1613 – Cristoph Kaldenbach, Prussian poet, born in Schwiebus, Prussia (now Świebodzin, Poland) (d. 1698)
1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer, born in DresdenSaxony (now Germany) (d. 1812)
1862 – Carrie Jacobs-Bond, American singer, pianist, songwriter (I Love You Truly; A Perfect Day), born in Janesville, Wisconsin (d. 1946)
1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist focusing on the Lower Mississippi Valley, born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1994)
1904 – Jess Stacy, American jazz pianist (Benny Goodman, 1935-39; the Great Gatsby), born in Bird’s Point, Missouri (d. 1995)
1919 – June Hutton [Cowan], American pop vocalist (Charlie Spivak Orchestra; The Pied Pipers, 1944-50 – “I’ll Never Smile Again”; Afterglow), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1973)
1933 – Julian Oswald, British Admiral of the Fleet, widened women’s role in the services, born near Invergordon, Scotland (d. 2011)
1954 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1973 – Edgardo Alfonzo, Venezualan MLB infielder, 1995-2006 (NY Mets; San Francisco Giants, and 2 other teams), born in Miranda, Venezuela
1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player (WSOP Player of the Year 2008), born in Burney, California
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 10th August 2024
1912 – Romain Maes, Belgian road cyclist (Tour de France 1935), born in Zerkegem, Belgium (d. 1983)
1914 – Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine auto racer (11 x F1 GP) and horse trainer, polo player, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1973)
1943 – Michael Mantler, Austrian javant-garde jazz trumpeter and contemporary music composer, born in Vienna, Austria
1947 – Ian Anderson, Scottish rock singer, flute player, guitarist, and songwriter (Jethro Tull – “Bungle In The Jungle”; “Aqualung”; “Locomotive Breath”), born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
1952 – Diane Venora, American actress (Bird), born in East Hartford, Connecticut
1965 – John Starks, American NBA basketball guard, 1990-2002 (NY Knicks, and 3 other teams), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1967 – Carlos Briceno, American beach volleyball (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Fountain Valley, California
1967 – Philippe Albert, Belgian former footballer
1968 – Michael Bivins, American pop and RandB vocalist (New Edition – “Cool It Now”; Bell Biv Devoe – “Do Me!”), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese pop singer (Dream Morning Musume), born in Muroran, Hokkaidō, Japan
Famous Birthdays for 9th August 2024
1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect and builder, born in Prague (d. 1766)
1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit priest and scientist, born in Mannheim, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1778)
1895 – Nathaniel “Nat” Pendleton, American wrestler (Olympics 1920, Silver) and actor (The Thin Man, Reckless), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1967)
1918 – Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (Dirty Dozen), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1983)
1921 – Ernest Angley, American Christian televangelist, born in Gastonia, North Carolina (d. 2021)
1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), born in Boca Raton, Florida (d. 2014)
1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
1962 – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German politician, Leader of Christian Democratic Union (2018-), born in Völklingen, West Germany
1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs) and coach (Chicago Bulls), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1970 – Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist (CNN, since 2013; ABC, 2006-13), born in Queens, New York
Famous Birthdays for 8th August 2024
1763 – Charles Bulfinch, 1st US professional architect (Massachusetts State House), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1844)
1884 – Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet (Pulitzer Prize 1918 “Love Songs”), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1933)
1886 – Daniel Ruyneman, Dutch composer and pianist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1963)
1886 – Pietro Alessandro Yon, Italian organist and composer, born in Settimo Vittone, Italy (d. 1943)
1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron – Nobel 1939), born in Canton, South Dakota (d. 1958)
1930 – Nita Talbot [Anita Sokol], American actress (Hogan’s Heroes; Supertrain; Here We Go Again), born in New York City
1951 – Martin Brest, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), born in The Bronx, New York
1973 – Shane Lee, Australian cricketer (NSW, Somerset and Australian), born in Wollongong, Australia
1974 – Scott D’Amore, Canadian professional wrestler and manager, born in Windsor, Ontario
1974 – Andy Priaulx, British race car driver
Famous Birthdays for 7th August 2024
1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician (Poisson distribution) and economist, born in Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia (d. 1931)
1902 – Ann Harding, American actress (East is West, Janie), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1981)
1930 – Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer, specializing in choral music (Curse Upon Iron (Raua needmine)), born in Kuusalu, Estonia (d. 2017)
1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American polymath and sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon), born in Shreveport, Louisiana (d. 2017)
1935 – Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American jazz multi-instrumentalist (Bright Moments; The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1977)
1952 – Ian Hobson, British pianist, opera conductor and music professor, born in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
