August Birthdays Through History

August Birthdays

8/1/1744 :Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck.
8/1/1770 :William Clark, explorer.
8/1/1779 :Francis Scott Key, “Star-Spangled Banner” composer.
8/1/1815 :Richard Henry Dana Jr, lawyer and author (“Two Years Before the Mast”).
8/1/1819 :Herman Melville, author (“Moby Dick”).
8/1/1922 :Arthur Hill, actor.
8/1/1930 :Geoffrey Holder, actor.
8/1/1930 :Lionel Bart, composer and lyricist.
8/1/1931 :Tom Wilson, cartoonist.
8/1/1933 :Dom DeLuise, comic actor.
8/1/1936 :Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer.
8/1/1937 :Alfonse M. D’Amato, New York Senator.
8/1/1941 :Ron Brown, Chairman of the Democratic party.
8/1/1942 :Giancarlo Giannini, actor.
8/1/1942 :Jerry Garcia (Jerome John Garcia), Grateful Dead singer.
8/1/1953 :Robert Cray, singer and guitarist.
8/1/1973 :Tempestt Bledsoe, actress (“The Cosby Show”).
8/2/1754 :Pierre Charles L’Enfant, architect (designed Washington DC).
8/2/1867 :Ernest Dowson, English poet.
8/2/1892 :Jack Warner, movie studio chief (Warner Brothers).
8/2/1905 :Myrna Loy, actress.
8/2/1918 :Beatrice Straight, actress.
8/2/1922 :Paul Laxalt, former Nevada Senator.
8/2/1924 :Carroll O’Connor, actor (“In the Heat of the Night”).
8/2/1924 :James Baldwin, author.
8/2/1930 :Ron De Lugo, US Virgin Islands Delegate.
8/2/1932 :Peter O’Toole, actor.
8/2/1945 :Joanna Cassidy, actress. (1944?)
8/2/1960 :Linda Fratianne, figure skater.
8/2/1966 :Tim Wakefield.
8/2/1977 :Eddie Furlong.
8/3/1811 :Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the modern elevator.
8/3/1887 :Rupert Brooke.
8/3/1900 :Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent.
8/3/1900 :John Thomas Scopes, schoolteacher.
8/3/1901 :John Cornelius Stennis, former Mississippi Senator.
8/3/1902 :Harib Bourguiba, Tunisia’s first president.
8/3/1905 :Dolores Del Rio (Delores Ansunsolo), actress.
8/3/1905 :Maggie (Margaret E.) Kuhn, founder of the Grey Panthers.
8/3/1919 :Walter Wriston, New York banker.
8/3/1920 :P.D. James.
8/3/1921 :Hayden Carruth.
8/3/1924 :Leon Uris, author (“Exodus”).
8/3/1926 :Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto), singer.
8/3/1940 :Martin Sheen (Ramon Estevez), actor.
8/3/1941 :Martha Stewart, decorator.
8/3/1950 :John Landis, movie director.
8/3/1951 :Jay North, actor (“Dennis the Menace”). (1952?)
8/4/1540 :Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of “Julian Period”.
8/4/1792 :Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet.
8/4/1839 :Walter Pater.
8/4/1841 :W.H. Hudson, English writer (“Green Mansions”).
8/4/1859 :Knut Hamson.
8/4/1870 :Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian.
8/4/1900 :Queen Mother Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite).
8/4/1909 :Glenn Clarence Cunningham, US track athlete (“Kansas Ironman”).
8/4/1912 :Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, Swedish architect.
8/4/1913 :Wesley Addy, actor.
8/4/1920 :Helen Thomas, journalist.
8/4/1921 :Maurice Richard, hockey player.
8/4/1952 :Kristoffer Tabori, actor.
8/4/1958 :Mary Decker Slaney, track star.
8/4/1962 :Roger Clemens, baseball player.
8/5/1604 :John Eliot, translator of the Bible into an Indian tongue.
8/5/1749 :Thomas Lynch, signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
8/5/1850 :Guy de Maupassant, French novelist.
8/5/1876 :Mary Ritter Beard, US historian.
8/5/1889 :Conrad Potter Aiken, poet and critic.
8/5/1906 :John Huston, film director.
8/5/1911 :Robert Taylor, actor.
8/5/1930 :Neil Alden Armstrong, astronaut.
8/5/1934 :Wendell Berry.
8/5/1935 :John Saxon, actor.
