August 1, 1770-  William Clark, explorer who teamed with Meriwether Lewis

August 1, 1779-  Francis Scott Key, author of the US 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, Business woman, chef

August 3, 1950-  John Landis, director

August 3, 1951-  Jay North, actor,played “Dennis the Menace”

August 3, 1958-  Victoria Jackson, actress,comedian

August 3, 1977-  Tom Brady, NFL 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 4, 1981-  Meghan Markle, model,actress, Duchess of Sussex

August 5, 1906-  John Huston, director,actor

August 5, 1930-  Neil Armstrong. 1st to walk on the moon,
astronaut
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, 180 9-  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

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 8, 1981-  Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

August 8, 1998-  Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer and songwriter

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, director

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 14, 1987-  Tim Tebow, football and baseball player

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, director

August 15, 1990-  Jennifer Lawerence, American actress

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 16, 1962-  Steve Carell, American actore and comedian”

August 17, 1786-  Davy Crockett, frontiersman, adventurer, soldier, Died at the Alamo

August 17, 1882-  Samuel Goldwyn, film pioneer, producer

August 17, 1893-  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, singer, dancer

August 18, 1958-  Madeleine Stowe, actress

August 18, 1975-  Kaitlin Olson, American actress

August 18, 1978-  Andy Samberg, American actor, comedian

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 HaArrison, 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, 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, 1931-  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

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., baseball player

August 24, 1962-  Craig Kilborn, TV personality

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

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, 1970-  Melissa McCarthy, american actress, writer, producer

August 26, 1980-  Macaulay Culkin, actor

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

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

August 31, 1955-  Edwin Moses, champion Olympic track athlete