| Birthday |
Name |
|
| 1744-08-01 |
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
believed in inheritance of acquired traits |
| 1770-08-01 |
William Clark |
explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis |
| 1779-08-01 |
Francis Scott Key |
wroteStar-Spangled Banner |
| 1815-08-01 |
Richard Henry Dana |
spent 2 years before mast |
| 1818-08-01 |
Maria Mitchell |
Americas 1st woman astronomer on Nantucket Island |
| 1819-08-01 |
Herman Melville |
American author Moby Dick |
| 8/1/1922 |
Arthur Hill |
Actor Defenders |
| 8/1/1933 |
Dom DeLuise |
comedian |
| 8/1/1936 |
Yves Saint-Laurent |
fashion designer |
| 8/1/1942 |
Karen Black |
in Illinois |
| 8/1/1944 |
Yuri V. Romanenko |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 26 |
| 8/1/1973 |
Tempestt Bledsoe |
Cosby Show |
| 1696-08-02 |
Mahmud I Ottoman |
sultan |
| 1884-08-02 |
R”mulo Gallegos |
Venezuelan novelist Do¤a B rbara |
| 8/2/1905 |
Myrna Loy |
Actress Rebound |
| 8/2/1914 |
Gary Merrill |
Actor |
| 8/2/1922 |
Paul Laxalt |
R-Sen-Nev |
| 8/2/1924 |
James Baldwin |
American novelist Another Country |
| 8/2/1924 |
Carroll OConner |
aka Archie Bunker |
| 8/2/1926 |
Betsy Bloomingdale |
Dept Store mogul |
| 8/2/1932 |
Lamar Hunt |
owner of NFL Kansas City Chiefs |
| 8/2/1933 |
Peter OToole |
Actor Lord Jim |
| 8/2/1934 |
Valery Bykovsky |
Soviet cosmonaut Vostok 5 |
| 8/2/1946 |
Bob Beamon |
long jumper |
| 8/2/1949 |
Bertalan Farkas |
1st Hungarian space traveler Soyuz 36 |
| 8/2/1960 |
Apollonia Kotero |
Princes main squeeze |
| 8/2/1960 |
Linda Fratianne |
figure skater |
| 1811-08-03 |
Elisha Graves Otis |
invented safe elevator |
| 1867-08-03 |
Stanley Earl Baldwin |
C |
| 1887-08-03 |
Rupert Brooke |
British WW I poet 1914 |
| 8/3/1900 |
John T. Scopes |
Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution |
| 8/3/1901 |
John Stennis |
D-sen-Miss |
| 8/3/1902 |
Habib Bourguiba |
1st president of Tunisia |
| 8/3/1905 |
Dolores Del Rio |
Mexican Actress What Price Glory? |
| 8/3/1921 |
Mariyln Maxwell |
|
| 8/3/1923 |
Anne Klein |
Fashion designer |
| 8/3/1924 |
Leon Uris |
writer Exodus |
| 8/3/1926 |
Tony Bennett |
singer |
| 8/3/1935 |
Georgi S. Shonin |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 6 |
| 8/3/1940 |
Lance Alworth |
NFL wide receiver San Diego |
| 8/3/1940 |
Martin Sheen |
Actor Subject Was Roses |
| 1755-08-04 |
Nicolas-Jacque Conte |
invented modern pencil |
| 1792-08-04 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
poet |
| 1859-08-04 |
Knut Hamsun |
Norwegian writer |
| 8/4/1900 |
Arturo Umberto Illia |
president of Argentina 1963-66 |
| 8/4/1910 |
William Schuman |
composer |
| 8/4/1920 |
Helen Thomas |
journalist |
| 8/4/1942 |
David Russell Lange |
Labour prime minister of New Zealand 1984- |
| 8/4/1943 |
Tina Cole |
in Hollywood California |
| 8/4/1958 |
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney |
Track star |
| 1540-08-05 |
Joseph Scaliger |
proposed Julian dating |
| 1604-08-05 |
John Eliot |
”Apostle to Indians ” Bible translator |
| 1749-08-05 |
Thomas Lynch |
signed Dec of Ind |
