| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Felix Adler |
Educator |
13-Aug-1851 |
24-Apr-1933 |
Ethical Culture |
| Giovanni Agnelli |
Business |
13-Aug-1866 |
16-Dec-1945 |
Founder of Fiat |
| Jeff Altman |
Comic |
13-Aug-1951 |
|
Pink Lady and Jeff |
| Anders Jonas Ångström |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1814 |
21-Jun-1874 |
Founder of spectroscopy |
| John Logie Baird |
Inventor |
13-Aug-1888 |
14-Jun-1946 |
Television |
| Kathleen Battle |
Singer |
13-Aug-1948 |
|
Operatic soprano |
| John Beal |
Actor |
13-Aug-1909 |
26-Apr-1997 |
The Little Minister |
| Moritz Bleibtreu |
Actor |
13-Aug-1971 |
|
Run Lola Run |
| Danny Bonaduce |
Actor |
13-Aug-1959 |
|
The Partridge Family |
| Fletcher Bowron |
Politician |
13-Aug-1887 |
11-Sep-1968 |
Mayor of Los Angeles, 1938-53 |
| Neville Brand |
Actor |
13-Aug-1920 |
16-Apr-1992 |
Birdman of Alcatraz |
| Howard Homan Buffett |
Business |
13-Aug-1903 |
30-Apr-1964 |
Congressman, father of Warren Buffett |
| Fidel Castro |
Head of State |
13-Aug-1926 |
|
Dictator of Cuba for almost fifty years |
| Sam Champion |
TV Personality |
13-Aug-1961 |
|
WABC-TV Weatherman |
| Alonzo M. Clark |
Politician |
13-Aug-1868 |
12-Oct-1952 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1931-33 |
| Bobby Clarke |
Hockey |
13-Aug-1949 |
|
Philadelphia Flyers, 1969-84 |
| Bert T. Combs |
Politician |
13-Aug-1911 |
4-Dec-1991 |
Governor of Kentucky, 1959-63 |
| Gretchen Corbett |
Actor |
13-Aug-1947 |
|
Beth Davenport on The Rockford Files |
| Quinn Cummings |
Actor |
13-Aug-1967 |
|
The Goodbye Girl |
| Lincoln Diaz-Balart |
Politician |
13-Aug-1954 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1993-2011 |
| Gloria Dickson |
Actor |
13-Aug-1916 |
10-Apr-1945 |
They Won't Forget |
| Joycelyn Elders |
Government |
13-Aug-1933 |
|
Highly opinionated Surgeon General |
| Dan Fogelberg |
Musician |
13-Aug-1951 |
16-Dec-2007 |
Leader Of The Band |
| Melvin Frank |
Screenwriter |
13-Aug-1913 |
13-Oct-1988 |
A Touch of Class |
| Assar Gabrielsson |
Business |
13-Aug-1891 |
28-May-1962 |
Co-Founder of Volvo |
| James Gillray |
Artist |
13-Aug-1756 |
1-Jun-1815 |
English caricaturist |
| Wilton Graff |
Actor |
13-Aug-1903 |
13-Jan-1969 |
Bloodlust! |
| Paul Greengrass |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1955 |
|
The Bourne Supremacy |
| Lanny Griffith |
Lobbyist |
13-Aug-1951 |
|
Lobbyist, Barbour Griffith & Rogers |
| Pat Harrington |
Actor |
13-Aug-1929 |
|
Duane Schneider on One Day at a Time |
| Alfred Hitchcock |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1899 |
29-Apr-1980 |
Master of Suspense |
| Don Ho |
Singer |
13-Aug-1930 |
14-Apr-2007 |
Hawaiian crooner, Tiny Bubbles |
| Ben Hogan |
Golf |
13-Aug-1912 |
25-Jul-1997 |
Won 63 golf tournaments |
| Hume Alexander Horan |
Diplomat |
13-Aug-1934 |
22-Jul-2004 |
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1988 |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski |
Educator |
13-Aug-1950 |
|
President, University of Maryland Baltimore |
| Rex Humbard |
Religion |
13-Aug-1919 |
21-Sep-2007 |
Televangelist |
| John Ireland |
Composer |
13-Aug-1879 |
12-Jun-1962 |
The Holy Boy |
| Rita Johnson |
Actor |
13-Aug-1913 |