8/5/1943 :Sammi Smith, singer.
8/5/1946 :Erika Slezak.
8/5/1946 :Loni Anderson, actress. (1945?)
8/5/1950 :Holly Palance, actress.
8/5/1953 :Samantha Sang, singer.
8/5/1962 :Patrick Ewing, basketball player.
8/6/1809 :Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet.
8/6/1861 :Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, second wife of Theodore Roosevelt.
8/6/1868 :Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (“The Satin Slipper”).
8/6/1874 :Charles Fort.
8/6/1881 :Louella Parsons, Holywood gossip columnist.
8/6/1881 :Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish discoverer of penicillin.
8/6/1883 :Scott Nearing, US sociologist and author.
8/6/1892 :Hoot Gibson, western film star.
8/6/1905 :Clara Bow, silent film actress.
8/6/1911 :Lucille Ball, comedian.
8/6/1916 :Richard Hofstadter.
8/6/1917 :Robert Mitchum, actor (“War and Remembrance”).
8/6/1922 :Bruce Laingen, highest-ranking diplomat among the 52 Americans
:held hostage in Iran for 444 days.
8/6/1922 :Sir Freddie Laker, entrepreneur.
8/6/1927 :Andy Warhol, artist.
8/6/1938 :Peter Bonerz, actor.
8/6/1951 :Catherine Hicks, actress.
8/6/1965 :David Robinson, basketball player.
8/6/1976 :Soleil Moon Frye, actress.
8/7/1742 :Nathaniel Greene, American Revolutionary War General.
8/7/1779 :Carl Ritter, German co-founder of modern geographical sci.
8/7/1844 :Auguste Michel-Levy.
8/7/1848 :Alice James.
8/7/1876 :Margaret Gertrude Zelle (“Mata Hari”), WWI Dutch spy.
8/7/1885 :Billie Burke, actress.
8/7/1903 :Louis Leakey, British archaeologist and anthropologist.
8/7/1904 :Ralph Johnson Bunche, US statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
8/7/1911 :Nicholas Ray, film director (“Rebel Without a Cause”).
8/7/1914 :Ted Moore, cinematographer.
8/7/1926 :Stan Freberg, comedian-producer.
8/7/1927 :Edwin W. Edwards, Louisiana Governor.
8/7/1942 :B.J. (Billy Joe) Thomas, singer.
8/7/1942 :Garrison Keillor, writer, humorist, and radio show host.
8/7/1943 :Lana Cantrell, singer and actress.
8/7/1958 :Alberto Salazar, marathon runner.
8/7/1963 :Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (lived 39 hours).
8/7/1967 :Charlotte Lewis.
8/8/1763 :Charles Bulfinch, US’s first professional architect.
8/8/1866 :Matthew A. Henson, American black explorer.
8/8/1884 :Sara Teasdale, poet.
8/8/1896 :Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author.
8/8/1907 :Benny Carter, jazz musician and composer.
8/8/1908 :Arthur Goldberg, former US Supreme Court Justice.
8/8/1910 :Sylvia Sidney, actress.
8/8/1913 :Robert Theodore Stafford, Vermont Senator.
8/8/1919 :Dino DeLaurentis, producer.
8/8/1923 :Esther Williams, aquatic actress.
8/8/1930 :Joan Adams Mondale, wife of Walter Mondale.
8/8/1932 :Mel Tillis, singer and songwriter.
8/8/1937 :Dustin Hoffman, actor.
8/8/1938 :Connie Stevens, actress and singer.
8/8/1942 :James J. Blanchard, former Michigan Governor.
8/8/1944 :Peter Weir, movie director.
8/8/1947 :Jose Cruz.
8/8/1950 :Keith Carradine, actor.
8/8/1958 :Deborah Norville.
8/8/1961 :The Edge, musician.
8/8/1978 :Odie, Garfield’s sidekick.
8/8/1988 :Princess Beatrice of York.
8/9/1593 :Izaak Walton, English author (“The Compleat Angler”).
8/9/1631 :John Dryden, author.
8/9/1896 :Jean Piaget, pioneer Swiss child psychologist.
8/9/1913 :Herman Talmadge, former Georgia Senator.
8/9/1919 :Ralph Houk, baseball manager.
8/9/1921 :J. James Exon Jr, Nebraska Senator.
8/9/1922 :Philip Larkin, English poet.
8/9/1927 :Robert Shaw, English actor-playwright.
8/9/1928 :Bob Cousy.
8/9/1938 :Rod Laver, Australian tennis star.
8/9/1942 :David Steinberg, comedian-director.
8/9/1944 :Sam Elliott, actor.
8/9/1945 :Ken Norton, heavyweight boxer.
8/9/1955 :Doug Williams, football player.
8/9/1957 :Melanie Griffith, actress.
8/9/1961 :John Williams.
8/9/1963 :Whitney Houston, singer.
8/10/1753:Edmund Jennings Randolph, first US Attorney General.
8/10/1874:Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st US president.
8/10/1899:Jack Haley, actor.
8/10/1910:Angus Campbell, professor of psychology and sociology.
8/10/1912:Jorge Amado.
8/10/1923:Rhonda Fleming (Marilyn Lewis), actress.
8/10/1926:Benjamin Ward, police administrative official.
8/10/1928:Eddie Fisher, singer.
8/10/1928:Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward), singer.
8/10/1942:Betsy Johnson, fashion designer.
8/10/1947:Ian Anderson, rock musician.
8/10/1948:Patti Austin, singer.
8/10/1959:Rosanna Arquette, actress (“Desperately Seeking Susan”).
8/11/1807:David R. Atchison, president of US for one day (3/4/1849).
8/11/1833:Robert Green Ingersol, American author.
8/11/1892:Carrie Jacobs Bond, American composer (“I Love You Truly”).
8/11/1897:Louise Bogan.
8/11/1899:Joseph Hirshhorn, art collector.
8/11/1902:Lloyd Nolan, actor.
8/11/1921:Alex Haley, author.
8/11/1925:Carl Rowan, newspaper columnist.
8/11/1925:Mike Douglas (Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr), TV host.
8/11/1926:Claus von Bulow (Borberg), socialite.
8/11/1928:Arlene Dahl, actress. (1927?)
8/11/1930:William A. O’Neill, Connecticut Governor.
8/11/1933:Reverend Jerry Falwell, Moral Majority founder.
8/11/1937:Anna Massey, actress.
8/11/1937:Virna Lisi, actress.
8/11/1944:Joanna Coles, children’s author.
8/11/1949:Eric Carmen, singer.
8/11/1953:Hulk Hogan (Terry Gene Bollea), professional wrestler.
8/11/1955:Joe Jackson, musician and songwriter.
8/12/1753:Thomas Bewick, English artist, wood engraver, and author.
8/12/1774:Robert Southey, English poet laureate.
8/12/1831:H.P. Blavatsky.
8/12/1849:Abbott Thayer, US painter – credited with the discovery of
:camouflage in the animal world.
8/12/1859:Katherine Lee Bates, poet-educator (“America the Beautiful”).
8/12/1867:Edith Hamilton.
8/12/1876:Mary Roberts Rinehart, mystery writer.
8/12/1880:Christopher (Christy) Mathewson, baseball player.
8/12/1881:Cecil Blount de Mille, movie producer.
8/12/1911:Marion “Cantinflas” Moreno, Mexican comedian-actor.
8/12/1912:Jane Wyatt, actress (“Father Knows Best”). (1913?)
8/12/1913:Kurt Kasznar, actor.
8/12/1919:Michael Kidd (Milton Greenwald), choreographer.
8/12/1925:Dale Bumpers, Arkansas Senator.
8/12/1926:John Derek (Dereck Harris), actor-director.
8/12/1927:Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, musician.
8/12/1929:Alvis Edgar “Buck” Owens, singer and musician.
8/12/1930:Porter Wagoner, singer.
8/12/1931:William Goldman, writer.
8/12/1936:John Poindexter, naval officer and former national security
:advisor.
8/12/1939:George Hamilton, actor.
8/12/1941:Jennifer Warren.
8/12/1949:Fernando Collor de Mello, former president of Brazil.
8/12/1949:Mark Knopfler, musician (Dire Straits).
8/13/1422:William Caxton, first English printer.
8/13/1814:A. Angstrom.
8/13/1818:Lucy Stone, pioneer social reformer.
8/13/1860:Annie Oakley (Phoebe Ann Moses), sharpshooter.
8/13/1888:John Baird, Scottish inventor and TV technology pioneer.
8/13/1895:Bert Lahr, actor.
8/13/1899:Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, film director.
8/13/1912:Ben Hogan, golfer.
8/13/1919:Rex Humbard, TV evangelist.
