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===August=== [[File:Andy Warhol 1975.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Andy Warhol]]]] <!--[[File:Preferred official head-shot from James Randi Educational Foundation.jpg|thumb|110px|[[James Randi]]]]--> <!--[[File:Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal.png|thumb|110px|[[Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal]]]]--> <!--[[File:Eddie Fisher - still.JPG|110px|thumb|[[Eddie Fisher]]]]--> <!--[[File:Beniamino Andreatta 970307-D-2987S-022.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Beniamino Andreatta]]]]--> <!--[[File:Nicolas Roeg (cropped).jpg|110px|thumb|[[Nicolas Roeg]]]]--> <!--[[File:Art Farmer.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Art Farmer]]]]--> [[File:James Coburn The Californians 1959.JPG|110px|thumb|[[James Coburn]]]] [[File:Cardinal Jaime Sin in 1988.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Jaime Sin]]]] * [[August 2]] – [[Luigi Colani]], German industrial designer (d. [[2019]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Luigi Colani|title=Luigi Colani|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tek9AQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=San'ei Shobo Publishing Company|page=30}}</ref> * [[August 3]] – [[Cécile Aubry]], French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director (d. [[2010]]) * [[August 4]] ** [[Udham Singh (field hockey)|Udham Singh]], Indian [[field hockey]] player, winner of three gold and one silver medals (d. [[2000]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/may/09/guardianobituaries3|title=Udham Singh|date=9 May 2000|author=Haresh Pandya|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 August 2021}}</ref> ** [[Flóra Kádár]], Hungarian actress (d. [[2002]]) ** [[Gerard Damiano]], American adult film director (d. [[2008]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avn.com/video/articles/33053.html |title='Deep Throat' Director Gerard Damiano Dies at 80 |access-date=2008-10-27 |author=David Sullivan |date=October 27, 2007 |magazine=[[AVN (magazine)|AVN]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029002305/http://avn.com/video/articles/33053.html |archive-date=October 29, 2008 }}</ref> * [[August 5]] – [[Chung Won-shik]], South Korean politician, educator, soldier, and author, prime minister 1991 (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Gale Group|author2=60th 96–97|title=The International Who's Who: 1996–97|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s90MD22wtA4C|year=1996|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-021-9|page=299}}</ref> * [[August 6]] ** [[Mary Grant (politician)|Mary Grant]], Ghanaian politician (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Andy Warhol]], American artist (d. [[1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Victor Bockris|title=The Life and Death of Andy Warhol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKFIAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Fourth Estate|isbn=978-1-85702-805-8|page=15}}</ref> * [[August 7]] ** [[Helen Vita]], Swiss chanson singer, actress, and comedian (d. [[2001]]) ** [[James Randi]], Canadian stage magician and scientific skeptic (d. [[2020]])<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Moritz |editor-first=Charles |title=Current Biography Yearbook, 1987 |volume=48 |year=1987 |publisher=[[H. W. Wilson Company]] |location=New York |oclc=17332312 |ref=Moritz|page=455}}</ref> * [[August 8]] ** [[Lubor Bárta]], Czech composer (d. [[1972]]) ** [[Simón Díaz]], Venezuelan folk composer, singer (d. [[2014]]) * [[August 10]] ** [[Peter Barry (politician)|Peter Barry]], Irish Fine Gael politician, businessman (d. [[2016]]) ** [[Eddie Fisher]], American singer and actor (d. [[2010]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8022014/Eddie-Fisher-former-husband-of-Elizabeth-Taylor-dies.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8022014/Eddie-Fisher-former-husband-of-Elizabeth-Taylor-dies.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Eddie Fisher, former husband of Elizabeth Taylor, dies|date=September 24, 2010|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=June 22, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Jimmy Dean]], singer, television host and spokesman for the Jimmy Dean sausage brand (d. [[2010]]) * [[August 11]] – [[Beniamino Andreatta]], Italian economist, politician (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/2007/03/sezioni/politica/morto-andreatta/morto-andreatta/morto-andreatta.html|title=È morto Beniamino Andreatta dopo oltre sette anni di coma|access-date=21 December 2007|publisher=[[la Repubblica]]|date=20 October 2020|language=it}}</ref> * [[August 14]] – [[Lina Wertmüller]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[2021]]) * [[August 15]] ** [[Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal]], two-time prime minister of Somalia (d. [[2002]])<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society|title=Obituary – Mohamed Ibrahim Egal|publisher=Anglo-Somali Society|year=2001|page=10}}</ref> ** [[Nicolas