Editing 1952 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Moya Brennan - backstage at Glastonbury 2011.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Moya Brennan]]]]
[[File:Zoran Djindjic Cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Zoran Đinđić]]]]
[[File:Hun Sen (2018) cropped (2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hun Sen]]]]
[[File:11scenestrummer09.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Joe Strummer]]]]
[[File:Patrick Swayze 2006.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Patrick Swayze]]]]
[[File:Michael Jeter at the 44th Emmy Awards cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Michael Jeter]]]]
[[File:Paul Reubens by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Paul Reubens]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Zoran Đinđić]], Serbian politician (d. [[2003]])
** [[Brian Patrick Clarke]], American film actor
* [[August 3]] – [[Osvaldo Ardiles]], Argentine footballer
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Estanislau da Silva]], East Timorese politician
** [[Moya Brennan]], Irish singer
* [[August 5]]
** [[Hun Sen]], [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] 
** [[Louis Walsh]], Irish music producer, reality TV show judge
* [[August 6]] – [[Wojciech Fortuna]], Polish ski jumper
* [[August 8]] – [[Jostein Gaarder]], Norwegian author
* [[August 12]] – [[Charlie Whiting]], British motorsports director (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sport/formula-one/article/charlie-whiting-obituary-d8tlqkhtl|title=Charlie Whiting obituary|work=[[The Sunday Times]]|date=15 March 2019|access-date=17 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[August 14]] – [[Jeanette Oppenheim]], Danish lawyer and politician
* [[August 16]] – [[Reginald VelJohnson]], American actor
* [[August 17]] – [[Guillermo Vilas]], Argentine tennis player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.atptour.com/en/players/-/V028/overview|title=Guillermo Vilas|website=ATP|access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – [[Patrick Swayze]], American actor and dancer (d. [[2009]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Jonathan Frakes]], American actor (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'')
* [[August 21]]
** [[Joe Strummer]], British rock musician (''[[The Clash]]'') (d. [[2002]])
** [[Jiří Paroubek]], 6th [[Prime Minister of the Czech Republic]]
* [[August 24]] – [[Linton Kwesi Johnson]], Jamaican-born musician, poet
* [[August 25]] – [[Charles M. Rice]], American virologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] recipient
* [[August 26]]
** [[Bryon Baltimore]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Michael Jeter]], American film, stage, and television actor (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Paul Reubens]], American actor, writer and comedian (''[[Pee-Wee Herman]]'') (d. [[2023]])
* [[August 28]] 
** [[Rita Dove]], American poet ([[1987 Pulitzer Prize]], [[United States Poet Laureate]] 1993–95)
** [[Wendelin Wiedeking]], German businessman
* [[August 31]] 
** [[Eli Gorenstein]], Israeli actor, voice actor and cellist
** [[Hilary Farr]], British-Canadian actress, designer