8/13/1927:Fidel Castro, Cuban leader.
8/13/1929:Pat Harrington Jr, actor.
8/13/1930:Don Ho, singer.
8/13/1951:Dan Fogelberg, singer.
8/13/1961:Dawnn Lewis, actress.
8/13/1967:Quinn Cummings, actress.
8/14/1840:Richard von Krafft-Ebing, pioneer psychologist.
8/14/1860:Ernest Thompson Seton, naturalist.
8/14/1863:Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author (“Casey at the Bat”).
8/14/1867:John Galsworthy, novelist.
8/14/1925:Russell Baker, newspaper columnist.
8/14/1926:Alice Ghostley, actress.
8/14/1926:Buddy Greco, singer.
8/14/1930:Earl Weaver.
8/14/1940:Arthur Betz Laffer, economist.
8/14/1941:David Crosby, rock musician.
8/14/1944:Robyn Smith, jockey.
8/14/1944:Steve Martin, comedian.
8/14/1946:Susan Saint James, actress.
8/14/1947:Danielle Steel, author.
8/14/1950:Gary Larson, cartoonist.
8/14/1959:Earvin “Magic” Johnson, basketball player.
8/14/1964:Neal Anderson, football player.
8/15/1195:Saint Anthony of Padua, patron of the illiterate and poor.
8/15/1769:Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor.
8/15/1771:Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist.
8/15/1785:Thomas de Quincy, English writer (“Confessions of an English
:Opeium-Eater”).
8/15/1794:Elias Magnus Fries.
8/15/1859:Charles Comiskey, Chicago White Sox owner.
8/15/1860:Florence Kling Dewolfe Harding, wife of Warren Harding.
8/15/1879:Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Blythe), actress.
8/15/1887:Edna Ferber, novelist (“So Big”).
8/15/1888:T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), British soldier and writer.
8/15/1898:Charles Tobias, songwriter (“Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”).
8/15/1906:William Sloane, publishing executive and writer (“The Edge of
:Running Water”).
8/15/1912:Julia Child, TV chef.
8/15/1912:Wendy Hiller, actress.
8/15/1924:Phyllis Stewart Schlafly, antifeminist and author.
8/15/1924:Robert Bolt, playwright.
8/15/1925:Mike Connors (Krekor Ohanian), actor.
8/15/1925:Rose Marie, actress.
8/15/1931:Janice Rule, actress.
8/15/1935:Jim Dale, actor.
8/15/1935:Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights leader.
8/15/1944:Linda Ellerbee, author and journalist.
8/15/1945:Barbara Bouchet, actress.
8/15/1945:Gene (Eugene) Upshaw Jr, union executive and football player.
8/15/1946:Jimmy Webb, songwriter.
8/15/1946:Kathryn Whitmire, first female mayor of Houston, Texas.
8/15/1950:Princess Anne of Britain.
8/16/1845:Gabriel Lippman, French inventor of color photography.
8/16/1860:Jules Laforgue, French poet.
8/16/1868:Bernarr MacFadden, publisher and health fad promoter.
8/16/1894:George Meany, labor leader.
8/16/1897:Robert Ringling, circus master.
8/16/1902:Georgette Heyer, novelist.
8/16/1913:Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister.
8/16/1923:Shimon Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister.
8/16/1925:Fess Parker, actor. (1927?)
8/16/1928:Ann Blyth, actress.
8/16/1930:Frank Gifford, football player and sports commentator.
8/16/1930:Robert Culp, actor.
8/16/1932:Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano), singer.
8/16/1935:Julie Newmar, actress.
8/16/1936:Anita Gillette, actress.
8/16/1939:Carole Shelley, actress.
8/16/1946:Lesley Ann Warren, actress.
8/16/1952:Reginald VelJohnson, actor.
8/16/1953:Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality.
8/16/1958:Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), pop singer.
8/16/1960:Timothy Hutton, actor.
8/16/1961:Christian Okoye, football player.
8/17/1786:David “Davy” Crockett, frontiersman.
8/17/1882:Samuel Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish), movie producer.
8/17/1887:Marcus Garvey, black nationalist leader.
8/17/1888:Montey Woolley, actor.
8/17/1892:Mae West, actress.
8/17/1904:John Hay Whitney, publisher-diplomat.
8/17/1913:Harrison V. Chase, co-editor of “Chase’s Annual Events.”
8/17/1917:Caspar Weinberger, former US Secretary of Defense. (8/18?)
