1839 – Nelson Appleton Miles, American Major General (Union Army), born in Westminster, Massachusetts (d. 1925)
1904 – (William) Elmo Tanner, American big band singer, whistler (Ted Weems Orchestra – “Heartaches”), bandleader, and DJ, born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1990)
1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (King Kong), born in Torre Annunziata, Italy (d. 2010)
1926 – Ferdinando Orlandi, Italian actor (The House with Laughing Windows), born in Italy (d. 1991)
1928 – Ken Scowcroft, English insurance magnate and founder of Swinton Insurance (1957), born in England (d. 2018)
1930 – Jerry Tarkanian, American collegiate basketball coach (California State, UNLV, Fresno State; career record: 784–202), born in Euclid, Ohio (d. 2015)
1955 – Diddú [Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir], Icelandic soprano and songwriter, born in Reykjavík, Iceland
1966 – Chris Eubank, English boxer (WBO middleweight and super-middleweight titles), born in London, England
1970 – José Francisco Molina, Spanish soccer goalkeeper (9 caps; Atlético Madrid, Deportivo La Coruña) and manager (Villarreal CF), born in Valencia, Spain
1980 – Mike Hindert, American rock bassist (The Bravery), born in the USA
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Famous Birthdays for 7th August 2025
317 – Constantius II, Roman Emperor (337-61), born in Sirmium, Pannonia Inferior (d. 361)
1902 – Ann Harding, American actress (East is West, Janie), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1981)
1910 – Clark Poling, American US Army chaplain and Protestant minister (The Four Chaplains), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1943)
1927 – Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, American actor (Our Gang; Beginner’s Luck; General Spanky), born in Paris, Illinois (d. 1959)
1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American polymath and sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 2017)
1941 – Ken Jones, Welsh rugby union centre (14 caps Wales, 6 British Lions; Cardiff RFC, London Welsh RFC, Barbarian FC), born in Cross Hands, Wales (d. 2022)
1944 – John Glover, American actor (52 Pick-Up, Something Special), born in Kingston, New York
1963 – Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor, born in Brooklyn, New York
1973 – Kevin Muscat, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics 1996), born in Crawley, United Kingdom
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress (Mad Max, The Cider House Rules, Monster), born in Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
Famous Birthdays for 6th August 2025
1609 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset (d. 1675)
1873 – John Wesley Work Jr., 1st African-American collector of folk songs and spirituals, born in Nashville, Tennessee (or 1871) (d. 1925)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (Senate Majority Leader), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 1952)
1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league winger (32 Tests Great Britain; Wigan RLFC 488 games), born in Cardiff, Wales
1941 – (Doris) “Sorrel” Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass Woman), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2020)
1949 – Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), born in Campobasso, Italy (d. 1993)
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality (“Hey Hey It’s Saturday”, Dancing with the Stars”), born in Geelong, Victoria
1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball infielder (#1 pick 1978 MLB Draft; NL Rookie of the Year 1978; MLB All-Star 1982; Hit 4 HRs in one game July 6, 1986; Atlanta Braves), born in Junction City, Kansas
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies), born in Ipoh, Federation of Malaya
1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress (Downfall), born in Göttingen, West Germany
Famous Birthdays for 6th August 2025
1609 – Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset (d. 1675)
1873 – John Wesley Work Jr., 1st African-American collector of folk songs and spirituals, born in Nashville, Tennessee (or 1871) (d. 1925)
1877 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (Senate Majority Leader), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 1952)
1934 – Billy Boston, Welsh rugby league winger (32 Tests Great Britain; Wigan RLFC 488 games), born in Cardiff, Wales
1941 – (Doris) “Sorrel” Hays, American pianist and composer (The Glass Woman), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2020)
1949 – Dino Bravo, Canadian professional wrestler (WWF), born in Campobasso, Italy (d. 1993)
1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television personality (“Hey Hey It’s Saturday”, Dancing with the Stars”), born in Geelong, Victoria
1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball infielder (#1 pick 1978 MLB Draft; NL Rookie of the Year 1978; MLB All-Star 1982; Hit 4 HRs in one game July 6, 1986; Atlanta Braves), born in Junction City, Kansas
1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Chinese-Malaysian actress (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies), born in Ipoh, Federation of Malaya
1965 – Juliane Köhler, German actress (Downfall), born in Göttingen, West Germany
Famous Birthdays for 5th August 2025
1540 – Joseph Justus Scaliger, French-Dutch scholar (revolutionised ideas about ancient chronology), born in Agen, France (d. 1609)
1828 – Giovanni Rossi, Italian composer, born in Borgo San Donnino, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (d. 1886)
1906 – Wassely Leontief, Russian American economist (Nobel 1973), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1999)
1923 – Devan Nair, Singaporean politician, President of Singapore (1981-85), born in Melaka (d. 2005)
1937 – Alan Howard, English theater and film actor (Royal Shakespeare Company), born in London, England (d. 2015)
1946 – Gary Beban, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1967, UCLA: NFL: Washington Redskins), born in San Francisco, California
1965 – M V Sridhar, Indian cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad v Andhra Pradesh 1994), born in Vijayawada, India (d. 2017)
1969 – Vasbert Drakes, West Indian cricket all-rounder (12 Tests, 1 x 50, HS 67, 33 wickets; 34 ODIs; Barbados, Sussex CCC, Border), born in Springhead, Barbados
