Editing 1926 (section)

===August===
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* [[August 2]] 
** [[Sy Mah]], Canadian marathoner (d. [[1988]])
** [[George Habash]], Palestinian Christian politician (d. [[2008]])
** [[Igor Spassky]], Russian scientist, engineer and businessman (d. [[2024]])
** [[Hang Thun Hak]], Cambodian radical politician, academic and playwright (d. [[1975]])
* [[August 3]]
** [[Rona Anderson]], Scottish stage, film, and television actress (d. [[2013]])
** [[Loris Campana]], Italian road and track cyclist (d. [[2015]])
** [[Tony Bennett]], American singer (d. [[2023]])
** [[Shun-ichi Iwasaki]], Japanese engineer
* [[August 5]] – [[Clifford Husbands]], 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 6]]
** [[Janet Asimov]], American writer and psychiatrist (d. [[2019]])
** [[János Rózsás]], Hungarian writer (d. [[2012]])
** [[Frank Finlay]], English stage, film and television actor (d. [[2016]])
** [[Elisabeth Beresford]], British author (d. [[2010]])
** [[Norman Wexler]], American screenwriter (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 7]] – [[Stan Freberg]], American author, recording artist and comedian (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Silvio Amadio]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[1995]])
** [[Jimmy Brown (musician)|Jimmy Brown]], American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. [[2006]])
** [[Angelo Bonfietti]], Brazilian basketball player (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 9]] – [[Frank M. Robinson]], American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. [[2014]])
* [[August 10]]
** [[Marie-Claire Alain]], French organist (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Commire |first1 = Anne |title = Women of World History |place = Detroit |publisher = Gale |year = 1999 |volume = 1 |isbn = 978-0-7876-4080-4 |page = 164 }}</ref>
** [[Carol Karp|Carol Ruth Vander Velde]], American mathematician (d. [[1972]])<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Grinstein |first1 = Louise S. |last2 = Campbell |first2 = Paul J. |title = Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook |place = New York |publisher = Greenwood Press |year = 1987 |isbn = 978-0-3132-4849-8 |page = [https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/86 86] |url = https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse/page/86 }}</ref>
** [[Arthur Maxwell House]], Canadian neurologist (d. [[2013]])
* [[August 11]] 
** [[Ron Bontemps]], American basketball player (d. [[2017]])
** [[Aaron Klug]], Lithuanian-English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/22/aaron-klug-om-physicist-won-nobel-prize-work-electron-microscopy/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/22/aaron-klug-om-physicist-won-nobel-prize-work-electron-microscopy/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Sir Aaron Klug, OM, scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his work on electron microscopy and chromosomes – obituary|first=The Telegraph|last=Obituaries|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=22 November 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
** [[Claus von Bülow]], Danish-British socialite (d. [[2019]])
** [[John Gokongwei]], Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 12]] 
** [[John Derek]], American actor and film director (d. [[1998]])
** [[Osamu Ishiguro]], Japanese tennis player (d. [[2016]])
** [[Hiroshi Koizumi]], Japanese actor (d. [[2015]])
** [[René Vignal]], French footballer (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Fidel Castro]], Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. [[2016]])
** [[Valentina Levko]], Russian opera and chamber singer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Norris Bowden]], Canadian figure skater (d. [[1991]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[Martin Broszat]], German historian (d. [[1989]])
** [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (d. [[1977]])
** [[Buddy Greco]], American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 15]]
** [[Sukanta Bhattacharya]], Bengali poet and playwright (d. [[1947]])
** [[Ivy Bottini]], American activist and artist (d. [[2021]])
** [[Julius Katchen]], American concert pianist (d. [[1969]])
** [[Sami Michael]], Iraqi-Israeli author (d. [[2024]])
** [[Konstantinos Stephanopoulos]], former [[President of Greece]] (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 16]] 
** [[Jack Britto]], Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. [[2013]])
** [[Eivind Hjelmtveit]], Norwegian cultural administrator (d. [[2017]])
** [[Yu Min (physicist)|Yu Min]], Chinese [[Nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Jean Poiret]], French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. [[1992]])
** [[Jiang Zemin]], former [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] ([[paramount leader]]) and [[President of the People's Republic of China|President of China]] (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Orlando Bosch]], Cuban terrorist (d. [[2011]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Luis Bordón]], Paraguayan musician and composer (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Hocine Aït Ahmed]], Algerian politician (d. [[2015]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Marian Jaworski]], Polish cardinal (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Werner Spitz]], German-American forensic pathologist (d. [[2024]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Clifford Geertz]], American anthropologist (d. [[2006]])
* [[August 29]]
** [[Helene Ahrweiler]], Greek historian and academic 
** [[Ramakrishna Hegde]], Indian politician (d. [[2004]])
** [[Betty Lynn]], American actress (d. [[2021]])