8/17/1920:Maureen O’Hara, actress.
8/17/1923:Larry Rivers, artist.
8/17/1929:Francis Gary Powers, US aviator.
8/17/1930:Ted Hughes, British poet laureate.
8/17/1932:V.S. Naipaul.
8/17/1943:Robert DeNiro, actor.
8/17/1951:Clell Lavern “Butch” Hobson, Jr., baseball manager.
8/17/1952:Guillermo Vilas, tennis player.
8/17/1952:Nelson Piquet, auto racer.
8/17/1958:Belinda Carlisle, singer.
8/17/1960:Sean Penn, actor.
8/17/1969:Donnie Wahlberg, singer.
8/18/1587:Virginia Dare, first child of English parents born in New World.
8/18/1774:Meriwether Lewis, American explorer.
8/18/1835:Marshall Field, Chicago department store founder.
8/18/1873:Otto Harbach, songwriter (“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”).
8/18/1904:Max Factor, Jr.
8/18/1917:Casper Willard Weinberger, former US Secretary of Defense. (8/17?)
8/18/1922:Shelley Winters (Shelly Schrift), actress.
8/18/1927:(Eleanor) Rosalynn Smith Carter, former US first lady.
8/18/1932:Luc Montagnier, virologist.
8/18/1933:Roman Polanski, movie director.
8/18/1934:Roberto Clemente, baseball player.
8/18/1935:Gail Fisher, actress.
8/18/1937:(Charles) Robert Redford, actor and director.
8/18/1943:Martin Mull, actor and comedian.
8/18/1952:Patrick Swayze, actor.
8/18/1960:Fat (Lafayette) Lever, basketball player.
8/18/1969:Christian Slater, actor.
8/18/1970:Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor.
8/19/1646:J. Flamsteed.
8/19/1785:Seth Thomas, Connecticut clockmaker.
8/19/1870:Bernard Baruch, statesman.
8/19/1871:Orville Wright, aviation pioneer.
8/19/1882:Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, French fashion designer.
8/19/1902:Ogden Nash, humorist.
8/19/1903:James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (“By Love Possessed”).
8/19/1906:Philo Farnsworth, pioneer TV engineer.
8/19/1910:Quentin Bell.
8/19/1915:Ring Lardner Jr, writer.
8/19/1919:Malcolm Forbes, publisher.
8/19/1921:Gene Roddenberry, “Star Trek” creator.
8/19/1931:Willie Shoemaker, jockey.
8/19/1933:Debra Paget, actress.
8/19/1934:David F. Durenberger, Minnesota Senator.
8/19/1934:Rene Richards (Richard Raskind), tennis player.
8/19/1938:Diana Muldaur, actress.
8/19/1940:Jill Saint John (Jill Oppenheim), actress.
8/19/1940:Johnny Nash, singer.
8/19/1946:Bill Clinton, US president.
8/19/1948:Gerald McRaney, actor (“Major Dad”).
8/19/1948:Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore.
8/19/1952:Jonathan Frakes, actor.
8/19/1955:Cindy Nelson, skier.
8/19/1956:Adam Arkin, actor.
8/19/1958:Gary Gaetti, baseball player.
8/19/1960:Morten Anderson, football player.
8/19/1960:Ronald Maurice Darling Jr, baseball player.
8/19/1963:John Stamos.
8/19/1965:Kevin Dillon, actor (“Platoon”).
8/20/1744:Conrad Moench.
8/20/1778:Bernardo O’Higgins, first ruler of Chile after independence.
8/20/1833:Benjamin Harrison, 23rd US president.
8/20/1860:Raymond Poincare, French statesman.
8/20/1873:(Gottlieb) Eliel Saarinen, architect.
8/20/1881:Edgar Albert Guest, poet.
8/20/1886:Paul Tillich, German-American theologian.
8/20/1890:H(oward) P(hillips) Lovecraft, horror writer.
8/20/1910:Eero Saarinen, architect.
8/20/1911:Ronald Udell, Pinewood Studios construction manager.
8/20/1917:Terry Sanford, North Carolina Senator.
8/20/1921:Jacqueline Susann, author.
8/20/1923:Jim Reeves, western singer.
8/20/1933:George John Mitchell, Maine Senator.
8/20/1935:Ron Paul, former Texas congressman.
8/20/1936:Carla Fracci, dancer.
8/20/1942:Issac Hayes, singer-songwriter.