| 1850-08-05 |
Guy de Maupassant |
French author |
| 1876-08-05 |
Mary R. Beard |
historian |
| 1899-08-05 |
Conrad Aiken |
American poet |
| 8/5/1906 |
John Huston |
film director & writer |
| 8/5/1923 |
Richard Kleindienst |
former attorney general |
| 8/5/1930 |
Neil Armstrong |
X-15 pilot |
| 8/5/1933 |
Joan Weldon |
Gogos singer |
| 8/5/1941 |
Leonid D. Kizim |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz T-3 |
| 8/5/1953 |
Samantha Sang |
Singer |
| 1697-08-06 |
Charles VII |
Holy Roman emperor 1742-45 |
| 1809-08-06 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
poet laureate of England |
| 1861-08-06 |
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt |
2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1881-08-06 |
Sir Alexander Fleming |
cashed in on penicillin Nobel 1954 |
| 1883-08-06 |
Scott Nearing |
American sociologist |
| 8/6/1906 |
Ken Strong |
NFL |
| 8/6/1911 |
Lucille Ball |
NY. comedian |
| 8/6/1917 |
Robert Mitchum |
Actor |
| 8/6/1921 |
Ella Raines |
Actress |
| 8/6/1927 |
William David Ford |
D-Mich-Rep |
| 8/6/1930 |
Abbey Lincoln |
|
| 8/6/1945 |
Ken Norton |
heavyweight boxer or 0809 |
| 8/6/1947 |
Sally Eaton |
in Ill |
| 8/6/1952 |
Rep Carl C Perkins |
D-Ky |
| 0317-08-07 |
Constantius II |
Roman emperor 337-61 |
| 1779-08-07 |
Carl Ritter |
cofounder of modern science of geography |
| 1783-08-07 |
John Heathcoat |
invented lace-making machinery |
| 1876-08-07 |
Mata Hari |
dancer |
| 1886-08-07 |
Louis Hazeltine |
invented neutrodyne circuit |
| 8/7/1903 |
Louis Leakey |
anthropologist |
| 8/7/1904 |
Ralph J Bunche |
a founder & diplomat of UN Nobel 1950 |
| 8/7/1926 |
Stan Freberg |
Writer-producer |
| 8/7/1929 |
Don Larsen |
on what must have been a perfect day |
| 8/7/1932 |
Ann Harding |
|
| 8/7/1942 |
B.J. Thomas |
singer Raindrops |
| 8/7/1942 |
Anjanette Comer |
in Dawson Tx |
| 8/7/1942 |
Garrison Keillor |
|
| 8/7/1943 |
Lana Cantrell |
in Sydney Australia |
| 8/7/1944 |
Loni Anderson |
in St Paul Minn WKRP in Cincinnati |
| 8/7/1958 |
Alberto Salazar |
marathoner |
| 1763-08-08 |
Charles Bullfinch |
1st US professional architect |
| 1879-08-08 |
Emiliano Zapata |
Mexican revolutionary |
| 1884-08-08 |
Sara Teasdale |
poet |
| 8/8/1902 |
Paul Dirac |
British theoretical physicist |
| 8/8/1908 |
Arthur Goldberg |
former Supreme Court justice |
| 8/8/1910 |
Sylvia Sidney |
Actress |
| 8/8/1922 |
Rudi Gernreich |
designer of 1st womens topless swimsuit |
| 8/8/1923 |
Esther Williams |
Actress |
| 8/8/1927 |
Jim Weaver |
D-rep-Ore |
| 8/8/1930 |
Andy Warhol |
artist |
| 8/8/1932 |
Mel Tillis |
singer |
| 8/8/1937 |
Dustin Hoffman |
Graduate |
| 8/8/1938 |
Connie Stevens |
Bkln |
| 8/8/1948 |
Svetlana Y. Savitskaya |
2nd woman in space Soyuz T-7 |
| 1593-08-09 |
Izaac Walton |
fisherman |
| 1776-08-09 |
Amedeo Avogadro |
6.022 x 10 ^ 23 |
| 1825-08-09 |
Elisha Ferry |
R |
| 1896-08-09 |
Jean Piaget |
pioneer developmental psychologist |
| 1897-08-09 |
Ralph Wyckoff |
American pioneer in x-ray crystallography |
| 8/9/1911 |
William A. Fowler |
US astrophysicist Nobel 1983 |
