| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Pope Alexander VI |
Religion |
1-Jan-1431 |
18-Aug-1503 |
Divided the New World for Portugal, Spain |
| Susan Mary Alsop |
Socialite |
19-Jun-1918 |
18-Aug-2004 |
Washington DC Socialite |
| Honoré de Balzac |
Novelist |
20-May-1799 |
18-Aug-1850 |
Comédie Humaine |
| Hildegard Behrens |
Singer |
9-Feb-1937 |
18-Aug-2009 |
Operatic soprano |
| Elmer Bernstein |
Composer |
4-Apr-1922 |
18-Aug-2004 |
Scored The Magnificent Seven |
| Ralph Byrd |
Actor |
22-Apr-1909 |
18-Aug-1952 |
Dick Tracy |
| Walter P. Chrysler |
Business |
2-Apr-1875 |
18-Aug-1940 |
Founder of Chrysler Corporation |
| Kim Dae-Jung |
Head of State |
3-Dec-1925 |
18-Aug-2009 |
South Korean President, 1998-2003 |
| Mildred Davis |
Actor |
22-Feb-1901 |
18-Aug-1969 |
Silent film actress |
| Michael Deaver |
Government |
11-Apr-1938 |
18-Aug-2007 |
Reagan Deputy Chief of Staff |
| E. R. Eddison |
Novelist |
24-Nov-1882 |
18-Aug-1945 |
The Worm Ouroboros |
| Hiram Fong |
Politician |
15-Oct-1906 |
18-Aug-2004 |
US Senator from Hawaii, 1959-77 |
| Federico García Lorca |
Poet |
5-Jun-1898 |
18-Aug-1936 |
Lament for a Bullfighter |
| Learned Hand |
Judge |
27-Jan-1872 |
18-Aug-1961 |
Influential American justice |
| Outerbridge Horsey |
Diplomat |
1-Oct-1910 |
18-Aug-1983 |
US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1963-66 |
| W. H. Hudson |
Author |
4-Aug-1841 |
18-Aug-1922 |
Green Mansions |
| John Pendleton Kennedy |
Politician |
25-Oct-1795 |
18-Aug-1870 |
Horse-Shoe Robinson |
| Genghis Khan |
Royalty |
c. 1162 AD |
18-Aug-1227 |
World's most successful conqueror |
| Anita Loos |
Novelist |
26-Apr-1893 |
18-Aug-1981 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Andrew Marvell |
Poet |
31-Mar-1621 |
18-Aug-1678 |
English poet and member of Parliament |
| Christopher McCandless |
Victim |
12-Feb-1968 |
18-Aug-1992 |
Subject of Into the Wild |
| Scott McKenzie |
Singer |
10-Jan-1939 |
18-Aug-2012 |
San Francisco |
| Robert Novak |
Columnist |
26-Feb-1931 |
18-Aug-2009 |
Conservative ideologue, outed Valerie Plame |
| Rafaela Ottiano |
Actor |
4-Mar-1888 |
18-Aug-1942 |
Grand Hotel |
| George Washington Owen |
Politician |
20-Oct-1796 |
18-Aug-1837 |
Congressman from Alabama, 1823-29 |
| Pope Paul IV |
Religion |
28-Jun-1476 |
18-Aug-1559 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1555-59 |
| Guido Reni |
Painter |
4-Nov-1575 |
18-Aug-1642 |
Painter of the Bolognese school |
| Jerome J. Shestack |
Attorney |
11-Feb-1923 |
18-Aug-2011 |
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis |
| Morton Shulman |
Politician |
25-Apr-1925 |
18-Aug-2000 |
Ontario MPP, iconoclast |
| B. F. Skinner |
Psychologist |
20-Mar-1904 |
18-Aug-1990 |
Radical Behaviorism |
| John Sturges |
Film Director |
3-Jan-1911 |
18-Aug-1992 |
The Great Escape |
| Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
| Günther von Kluge |
Military |
30-Oct-1882 |
18-Aug-1944 |
Nazi general |
| Walafrid Strabo |
Religion |
c. 808 AD |
18-Aug-849 AD |
Glosa ordinaria |
| Otto Wichterle |
Chemist |
27-Oct-1913 |
18-Aug-1998 |
Invented soft contact lenses |