8/20/1944:Graig Nettles, baseball player.
8/20/1944:Rajiv Gandhi, former Indian Prime Minister. (8/29?)
8/20/1946:Connie Chung (Constance Yu-Hwa), journalist.
8/20/1948:Robert Plant, rock musician.
8/20/1954:Theresa Saldana, actress.
8/20/1955:Peter Horton, actor.
8/20/1960:Mark Edward Langston, baseball player.
8/20/1960:Tom Brunansky, baseball player.
8/21/1872:Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator.
8/21/1904:William “Count” Basie, jazz great.
8/21/1911:Anthony Boucher, mystery novelist.
8/21/1920:Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne.
8/21/1930:Donald King, boxing promoter.
8/21/1930:Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
8/21/1936:Booth Gardner, Washington Governor.
8/21/1936:Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain, basketball player.
8/21/1938:Kenny Rogers, singer.
8/21/1938:Steve Cowper, Alaska Governor.
8/21/1939:Clarence Williams III, actor.
8/21/1944:Jackie DeShannon, singer and songwriter.
8/21/1945:Patty McCormack, actress.
8/21/1951:Harry Smith, TV host.
8/21/1959:Jim McMahon, football player.
8/22/1817:Emily Chubbock Judson (a.k.a. Fanny Forester), American poet.
8/22/1834:Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and physicist.
8/22/1836:Archibald M. Willard, American artist (“The Spirit of ’76”).
8/22/1848:Melville Elijah Stone, American journalist.
8/22/1862:(Achille) Claude Debussy, French composer.
8/22/1867:Charles Jenkins, inventor of the conical drinking cup and brakes
:for airplanes.
8/22/1893:Dorothy Parker, American writer and critic.
8/22/1904:Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader.
8/22/1908:Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer.
8/22/1917:John Lee Hooker, blues musician.
8/22/1920:Dr. Denton Cooley, heart surgeon.
8/22/1920:Ray Bradbury, science fiction author.
8/22/1926:Marc Bohan, French fashion designer.
8/22/1928:Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer.
8/22/1932:Gerald Paul Carr, astronaut.
8/22/1934:General H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
8/22/1935:Morton Dean, ABC newsman.
8/22/1939:Carl Yastrzemski, baseball player.
8/22/1940:Valerie Harper, actress. (1941?)
8/22/1947:Cindy Williams, actress (“Laverne and Shirley”).
8/22/1956:Paul Leo Molitor, baseball player.
8/22/1963:Terry Catledge.
8/22/1964:Mats Wilander, tennis player.
8/23/1754:King Louis XVI of France.
8/23/1785:Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero.
8/23/1869:Edgar Lee Masters, poet and novelist (“Spoon River Anthology”).
8/23/1883:General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Bataan in WWII.
8/23/1884:Will Cuppy, humorist.
8/23/1905:Ernie Bushmiller, cartoonist (“Nancy”).
8/23/1912:Gene Kelly, dancer and actor.
8/23/1913:Bob Crosby, orchestra leader.
8/23/1930:Vera Miles, actress.
8/23/1932:Mark Russell (Mark Ruslander), political satirist.
8/23/1933:Pete Wilson, California Governor.
8/23/1934:Barbara Eden (Barbara Huffman), actress.
8/23/1940:Richard Sanders, actor. (8/28?)
8/23/1942:Patricia McBride, ballet dancer.
8/23/1944:Antonia Novello, former US Surgeon General.
8/23/1947:Keith Moon, rock drummer (“The Who”).
8/23/1949:Rick Springfield, singer-actor.
8/23/1949:Shelley Long, actress.
8/23/1951:Queen Noor of Jordan.
8/23/1957:Michael James Boddicker, baseball player.
8/23/1970:River Phoenix, actor.
8/24/1591:Robert Herrick.
8/24/1759:William Wilberforce, pioneer British abolitionist.
8/24/1872:Sir Max Beerbohm, English critic and wit.
8/24/1880:Joshua Lionel Cowen, electric toy train inventor.
8/24/1894:Jean Rhys.
8/24/1895:Cardinal Richard Cushing, archbishop of Boston.
8/24/1897:Fred Rose, country music publisher.
8/24/1899:Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet and author.
8/24/1912:Durward Kirby, TV personality.
8/24/1917:Dennis James, TV host.
8/24/1922:Rene Levesque, premier of the Province of Quebec.
8/24/1924:Louis Teicher, pianist-composer.