| 8/9/1913 |
Herman Talmadge |
Sen-D-Ga |
| 8/9/1919 |
Ralph Houk |
baseball manager |
| 8/9/1921 |
J. James Exon |
D-Neb-Sen |
| 8/9/1928 |
Bob Cousy |
NBA star |
| 8/9/1928 |
Jimmy Dean |
Actor |
| 8/9/1930 |
Betty Boop |
animation |
| 8/9/1932 |
Marvin Minsky |
artificial intelligence worker |
| 8/9/1942 |
David Steinberg |
Comedian-director |
| 8/9/1944 |
Sam Elliott |
Actor |
| 8/9/1957 |
Melanie Griffith |
Actress |
| 8/9/1963 |
Whitney Houston |
Singer |
| 1874-08-10 |
Herbert Hoover |
R 31st Pres 1929-1933 |
| 8/10/1900 |
Norma Shearer |
|
| 8/10/1910 |
Angus Campbell |
psychologist |
| 8/10/1916 |
Noah Beery Jr. |
Actor Tugboat Annie |
| 8/10/1923 |
Rhonda Fleming |
in Hollywood Calif |
| 8/10/1924 |
Martha Hyer |
|
| 8/10/1925 |
Mike Douglas |
TV Host |
| 8/10/1928 |
Eddie Fisher |
singer |
| 8/10/1933 |
Jerry Falwell |
Evangelist |
| 8/10/1938 |
Diana Muldaur |
|
| 8/10/1942 |
Betsy Johnson |
|
| 8/10/1943 |
Ronnie Spector |
NYC |
| 1833-08-11 |
Robert Green Ingersol |
American author |
| 1837-08-11 |
Sadi Carnot |
engineer |
| 1867-08-11 |
Joseph Weber |
comedian of Weber & Fields |
| 8/11/1902 |
Lloyd Nolan |
Actor A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| 8/11/1921 |
Alex Haley |
American author Roots |
| 8/11/1924 |
Arlene Dahl |
in Minnesota |
| 8/11/1937 |
Anna Massey |
|
| 8/11/1941 |
Elizabeth Holtzman |
Bkln AG D-Rep-NY |
| 8/11/1950 |
Steve Wozniak |
cofounded Apple Computer |
| 1753-08-12 |
Thomas Bewick |
English artist British Birds |
| 1762-08-12 |
George IV |
king of England 1820-30 |
| 1774-08-12 |
Robert Southey |
English poet laureate |
| 1862-08-12 |
Juluis Rosenwald |
philanthropist |
| 1866-08-12 |
Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez |
Spanish dramatist Nobel 1922 |
| 1876-08-12 |
Mary Roberts Rinehart |
mystery writer |
| 1880-08-12 |
Christy Mathewson |
HOF baseball pitcher |
| 1881-08-12 |
Cecil B deMille |
directed God |
| 1887-08-12 |
Erwin Schrodinger |
Austrian physicist had a cat |
| 8/12/1911 |
Mario Moreno |
alias Cantinflas |
| 8/12/1912 |
Jane Wyatt |
Mom knows best – Spocks mother in Campgaw NJ |
| 8/12/1915 |
Alex Wojciechowicz |
NFL center Lions |
| 8/12/1919 |
Michael Kidd |
Choreographer |
| 8/12/1921 |
Majorie Reynolds |
in Buhl Idaho |
| 8/12/1925 |
Dale Bumpers |
Sen-D-Ark |
| 8/12/1926 |
John Derek |
Actor-director |
| 8/12/1929 |
Buck Owens |
country singer |
| 8/12/1931 |
William Goldman |
author Lord of the Flies Nobel 1983 |
| 8/12/1939 |
George Hamilton |
Actor |
| 8/12/1941 |
Deborah Walley |
in Bridgeport Ct |
| 1422-08-13 |
William Caxton |
1st English printer Histories of Troy |
| 1655-08-13 |
Johann Christoph Denner |
clarinet inventor |
| 1814-08-13 |
Anders Jonas Angstrom |
physicist |
| 1818-08-13 |
Lucy Stone |
pioneer in Womans Rights |
| 1819-08-13 |
Sir George Gabriel Stokes |
physicist |
| 1860-08-13 |
Annie Oakley |
frontier woman |
| 1899-08-13 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
director Psycho |
| 8/13/1902 |
Regis Toomey |
Actor |
| 8/13/1902 |
Felix Wankel |
German inventor Wankel rotary-piston engine |
