| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Saif Ali Khan |
Actor |
16-Aug-1970 |
|
Dil Chahta Hai |
| Scott Asheton |
Drummer |
16-Aug-1949 |
|
Drummer for the Stooges |
| Kevin Ayers |
Musician |
16-Aug-1944 |
|
Eccentric British guitarist/songwriter |
| Bob Balaban |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
Parents |
| Massoud Barzani |
Head of State |
16-Aug-1946 |
|
President of Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Angela Bassett |
Actor |
16-Aug-1958 |
|
Got her groove back |
| Menachem Begin |
Head of State |
16-Aug-1913 |
9-Mar-1992 |
Prime Minister of Israel, 1977-82 |
| Bruce Beresford |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1940 |
|
Driving Miss Daisy |
| Rick Berg |
Politician |
16-Aug-1959 |
|
Congressman, North Dakota |
| Earl Blumenauer |
Politician |
16-Aug-1948 |
|
Congressman, Oregon 3rd |
| Ann Blyth |
Actor |
16-Aug-1928 |
|
Mildred Pierce |
| Josh Bolten |
Government |
16-Aug-1955 |
|
White House Chief of Staff, 2006-09 |
| Jack O. Bovender, Jr. |
Business |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of HCA, 2002-09 |
| Carol Moseley Braun |
Politician |
16-Aug-1947 |
|
First black female US Senator |
| Agnes Bruckner |
Actor |
16-Aug-1985 |
|
Soap star, movie star |
| Jean de La Bruyère |
Author |
16-Aug-1645 |
10-May-1696 |
Les Caractères de Théophraste |
| Charles Bukowski |
Author |
16-Aug-1920 |
9-Mar-1994 |
Love is a Dog from Hell |
| Frances Buss |
Educator |
16-Aug-1827 |
24-Dec-1894 |
Girls' school reformer |
| James Cameron |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1954 |
|
Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar |
| Steve Carell |
Comic |
16-Aug-1962 |
|
Office manager at Dunder-Mifflin |
| Vanessa Carlton |
Musician |
16-Aug-1980 |
|
Ordinary Day |
| Mae Clarke |
Actor |
16-Aug-1910 |
29-Apr-1992 |
Waterloo Bridge |
| Carol A. Corrigan |
Judge |
16-Aug-1948 |
|
Justice, California Supreme Court |
| Robert Culp |
Actor |
16-Aug-1930 |
24-Mar-2010 |
I Spy |
| Henry Winter Davis |
Politician |
16-Aug-1817 |
30-Dec-1865 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1855-65 |
| Stockwell Day |
Politician |
16-Aug-1950 |
|
Canadian Minister of Public Safety |
| Gregg L. Engles |
Business |
16-Aug-1957 |
|
CEO of Dean Foods |
| Bill Evans |
Jazz Musician |
16-Aug-1929 |
15-Sep-1980 |
Jazz pianist |
| Suzanne Farrell |
Dancer |
16-Aug-1945 |
|
Ballerina, NYC Ballet |
| George Galloway |
Government |
16-Aug-1954 |
|
MP for Bethnal Green and Bow |
| Lorraine Gary |
Actor |
16-Aug-1937 |
|
Jaws |
| Hugo Gernsback |
Author |
16-Aug-1884 |
19-Aug-1967 |
Founded Amazing Stories in 1926 |
| Frank Gifford |
Football |
16-Aug-1930 |
|
Monday Night Football |
| Kathie Lee Gifford |
Talk Show Host |
16-Aug-1953 |
|
Half of Regis and Kathie Lee |
| Cam Gigandet |
Actor |
16-Aug-1982 |
|
The Roommate |
| Anita Gillette |
Actor |
16-Aug-1936 |
|
Dr. Emily Hanover on Quincy |
| Eydie Gorme |
Musician |
16-Aug-1931 |
|
Blame it on the Bossa Nova |
| Roman Hruska |
Politician |
16-Aug-1904 |
25-Apr-1999 |
US Senator from Nebraska, 1954-76 |
| Ted Hughes |
Poet |
16-Aug-1930 |
28-Oct-1998 |
Crow |
| Carol W. Hunstein |
Judge |
16-Aug-1944 |
|
Justice, Georgia Supreme Court |
| Timothy Hutton |
Actor |
16-Aug-1960 |
|
Ordinary People |
| Laura Innes |
Actor |
16-Aug-1959 |
|
Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER |
| Juliette Kayyem |
Government |
16-Aug-1969 |
|
Counterterrorism wonk |
| Amos Kendall |
Government |
16-Aug-1789 |
12-Nov-1869 |
Key advisor to Andrew Jackson |
| Jules Laforgue |
Poet |
16-Aug-1860 |
20-Aug-1887 |
Pessimistic poet who inspired T. S. Eliot |
| Mitch Landrieu |
Politician |
16-Aug-1960 |
|
Mayor of New Orleans |
| T. E. Lawrence |
Author |
16-Aug-1888 |
19-May-1935 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
| Donovan Leitch, Jr. |
Actor |
