Editing 1918 (section)

=== August ===
[[File:Bruria_Kaufman.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bruria Kaufman]]]]
[[File:Frederick Sanger2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Frederick Sanger]]]]
[[File:Shankar Dayal Sharma 36.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Shankar Dayal Sharma]]]]
[[File:Leonard Bernstein by Jack Mitchell.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leonard Bernstein]]]]
[[File:Katherine Johnson 1983.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Katherine Johnson]]]]
[[File:Major Aslam Khan.png|thumb|100px|[[Aslam Khan (Pakistani brigadier)|Aslam Khan]]]]
[[File:Alejandro Agust%C3%ADn Lanusse.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Alejandro Agustín Lanusse]]]]
* [[August 1]] 
** [[Artur Brauner]], German film producer and entrepreneur (d. [[2019]])
** [[Zhou Xuan]], Chinese singer, actress (d. [[1957]])
* [[August 2]] – [[Dada Vaswani]], Indian spiritual leader (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 3]] – [[Cheng Kaijia]], Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. [[2018]]) 
* [[August 4]] – [[Noel Willman]], Irish actor (d. [[1988]])
* [[August 5]] 
** [[Kondapalli Koteswaramma]], Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary and writer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Betty Oliphant]], co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Guy Gibson]], British bomber pilot, leader of the "Dam Busters" raid (d. [[1944]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Noor Hassanali]], 2nd [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (d. [[2006]])
** [[Frederick Sanger]], English biochemist, double [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2013]]) 
* [[August 19]] – [[Shankar Dayal Sharma]], 9th [[President of India]] (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Crystal Bennett]], British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on [[Jordan]] (d. [[1987]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Bruria Kaufman]], American-born Israeli physicist (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 22]] 
** [[Said Mohamed Djohar]], [[President of the Comoros]] (d. [[2006]])
** [[Martin Pope]], American physical chemist (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Bernard Fisher (scientist)|Bernard Fisher]], American surgeon (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Leonard Bernstein]], American composer, conductor (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 26]] 
** [[Katherine Johnson]], African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fountain|first=Nigel|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/24/katherine-johnson-obituary|title=Katherine Johnson obituary| date=February 24, 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=February 26, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226023231/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/24/katherine-johnson-obituary|archive-date=February 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz]], Brazilian sociologist (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Aslam Khan (Pakistani brigadier)|Aslam Khan]], British Indian-born military officer, led his troops during [[World War II]] in capturing [[Kennedy Peak (Myanmar)]], which the Americans had failed to conquer. For this achievement, he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] by [[Field Marshal Auchinleck]] (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psTeAAAAMAAJ&q=%22aslam%22|title=History of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, 1820-1956: The State Force Background|year=1990|first= K. Brahma|last=Singh|publisher=Lancer International |isbn=978-81-7062-091-4}}</ref>
** [[Chang Yun Chung]], Chinese-born billionaire shipping magnate (d. [[2020]])
** [[Jelle Zijlstra]], Dutch politician, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] from 1966 to 1967 (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Alejandro Agustín Lanusse]], 37th [[President of Argentina]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Clemens C. J. Roothaan]], Dutch physicist (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Ted Williams]], American baseball player (d. [[2002]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Alan Jay Lerner]], American lyricist, librettist (d. [[1986]])