Editing 1899 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:P.L. Travers as Titania in a production with Alan Wilkie.jpg |thumb|100px|[[P. L. Travers]]]]
[[File:Hitchcock, Alfred 02.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Alfred Hitchcock]]]]
* [[August 4]] &ndash; [[Ezra Taft Benson]], American religious leader, president of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 9]] 
** [[Paul Kelly (actor)|Paul Kelly]], American stage, film actor (d. [[1956]])
** [[P. L. Travers]], Australian-born British author (''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]'') (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Alfred Hitchcock]], British-born American film director (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Alma Reville]], English screenwriter, wife of [[Alfred Hitchcock]] (d. [[1982]])
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Glenn Strange]], American actor (d. [[1973]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Colleen Moore]], American actress (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 24]]
** [[Jorge Luis Borges]], Argentine writer (d. [[1986]])
** [[Albert Claude]], Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. [[1983]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Rufino Tamayo]], Mexican painter (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://colnal.mx/members/rufino-tamayo|title=Rufino Arellanes Tamayo|publisher=El Colegio Nacional|access-date=June 1, 2019|language=es}}</ref>
* [[August 27]]
** [[C. S. Forester]], English novelist (d. [[1966]])
** [[Byron Foulger]], American actor (d. [[1970]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Charles Boyer]], French actor (d. [[1978]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Lyman Lemnitzer]], American general (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Boots Adams]], American business magnate, president of [[Phillips Petroleum Company]] (d. [[1975]])