| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Amy Adams |
Actor |
20-Aug-1974 |
|
Junebug |
| George Aiken |
Politician |
20-Aug-1892 |
19-Nov-1984 |
Governor and Senator from Vermont |
| Joan Allen |
Actor |
20-Aug-1956 |
|
Mother in Pleasantville |
| Francis Asbury |
Religion |
20-Aug-1745 |
31-Mar-1816 |
Father of American Methodism |
| John Ball |
Naturalist |
20-Aug-1818 |
21-Oct-1889 |
Irish Alpinist |
| Greg Bear |
Author |
20-Aug-1951 |
|
Eon |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius |
Chemist |
20-Aug-1779 |
7-Aug-1848 |
Inventor of modern chemical notation |
| Gloria Brame |
Author |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Clinical sexologist |
| Rossella Brescia |
Dancer |
20-Aug-1971 |
|
Italian ballerina |
| Rich Brooks |
Football |
20-Aug-1941 |
|
Kentucky Wildcats Head Coach |
| John Carmack |
Computer Programmer |
20-Aug-1970 |
|
Lead programmer of Doom, Quake |
| Kathy Castor |
Politician |
20-Aug-1966 |
|
Congresswoman, Florida 11th |
| Connie Chung |
Journalist |
20-Aug-1946 |
|
NBC news anchor |
| Robert Clark |
Actor |
20-Aug-1986 |
|
The Zack Files |
| Gary Collins |
Football |
20-Aug-1940 |
|
Former Cleveland Browns WR |
| John Cooksey |
Politician |
20-Aug-1941 |
|
Congressman from Louisiana, 1997-2003 |
| Dimebag Darrell |
Guitarist |
20-Aug-1966 |
8-Dec-2004 |
Lead guitarist for Pantera |
| Fred Durst |
Musician |
20-Aug-1970 |
|
Lead singer of Limp Bizkit |
| George C. Eads |
Economist |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81 |
| Don Fuqua |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 1963-87 |
| Rajiv Gandhi |
Head of State |
20-Aug-1944 |
21-May-1991 |
Prime Minister of India 1984-9 |
| Rudy Gatlin |
Country Musician |
20-Aug-1952 |
|
The Gatlin Brothers |
| Carlos de Singuenza y Góngora |
Mathematician |
20-Aug-1645 |
22-Aug-1700 |
Mathematician, historian of the New World |
| William H. Gray |
Politician |
20-Aug-1941 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91 |
| Frank J. Guarini |
Politician |
20-Aug-1924 |
|
Congressman from New Jersey, 1979-93 |
| Edgar Guest |
Poet |
20-Aug-1881 |
5-Aug-1959 |
A Heap o' Livin' |
| Benjamin Harrison |
Head of State |
20-Aug-1833 |
13-Mar-1901 |
23rd President of the US, 1889-93 |
| Isaac Hayes |
Musician |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Black Moses, formerly Chef on South Park |
| Todd Helton |
Baseball |
20-Aug-1973 |
|
Colorado Rockies |
| Rubén Hinojosa |
Politician |
20-Aug-1940 |
|
Congressman, Texas 15th |
| Peter Horton |
Actor |
20-Aug-1953 |
|
thirtysomething |
| Ralf Hütter |
Electronic Musician |
20-Aug-1946 |
|
Kraftwerk |
| Don King |
Boxing |
20-Aug-1931 |
|
Boxing promoter |
| KRS-One |
Rapper |
20-Aug-1965 |
|
Father figure for hip-hop |
| Lawrence Kudlow |
Economist |
20-Aug-1947 |
|
Kudlow & Cramer |
| Al Lopez |
Baseball |
20-Aug-1908 |
30-Oct-2005 |
Catcher, manager in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| H. P. Lovecraft |
Author |
20-Aug-1890 |
15-Mar-1937 |
Necronomicon and Cthulhu mythos author |
