Editing 1942 (section)

===August===
[[File:Jerry-Garcia-01cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jerry Garcia]]]]
[[File:Isabel Allende Frankfurter Buchmesse 2015 (cropped).JPG|thumb|100px|[[Isabel Allende]]]]
[[File:David Lange (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[David Lange]]]]
[[File:Tobin Bell At For The Love Of Horror 2019 (cropped 3).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Tobin Bell]]]]
[[File:President Hissène Habré of Chad.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Hissène Habré]]]]
[[File:Issac Hayes 1998.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Isaac Hayes]]]]
[[File:José Eduardo dos Santos 2.jpg|thumb|100px|[[José Eduardo dos Santos]]]]
* [[August 1]] 
** [[Jerry Garcia]], American musician (d. [[1995]])
** [[Giancarlo Giannini]], Italian actor
* [[August 2]] – [[Isabel Allende]], Chilean writer<ref>{{cite book |author=Tim McNeese |title=Isabel Allende |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IPLmxchjuMMC&pg=PA100 |year=2006 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0680-9 |pages=100}}</ref>
* [[August 4]] 
** [[Don S. Davis]], American actor (d. [[2008]])
** [[David Lange]], 32nd [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (d. [[2005]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Evelyn Hamann]], German actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[August 7]]
** [[Tobin Bell]], American actor
** [[Garrison Keillor]], American writer and radio host<ref>{{cite book |author=Judith Yaross Lee |title=Garrison Keillor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=23y1pltuxkkC&pg=PA3 |year=1991 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-61703-399-5 |pages=3}}</ref>
** [[Carlos Monzón]], Argentine professional boxer (d. [[1995]])
** [[Caetano Veloso]], Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
* [[August 9]] – [[Miguel Littín]], Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist
* [[August 10]] – [[Agepê]], Brazilian singer/composer (d. [[1995]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Hissène Habré]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Chad|Prime Minister]] and 5th [[President of Chad]] (d. [[2021]])<ref name=Senegal>{{cite news |title=Chad's former President Habre, convicted of war crimes, dies in Senegal |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chads-former-president-habre-convicted-war-crimes-dies-senegal-2021-08-24/ |access-date=24 August 2021 |work=Reuters |date=24 August 2021 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406223637/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chads-former-president-habre-convicted-war-crimes-dies-senegal-2021-08-24/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Robert L. Stewart]], American astronaut
*[[August 17]] – [[Muslim Magomayev (musician)|Muslim Magomayev]], Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian singer (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Isaac Hayes]], American singer and actor (d. [[2008]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Nancy Richey]], American tennis player
** [[Susana Vieira]], Brazilian actress
* [[August 24]] 
** [[Hans Peter Korff]], German actor (d. [[2025]])
** [[Karen Uhlenbeck]], American mathematician
* [[August 25]]
** [[Imogen Hassall]], English actress (d. [[1980]])
** [[Howard Jacobson]], British novelist and journalist
* [[August 26]] – [[John E. Blaha]], American astronaut
* [[August 27]] 
**[[Daryl Dragon]], American musician (d. [[2019]])
**[[Tom Belsø]], Danish motor racing driver (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 28]] – [[José Eduardo dos Santos]], 2nd [[President of Angola]] (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Sterling Morrison]], American musician (d. [[1995]]) 
* [[August 30]] – [[John Kani]], South African actor, director and playwright