8/24/1925:Shirley Hufstedler, former US Secretary of Education.
8/24/1938:Mason Williams, composer.
8/24/1942:Maxwell Joseph Cleland, government official.
8/24/1944:Gregory B. Jarvis, payload specialist aboard Space Shuttle
:Challenger.
8/24/1944:Jim Capaldi, musician.
8/24/1954:Archie Griffin, Ohio State football running back and 2-time
:Heisman Trophy winner.
8/24/1956:Gerry Cooney, boxer.
8/24/1958:Steve Guttenberg, actor (“Cocoon”).
8/24/1960:Cal Ripken Jr, baseball player.
8/24/1965:Marlee Matlin, actress.
8/24/1965:Reggie (Reginald Wayne) Miller, basketball player.
8/25/1530:Czar Ivan IV (“Ivan the Terrible”) of Russia.
8/25/1819:Allan Pinkerton, founder of the private detective agency.
8/25/1836:Francis Bret(t) Harte, author.
8/25/1909:Ruby Keeler (Ethel Hilda Keeler), dancer and actress.
8/25/1912:Erich Honecker, East German political leader.
8/25/1913:Eugene V. Rostow, former US arms control director.
8/25/1913:Walter Kelly, “Pogo” cartoonist.
8/25/1916:Van Johnson, actor.
8/25/1917:Don DeFore, actor.
8/25/1917:Mel(chor Gaston) Ferrer, actor.
8/25/1918:Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor.
8/25/1919:George C. Wallace, former Alabama Governor.
8/25/1923:Monty Hall, game show host.
8/25/1930:Sean Connery, actor.
8/25/1931:Cecil D. Andrus, Idaho Governor.
8/25/1933:Tom Skerritt, actor.
8/25/1934:John Stears, special effects expert.
8/25/1946:Roland Glen “Rollie” Fingers, baseball player.
8/25/1947:Anne Archer, actress.
8/25/1954:Elvis Costello, musician.
8/25/1966:Cornelius O’Landa Bennett, football player.
8/26/1676:Sir Robert Walpole, British statesman.
8/26/1743:Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French founder of modern chemistry.
8/26/1838:John Wilkes Booth, presidential assassin. (5/10?)
8/26/1873:Lee deForest, “the father of radio.”
8/26/1875:John Buchan.
8/26/1880:Guillaume Apollinaire.
8/26/1884:Earl Biggers, author (“Charlie Chan” detective series).
8/26/1904:Christopher William Isherwood, author (“Sally Bowles”).
8/26/1906:Albert Sabin, discoverer of oral vaccine for polio.
8/26/1911:Lester Lanin, orchestra leader.
8/26/1917:William French Smith, former US Attorney General.
8/26/1919:Ronny Graham, actor-composer.
8/26/1921:Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, former Washington Post executive.
8/26/1922:Irving R. Levine, broadcast journalist.
8/26/1925:Jan Clayton, actress.
8/26/1933:Ben J. Wattenberg, author.
8/26/1935:Geraldine Anne Ferraro, politician.
8/26/1948:Valerie Simpson, singer.
8/26/1957:Alex Trevino.
8/26/1960:Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist
8/26/1965:Carlos Quintana, baseball player.
8/26/1975:Chris Burke.
8/26/1980:Macaulay Culkin, actor.
8/27/-551:Confucius. (9/28?)
8/27/1770:Georg Hegel, German philosopher.
8/27/1809:Hannibal Hamlin, 15th US vice president.
8/27/1865:Charles Gates Dawes, 30th US vice president.
8/27/1871:Theodore Dreiser, US novelist.
8/27/1874:Karl Bosch, German chemist.
8/27/1877:Charles Rolls, English automaker.
8/27/1899:C.S. Forester, British novelist.
8/27/1908:Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president.
8/27/1910:Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), Nobel Peace Prize winner.
8/27/1916:Martha Raye (Margaret Theresa Yvonne Reed), actress.
8/27/1928:Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, Chief Minister of Kwazulu, South
:Africa.
8/27/1937:Tommy Sands, singer-actor.
8/27/1942:Daryl Dragon, musician.
8/27/1943:J. Robert Kerry, Nebraska Senator.
8/27/1943:Tuesday Weld (Susan Kerr), actress.
8/27/1947:Barbara Bach, actress.
8/27/1952:Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), comedian.
8/28/1749:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist and dramatist.
