1896 – Dick Ryan, American actor (For Heaven’s Sake, Born to be Bad), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1969)
1905 – Sister Faustina [Helena Kowalska], Polish Roman Catholic nun and mystic, born in Głogowiec, Poland (d. 1938)
1909 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (Dames, 42nd Street), born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (d. 1993)
1916 – Frederick Robbins, American pediatrician and bacteriologist (Nobel 1954), born in Auburn, Alabama (d. 2003)
1938 – David Canary, actor (Bonanza, All My Children), born in Elwood, Indiana (d. 2015)
1942 – Margaret L. Thompson Murdock, American army and first woman to win medal for small bore rifle (Olympic silver 1976), born in Topeka, Kansas
1950 – Willy Deville [William Paul Borsey Jr.], American rock vocalist and guitarist (Mink Deville), born in Stamford, Connecticut (d. 2009)
1968 – Rachael Ray, American TV personality and chef, born in Glen Falls, New York
1983 – Janet Chow, Canadian/Chinese beauty pageant contestant
1987 – Justin Upton, American baseball player
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 24th August 2022
1694 – Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer and King of Corsica [or 8/25], born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1756)
1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway, born in Schwerin, Germany (d. 1794)
1816 – Daniel Gooch, English engineer, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables, born in Bedlington, Northumberland, England (d. 1889)
1916 – Hal Smith, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show-Otis Campbell), born in Petoskey, Michigan (d. 1994)
1942 – Joe Chambers, American rock guitarist and vocalist (Chambers Brothers), born in Los Angeles, California
1943 – Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent, born in Ness Ziona, Israel
1944 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars), born in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (d. 1996)
1968 – Benoît Brunet, Canadian NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens), born in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
1973 – Barret Oliver, American actor (The Neverending Story, Secret Garden), born in Los Angeles, California
1988 – Rupert Grint, English actor (Harry Potter), born in Harlow, Essex, England
Famous Birthdays for 23rd August 2022
1727 – Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, born in Rudolstadt, Germany (d. 1795)
1751 – Louis-Francois Beffara, French lexicographer, born in Nonancourt, France (d. 1838)
1869 – James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, San Francisco mayor (1912-31), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1934)
1905 – Leonard Constant Lambert, English composer (King Pest), born in Fulham, London (d. 1951)
1912 – Harry Kissin, Baron Kissin, British businessman and President (GPG), born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1997)
1924 – Robert Solow, American economist who developed the Solow–Swan model of economic growth (Nobel Prize, 1987), born in NYC, New York
1927 – Peter Wyngarde [Cyril Goldbert], British actor (Department S and Jason King), born in Marseille, France (d. 2018)
1953 – Ezra Idlet, American folk, rock, and family music guitarist, and singer-songwriter (Trout Fishing In America – “My Hair Had A Party Last Night”), born in San Antonio, Texas
1957 – Tasos Mitropoulos, Greek footballer and politician, born in Volos, Greece
1976 – Scott Caan, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California
Famous Birthdays for 22nd August 2022
1647 – Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine), born in Blois, France (d. 1712)
1764 – Charles Percier, French architect, born in Paris (d. 1838)
1771 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe, born in Woolwich, London (d. 1831)
1902 – Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex), born in Broadstairs, Kent (d. 1993)
1926 – Marc Bohan, French fashion designer, born in Paris
1936 – Lex Humphries, American jazz drummer (Sun Ra Arkestra), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
1949 – Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer (The Blue Tower), born in Reykjavik, Iceland
1963 – Lily Yip, Chinese-American table tennis player (Olympics 1992, 96), born in Guangzhou, China
1967 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer, born in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan (d. 1986)
1976 – Jim Weaver, American baseball pitcher (Olympic bronze 1996)
Famous Birthdays for 21st August 2022
1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, born in Tournus, France (d. 1805)
1810 – Thomas Jefferson McKean, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Burlington, Pennsylvania (d. 1870)
1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian journalist and writer (Red Laugh, Seven Hangs), born in Oryol, Russia (d. 1919)
1874 – Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1918-27), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1942)
1924 – Gerald D. Lascelles, son of English princess Mary, born in Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire (d. 1952)
1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist, born in Maastricht, Netherlands
1939 – Festus Mogae, 3rd President of Botswana (1998-2008), born in Serowe, Bechuanaland, Botswana
1967 – Serj Tankian, Armenian-born singer (System of a Down), born in Beirut, Lebanon
1978 – Alan Lee, Irish footballer, born in Galway, Ireland
