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Famous people born on August 31

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Well-known people born on August 31 include Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Maria Montessori (1870), Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (1985) and Richard Gere (1949). Our list below has 79 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 31 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1686 (Charles of France, Duke of Berry) and the most recent is 2004 (Jang Won-young). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.

Who was born on August 31?

  1. Tsai Ing-wen 1956 14th and 15th President of Republic of China (Taiwan)
  2. Maria Montessori 1870 Italian physician and educator
  3. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud 1985 Saudi crown prince
  4. Richard Gere 1949 American actor
  5. Hermann von Helmholtz 1821 German physicist and physiologist
  6. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands 1880 Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948
  7. Queen Rania of Jordan 1970 Queen Consort of Jordan
  8. Angelique Rockas 1951 South African Greek actress, producer, artistic director of Internationalist Theatre,…
  9. Pepe Reina 1982 Spanish association football player
  10. Emperor Taishō 1879 Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926
  11. Chris Tucker 1971 American actor and comedian
  12. William Saroyan 1908 Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer
  13. Robert Kocharyan 1954 Former leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia
  14. James Coburn 1928 American actor
  15. Hugh David Politzer 1949 American physicist
  16. Edward Thorndike 1874 American psychologist
  17. Nikola Gruevski 1970 Former politician from North Macedonia
  18. Fredric March 1897 American actor
  19. David Ospina 1988 Colombian association football player
  20. Amrita Pritam 1919 Indian novelist, poet, and essayist (in Hindi and Punjabi languages)
  21. Teruyoshi Itō 1974 Japanese association football player
  22. Van Morrison 1945 Northern Irish musician
  23. Michel Eugène Chevreul 1786 French chemist
  24. Itzhak Perlman 1945 Israeli-American violinist and conductor
  25. Ramon Magsaysay 1907 President of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
  26. Jeff Hardy 1977 American professional wrestler
  27. Alma Mahler 1879 Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite
  28. Nicolás Tagliafico 1992 Argentine association football player
  29. Éric Zemmour 1958 French politician and writer
  30. Georg von Hertling 1843 German chancellor
  31. Ichiji Otani 1912 Japanese association football player
  32. Cédric Soares 1991 Portuguese association football player
  33. Osamu Yamaji 1929 Japanese association football player
  34. Amilcare Ponchielli 1834 Italian composer
  35. Edwin Moses 1955 American track and field athlete
  36. Dee Bradley Baker 1962 American voice actor
  37. Altiero Spinelli 1907 Italian politician
  38. Rolando 1985 Portuguese footballer
  39. Mickie James 1979 American country singer and professional wrestler
  40. Sara Ramirez 1975 Mexican-American actor and singer
  41. Somchai Wongsawat 1947 Prime minister of Thailand form september to december 2008
  42. Marc Webb 1974 American music video and film director
  43. Édouard Stephan 1837 French astronomer
  44. Maurice Pialat 1925 French filmmaker
  45. Raymond Williams 1921 Welsh scholar, author, and Marxist literary critic
  46. Buddy Hackett 1924 American actor and comedian
  47. Jalen Brunson 1996 American basketball player
  48. Amanda Anisimova 2001 American tennis player
  49. Bernard Lovell 1913 English physicist and radio astronomer
  50. Lyuboslav Penev 1966 Bulgarian footballer
  51. Rudolf Schenker 1948 German guitarist
  52. Jang Won-young 2004 South Korean singer
  53. Ted Ligety 1984 American alpine skier
  54. Frank Jarvis 1878 American athlete, Olympic medalist
  55. Pavel Vinogradov 1953 Russian cosmonaut
  56. Richard Basehart 1914 American actor
  57. Debbie Gibson 1970 American singer and actress
  58. Jakub Słowik 1991 Polish association football player
  59. Elizabeth von Arnim 1866 British-Australian novelist
  60. Angel Gomes 2000 English association football player
  61. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo 1947 Italian businessman
  62. Jaime Sin 1928 Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila
  63. Ramón Fonst 1883 Cuban fencer
  64. Philippe Christanval 1978 French footballer
  65. Charles of France, Duke of Berry 1686 French noble
  66. Mathilde Kschessinska 1872 Russian ballet dancer and princess
  67. Pablo Marí 1993 Spanish association football player
  68. Dika Mem 1997 French handball player
  69. Holger Osieck 1948 German association football player and manager
  70. Hiroaki Matsuyama 1967 Japanese association football player and manager
  71. Andrei Medvedev 1974 Ukrainian tennis player
  72. Christopher Katongo 1982 Zambian footballer
  73. James Ferguson 1797 American astronomer
  74. Jean Béliveau 1931 Canadian ice hockey player
  75. Scott Niedermayer 1973 Canadian ice hockey player
  76. Shi Tingmao 1991 Chinese diver
  77. Vladimir Jankélévitch 1903 French philosopher
  78. Katerina Tikhonova 1986 Second child and daughter of Vladimir Putin
  79. Leonid Popov 1945 Soviet cosmonaut

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 31 share the 31st of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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