8/28/1774:First US-born saint (Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton).
8/28/1831:Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes.
8/28/1899:Charles Boyer, French actor.
8/28/1903:Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist.
8/28/1913:Robertson Davies.
8/28/1921:Nancy Kulp, actress.
8/28/1924:Janet Frame.
8/28/1925:Donald O’Connor, actor-dancer.
8/28/1930:Ben Gazzara, actor.
8/28/1940:Richard Sanders, actor. (8/23?)
8/28/1940:William S. Cohen, Maine Senator.
8/28/1943:David Soul, actor. (1946?)
8/28/1943:Lou Piniella, baseball manager.
8/28/1949:Gates McFadden, actress.
8/28/1950:Ron Guidry, baseball player.
8/28/1958:Scott Hamilton, skating champion.
8/28/1960:Emma Samms (Emma Samuelson), actress.
8/28/1971:Janet Evans, swimmer.
8/29/1632:John Locke, English philosopher.
8/29/1809:Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and poet.
8/29/1811:Henry Bergh, founder of the ASPCA.
8/29/1815:Anna Ella Carroll, US writer.
8/29/1876:Charles Kettering, automotive inventor.
8/29/1881:Valery Nicolas Larbaud, French novelist.
8/29/1912:Barry Sullivan, actor.
8/29/1915:Ingrid Bergman, actress.
8/29/1916:George Montgomery, actor.
8/29/1917:Isabel Sanford, actress.
8/29/1920:Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist.
8/29/1923:Sir Richard Attenborough, actor and producer.
8/29/1924:Dinah Washington, jazz and pop singer.
8/29/1934:David H. Pryor, Arkansas Senator.
8/29/1936:John Sidney McCain III, Arizona Senator.
8/29/1937:James Florio, New Jersey Governor.
8/29/1938:Elliott Gould (Elliott Goldstein), actor.
8/29/1939:William Friedkin, movie director.
8/29/1941:Robin Leach, television personality.
8/29/1944:Rajiv Gandhi, Indian political leader. (8/20?)
8/29/1956:Mark Morris, choreographer.
8/29/1958:Michael Jackson, pop singer.
8/29/1962:Carl Banks, football player.
8/29/1962:Rebecca De Mornay, actress.
8/29/1965:William Edward Perdue, basketball player.
8/30/1797:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author (“Frankenstein”).
8/30/1837:Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of Chester Alan Arthur.
8/30/1891:Claire Straith, innovator in cosmetic surgery.
8/30/1893:Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana Governor.
8/30/1896:Raymond Massey, actor.
8/30/1901:John Gunther, journalist (“Inside USA”).
8/30/1901:Roy Wilkins, former NAACP executive director.
8/30/1907:John W. Mauchly.
8/30/1907:Shirley Booth, actress.
8/30/1908:Fred MacMurray, actor.
8/30/1909:Joan Blondell, actress.
8/30/1918:Ted Williams, baseball player.
8/30/1919:Kitty Wells (Muriel Deason), country music singer.
8/30/1922:Regina Resnik, opera singer.
8/30/1937:Geoffrey Beene, clothing designer.
8/30/1939:Elizabeth Ashley (Elizabeth Ann Cole), actress.
8/30/1943:Jean-Claude Killy, skier.
8/30/1947:Peggy Lipton, actress.
8/30/1951:Timothy Bottoms, actor.
8/30/1953:Robert Parish, basketball player.
8/31/1811:Theophile Gautier, French poet and critic.
8/31/1870:Maria Montessori, Italian educator.
8/31/1897:Fredric March, actor.
8/31/1899:Paul E. Garber, Smithsonian Air Museum curator.
8/31/1900:Roland Culver, British actor.
8/31/1903:Arthur Godfrey, entertainer.
8/31/1908:William Saroyan, US writer (“The Human Comedy”).
8/31/1913:Sir Bernard Lovell, astronomer.
8/31/1916:Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist.
8/31/1924:Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker), comedian.
8/31/1925:Ted Schwinden, Montana Governor.
8/31/1928:James Coburn, actor.
8/31/1935:Frank Robinson, baseball player.
8/31/1945:Itzhak Perlman, violinist.
8/31/1945:Van Morrison, singer and songwriter.
8/31/1949:Richard Gere, actor.
8/31/1955:Edwin Moses, track athlete.
8/31/1957:Glenn Tilbrook, singer and musician.
8/31/1970:Debbie Gibson, singer.