1983 – Chantelle Houghton, British TV personality, born in Wickford, Essex, England
Famous Birthdays for 20th August 2022
1889 – Witold Friemann, Polish composer, born in Konin, Poland (d. 1977)
1911 – Ronald Udell, English production designer (Pinewood Studios), born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, England
1944 – Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984-89), born in Bombay, British India (d.1991)
1947 – James Pankow, American trombonist, arranger and composer (Chicago – “Make Me Smile”; “Colour My World”), born in St. Louis, Missouri
1949 – Norman Featherstone, South African cricketer, born in Que, Que, Southern Rhodesia
1954 – Theresa Saldana, American actress (Raging Bull), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
1954 – Don Stark, American actor (That ’70s Show – “Bob”), born in NYC, New York
1962 – Dong-Wook Song, South Korean tennis player, born in Seoul, South Korea
1980 – Rochelle Gadd, British actress (Hollyoaks)
1982 – Joshua Kennedy, Australian footballer (Australia national soccer team), born in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 19th August 2022
1808 – James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and inventor of the steam hammer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1890)
1860 – John Kane, Scottish-American primitivist painter (Self-Portrait), born in West Calder, Scotland (d. 1934)
1903 – Claude Dauphin, French actor (Barbarella, April in Paris, Deported), born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, France (d. 1978)
1908 – Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1974)
1935 – Alan Baker, British Mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal (1970) for his work on transcendental number theory, born in London, England
1940 – Johnny Nash, American rocker (“I Can See Clearly Now”), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2020)
1965 – James Tomkins, Australian rower (Olympics 1996)
1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player, born in Settsu, Japan
1972 – Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1983 – Mike Conway, British auto racer (FIA World Endurance C’ship 2019-20; British Formula 3 C’ship 2006), born in London, England
Famous Birthdays for 18th August 2022
1813 – Benjamin Alvord, American scientist and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Vancouver, Washington (d. 1884)
1904 – W. Sterling Cole, American politician (Rep-R-NY, Director International Atomic Energy Agency), born in Painted Post, New York (d. 1987)
1925 – Pierre Grondin, French Canadian cardiac surgeon (d. 2006)
1927 – Rosalynn Smith Carter, American 1st lady (1977-1981), born in Plains, Georgia
1930 – Liviu Librescu, Israeli professor, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre
1949 – John O’Leary, Irish golfer (Irish Open 1982; Ryder Cup 1975; director European Tour 1985-2019), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 2020)
1962 – Felipe Calderón, Mexican politician (President of Mexico, 2006–12), born in Morelia, Mexico
1966 – Steve Avery, American football running back (Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1968 – Brian Mitchell, American football running back (Washington Redskins), born in Leesville, Louisiana
1981 – Jon Schneck, American musician (Relient K), born in Eustis, Florida
Famous Birthdays for 17th August 2022
1890 – Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator (d. 1920)
1906 – Marcello Caetano, last Portuguese prime minister of the Estado Novo regime (1968-1974), born in Graça, Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1980)
1921 – Geoffery Elton, German born British historiographer, born in Tübingen, Germany (d. 1994)
1928 – Willem Duys, Dutch radio/TV host
1929 – Francis Gary Powers, American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, born in Jenkins, Kentucky (d. 1977)
1943 – Koos Postema, Dutch editor-in-chief (Vrije Volk) and TV host
1946 – Hans Vandenburg, Dutch singer/guitarist (Gruppo Sportivo)
1956 – Gail Berman, American film executive, born in Brooklyn, New York
1967 – Kevin Max, American singer (dc talk), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
1971 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball catcher (5-time MLB All Star and Silver Slugger Award; NY Yankees), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Famous Birthdays for 16th August 2022
1550 – Carolus Gallus [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer, pastor and vicar, born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1606)
1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist, psychologist and philosopher, born in Mannheim, Germany (d. 1920)
1846 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1904)
1877 – Karl Hoschna, Tin Pan Alley-era composer (Every Little Movement), born in Kuschwarda, Bohemia (d. 1911)
1895 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (Lady Hamilton), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2000)
1937 – Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, American sci-fi author (Undying Wizard)
1956 – Colleen Walker, American golfer (du Maurier Classic 1997), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2012)
1962 – Steve Carell, American actor and comedian (The Office), born in Concord, Massachusetts
1971 – Troy Alexander, CFL defensive tackle (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 – Jonatan Johansson, Finnish soccer striker, manager (106 caps; Rangers, Charlton), born in Stockholm, Sweden