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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
1912
Henry Jones, American actor (d. 1999)
1924
Marcia Mae Jones, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1954
James Gleick, American journalist and author
1980
Mancini, Brazilian footballer
1989
Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
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August 2
1886
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)
1899
Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)
1956
Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer and actress
1957
Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter
1978
Kazuki Namioka, Japanese actor
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August 3
1944
Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (d. 1973)
1956
Balwinder Sandhu, Indian cricketer and coach
1961
Molly Hagan, American actress
1964
Lucky Dube, South African singer and keyboard player (d. 2007)
1992
Karlie Kloss, American model
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August 4
1876
Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1970)
1930
Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
1966
Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1970
Bret Baier, American journalist
1970
John August, American director and screenwriter
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August 5
1946
Xavier Trias, Spanish pediatrician and politician, 118th Mayor of Barcelona
1962
Otis Thorpe, American basketball player
1975
Iddo Goldberg, Israeli-English actor
1977
Michael Walsh, English footballer
1980
Vatsal Sheth, Indian actor
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August 6
1768
Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French general and politician (d. 1813)
1881
Louella Parsons, American actress, screenwriter, and journalist (d. 1972)
1920
John Graves, American author (d. 2013)
1926
Elisabeth Beresford, French-English journalist and author (d. 2010)
1974
Bobby Petta, Dutch footballer
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August 7
1890
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964)
1931
Jack Good, British television producer
1949
Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
1987
Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
1992
Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
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August 8
1955
Branscombe Richmond, American actor, stuntman, and producer
1961
Rikki Rockett, American drummer (Poison and Devil City Angels)
1985
Toby Flood, English rugby player
1986
Peyton List, American actress
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August 9
1911
John McQuade, Northern Irish soldier, boxer, and politician (d. 1984)
1928
Camilla Wicks, American violinist and educator
1941
Shirlee Busbee, American author
1974
Nicola Stapleton, English actress and singer
1985
Anna Kendrick, American actress and singer
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August 10
1645
Eusebio Kino, Italian priest and missionary (d. 1711)
1865
Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1936)
1877
Frank Marshall, American chess player and author (d. 1944)
1923
Fred Ridgway, English cricketer and footballer (d. 2015)
1985
Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
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August 11
1934
Bob Hepple, South African lawyer and academic (d. 2015)
1944
Hans Knudsen, Danish canoe racer
1964
Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1987
Shouta Aoi, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actor
1994
Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
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August 12
1866
Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist (d. 1907)
1941
L. M. Kit Carson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1959
Kerry Boustead, Australian rugby player
1970
Jim Schlossnagle, American baseball player and coach
1992
Cara Delevingne, English model, actress, singer
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August 13
1851
Felix Adler, German-American religious leader and educator (d. 1933)
1930
Wilfried Hilker, German footballer and referee
1976
Özge Özberk, Turkish actress
1979
Kathryn Fiore, American actress
1991
Alexander Kačaniklić, Swedish footballer
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August 14
1964
Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1969
DJ Uncle Al, American rapper and DJ (d. 2001)
1974
Chucky Atkins, American basketball player and coach
1983
Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
1984
Kunzang Choden, Bhutanese target shooter
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August 15
1941
Lou Perryman, American actor (d. 2009)
1944
Dimitris Sioufas, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Health
1972
Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1989
Kristina Karjalainen, Estonian-Finnish model, Miss Estonia 2013
1993
Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer
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August 16
1856
Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1904)
1888
T. E. Lawrence, Welsh colonel and archaeologist (d. 1935)
1894
George Meany, American plumber and labor leader (d. 1980)
1932
Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (d. 2015)
1993
Cameron Monaghan, American actor
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August 17
1921
Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
1946
Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1959
Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer
1979
Antwaan Randle El, American football player and journalist
1982
Phil Jagielka, English footballer
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August 18
1605
Henry Hammond, English churchman and theologian (d. 1660)
1909
Gérard Filion, Canadian businessman and journalist (d. 2005)
1943
Gianni Rivera, Italian footballer and politician
1957
Diana Castle, American actress
1970
Jessica Hsuan, Hong Kong actress
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August 19
1689
Samuel Richardson, English author and publisher (d. 1761)
1932
Thomas P. Salmon, American lawyer and politician, 75th Governor of Vermont
1944
Jack Canfield, American author
1968
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek sailor and windsurfer
1974
Zubayr Al-Rimi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2003)
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August 20
1779
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (d. 1848)
1958
John Stehr, American journalist
1966
Colin Cunningham, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1985
Jack King, English footballer
1991
Arseny Logashov, Russian footballer
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August 21
1789
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, French mathematician and academic (d. 1857)
1823
Nathaniel Everett Green, English painter and astronomer (d. 1899)
1921
Reuven Feuerstein, Romanian-Israeli psychologist and academic (d. 2014)
1954
Archie Griffin, American football player
1973
Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
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August 22
1860
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, created the Nipkow disk (d. 1940)
1909
Mel Hein, American football player and coach (d. 1992)
1933
Sylva Koscina, Croatian-Italian actress (d. 1994)
1968
Aleksandr Mostovoi, Russian footballer
1986
Adrian Neville, English wrestler
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August 23
1926
Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1927
Martial Solal, Algerian-French pianist and composer
1934
Sonny Jurgensen, American football player and sportscaster
1961
Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese actress
1977
Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer and manager
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August 24
1198
Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
1358
John I of Castile (d. 1390)
1904
Alice White, American actress and singer (d. 1983)
1905
Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
1949
Joe Regalbuto, American actor and director
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August 25
1819
Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (d. 1884)
1899
Paul Herman Buck, American historian and author (d. 1978)
1918
Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985)
1923
Álvaro Mutis, Colombian-Mexican author and poet (d. 2013)
1938
Frederick Forsyth, English journalist and author
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August 26
1930
Joe Solomon, Guyanese cricketer and coach
1944
Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
1944
Stephen Greif, English actor
1966
Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player and coach
1981
Jesse Martin, German-Australian sailor
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August 27
1809
Hannibal Hamlin, American publisher and politician, 15th Vice President of the United States (d. 1891)
1864
Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (d. 1919)
1958
Sergei Krikalev, Russian engineer and astronaut
1977
Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
1995
Cainan Wiebe, Canadian actor
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August 28
1926
Dixie Evans, American model and dancer (d. 2013)
1931
Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (d. 2014)
1940
Roger Pingeon, French cyclist
1947
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
1986
Armie Hammer, American actor
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August 29
1947
George Costigan, British actor and screenwriter
1952
Karen Hesse, American author and poet
1959
Chris Hadfield, Canadian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1962
Carl Banks, American football player and sportscaster
1982
Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian footballer
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August 30
1860
Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
1928
Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
1948
Robin Lustig, English journalist and radio host
1975
Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
1977
Shaun Alexander, American football player
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August 31
1939
Jerry Allison, American drummer and songwriter (The Crickets)
1946
Tom Coughlin, American football player and coach
1981
Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby player
1984
Aleksander Baldin, Estonian swimmer
1984
Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer
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