Roeg]], English film director (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/24/nicolas-roeg-film-director-unique-style-best-known-dont-look/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/11/24/nicolas-roeg-film-director-unique-style-best-known-dont-look/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Nicolas Roeg, film director whose dazzling style was best seen in 'Don't Look Now', 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' and 'Performance' – obituary|date=24 November 2018|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ** [[Simone Silva]], Egyptian-born French film actress (d. [[1957]]) * [[August 16]] ** [[Ara Güler]], Armenian-Turkish photojournalist (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Turner Browne|author2=Ken Browne|author3=Elaine Partnow|title=Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9pUAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-02-517500-6|page=247}}</ref> ** [[Eydie Gormé]], American singer (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/11/eydie-gorme|title=Eydie Gorme obituary|last=Sweeting|first=Adam|date=2013-08-11|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-08-21|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ** [[Ann Blyth]], American actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Robyn Karney|title=The Movie Stars Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|year=1984|publisher=Crescent Books|isbn=978-0-517-43736-0|page=102}}</ref> * [[August 19]] – [[Queen Ratna of Nepal]]<ref>{{cite book|title=World Free Peoples: Biographical, Monographical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8YAUAQAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Liviu Mireanu|page=12}}</ref> * [[August 21]] ** [[Chris Brasher]], British track-and-field athlete, sports journalist and co-founder of the London Marathon (d. [[2003]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/christopher-william-brasher|title=Christopher William Brasher|website=Olympic.org|access-date=13 November 2020}}</ref> ** [[Art Farmer]], American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player (d. [[1999]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Ben Ratliff|date=October 6, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/06/arts/art-farmer-71-be-bop-master-of-the-trumpet-and-fluegelhorn.html|title=Art Farmer, 71, Be-Bop Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn|website=The New York Times}}</ref> ** [[Gillian Sheen]], English Olympic fencer (d. [[2021]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/gillian-sheen|title=Gillian Sheen|website=Olympic.org|access-date=5 November 2020}}</ref> * [[August 22]] – [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (d. [[2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Karl Heinrich Wörner|title=Stockhausen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUazwZH_zMwC&pg=PA251|date=18 February 1977|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03272-9|pages=251}}</ref> * [[August 23]] – [[Marian Seldes]], American actress (d. [[2014]]) * [[August 24]] – [[Levko Lukyanenko]], Ukrainian politician (d. [[2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations|title=ABN correspondence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIQnAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|page=47}}</ref> * [[August 25]] – [[Herbert Kroemer]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2024]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Herbert Kroemer|title=Selected Works Of Professor Herbert Kroemer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jljICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|date=9 May 2008|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4474-68-9|pages=76}}</ref> * [[August 26]] – [[Saliu Adetunji]], Nigerian monarch of Ibadan (d. [[2022]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-59851632|title=Olubadan of Ibadan: Oba Saliu Adetunji don pass away at age 93|date=January 2, 2022|website=BBC News Pidgin|access-date=August 12, 2022}}</ref> * [[August 27]] ** [[Péter Boross]], Hungarian politician<ref>{{cite book|author1=Europa Publications|author2=Ed 63rd|title=The International Who's who 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SC4aAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-050-9|page=184}}</ref> ** [[Mangosuthu Buthelezi]], South African leader of the [[Inkatha Freedom Party]] (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Cloete Breytenbach|title=The New South Africa: The Zulu Factor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rqQvAQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Luga Publishers|page=41}}</ref> * [[August 31]] ** [[James Coburn]], American actor (d. [[2002]])<ref name="Karney1984">{{cite book|author=Robyn Karney|title=The Movie Stars Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|year=1984|publisher=Crescent Books|isbn=978-0-517-43736-0|page=257}}</ref> ** [[Wojciech Plewiński]], Polish photographer ** [[Jaime Sin]], Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (d. [[2005]])
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