Editing 1917 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Robert Mitchum.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Robert Mitchum]]]]
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[[File:Jack-Kirby art-of-jack-kirby wyman-skaar.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jack Kirby]]]]
[[File:Denis Healey.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Denis Healey]]]]
* [[August 6]] &ndash; [[Robert Mitchum]], American actor (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Raja Perempuan Zainab]], Queen of Malaysia (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Earl Cameron (actor)|Earl Cameron]], Bermudian actor (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 9]] &ndash; [[Jao Tsung-I]], Chinese-born Hong Kong scholar, poet, calligrapher and painter (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Vasiľ Biľak]], Slovak Communist leader (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Marjorie Reynolds]], American actress (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Jack Lynch]], 5th [[Taoiseach|Prime Minister of Ireland]] (d. [[1999]])
** [[Óscar Romero]], [[El Salvador|Salvadoran]] Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. [[1980]])
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Zvi Keren]], American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[Caspar Weinberger]], [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[Esther Cooper Jackson]], African-American civil rights activist (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[John Lee Hooker]], African-American musician (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Hu Chengzhi]], Chinese palaeontologist, palaeoanthropologist (d. [[2018]])
** [[Miguel Alvarez del Toro]], Mexican biologist (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Mel Ferrer]], Cuban-American actor, film director, producer (d. [[2008]])
** [[Lisbeth Movin]], Danish actress (d. [[2011]])
** [[Lou van Burg]], Dutch television personality, game show host (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[William French Smith]], 74th [[United States Attorney General]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Jack Kirby]], American comic book artist (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite web | url = http://kirbymuseum.org/biography | first1= Mark | last1= Evanier | author-link = Mark Evanier | first2=Steve| last2=Sherman | title = Jack Kirby Biography | publisher = Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center | access-date = February 24, 2012 | archive-date= September 17, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130917070658/http://kirbymuseum.org/biography/ | url-status=live|display-authors=etal| date= March 20, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Isabel Sanford]], African-American actress, best known for her role in ''[[The Jeffersons]]'' (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 30]] 
** [[Denis Healey]], English politician, author (d. [[2015]])
** [[Margaret Costa (food writer)|Margaret Costa]], British food writer (d. [[1999]])