Editing 1931 (section)

===August===
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* [[August 1]]
** [[Dino da Costa]], Italian footballer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Hal Connolly]], American athlete (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Ruth Maria Kubitschek]], German actress (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Vladimir Trusenyov]], Russian discus thrower (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani]], Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Roger Penrose]], English mathematical physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate<ref>{{cite book | last = Abbott | first = Derek | title = Quantum aspects of life | publisher = Imperial College Press | location = London | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781848162532 | page=x}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] – [[Mário Zagallo]], Brazilian football player, manager (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 12]] – [[William Goldman]], American author (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]], Saudi prince and politician (d. [[2018]])
** [[Richard F. Heck]], American chemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Harold Bernard St. John]], 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Hans van Mierlo]], Dutch politician, [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] and [[Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Deputy Prime Minister]] (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Willie Shoemaker]], American jockey (d. [[2003]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Don King (boxing promoter)|Don King]], American boxing promoter
* [[August 23]]
** [[Barbara Eden]], American actress
** [[Hamilton O. Smith]], American microbiologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1978/smith/facts/|title=Hamilton O. Smith|website=Nobel Prize|access-date=November 29, 2022}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Sri Chinmoy]], Bengali spiritual teacher, poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in [[1964]] (d. [[2007]])
** [[Clarence James]], Bermudian surgeon, politician (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Shunichiro Okano]], Japanese football player and manager (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{NFT|50097<!-- /Shunichiro_Okano -->}}</ref>
* [[August 30]]
** [[Jacques Braunstein]], Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. [[2009]])
** [[Jack Swigert]], American astronaut (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Jean Béliveau]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2014]])