Editing 1921 (section)

===August===
[[File:Esther Williams - portrait.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Esther Williams]]]]
[[File:Alex haley US coast guard.png|thumb|100px|[[Alex Haley]]]]
[[File:Gene Roddenberry crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Gene Roddenberry]]]]
* [[August 1]] 
** [[George Büchi]], American chemist (d. [[1998]])
** [[Jack Kramer]], American  tennis player and commentator (d. [[2009]])<ref>{{cite news|author1=T. Rees Shapiro|title=Jack Kramer, 88, Dies; Wimbledon Champion Helped Found Tennis Pro Organization|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/13/AR2009091302859.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 14, 2009}}</ref> 
* [[August 2]] – [[Mable Lee]], American tap dancer, singer, and entertainer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Constance Valis Hill|title=Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HERDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA144|date=12 November 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-022538-4|pages=144}}</ref>
* [[August 3]] – [[Richard Adler]], American Broadway composer (d. [[2012]])
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Charles H. Coolidge]], American [[Medal of Honor|Medal of Honour]] recipient (d. [[2021]])
** [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian hockey player (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 5]] &ndash; [[Anita Foss]], American baseball player (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Esther Williams]], American swimmer, actress (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite news|title=Esther Williams|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=June 6, 2013|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10104714/Esther-Williams.html|access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref>
* [[August 9]]
** [[Ernest Angley]], American evangelist, author and station owner (d. [[2021]])
** [[Patricia Marmont]], American-English actress (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 10]] 
** [[Ion Negoițescu]], Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. [[1993]])
** [[Jack B. Weinstein]], American federal judge (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Alex Haley]], American author (d. [[1992]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm |title=Alex Haley, (1921–1992) |first=Linda T. |last=Wynn |publisher=Tennessee State University Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803170852/http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/Haley.htm | archive-date=August 3, 2004 | url-status=dead| access-date = 2013-10-07}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] – [[Mary Lee (singer)|Mary Lee]], Scottish singer (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Tom Rice (soldier)|Tom M. Rice]], American soldier and paratrooper that fought in [[WWII]] (d. [[2022]])
** [[K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal]], Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. [[2000]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Betty Cody]], Canadian-born country music singer (d. [[2014]])
** [[Geoffrey Elton]], born Gottfried Ehrenberg, German-born British political and constitutional historian (d. [[1994]])
* [[August 19]] &ndash; [[Gene Roddenberry]], American television producer (''Star Trek'') (d. [[1991]])<ref>{{Cite book |last=Alexander |first=David |year=1995 |title=Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry |publisher=Roc |location=New York |isbn=0-451-45440-5 |ref=alexander1995 |url=https://archive.org/details/startrekcreator00davi|pages=15–17 }}</ref>
* [[August 21]] 
** [[John Osteen]], American televangelist (d. [[1999]])
** [[Victor Szebehely]], Hungarian-American astronomer (d. [[1997]])
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Lee Loy Seng]], Malaysian businessman (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Arrow]], American economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2017]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John R. Shook|title=Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ijpj1tB3Qr0C&pg=PA93|date=1 January 2005|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84371-037-0|pages=93}}</ref>
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Gerald Tanner]], Australian rules footballer (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 26]]
** [[Shimshon Amitsur]], Israeli mathematician, [[Israel Prize]] recipient (d. [[1994]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Shimshon A. Amitsur|title=Selected Papers of S. A. Amitsur with Commentary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2uvFqAEhLIC&pg=PR19|year=2001|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-2925-7|pages=19}}</ref>
** [[Benjamin Bradlee]], American journalist, executive editor of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite book|author=August C. Bolino|title=Men of Massachusetts: Bay State Contributors to American Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0-FQWk1jE4C&pg=PA275|date=August 2012|isbn=978-1-4759-3375-8|pages=275|publisher=iUniverse }}</ref>
* [[August 27]]
** [[Leo Penn]], American actor and director (d. [[1998]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Daniel Blum's Theatre World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PVArAQAAIAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Crown Publishers|page=232}}</ref>
** [[Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg]], head of the [[House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. [[1996]])
** [[Abang Muhammad Salahuddin]], 3rd and 6th [[Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak]] (d. [[2022]])
** [[Babbis Friis-Baastad]], Norwegian children's writer (d. [[1970]])
* [[August 28]]
** [[Nancy Kulp]], American actress (d. [[1991]])
** [[Lidia Gueiler Tejada]], 56th [[President of Bolivia]] (d. [[2011]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|title=Britannica Book of the Year 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeqbAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61535-618-8|pages=128}}</ref>
* [[August 29]]
** [[Iris Apfel]], American interior designer (d. [[2024]])
** [[Arlo Hullinger]], American politician (d. [[2021]])
** [[Wendell Scott]], American race car driver (d. [[1990]])
** [[Paddy Roy Bates]], British pirate radio broadcaster, founder of the [[Principality of Sealand]] (d. [[2012]])
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[David Finn]], American public relations executive and photographer (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 31]] &ndash; [[Raymond Williams]], Welsh academic, novelist and critic (d. [[1988]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Fred Inglis|title=Raymond Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_4pC-Fwd-PEC&pg=PA17|date=23 June 2005|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-134-66238-6|pages=17}}</ref>