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Famous birthdays in August

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Pick a day of August to see well-known people born on it. Each date page lists names, what each person is known for and their birth year, built from Wikidata.

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The most widely known name for each day

  1. August 1: Herman Melville 1819 American writer and poet
  2. August 2: Shimon Peres 1923 Israeli politician –Former President of Israel and Prime Minister of Israel (1977,…
  3. August 3: James Hetfield 1963 American guitarist and singer
  4. August 4: Barack Obama 1961 44th President of the United States
  5. August 5: Neil Armstrong 1930 American astronaut and lunar explorer
  6. August 6: Andy Warhol 1928 American artist, film director, and producer
  7. August 7: Charlize Theron 1975 South African and American actress
  8. August 8: Paul Dirac 1902 British theoretical physicist
  9. August 9: Whitney Houston 1963 American singer, actress, and film producer
  10. August 10: Herbert Hoover 1874 President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
  11. August 11: Pervez Musharraf 1943 Pakistani soldier and politician
  12. August 12: François Hollande 1954 President of France from 2012 to 2017
  13. August 13: Fidel Castro 1926 Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
  14. August 14: John Galsworthy 1867 English novelist and playwright
  15. August 15: Walter Scott 1771 Scottish novelist, poet and playwright
  16. August 16: James Cameron 1954 Canadian filmmaker and explorer
  17. August 17: Robert De Niro 1943 American actor
  18. August 18: Roman Polanski 1933 French-Polish filmmaker
  19. August 19: Bill Clinton 1946 42nd President of the United States
  20. August 20: Benjamin Harrison 1833 President of the United States, 1889-1893
  21. August 21: Usain Bolt 1986 Jamaican sprinter
  22. August 22: Deng Xiaoping 1904 Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
  23. August 23: Louis XVI of France 1754 King of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791, then King of the French from 1791 to 1792
  24. August 24: Jorge Luis Borges 1899 Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
  25. August 25: Sean Connery 1930 Scottish actor
  26. August 26: Mother Teresa 1910 Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
  27. August 27: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 German philosopher and theologian
  28. August 28: José Eduardo dos Santos 1942 President of Angola from 1979 to 2017
  29. August 29: Michael Jackson 1958 American singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
  30. August 30: Ernest Rutherford 1871 New Zealand physicist
  31. August 31: Tsai Ing-wen 1956 14th and 15th President of Republic of China (Taiwan)

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