16-Aug-1968 |
|
Glory |
| Gabriel Lippmann |
Physicist |
16-Aug-1845 |
13-Jul-1921 |
Photographic color plate |
| Lucien Littlefield |
Actor |
16-Aug-1895 |
4-Jun-1960 |
American character actor |
| Evanna Lynch |
Actor |
16-Aug-1991 |
|
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| A. D. David Mackay |
Business |
16-Aug-1955 |
|
CEO of Kellogg |
| John Mackenzie |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1932 |
8-Jun-2011 |
The Long Good Friday |
| Madonna |
Singer/Songwriter |
16-Aug-1958 |
|
Like a Virgin |
| Tim Mahoney |
Government |
16-Aug-1956 |
|
Congressman from Florida, 2007-09 |
| Jeannette Marks |
Poet |
16-Aug-1875 |
1964 |
The Merry Merry Cuckoo |
| Irene Mathyssen |
Politician |
16-Aug-1951 |
|
Canadian MP, London--Fanshawe |
| William Maxwell |
Novelist |
16-Aug-1908 |
31-Jul-2000 |
The Folded Leaf |
| George Meany |
Labor Leader |
16-Aug-1894 |
10-Jan-1980 |
AFL-CIO President, 1955-79 |
| Rick Metsger |
Politician |
16-Aug-1951 |
|
Oregon State Senator |
| Cameron Monaghan |
Actor |
16-Aug-1993 |
|
Ian Gallagher on Shameless |
| Martha Moxley |
Victim |
16-Aug-1960 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Murdered by Michael Skakel |
| Francis P. Murphy |
Politician |
16-Aug-1877 |
19-Dec-1958 |
Governor of New Hampshire, 1937-41 |
| Julie Newmar |
Actor |
16-Aug-1933 |
|
The first Catwoman |
| Fess Parker |
Actor |
16-Aug-1925 |
18-Mar-2010 |
Daniel Boone |
| Chris Pedersen |
Drummer |
16-Aug-1960 |
|
Camper Van Beethoven drummer |
| Shimon Peres |
Head of State |
16-Aug-1923 |
|
President of Israel |
| Jeff Perry |
Actor |
16-Aug-1955 |
|
Inspector Leek on Nash Bridges |
| Ramesh Ponnuru |
Columnist |
16-Aug-1974 |
|
Senior Editor, National Review |
| Anthony Price |
Novelist |
16-Aug-1928 |
|
Other Paths to Glory |
| Shawn Pyfrom |
Actor |
16-Aug-1986 |
|
Desperate Housewives |
| Jack Quinn |
Attorney |
16-Aug-1949 |
|
White House Counsel, 1995-96 |
| Taylor Rain |
Pornstar |
16-Aug-1981 |
|
Filthy Whore |
| Pierre Richard |
Actor |
16-Aug-1934 |
|
La chèvre |
| John Schnatter |
Business |
16-Aug-1962 |
|
Founder of Papa John's |
| Cynthia P. Schneider |
Scholar |
16-Aug-1953 |
|
US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1998-2001 |
| Billy Joe Shaver |
Country Musician |
16-Aug-1939 |
|
Old Five and Dimers Like Me |
| Amos Alonzo Stagg |
Football |
16-Aug-1862 |
17-Mar-1965 |
Mr. Football |
| John Standing |
Actor |
16-Aug-1934 |
|
British stage and film actor |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| Glenn Strange |
Actor |
16-Aug-1899 |
20-Sep-1973 |
Frankenstein's Monster |
| George Stults |
Actor |
16-Aug-1975 |
|
Kevin Kinkirk on 7th Heaven |
| Wallace Thurman |
Author |
16-Aug-1902 |
22-Dec-1934 |
The Blacker the Berry |
| Wolfgang Tillmans |
Photographer |
16-Aug-1968 |
|
If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters |
| Barbara D. Underwood |
Attorney |
16-Aug-1944 |
|
Solicitor General of New York |
| Reginald VelJohnson |
Actor |
16-Aug-1952 |
|
Carl Winslow on Family Matters |
| Walther von Reichenau |
Military |
16-Aug-1884 |
17-Jan-1942 |
Nazi general, encouraged atrocities |
| Lesley Ann Warren |
Actor |
16-Aug-1946 |
|
The Limey |
| Franz Welser-Möst |
Conductor |
16-Aug-1960 |
|
Music Director, Cleveland Orchestra |
| James Wieghart |
Journalist |
16-Aug-1933 |
21-Feb-2010 |
Editor, NY Daily News, 1982-84 |
| Ann C. Williams |
Judge |
16-Aug-1949 |
|
7th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Rumer Willis |
Actor |
16-Aug-1988 |
|
Daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore |
| James Wilson |
Government |
16-Aug-1835 |
26-Aug-1920 |
US Secretary of Agriculture, 1897-1913 |
| Wilhelm Wundt |
Psychologist |
16-Aug-1832 |
31-Aug-1920 |
Father of Experimental Psychology |
| Richard Zimmer |
Politician |
16-Aug-1944 |
|
Congressman from New Jersey, 1991-97 |