| 8/13/1904 |
Charles Buddy Rodgers |
Actor |
| 8/13/1908 |
Gene Raymond |
Actor |
| 8/13/1909 |
John Beal |
Actor |
| 8/13/1912 |
Ben Hogan |
golfer |
| 8/13/1918 |
Frederick Sanger |
British chemist Nobel 1958 |
| 8/13/1920 |
George Shearing |
pianist |
| 8/13/1921 |
Neville Brand |
Actor |
| 8/13/1927 |
Fidel Castro Ruz |
Cuban political leader |
| 8/13/1967 |
Quinn Cummings |
|
| 1777-08-14 |
Hans Christian Oersted |
physicist |
| 1867-08-14 |
John Galsworthy |
English author Forsyte Saga Nobel 1932 |
| 8/14/1901 |
Sir James Pitman |
English educator |
| 8/14/1903 |
John Ringling North |
circus director |
| 8/14/1920 |
Nehemiah Persoff |
Actor |
| 8/14/1924 |
Maurice Richard |
NHL player |
| 8/14/1925 |
Russell Baker |
columnist |
| 8/14/1926 |
Alice Ghostly |
in Montana |
| 8/14/1926 |
Buddy Greco |
Singer |
| 8/14/1941 |
David Crosby |
rocker |
| 8/14/1941 |
Connie Smith |
in Elkhart |
| 8/14/1944 |
Robyn Smith |
jockey |
| 8/14/1946 |
Susan St. James |
MacMillan & Wife |
| 8/14/1950 |
Princess Anne |
of England |
| 8/14/1952 |
Deborah Meyer |
swimmer in Annapolis Maryland |
| 8/14/1958 |
Earvin Magic Johnson |
NBA star LA Lakers |
| 1432-08-15 |
Luigi Pulci |
Italian poet Morgante |
| 1688-08-15 |
Frederick William I |
king of Prussia |
| 1769-08-15 |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
resident of Elba emperor 1804-13 |
| 1771-08-15 |
Sir Walter Scott |
Scottish novelist |
| 1803-08-15 |
Sir James Douglas |
father of British Columbia |
| 1860-08-15 |
Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding |
1st lady |
| 1879-08-15 |
Ethel Barrymore |
American stage |
| 1888-08-15 |
TE Lawrence |
writer aka Lawrence of Arabia |
| 8/15/1904 |
Bill Baird |
puppeteer |
| 8/15/1912 |
Julia Child |
in Pasadena Calif |
| 8/15/1912 |
Wendy Hiller |
Actress |
| 8/15/1924 |
Phyllis Schlafly |
right-winger |
| 8/15/1924 |
Robert Bolt |
Playwright |
| 8/15/1925 |
Rose Marie |
Actress |
| 8/15/1925 |
Mike Conners |
Actor |
| 8/15/1931 |
Janice Rule |
Actress in Norwood Ohio |
| 8/15/1933 |
Lori Nelson |
|
| 8/15/1935 |
Abby Dalton |
in Las Vegas |
| 8/15/1935 |
Vernon Jordan |
Civil rights activist |
| 8/15/1935 |
Jim Dale |
musical entertainer |
| 8/15/1943 |
Barbara Bouchet |
|
| 8/15/1944 |
Linda Ellerbee |
Broadcast journalist & author |
| 1868-08-16 |
Bernard MacFadden |
publisher Physical Culture |
| 1884-08-16 |
Hugo Gernsback |
science fiction writer |
| 1892-08-16 |
Harold Foster |
cartoonist |
| 1894-08-16 |
George Meany |
labor leader |
| 8/16/1904 |
Wendell Stanley |
biochemist |
| 8/16/1906 |
Franz Josef II |
prince of Liechtenstein 1938- |
| 8/16/1913 |
Menachem Begin |
Israeli PM 1977-83 Nobel 1978 |
| 8/16/1925 |
Fess Parker |
Actor Davy Crockett |
| 8/16/1928 |
Ann Blyth |
Actress in Mt Kisko NY |
| 8/16/1930 |
Robert Culp |
Actor I Spy |
| 8/16/1930 |
Frank Gifford |
NFL halfback NY Giants |
| 8/16/1930 |
Ted Hughes |
English poet laureate 1984- |
| 8/16/1931 |
Betsy Von Furstenberg |
in Germany |
| 8/16/1932 |
Eydie Gorme |
in Bronx NY |
| 8/16/1933 |
Stuart Smoky Roosa |
US astronaut Apollo 14 |
| 8/16/1935 |
Julie Newmar |
|
| 8/16/1936 |
Anita Gillette |
in Baltimore Md |
| 8/16/1939 |
Carole Shelley |
in London |
| 8/16/1939 |
Valeri V. Ryumin |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 25 |
| 8/16/1946 |
Leslie Ann Warren |
NYC |
| 8/16/1958 |
Madonna Ciccone |
in Bay City Michigan |
| 8/16/1960 |
Timothy Hutton |
Actor |
| 1601-08-17 |
Pierre de Fermat |
mathematician who needed wider margins |
| 1786-08-17 |
Davy Crockett |
American frontiersman |
| 1876-08-17 |
Eric Drummond |
1st secretary-general |
| 1882-08-17 |
Samuel Goldwyn |
movie producer |
| 1887-08-17 |
Marcus Garvey |
began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks |
| 1892-08-17 |
Mae West |
Bkln |
| 8/17/1914 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. |
son of FDR |
| 8/17/1921 |
Maureen OHara |
in Dublin Ireland |
| 8/17/1923 |
Larry Rivers |
painter |
| 8/17/1941 |
Boog Powell |
baseball player |
| 8/17/1943 |
Robert De Niro |
Actor |
| 8/17/1958 |
Belinda Carlisle |
GoGos lead singer |
| 8/17/1960 |
Sean Penn |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| 1587-08-18 |
Virginia Dare |
1st American born of English parents |
| 1685-08-18 |
Brook Taylor |
mathematician |
| 1750-08-18 |
Antonio Salieri |
Italian composer |
| 1774-08-18 |
Meriwether Lewis |
American explorer |
| 1778-08-18 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen |
1st to circumnavigate Antarctica |
| 1792-08-18 |
John Earl Russell 1st |
British Whig P.M. 1846-52 |
| 1834-08-18 |
Marshall Field |
founder of a Chicago-based store chain |
| 8/18/1904 |
Max FActor Jr |
|
| 8/18/1917 |
Caspar Weinberger |
US secretary of defense 1981-87 |
| 8/18/1922 |
Shelley Winters |
St Louis Mo Actress |
| 8/18/1927 |
Rosalynn Carter |
1st lady |
| 8/18/1933 |
Roman Polanski |
director Knife in the Water |
| 8/18/1934 |
Roberto Clemente |
pro baseball player Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 8/18/1935 |
Gail Fisher |
in Orange NJ |
| 8/18/1935 |
Rafer Johnson |
decathelete |
| 8/18/1937 |
Robert Redford |
Actor Sting |
| 8/18/1943 |
Martin Mull |
Actor-comedian |
| 8/18/1970 |
Malcolm-Jamal Warner |
Cosby Show |
| 1398-08-19 |
I$igo L¢pez |
marques de Santillana |
| 1631-08-19 |
John Dryden |
1st poet laureate of England Absalom & Achitophel |
| 1646-08-19 |
John Flamsteed |
1st astronomer royal of England |
| 1765-08-19 |
Robert Fulton |
inventor |
| 1785-08-19 |
Seth Thomas |
pioneer in mass production of clocks |
| 1844-08-19 |
Minna Canth |
Finnish novelist & dramatist |
| 1870-08-19 |
Bernard Baruch |
financier |
| 1871-08-19 |
Orville Wright |
an aviator |
| 1878-08-19 |
Manuel Quezon |
1st president of Philippine Commonwealth 1935-42 |
| 1889-08-19 |
Arthur Waley |
sinologist |
| 8/19/1902 |
Ogden Nash |
American humorous poet Im a Stranger Here Myself |
| 8/19/1907 |
Thurston Morton |
former US senator from Kentucky |
| 8/19/1931 |
Willie Shoemaker |
jockey |
| 8/19/1933 |
Debra Paget |
|
| 8/19/1940 |
Jill St John |
in LA Diamonds are Forever |
| 8/19/1956 |
Sue Barker |
|
| 1778-08-20 |
Bernardo OHiggins |