1953 – Anne Fadiman, American writer, born in New York City
1966 – Kristin Hersch, American singer and songwriter (Throwing Muses), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1973 – Danny Graves, American baseball player, born in South Vietnam
1976 – Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer, born in Piraeus, Greece
Famous Birthdays for 6th August 2024
1875 – Marcel Labey, French conductor and composer, born in Vésinet, France (d. 1968)
1906 – Vic Dickenson, American jazz trombonist, born in Xenia, Ohio (d. 1984)
1916 – Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister (1955-58, 1971-84), born in Bormla, Malta (d. 2012)
1926 – Frank Finlay, British actor (Robbery, Lifeforce), born in Farnworth Lancashire (d. 2016)
1932 – Howard Hodgkin, British abstract painter, born in London (d. 2017)
1960 – Aldo Jones [Albert Mansis], American rockabilly bassist and singer (Ben Vaughn Combo), born in Yonkers, New York (d. 2001)
1967 – Willie Williams, NFL/CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts, New Orleans Saints)
1974 – Adrian Voinea, Focsani Romania, tennis star (1995 Malta)
1975 – Jamie McGonnigal, American actor
1983 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
Famous Birthdays for 5th August 2024
1910 – Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist/author (A Country), (d. 1996)
1914 – Parley Baer, American radio, film and television character actor (Gunsmoke; The Andy Griffith Show – “Mayor Stoner”), born in Salt Lake City Utah (d. 2002)
1930 – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (1993-98), born in Ľubiša, Czechoslovakia (d. 2016)
1937 – Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer (Smithsonian’s Minor Planet Center (MPC), 1978-2006), born in Cambridge, England (d. 2010)
1942 – Rick Huxley, British rock guitarist (Dave Clark Five – “Glad All Over”), born in Dartford, England (d. 2013)
1968 – Tokimitsu Ishizawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 – Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1972 – John Wasdin, American baseball pitcher, 1997-2009 (Oakland A’s, Boston Red Sox, 5 other MLB and 2 Japanese teams), born in Ft Belvoir, Virginia
1978 – Lorrie Fair, American soccer midfielder (120 caps; FIFA Women’s World Cup gold 1999; Olympics silver 2000; Philadelphia Charge, Olympique Lyonnais, Chelsea), born in Los Altos, California
1980 – Jason Čulina, Australian soccer player (Twente), born in Melbourne, Australia
Famous Birthdays for 4th August 2024
1731 – Giuseppe Colla, Italian composer, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1806)
1900 – Arturo Umberto Illia, President of Argentina (1963-66), born in Pergamino, Argentina (d. 1983)
1902 – Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player, born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1981)
1904 – Theodore Newton, American actor (Ace of Aces, Voltaire), born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (d. 1963)
1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor, born in Munich (d. 1994)
1940 – (Rosemary Timothy) “Timi” Yuro, American RandB and soul singer-songwriter (“Hurt”), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
1952 – Bobby Buntrock, actor (Harold Baxter-Hazel), born in Denver, Colorado
1962 – Lori Lightfoot, American lawyer and politician, 1st female African American Mayor of Chicago (2019-), born in Massillon, Ohio
1968 – Darcy Arreola, 1.5k runner, born in La Mesa, California
1975 – Kaipo Spenser, Wailuku HI, baseball pitcher (Olympic bronze 1996)
Famous Birthdays for 3rd August 2024
1847 – Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer and tutor of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1932)
1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, Scottish inventor (devised an early motion picture camera), born in Le Minihic-sur-Rance, Brittany, France (d. 1935)
1887 – Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (Lithuania, The Soldier), born in Rugby, England (d. 1915)
1901 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish Cardinal, born in Zuzela, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1981)
1918 – Larry Haines [Hecht], American actor (The Odd Couple, Search for Tomorrow), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 2008)
1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2008)
1941 – Martha Stewart, American business magnate and TV personality who founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1964 – Johnny Thomas, American NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers), born in Houston, Texas
1972 – Sandis Ozolinsh, NHL defenseman (Colorado Avalanche), born in Riga, Latvia
1975 – N. D. Kalu, American defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Birthdays for 2nd August 2024
1552 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (1598-1605) and chief adviser to Tsar Fyodor I, born in Vyazma, Russia (d. 1605)
1834 – Isaac Capadose, Dutch clergyman in the Catholic Apostolic Church, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1920)
1865 – Irving Babbitt, American writer (Rousseau and Romanticism), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1933)
1899 – Charles Bennett, English screenwriter, born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England (d. 1995)
1924 – Ismond Rosen, South African born psychoanalyst and artist (book on Sexual Deviation), born in Johannesburg, South Africa (d. 1996)
1933 – Alan Tuffin, British trade union leader (d. 2017)
1955 – Jimmy Lowe, American country singer (Pirates of Mississippi – “Feed Jake”), born in Nashville, Tennessee
1960 – David Yow, American musician (Scratch Acid; The Jesus Lizard), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
1973 – Karina Habsudova, Slovak tennis player (1995 Futures Czech), born in Bojnice, Slovakia
1975 – Mineiro [Carlos Luciano da Silva], Brazilian footballer, born in Porto Alegre, Brazil