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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
Charles Arnt
Actor
20-Aug-1906 6-Aug-1990 Remember the Night
Francis Asbury
Religion
20-Aug-1745 31-Mar-1816 Father of American Methodism
John Ball
Naturalist
20-Aug-1818 21-Oct-1889 Irish Alpinist
Ben Barnes
Actor
20-Aug-1981   Prince Caspian
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
Misha Collins
Actor
20-Aug-1974   Castiel on Supernatural
John Cooksey
Politician
20-Aug-1941   Congressman from Louisiana, 1997-2003
William Edward Cousins
Religion
20-Aug-1902 14-Sep-1988 Archbishop of Milwaukee, 1958-77
Dimebag Darrell
Guitarist
20-Aug-1966 8-Dec-2004 Lead guitarist for Pantera
Forrest C. Donnell
Politician
20-Aug-1884 3-Mar-1980 Governor and Senator from Missouri
Fred Durst
Musician
20-Aug-1970   Lead singer of Limp Bizkit
George C. Eads
Economist
20-Aug-1942   Council of Economic Advisers, 1979-81
Doug Fieger
Singer/Songwriter
20-Aug-1952 14-Feb-2010 Lead singer of The Knack
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
Billy Gardell
Actor
20-Aug-1969   Mike Biggs on Mike & Molly
Andrew Garfield
Actor
20-Aug-1983   The Social Network
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'
Virginia Hammond
Actor
20-Aug-1893 6-Apr-1972 Romeo and Juliet
Benjamin Harrison
Head of State
20-Aug-1833 13-Mar-1901 23rd President of the US, 1889-93
Isaac Hayes
Musician
20-Aug-1942 10-Aug-2008 Theme from Shaft
Todd Helton
Baseball
20-Aug-1973   Colorado Rockies
Rubén Hinojosa
Politician
20-Aug-1940   Congressman, Texas 15th
Kaneaster Hodges, Jr.
Politician
20-Aug-1938   US Senator from Arkansas, 1977-79
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
Mark Langston
Baseball
20-Aug-1960   MLB pitcher, 2464 strikeouts
Al Lopez
Baseball
20-Aug-1908 30-Oct-2005 Catcher, manager, MLB Hall-of-Famer
Demi Lovato
Actor
20-Aug-1992   Camp Rock
H. P. Lovecraft
Author
20-Aug-1890 15-Mar-1937 The Call of Cthulhu
Barry C. Lynn
Journalist
20-Aug-1961   Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism
Phil Lynott
Singer/Songwriter
20-Aug-1949 4-Jan-1986 Founder of Thin Lizzy
Colin MacInnes
Novelist
20-Aug-1914 22-Apr-1976 Absolute Beginners
Duncan Macrae
Actor
20-Aug-1905 23-Mar-1967 The Little Kidnappers
James Marsters
Actor
20-Aug-1962   Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sylvester McCoy
Actor
20-Aug-1943   The 7th Doctor Who
Sam Melville
Actor
20-Aug-1936 9-Mar-1989 Officer Mike Danko on The Rookies
George J. Mitchell
Politician
20-Aug-1933   US Senator from Maine, 1980-95
Vilhelm Moberg
Novelist
20-Aug-1898 8-Aug-1973 The Emigrants
Mohamed Morsi
Head of State
20-Aug-1951   President-Elect of Egypt
John Noble
Actor
20-Aug-1948   Dr. Walter Bishop on Fringe
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
Meghan Ory
Actor
20-Aug-1982   Red Riding Hood on Once Upon a Time
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!
Patricia Rozema
Film Director
20-Aug-1958   Mansfield Park
David O. Russell
Film Director
20-Aug-1958   I Heart Huckabees
Eero Saarinen
Architect
20-Aug-1910 1-Sep-1961 Designed Gateway Arch in St. Louis
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
Sky Saxon
Singer
20-Aug-1937 25-Jun-2009 The Seeds
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 11-Mar-2002 US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1970-73
Paul Tillich
Religion
20-Aug-1886 22-Oct-1965 Systematic Theology
Lurene Tuttle
Actor
20-Aug-1907 28-May-1986 First Lady of Radio
David Walliams
Comic
20-Aug-1971   Little Britain




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