won independence for Chile |
| 1833-08-20 |
Benjamin Harrison |
R |
| 1860-08-20 |
Raymond Poincare |
French prime minister 1912 |
| 1873-08-20 |
Eliel Saarinen |
Finnish architect |
| 1881-08-20 |
Edgar A Guest |
poet |
| 8/20/1901 |
Salvatore Quasimodo |
Italian poet |
| 8/20/1921 |
Jacqueline Susann |
writer Valley of the Dolls |
| 8/20/1925 |
Lola Albright |
in Ohio |
| 8/20/1933 |
George Mitchell |
Sen-D-Me |
| 8/20/1938 |
Jean-Loup Chretien |
1st French traveler in space on Soyuz T-6 |
| 8/20/1940 |
Sam Melville |
Actor |
| 8/20/1942 |
Isaac Hayes |
composer |
| 8/20/1944 |
Rajiv Gandhi |
PM of India 1984- |
| 8/20/1946 |
Connie Chung |
TV newscaster NBC |
| 8/20/1951 |
Guy Lafleur |
NHL star |
| 1165-08-21 |
Philip II Augustus |
1st great Capetian king of France 1179-1223 |
| 1660-08-21 |
Hubert Gautier |
engineer |
| 1765-08-21 |
William IV |
king of England 1830-37 |
| 1872-08-21 |
Aubrey Beardsley |
English artist or 0824 |
| 8/21/1906 |
Count Basie |
musician |
| 8/21/1930 |
Princess Margaret |
of England |
| 8/21/1936 |
Mart Crowley |
playwright |
| 8/21/1936 |
Wilt Chamberlain |
NBA great |
| 8/21/1938 |
Kenny Rogers |
singer |
| 8/21/1939 |
Clarence Williams III |
Mod Squad |
| 8/21/1944 |
Jackie DeShannon |
in Kentucky |
| 8/21/1945 |
Patty McCormack |
Actress |
| 8/21/1959 |
Jim McMahon |
Chicago Bears QB |
| 8/21/1962 |
Matthew Broderick |
Actor Ferris Buehler |
| 1836-08-22 |
Archibald M. Willard |
American artist Spirit of76 |
| 1862-08-22 |
Claude Debussy |
composer La Mer |
| 8/22/1909 |
Mel Hein |
NFL center NY Giants |
| 8/22/1920 |
Ray Bradbury |
sci-fi author Fahrenheit 451 |
| 8/22/1928 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen |
composer |
| 8/22/1929 |
Honor Blackman |
in London |
| 8/22/1932 |
Gerald P. Carr |
US astronaut Skylab 4 |
| 8/22/1933 |
Sylvia Koscina |
|
| 8/22/1934 |
Diana Sands |
|
| 8/22/1940 |
Valerie Harper |
in Sufferin NY |
| 8/22/1942 |
Kathy Lennon |
singer in Santa Monica |
| 8/22/1947 |
Cindy Williams |
Actress Laverne & Shirley in Van Nuys Cal |
| 8/22/1949 |
Diana Nyad Swimmer |
|
| 1754-08-23 |
Louis XVI |
king of France 1774-92; guillotined |
| 1785-08-23 |
Oliver Hazard Perry |
American commander at Battle of Lake Erie |
| 1869-08-23 |
Edgar Lee Masters |
American poet Spoon River Anthology |
| 1869-08-23 |
James Sunny Jim Rolph |
SF mayor 1912-31 |
| 8/23/1901 |
John Sherman Cooper |
senator |
| 8/23/1912 |
Gene Kelly |
dancer/Actor |
| 8/23/1930 |
Vera Miles |
Actress |
| 8/23/1932 |
Mark Russell |
raconteur |
| 8/23/1934 |
Sonny Jurgensen |
NFL quarterback Eagles |
| 8/23/1934 |
Barbara Eden |
Az I dream of Jeannie |
| 8/23/1942 |
Patricia McBride |
ballerina |
| 8/23/1948 |
Ron Blomberg |
future designated hitter |
| 8/23/1949 |
Shelley Long |
in Fort Wayne Indiana |
| 1591-08-24 |
Robert Herrick |
English poet Gather ye rosebuds baptized |
| 1816-08-24 |
Sir Daniel Gooch |
laid 1st successful transatlantic cables |
| 1872-08-24 |
Max Beerbohm |
writer |
| 1886-08-24 |
William Francis Gibbs |
naval architect |
| 1898-08-24 |
Albert Claude |
Belgian physician Nobel 1974 |
