (d. 1967)
1945
Jo Freeman, American lawyer and scholar
1963
Stephen J. Dubner, American journalist and author
1980
Macaulay Culkin, American actor
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August 27
1809
Hannibal Hamlin, American publisher and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
1925
Nat Lofthouse, English footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1926
Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and academic (d. 2002)
1954
John Lloyd, English tennis player and sportscaster
1975
Blake Adams, American golfer
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August 28
1887
August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (d. 1973)
1910
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1930
Windsor Davies, English actor
1974
Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
1986
Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and journalist
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August 29
1928
Dick O'Neill, American actor (d. 1998)
1945
Wyomia Tyus, American runner
1952
Dave Malone, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Radiators)
1990
Rizzini Alexis Gomez, Filipino model (d. 2015)
1991
Anikó Kovacsics, Hungarian handball player
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August 30
1813
Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (d. 1862)
1818
Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1928
Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
1935
John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (d. 2001)
1958
Martin Jackson, English drummer (Swing Out Sister, Magazine, The Chameleons, The Freshies, and The Durutti Column)
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August 31
1721
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1775)
1945
Van Morrison, Irish singer-songwriter (Them)
1948
Ken McMullen, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1958
Julie Brown, American actress, singer, producer, and screenwriter
1975
Craig Cumming, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
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