August 1, 1779- Francis Scott Key, author of the national anthem
August 1, 1819- Herman Melville, novelist
August 1, 1933- Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian
August 1, 1936- Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
August 1, 1937- Alfonse D’Amato, NY senator
August 1, 1942- Jerry Garcia, guitarist, member of the “Grateful Dead”
August 1, 1963- Coolio, rap singer
August 2, 1754- Pierre Charles L’Enfant, Revolutionary War officer, architect, designed the plan for Washington, DC
August 2, 1924- James Baldwin, author, playwright
August 2, 1924- Carroll O’Connor, actor, “Archie Bunker” on TV series “All in the Family”
August 2, 1932- Peter O’Toole, actor
August 2, 1944- Joanna Cassidy, actress
August 2, 1964- Mary-Louise Parker, actress
August 3, 1900- John T. Scopes, defendant in the 1925 “Monkey Trial,” for teaching evolution
August 3, 1908- Dolores Del Rio, actress
August 3, 1920- P. D. James, mystery writer
August 3, 1924- Leon Uris, novelist
August 3, 1926- Tony Bennett, singer
August 3, 1940- Martin Sheen, actor
August 3, 1941- Martha Stewart
August 3, 1950- John Landis, director
August 3, 1958- Victoria Jackson, actress, comedian
August 3, 1977- Tom Brady, NFL New England Patriots Quarterback
August 4, 1900- Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of England
August 4, 1901- Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter
August 4, 1910- William Howard Schuman, composer
August 4, 1929- Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader
August 4, 1955- Billy Bob Thornton, actor
August 4, 1958- Mary Decker, champion track athlete
August 4, 1961- Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President
August 4, 1962- Roger Clemens, baseball pitcher
August 4, 1971- Jeff Gordon, auto racer
August 5, 1906- John Huston, director, actor
August 5, 1930- Neil Armstrong. 1st to walk on the moon. Quote: One small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind.
August 5, 1935- John Saxon, actor
August 5, 1946- Loni Anderson, actress
August 5, 1962- Patrick Ewing, NBA basketball player
August 5, 1966- Jonathan Silverman, actor
August 6, 1809- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
August 6, 1881- Sir Alexander Fleming, discovered penicillin
August 6, 1911- Lucille Ball, actress, comedian , “I Love Lucy”
August 6, 1917- Robert Mitchum, actor
August 6, 1928- Andy Warhol, artist
August 6, 1951- Dorian Harewood, actor
August 6, 1965 -David Robinson, NBA basketball player
August 6, 1972- Geri Halliwell, singer, “Ginger Spice” of the “Spice Girls”
August 7, 1876- Mata Hari, dancer, spy
August 7, 1903- Rudolf C. Ising, animator, co-creator of “Loony Tunes” and “Merrie Melodies”
August 7, 1942- B. J. Thomas, singer
August 7, 1944- John Glover, actor
August 7, 1955- Wayne Knight, actor
August 7, 1960- David Duchovny, actor
August 7, 1975- Charlize Theron, Oscar winning actress
August 8, 1866- Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer
August 8, 1907- Benny Carter, jazz musician, composer
August 8, 1919- Dino DeLaurentis, producer
August 8, 1922- Rory Calhoun, actor
August 8, 1923 -Esther Williams, swimmer, actress
August 8, 1932- Mel Tillis, singer, songwriter
August 8, 1937- Dustin Hoffman, actor
August 8, 1938- Connie Stevens, actress
August 8, 1949- Keith Carradine, actor, singer
August 8, 1953- Donny Most, “Ralph Malph”on TV series “Happy Days”
August 8, 1976- Joshua Chasez (J.C.), singer, member of “NSYNC”
August 9, 1631- John Dryden, poet
August 9, 1944- Sam Elliott, actor
August 9, 1945- Ken Norton, champion boxer
August 9, 1957- Melanie Griffith, actress
August 9, 1963- Whitney Houston, singer, actress
August 9, 1964- Brett Hull, NHL hockey player
August 9, 1967- Deion Sanders, Dual career as NFL football player and MLB baseball player
August 9, 1968- Gillian Anderson, actress
August 10, 1729- William Howe, commander of British forces during the Revolutionary War
August 10, 1874- Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. President (1929-1933)
August 10, 1911- Jane Wyatt, actress
August 10, 1923- Rhonda Fleming, actress
August 10, 1928 -Jimmy Dean, singer, “Big Bad John”
August 10, 1928- Eddie Fisher, singer
August 10, 1942- Betsy Johnson, fashion designer
August 10, 1947- Ian Anderson, singer, member of “Jethro Tull”
August 10, 1948- Patti Austin, singer
August 10, 1960- Antonio Banderas, actor
August 10, 1967- Riddick Bowe, heavyweight boxer
August 11, 1921- Alex Haley, author wrote the novel “Roots”
August 11, 1925- Mike Douglas, TV personality, singer
August 11, 1933- Jerry Falwell, TV evangelist
August 11, 1937- Allegra Kent, ballerina
August 11, 1950- Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer
August 11, 1953- Hulk Hogan( born Terry Gene Bollea), WWF wrestler
August 11, 1955- Joe Jackson, musician, songwriter
August 12, 1856- James B. (“Diamond Jim”) Brady, financier, philanthropist
August 12, 1881- Cecil B. DeMille, producer,
August 12, 1929- Buck Owens, country singer
August 12, 1930- George Soros, financier
August 12, 1939- George Hamilton, actor
August 12, 1971- Pete Sampras, tennis champion
August 13, 1860- Annie Oakley, Wild West entertainer
August 13, 1899- Alfred Hitchcock, director
August 13, 1904- Buddy Rogers, actor, bandleader
August 13, 1912- Ben Hogan, golfer
August 13, 1926- Fidel Castro, President of Cuba
August 13, 1930- Don Ho, singer
August 13, 1951- Dan Fogelberg, singer, songwriter
August 14, 1863 Ernest Lawrence Thayer, writer, poet
August 14, 1941 David Crosby, singer, songwriter, musician of “Crosby, Stills & Nash”
August 14, 1944- Robyn Smith, jockey
August 14, 1945 Steve Martin, comedian, actor, writer
August 14, 1946- Susan St. James, actress
August 14, 1947- Danielle Steel, romance novelist
August 14, 1950- Gary Larson, cartoonist, created “The Far Side”
August 14, 1959- Ervin (Magic) Johnson, NBA basketball player
August 14, 1960- Sarah Brightman, singer
August 14, 1968- Halle Berry, actress
August 15, 1769- Napoleon Bonaparte, French military, emperor
August 15, 1771- Sir Walter Scott, poet, novelist
August 15, 1879- Ethel Barrymore, actress
August 15, 1912- Julia Child, Chef, cookbook author
August 15, 1925- Mike Connors, actor
August 15, 1945- Gene Upshaw, football player, union leader
August 15, 1968- Debra Messing, actress
August 15, 1972- Ben Affleck, actor
August 16, 1888- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, writer
August 16, 1894- George Meany, labor leader
August 16, 1913- Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister
August 16, 1928- Ann Blyth, actress
August 16, 1930 Frank Gifford, NFL football player, sportscaster
August 16, 1932- Eydie Gorme, singer
August 16, 1953- Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality “Regis and Kathy Lee”, singer
August 16, 1954- James Cameron, director
August 16, 1958- Madonna, singer, actress
August 16, 1960- Timothy Hutton, actor
August 17, 1786- Davy Crockett, frontiersman, adventurer, soldier, Died at the Alamo
August 17, 1882- Samuel Goldwyn, film pioneer, producer
August 17, 1892- Mae West, actress
August 17, 1920- Maureen O’Hara, actress
August 17, 1943- Robert De Niro, actor
August 17, 1958- Belinda Carlisle, singer
August 17, 1960- Sean Penn, actor
August 18, 1774- Meriwether Lewis, explorer of “Lewis and Clark”
August 18, 1917- Caspar Weinberger, business executive, U.S. cabinet member
August 18, 1922- Shelley Winters, actress
August 18, 1927- Rosalynn Carter, First lady of the United States
August 18, 1933- Roman Polanski, director
August 18, 1934 Roberto Clemente, baseball player
August 18, 1937 Robert Redford, actor, director
August 18, 1954- Patrick Swayze, actor, dancer, “Ghost”
August 18, 1958- Madeleine Stowe, actress
August 19, 1871- Orville Wright, aviator, “first in flight”
August 19, 1883- Coco Chanel, fashion designer
August 19, 1902- Ogden Nash, humorous poet
August 19, 1919- Malcolm Forbes, publisher
August 19, 1921- Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek
August 19, 1931- Willie Shoemaker, jockey
August 19, 1946- Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. President (1993-2000)
August 19, 1948- Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore
August 19, 1956- Adam Arkin, actor
August 19, 1965- Kyra Sedgwick, actress
August 19, 1969- Matthew Perry, actor, TV series “Friends”
August 19, 1969- Christian Slater, actor
August 20, 1785- Oliver Hazard Perry, Naval officer in War of 1812
August 20, 1833- Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President (1889-1893)
August 20, 1890- H. P. Lovecraft, science fiction writer
August 20, 1931- Don King, boxing promoter
August 20, 1942- Isaac Hayes, singer, songwriter, musician
August 20, 1944- Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minister
August 20, 1946- Connie Chung, TV journalist
August 20, 1954- Al Roker, NBC TV meteorologist
August 20, 1956- Joan Allen, actress
August 21, 1904- Count Basie, jazz musician, bandleader
August 21, 1923- Chris Schenkel, sportscaster
August 21, 1936- Wilt Chamberlain, NBA basketball player
August 21, 1938- Kenny Rogers, singer, actor
August 21, 1944- Jackie DeShannon, singer, songwriter
August 21, 1958- Steve Case, AOL executive
August 21, 1975 -Alicia Witt, actress
August 22, 1834- Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, aviation pioneer
August 22, 1862- Claude Debussy, composer, musician
August 22, 1893- Dorothy Parker, author
August 22, 1920 -Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer
August 22, 1934- H. Norman Schwarzkopf, General who led coalition forces in Operation Desert Storm (First Iraq War)
August 22, 1940- Valerie Harper, actress
August 22, 1941- Bill Parcells, the “Tuna”, NFL football coach
August 22, 1947- Cindy Williams, actress, “Shirley” on TV series “Laverne and Shirley”
August 22, 1964- Tori Amos, singer, musician
August 22, 1973- Howie Dorough, singer, member of the “Backstreet Boys”
August 23, 1754 King Louis XVI, king during the French Revolution
August 23, 1912- Gene Kelly, actor, dancer, “Signin in the Rain”
August 23, 1929- Vera Miles, actress
August 23, 1934- Barbara Eden, actress “I Dream of Jeannie”
August 23, 1934- Sonny Jurgensen, football quarterback
August 23, 1938 – Ronny Cox, actor
August 23, 1949- Shelley Long, actress, “Diane” on TV series “Cheers”
August 23, 1949- Rick Springfield, singer
August 23, 1978- Kobe Bryant, NBA basketball player
August 24, 1944- Gregory Jarvis, astronaut, died in the Challenger Space Shuttle
August 24, 1956- Gerry Cooney, boxer
August 24, 1958- Steve Guttenberg, actor
August 24, 1960- Cal Ripken Jr., Ironman baseball player, played in 2,643 consecutive games
August 24, 1962- Craig Kilborn, TV personality, host of CBS “Late, Late Sow”
August 24, 1965- Marlee Matlin, actress
August 25, 1913- Walt Kelly, cartoonist, created “Pogo”
August 25, 1918- Leonard Bernstein, music composer, conductor
August 25, 1919- George Wallace, Alabama Governor, and presidential candidate
August 25, 1930- Sean Connery, actor , “James Bond”
August 25, 1933 – Regis Philbin Talk Show Host, Game Show Emcee
August 25, 1933- Tom Skerritt, actor , TV series “Picket Fences”
August 25, 1934- Regis Philbin, TV personality , Game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
August 25, 1958- Tim Burton, director
August 25, 1961- Billy Ray Cyrus, country singer
August 25, 1964- Blair Underwood, actor
August 25, 1970- Claudia Schiffer, model
August 26, 1906- Albert Sabin, developed oral polio vaccine
August 26, 1921- Benjamin Bradlee, journalist, editor
August 26, 1935- Geraldine Ferraro, NY Congresswoman, vice presidential nominee
August 26, 1965- Christopher Burke, actor
August 26, 1980- Macaulay Culkin, actor, starred in “Home Alone” movies
August 27, 1908- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th U.S. President (1963-1969)
August 27, 1910- Mother Teresa, nun , founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity
August 27, 1916- Martha Raye, actress, comedian, singer
August 27, 1929- Ira Levin, novelist, playwright
August 27, 1942- Daryl Dragon, musician, singer, member of the “Captain & Tennille”
August 27, 1943- Tuesday Weld, actress
August 27, 1952- Paul Reubens, actor, starred on children’s show and movies “Pee Wee Herman”
August 28, 1749- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, poet, philosopher
August 28, 1774- Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of Catholic Schools, first American-born saint
August 28, 1828- Leo Tolstoy, author, “War and Peace”
August 28, 1889- Charles Boyer, actor
August 28, 1925- Donald O’Connor, actor, dancer
August 28, 1930 Ben Gazzara, actor
August 28, 1958- Scott Hamilton, champion Olympic figure skater
August 28, 1965- Shania Twain, country singer
August 28, 1969- Jason Priestley, actor
August 28, 1982- LeAnn Rimes, country singer
August 29, 1632- John Locke, philosopher
August 29, 1915- Ingrid Bergman, actress
August 29, 1920- Charlie “Bird” Parker, jazz saxophonist
August 29, 1936- John McCain III, Arizona senator, presidential candidate
August 29, 1938- Elliott Gould, actor
August 29, 1941- Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
August 29, 1958- Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter
August 30, 1748- Jacques-Louis David, painter
August 30, 1797- Mary Wollenstone Shelley, author, wrote “Frankenstein” in 1818.
August 30, 1898- Shirley Booth, actress
August 30, 1901- Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader
August 30, 1908- Fred MacMurray, actor
August 30, 1918- Ted Williams, MLB baseball player
August 30, 1930- Warren Buffett, investor
August 30, 1941- Elizabeth Ashley, actress
August 30, 1943- Jean-Claude Killy, champion Olympic champion skier
August 30, 1951- Timothy Bottoms, actor
August 30, 1972- Cameron Diaz, actress, “My Best Friends’ Wedding”, movie “Charlie’s Angels”
August 31, 1870- Maria Montessori, educator, physician
August 31, 1897- Frederic March, actor
August 31, 1924- Buddy Hackett, actor, comedian
August 31, 1928- James Coburn, actor
August 31, 1935- Frank Robinson, baseball player, manager
August 31, 1945 Van Morrison, singer,
August 31, 1949- Richard Gere, actor, “Pretty Woman”, “Chicago”
August 31, 1955- Edwin Moses, champion Olympic track athlete
