1854 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910)
1912 – Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), born in Fremantle, West Australia (d. 1967)
1923 – Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1927 – Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austrian alpine skier (Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Lech am Arlberg, Austria
1931 – Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
1947 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan), (d. 2013)
1953 – John Zorn, American musician
1965 – Lennox Lewis, British/Canadian boxer (Olympic gold super-heavyweight 1988, undisputed world heavyweight champion 1999), born in London, England
1969 – Russell Freeman, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1971 – Rich Aurilia, infielder (SF Giants), born in Brooklyn, New York
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Famous Birthdays for 1st September 2020
1873 – Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song), born in London, England (d. 1937)
1898 – Marilyn Miller [Renolds], American actress (Sunny) and wife of Jack Pickford, born in Evansville, Indiana (d. 1936)
1904 – Ray Flaherty, American Pro Football Hall of Fame end, coach (3 x NFL Championships; Washington Redskins 1937, 42 coach), born in Lamont, Washington (d. 1994)
1911 – Komei Abe, Japanese composer, born in Hiroshima (d. 2006)
1913 – Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)
1923 – Rocky Marciano, American boxer (undefeated world heavyweight champion 1952-56), born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
1963 – Stephen Kernahan, Australian rules footballer
1968 – Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2001)
1970 – Vanna, Croatian singer
1988 – Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
Famous Birthdays for 31st August 2020
1828 – George Leonard Andrews, American professor, civil engineer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (d. 1899)
1869 – Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1890-93) and Scottish rugby union player, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1919)
1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (spontaneous response), born in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy (d. 1952)
1874 – Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (father of modern educational psychology), born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts (d. 1949)
1889 – A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball
1932 – Benito Wogatzki, writer
1940 – Jack Thompson [John Payne], Australian actor (Breaker Morant, The Man from Snowy River), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1950 – Wilton Felder, American saxophonist and bassist (The Crusaders), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2015)
1954 – Tula, [Barry Kenneth Cossey], England, transsexual (For Your Eyes Only)
1969 – Victor Alexander, NBA forward/center (NY Knicks)
Famous Birthdays for 30th August 2020
1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher and Founder of the Associationist School of Psychology, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England (d. 1757)
1842 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Eldest child of Alexander II of Russia, born in Catherine Palace, Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1849)
1945 – David Schiff, American composer, born in New York City
1945 – Fred Tackett, American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (Little Feat), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
1949 – Don Boudria, Canadian politician (MP for Glengarry–Prescott–Russell), born in Hull, Quebec, Canada
1963 – Paul Oakenfold, British record producer and DJ, born in Mile End, London
1967 – Barbara Kendall, New Zealand mistral sailor (Olympic gold 1992, silver 1996, bronze 2000), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1967 – Frederique [Van derWal], Netherlands, model (Victoria Secrets)
1971 – Joseph Fitzgerald, American team handball center back (Olympics 1996), born in Brooklyn, New York
1983 – Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer, born in Paso de los Libres, Argentina (d. 2007)
Famous Birthdays for 29th August 2020
1628 – John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1845)
1780 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter (Valpincon Bather), born in Montauban, France (d. 1867)
1871 – Albert Lebrun, President of France (1932-40), born in Mercy-le-Haut, France (d. 1950)
1898 – Preston Sturges [Edmund Biden], American director and screenwriter (Sullivan’s Travels), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1959)
1901 – Sherwin Badger, American Figure Skating Champion (1920-24), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1972)
1904 – Werner Forssmann, German urologist (Nobel 1956), born in Berlin (d. 1979)
1933 – Jehan Sadat, Widow of Anwar Sadat and 1st Lady of Egypt, born in Cairo, Egypt
1958 – Lenny Henry, British stand-up comedian (3 of a Kind), born in Dudley, West Midlands, England
1959 – Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese violinist and composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal
Famous Birthdays for 28th August 2020
1582 – Taichang Emperor [Zhu Changluo], 14th Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, born in Beijing (d. 1620)
1728 – John Stark, American military officer (Battle of Bennington), born in Londonderry, New Hampshire (d. 1822)
1894 – Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter and sculptor (Iron Tower) (d. 1986)
1906 – John Betjeman, poet (Mount Zion) and English Poet Laureate (1972-1984), born in London (d. 1984)
1925 – Donald O’Connor, American dancer and actor (Singin’ in the Rain), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman (CEO – Porsche AG), born in Ahlen, Germany
1970 – Jaime Fields, NFL/WLAF linebacker (KC Chiefs, Scotland Claymores), born in Compton, California (d. 1999)
1972 – John Buchanan, American actor (Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man), born in Tallahassee, Florida
1975 – Jamie Cureton, English footballer (Bishop’s Stortford), born in Bristol, England
1982 – Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer, born in São Paulo, Brazil
Famous Birthdays for 27th August 2020
1545 – Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Italian diplomat, born in Rome (d. 1592)
1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician, born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (d. 1751)
1739 – Michel-Richard Delalande, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1812)
1832 – James A. Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta County, Virginia (d. 1901)
1865 – James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist and anthropologist, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 1935)
1897 – Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1989)
1913 – Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, born in Oban, Scotland (d. 1994)
1935 – Michael Holroyd, author
1947 – Ed Herrmann, MLB catcher (White Sox), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
Famous Birthdays for 26th August 2020
1915 – Humphrey Searle, England, writer (20th Century counterpoint)
1938 – Francine York, Aurora Minn, actress (Slattery’s People)
1945 – Melvin Watt, (Rep-D-North Carolina)
1952 – Will Shortz, American crossword editor
1954 – Steve Wright, Britain’s wacky DJ/actor (Funny Man)
1961 – Jimmy Olander, American country guitarist and banjo player (Diamond Rio – “Meet in Middle”), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
1969 – Nicole Arendt, Somerville NJ, tennis star (1996 Aust doubles finalist)
1976 – Carey Tally, soccer midfielder (Olympic gold 1996), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Famous Birthdays for 25th August 2020
1530 – Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia (d. 1584)
1846 – Judith Gautier, French poetess, novelist (Le Dragon Impérial) and daughter of Theophile Gautier, born in Paris (d. 1917)
1868 – Nikolaos Levidis, Greek shooter, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1942)
1898 – Arthur Wood, English cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests, 11 dismissals), born in Bradford, England (d. 1973)
1931 – Regis Philbin, American talk and game show host (Joey Bishop Show; Live with Regis and Kathie Lee; Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2020)
1934 – Valery F. Bykovsky, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39), born in Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union
1958 – Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1971 – Mike Lockwood, professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1972 – Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
1987 – Luka Šulić, Slovenian-Croatian cellist (2Cellos), born in Maribor, Slovenia
Famous Birthdays for 24th August 2020
1909 – Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricket wicket-keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939), born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa (d. 1998)
1911 – Michel Pablo [Michalis N. Raptis], Chilean-Greek writer and Trotskyist revolutionary (Fourth International), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1996)
1918 – Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Governor of Kerala, born in Delhi, India (d. 2004)
1919 – Nils Viggo Bentzon, Danish pianist and composer (The Tempered Piano), born in Copenhagen (d. 2000)
1934 – Roger Donald Dickerson, American composer (New Orleans Concerto) born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1938 – Mason Williams, American musician, songwriter, author and photographer (“Classical Gas”, Smother Brothers Comedy Hour), born in Abilene, Texas
1951 – Orson Scott Card, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender’s War), born in Richland, Washington
1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit), born in Brooklyn, New York
1960 – Franz Viehböck, Austrian 1st cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13), born in Vienna, Austria
1970 – Dan Henderson, American mixed martial artist (UFC 17 Middleweight Tournament 1998; Rings: King of Kings Tournament 1999), born in Downey, California