1980 – Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player (Twente), born in Melbourne, Australia
1983 – Kara Tointon, English actress (EastEnders), born in Basildon, England
Famous Birthdays for 4th August 2025
1502 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), born in Aelst (d. 1550)
1521 – Pope Urban VII, Roman head of the Catholic Church and shortest recognized ruler of the Papal States, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1590)
1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, Viscount Trentham, English politician in the House of Lords, born in England (d. 1803)
1748 – Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, born in Melk, Austria (d. 1833)
1818 – Lovell Harrison Rosseau, American lawyer politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Stanford, Kentucky (d. 1869)
1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1994)
1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor, born in Khandwa, Central Provinces, British India (d. 1987)
1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor (The Sopranos), born in North Adams, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
1939 – Frankie Ford [Guzzo], American rock vocalist (“Sea Cruise”), born in Gretna, Louisiana, (d. 2015)
1992 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor (Suite Life of Zack and Cody), born in Arezzo, Italy
Famous Birthdays for 3rd August 2025
1850 – Reginald Heber Roe, 1st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland and 2nd Headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, born in Blandford, Dorset, England (d. 1926)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1999)
1921 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress and entertainer (Champion, The Lemon Drop Kid, East of Sumatra), born in Clarinda, Iowa (d. 1972)
1924 – Max van der Stoel, Dutch politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (PvdA), born in Voorschoten, Netherlands (d. 2011)
1926 – Tony Bennett [Benedetto], American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning pop and jazz singer (“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”; “Steppin’ Out With My Baby”), and painter, born in Long Island City, Queens, New York (d. 2023)
1946 – Jacques Teugels, Belgian soccer defender (13 caps; RSC Anderlecht, RWD Molenbeek), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 2024)
1956 – Kirk Brandon, British punk rock and new wave singer-songwriter (Theatre of Hate; Spear of Destiny – Outland), born in Westminster, London
1967 – Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor (Amélie) and director (La Haine), born in Paris, France
1973 – Kurt Grote, American swimmer (Olympic gold 4×100m medley 1996; World C’ship gold 200m breaststroke 1998), born in Palo Alto, California
Famous Birthdays for 2nd August 2025
1552 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605) and chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I, born in Vyazma, Russia (d. 1605)
1802 – Nicholas Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster (1860-65), born in Sevilla, Spain (d. 1865)
1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (The Pony Express Girl), born in San Rafael, California (d. 1971)
1924 – Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2005)
1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), born in Chadderton, Lancashire (d. 1990)
1938 – Pierre de Bané, French Canadian politician (Senator for De la Vallière, Quebec. 1984-2013; Member of Parliament. 1968-84), born in Haifa, British Mandate for Palestine (d. 2019)
1939 – Benjamin Barber, American political theorist (Jihad vs. McWorld), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh session and touring guitarist (Amen Corner; Roger Waters; Eric Clapton; George Harrison), born in Ystrad Mynach, Wales
1952 – Paul David Crews, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in South Carolina (d. 2022)
1992 – Hallie Eisenberg, American actress, born in East Brunswick, New Jersey
Famous Birthdays for 1st August 2025
1881 – Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958)
1902 – Hendrik Johan Kruls, Dutch general and chief military authority (1944-46), born in Amsterdam (d. 1975)
1903 – Paul Horgan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Mountain Standard Time), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995)
1911 – Ronald MacDonald, British major-general (WWII), born in Quetta, British India (d. 2005)
1931 – Monty Losowsky, British physician and medical educator (St. James University Hospital in Leeds, 1962-96), born in London (d. 2020)
1933 – Richard Lloyd Jones, British Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Office (1985–93), born in Sculcoates, England
1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire, born in Nailsea, Somerset
1951 – Robin Heifetz, American contemporary classical composer, born in Los Angeles, California
1963 – Demián Bichir, Mexican-American actor (A Better Life), born in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
1978 – Edgerrin James, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), born in Immokalee, Florida
Famous Birthdays for 31st July 2025
1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William of Orange, born in Antwerp (d. 1648)
1830 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opočno, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892)
1848 – Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903)
1944 – Robert C. Merton, American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics, born in New York City
1957 – Leon Durham, American baseball 1st baseman, outfielder (Chicago Cubs; MLB All Star 1982-83, born in Cincinnati, Ohio
1957 – Daniel Ash, British punk rock singer-songwriter (Bauhaus), born in Northampton, England
1958 – Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner (NBA’s Dallas Mavericks), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1962 – Troy Murray, Canadian NHL center, broadcaster (Chicago Black Hawks), born in Calgary, Alberta
1989 – Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player (Australian Open 2012-13), born in Minsk, Belarus
1992 – José Fernández, Cuban-American MLB player (Miami Marlins), born in Santa Clara, Cuba (d. 2016)