| 1899-08-24 |
Jorge Luis Borges |
Argentine writer of fiction & essays |
| 8/24/1902 |
Fernand Braudel |
French historian |
| 8/24/1956 |
Gerry Cooney |
boxer |
| 1530-08-25 |
Ivan IV the Terrible |
1st tsar of Russia 1533-84 |
| 1819-08-25 |
Allan Pinkerton |
founder of Chicago detective agency |
| 1836-08-25 |
Bret Harte |
writer Outcasts of Poker Flat |
| 1841-08-25 |
Theodor Kocher |
Swiss surgeon |
| 1845-08-25 |
Ludwig II |
mad king of Bavaria 1864-86 |
| 8/25/1909 |
Ruby Keeler |
dancer |
| 8/25/1909 |
Michael Rennie |
Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still |
| 8/25/1913 |
Walt Kelly |
cartoonist |
| 8/25/1916 |
Van Johnson |
Actor |
| 8/25/1918 |
Leonard Bernstein |
conductor-composer |
| 8/25/1919 |
George C. Wallace |
D-gov-Ala pres candidate |
| 8/25/1927 |
Althea Gibson |
1st black tennis champion in a major event |
| 8/25/1930 |
Sean Connery |
Actor James Bond |
| 1676-08-26 |
Sir Robert Walpole |
Whig |
| 1728-08-26 |
Johann Lambert |
Swiss mathematician |
| 1873-08-26 |
Lee De Forest |
invented Audion vacuum radio tube in Council Bluffs |
| 1880-08-26 |
Guillaume Apollinaire |
French poet |
| 1885-08-26 |
Jules Romains |
French novelist |
| 8/26/1901 |
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor |
former US Army chief of staff |
| 8/26/1904 |
Christopher Isherwood |
novelist |
| 8/26/1906 |
Dr Albert Sabin |
polio vaccine discoverer |
| 8/26/1914 |
Julio Cort zar |
Argentine writer We Love Glenda So Much |
| 8/26/1917 |
William French Smith |
Former Attorney General |
| 8/26/1921 |
Ben Bradlee |
journalist Wash Post |
| 8/26/1927 |
Francois Leydet |
|
| 8/26/1932 |
Joseph H. Engle |
X-15 pilot |
| 8/26/1935 |
Geraldine Ferraro |
D |
| 8/26/1947 |
Candy Moore |
in Maplewood NJ |
| 8/26/1948 |
Valerie Simpson |
in Bronx |
| 8/26/1952 |
John Kinsella |
swimmer |
| 1770-08-27 |
G.W.F. Hegel |
invented dialectic |
| 1809-08-27 |
Hannibal Hamlin |
R |
| 1865-08-27 |
Charles Gates Dawes |
R |
| 1871-08-27 |
Theodore Dreiser |
novelist Sister Carie |
| 1899-08-27 |
C.S. Forester |
historical novelist |
| 8/27/1908 |
Lyndon B Johnson |
36th Pres 1963-1969 |
| 8/27/1910 |
Mother Teresa |
of Calcutta Nobel 1979 |
| 8/27/1915 |
Walter Heller |
economist |
| 8/27/1916 |
Martha Raye |
in Butte Montana |
| 8/27/1929 |
Ira Levin |
author Rosemarys Baby |
| 8/27/1937 |
Tommy Sands |
singer |
| 8/27/1941 |
Yuri V. Malyshev |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz T-2 |
| 8/27/1943 |
SusanTuesday Weld |
in NYC |
| 1592-08-28 |
George Villiers |
duke of Buckingham |
| 1749-08-28 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Frankfurt |
| 1774-08-28 |
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton |
1st American Catholic saint |
| 1828-08-28 |
Leo Tolstoy |
writer |
| 1831-08-28 |
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes |
1st lady |
| 1833-08-28 |
Sir Edward Burne-Jones |
English Pre-Raphaelite painter |
| 1889-08-28 |
Charles Boyer |
American film star |
| 8/28/1906 |
Sir John Betjeman |
poet laureate of England Mt. Zion |
| 8/28/1921 |
Nancy Kulp |
