Editing 1908 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Harold Holt 1965 01.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Harold Holt]]]]
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[[File:Don Bradman 1930.jpg|thumb|100px|Sir [[Don Bradman]]]]
* [[August 4]] – [[Kurt Eichhorn]], German conductor (died [[1994]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Harold Holt]], 17th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (died [[1967]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Helen Jacobs]], American tennis player and commander (died 1997)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/helen-hull-jacobs|title=International Tennis Hall of Fame|website=www.tennisfame.com|access-date=September 22, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107235728/https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/helen-hull-jacobs|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 8]]
** [[Arthur Goldberg]], American politician, diplomat and [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] (died [[1990]])
** [[Chivu Stoica]], 48th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] (died [[1975]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Lauri Lehtinen]], Finnish Olympic athlete (died [[1973]])<ref name="Jukola1932">{{cite book|author=Martti Jukola|title=Athletics in Finland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zEFAAAAMAAJ|year=1932|publisher=W. Söderström osakeyhtiö, Porvoo|page=71|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807161515/https://books.google.com/books?id=2zEFAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] – [[Gene Raymond]], American actor (died [[1998]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Edgar Faure]], 2-time [[Prime Minister of France]] (died [[1988]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[M. M. Kaye]], British writer (died [[2004]])
** [[Tom Tully]], American actor (died [[1982]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (died [[2004]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=André Pieyre de Mandiargues|author2=Henri Cartier-Bresson|author3=Ferdinando Scianna|title=Henri Cartier-Bresson: Portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=obHbAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Collins|isbn=978-0-00-411947-2|page=51|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807204303/https://books.google.com/books?id=obHbAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[August 27]]
** [[Donald Bradman]], Australian cricketer (died [[2001]])
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], 36th [[President of the United States]] (died [[1973]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Robert Merle]], French writer (died [[2004]])
* [[August 30]]
** [[Leonor Fini]], Argentine artist (died 1996)
** [[Fred MacMurray]], American actor (died [[1991]])
* [[August 31]] – [[William Saroyan]], American writer (died [[1981]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth H. Oakes|title=American Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Lb0zPJcYOwC&pg=PA303|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0809-4|pages=303|access-date=August 7, 2021|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807194033/https://books.google.com/books?id=6Lb0zPJcYOwC&pg=PA303|url-status=live}}</ref>