| Phil Lynott |
Musician |
20-Aug-1949 |
4-Jan-1986 |
Founder of Thin Lizzy |
| Colin MacInnes |
Novelist |
20-Aug-1914 |
22-Apr-1976 |
Absolute Beginners |
| James Marsters |
Actor |
20-Aug-1962 |
|
Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Sylvester McCoy |
Actor |
20-Aug-1943 |
|
The 7th Doctor Who |
| George J. Mitchell |
Politician |
20-Aug-1933 |
|
US Senator from Maine, 1980-95 |
| Peter Norbeck |
Politician |
20-Aug-1870 |
20-Dec-1936 |
US Senator from South Dakota, 1921-36 |
| Bernardo O'Higgins |
Head of State |
20-Aug-1778 |
24-Oct-1842 |
Supreme Director of Chile 1817-23 |
| Ron Paul |
Politician |
20-Aug-1935 |
|
Congressman, Texas 14th |
| Harry J. Pearce |
Business |
20-Aug-1942 |
|
Vice Chairman of GM, 1996-2001 |
| Jacopo Peri |
Composer |
20-Aug-1561 |
12-Aug-1633 |
Dafne, the first opera |
| Eckhard Pfeiffer |
Business |
20-Aug-1941 |
|
CEO of Compaq, 1991-99 |
| Robert Plant |
Singer |
20-Aug-1948 |
|
Lead singer of Led Zeppelin |
| J. H. Plumb |
Historian |
20-Aug-1911 |
21-Oct-2001 |
England in the Eighteenth Century |
| Fernando Poe, Jr. |
Politician |
20-Aug-1939 |
13-Dec-2004 |
Filipino actor turned presidential candidate |
| Salvatore Quasimodo |
Poet |
20-Aug-1901 |
14-Jun-1968 |
Acque e terre |
| John Rauch |
Football |
20-Aug-1927 |
10-Jun-2008 |
Raiders Head Coach, 1966-68 |
| Alan Reed |
Actor |
20-Aug-1907 |
14-Jun-1977 |
Voice of Fred Flintstone |
| Jim Reeves |
Country Musician |
20-Aug-1923 |
31-Jul-1964 |
He'll Have to Go |
| Al Roker |
TV Personality |
20-Aug-1954 |
|
Today Show weatherman |
| Frank Rosolino |
Jazz Musician |
20-Aug-1926 |
26-Nov-1978 |
Jazz trombonist, Turn Me Loose! |
| David O. Russell |
Film Director |
20-Aug-1958 |
|
I Heart Huckabees |
| Eero Saarinen |
Architect |
20-Aug-1910 |
1-Sep-1961 |
Designed IBM's Watson Research Centre |
| Eliel Saarinen |
Architect |
20-Aug-1873 |
1-Jul-1950 |
Finnish-American art nouveau architect |
| Theresa Saldana |
Actor |
20-Aug-1954 |
|
Raging Bull |
| Terry Sanford |
Politician |
20-Aug-1917 |
18-Apr-1998 |
Governor and Senator from North Carolina |
| Hideki Shirakawa |
Chemist |
20-Aug-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
| DeForest Soaries |
Government |
20-Aug-1951 |
|
US Election Assistance Commission |
| Roger W. Sperry |
Scientist |
20-Aug-1913 |
17-Apr-1994 |
"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology |
| Don Stark |
Actor |
20-Aug-1954 |
|
Bob Pinciotti on That 70's Show |
| Eduard Suess |
Geologist |
20-Aug-1831 |
26-Apr-1914 |
Das Antlitz der Erde |
| Kathleen Sullivan |
Scholar |
20-Aug-1955 |
|
Scholar of constitutional law |
| Jacqueline Susann |
Novelist |
20-Aug-1918 |
21-Sep-1974 |
Valley of the Dolls |
| Jack Teagarden |
Jazz Musician |
20-Aug-1905 |
15-Jan-1964 |
Virtuoso trombonist and jazz bandleader |
| Nicholas G. Thacher |
Diplomat |
20-Aug-1915 |
|
US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1970-73 |
| Paul Tillich |
Religion |
20-Aug-1886 |
22-Oct-1965 |
Systematic Theology |
| David Walliams |
Comic |
20-Aug-1971 |
|
Little Britain |