in Penn |
| 8/28/1925 |
Donald OConnor |
comedian |
| 8/28/1930 |
Ben Gazzara |
Actor Run for Your Life |
| 8/28/1939 |
Cassie Mackin |
NBC Newswoman |
| 8/28/1940 |
William Cohen |
Sen-R-Me |
| 8/28/1940 |
Richard Sanders |
Actor |
| 8/28/1943 |
Lou Piniella |
Baseball manager |
| 8/28/1943 |
David Soul |
Actor |
| 8/28/1950 |
RonLouisana Lightning Guidry |
| 8/28/1958 |
Scott Hamilton Skating |
champion |
| 8/28/1960 |
Emma Samms Samuels |
Colbys |
| 1632-08-29 |
John Locke |
British empiricist philosopher |
| 1780-08-29 |
Jean Ingres |
French painter |
| 1809-08-29 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
American physician |
| 1815-08-29 |
Anna Ella Carroll |
American writer |
| 1862-08-29 |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
Belgian Symbolist poet Nobel 1911 |
| 1881-08-29 |
Valery Nicolas Larbaud |
French novelist |
| 1899-08-29 |
Lyman L. Lemnitzer |
Marine Corps general |
| 8/29/1912 |
Barry Sullivan |
American Actor |
| 8/29/1915 |
Ingrid Bergman |
Actress Casablanca in Sweden |
| 8/29/1916 |
George Montgomery |
Actor |
| 8/29/1917 |
Isabel Sanford |
Actress |
| 8/29/1923 |
Richard Attenborough |
Actor |
| 8/29/1934 |
David Pryor |
Sen-D-Ark |
| 8/29/1938 |
Peter Jennings |
ABC anchor |
| 8/29/1938 |
Elliot Gould |
Actor M*A*S*H |
| 8/29/1939 |
William Friedkin |
director Exorcist |
| 8/29/1940 |
Wilhelm Ruska |
Neth |
| 8/29/1941 |
Robin Leach |
Life Styles of Rich & Famous |
| 8/29/1945 |
Wyomia Tyus |
Olympic Runner |
| 8/29/1958 |
Michael Jackson |
singer Thriller |
| 1748-08-30 |
Jacques-Louis David |
French Neoclassical painter |
| 1797-08-30 |
Mary Shelley |
author Frankenstein |
| 1837-08-30 |
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur |
wife of president Chester A. Arthur |
| 1871-08-30 |
Ernest Rutherford |
in Engl |
| 1884-08-30 |
Theodor Svedberg |
Swedish chemist |
| 1893-08-30 |
Huey P. Long |
gov-sen-La |
| 1896-08-30 |
Raymond Massey |
Actor |
| 8/30/1901 |
John Gunther |
writer |
| 8/30/1901 |
Roy Wilkins |
director of NAACP |
| 8/30/1907 |
Shirley Booth |
NY – Hazel |
| 8/30/1908 |
Fred MacMurray |
Actor Caine Mutiny |
| 8/30/1909 |
Joan Blondell |
in NY |
| 8/30/1918 |
Ted Williams |
Boston Red Sox |
| 8/30/1922 |
Regina Resnik |
mezzo-soprano |
| 8/30/1931 |
John L. Swigert Jr. |
US astronaut Apollo 13 |
| 8/30/1941 |
Elizabeth Ashley |
in Florida |
| 8/30/1943 |
R. Crumb |
cartoonist |
| 8/30/1943 |
Jean-Claude Killy |
skier |
| 8/30/1947 |
Peggy Lipton |
NYC Mod Squad |
| 8/30/1951 |
Timothy Bottoms |
Actor |
| 1870-08-31 |
Maria Montessori |
educator |
| 8/31/1903 |
Arthur Godfrey |
radio |
| 8/31/1903 |
Sir Bernard Lovell |
English radio astronomer |
| 8/31/1908 |
William Saroyan |
novelist |
| 8/31/1918 |
Alan Jay Lerner |
composer |
| 8/31/1924 |
Buddy Hackett |
comedian |
| 8/31/1928 |
James Coburn |
Actor |
| 8/31/1935 |
Eldridge Cleaver |
Black Panther turned Republican |
| 8/31/1937 |
Warren Berlinger |
Actor |
| 8/31/1945 |
Itzhak Perlman |
violinist |
| 8/31/1945 |
Leonid I. Popov |
Soviet cosmonaut Soyuz 35 |
| 8/31/1958 |
Edward Moses |
track star |