31-Oct-1965 |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
| Kurt Kasznar |
Actor |
13-Aug-1913 |
6-Aug-1979 |
Fitzhugh on Land of the Giants |
| Charles B. Knapp |
Educator |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President, University of Georgia, 1987-97 |
| Koji Kondo |
Electronic Musician |
13-Aug-1960 |
|
Theme to Super Mario Brothers |
| Alfried Krupp |
Business |
13-Aug-1907 |
30-Jul-1967 |
Nazi munitions maker, convicted war criminal |
| Bert Lahr |
Actor |
13-Aug-1895 |
4-Dec-1967 |
Lion in The Wizard of Oz |
| William Lemke |
Politician |
13-Aug-1878 |
30-May-1950 |
Congressman from North Dakota, 1933-50 |
| Dawnn Lewis |
Actor |
13-Aug-1961 |
|
A Different World |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
| Heike Makatsch |
Actor |
13-Aug-1971 |
|
Love Actually |
| Bill Musselman |
Basketball |
13-Aug-1940 |
5-May-2000 |
Timberwolves Head Coach, 1989-91 |
| Annie Oakley |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1860 |
3-Nov-1926 |
Little Sure Shot |
| Camillo Olivetti |
Business |
13-Aug-1868 |
4-Dec-1943 |
Founder of Olivetti SpA |
| Russell E. Palmer |
Business |
13-Aug-1934 |
|
Dean of the Wharton School, 1983-90 |
| Philippe Petit |
Performance Artist |
13-Aug-1949 |
|
High-wire walker |
| Gene Raymond |
Actor |
13-Aug-1908 |
2-May-1998 |
Red Dust |
| Lee Raymond |
Business |
13-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of ExxonMobil, 1999-2005 |
| Kira Roessler |
Bassist |
13-Aug-1962 |
|
Black Flag bassist |
| Buddy Rogers |
Actor |
13-Aug-1904 |
21-Apr-1999 |
With Mary Pickford in My Best Girl |
| Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
|
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
| Alan Shearer |
Soccer |
13-Aug-1970 |
|
Newcastle United forward |
| George Shearing |
Jazz Musician |
13-Aug-1919 |
14-Feb-2011 |
George Shearing Quintet |
| Michael Sinterniklaas |
Actor |
13-Aug-1972 |
|
Dean on The Venture Bros. |
| John Slattery |
Actor |
13-Aug-1962 |
|
Roger on Mad Men |
| Goldwin Smith |
Historian |
13-Aug-1823 |
7-Jun-1910 |
Controversialist |
| Orin R. Smith |
Business |
13-Aug-1935 |
|
CEO of Engelhard, 1984-2001 |
| Sridevi |
Actor |
13-Aug-1963 |
|
Lamhe |
| Sebastian Stan |
Actor |
13-Aug-1983 |
|
Captain America: The First Avenger |
| George Gabriel Stokes |
Physicist |
13-Aug-1819 |
1-Feb-1903 |
Fluid dynamicist, optic waves |
| Lucy Stone |
Activist |
13-Aug-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
American Women's Suffrage Association |
| Sam Taylor |
Film Director |
13-Aug-1895 |
6-Mar-1958 |
Safety Last! |
| Kevin Tighe |
Actor |
13-Aug-1944 |
|
Roy DeSoto on Emergency! |
| Regis Toomey |
Actor |
13-Aug-1898 |
12-Oct-1991 |
Burke's Law |
| Herbert Hall Turner |
Astronomer |
13-Aug-1861 |
20-Aug-1930 |
Stellar positions |
| Peter Visclosky |
Politician |
13-Aug-1949 |
|
Congressman, Indiana 1st |
| Anna Walentynowicz |
Activist |
13-Aug-1929 |
10-Apr-2010 |
Catalyst for the Solidarnosc union |
| Wendy Whoppers |
Pornstar |
13-Aug-1968 |
|
80HHH-21-34, 38E-21-34 post reduction |
| Richard Willstätter |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1872 |
3-Aug-1942 |
Plant pigments |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |