Editing 1944 (section)

===August===
[[File:Director Robert S. Mueller- III.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert Mueller]]]]
[[File:TIFF 2018 Samuel Elliott (44592132581) (cropped).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Sam Elliott]]]]
[[File:Ian McDiarmid Brussels Comic Con 2020.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Ian McDiarmid]]]]
[[File:Rajiv Gandhi (1987).jpg|100px|thumb|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]]]
* [[August 1]]
** [[Yury Romanenko]], Soviet cosmonaut
** [[Andrew G. Vajna]], Hungarian-American film producer (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 2]]
** [[Jim Capaldi]], British drummer, singer and songwriter (d. [[2005]])
** [[Naná Vasconcelos]], Brazilian percussionist and vocalist (d. [[2016]])
** [[Joanna Cassidy]], American actress and former model
* [[August 3]] &ndash; [[Jonas Falk]], Swedish actor (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[William Frankfather]], American actor (d. [[1998]])
** [[Orhan Gencebay]], Turkish musician, composer, singer and actor
** [[Richard Belzer]], American actor and comedian (d. [[2023 in France]])
* [[August 7]]
** [[John Glover (actor)|John Glover]], American actor
** [[Robert Mueller]], American lawyer, FBI director
** [[Denny Freeman]], American guitarist (d. [[2021 in the United States|2021]])
* [[August 8]]
** [[Michael Johnson (singer)|Michael Johnson]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. [[2017]])
** [[Hasyim Muzadi]], Indonesian Islamic scholar (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 9]] 
** [[Sam Elliott]], American actor
** [[Patricia McKissack]], African American [[children's writer]] (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 10]] 
** [[Luisa Teresa Pacheco]], Venezuelan politician<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://diariocatolico.press/fallecio-luisa-teresa-pacheco-de-chacon-primera-gobernadora-del-estado-tachira/|title=Falleció Luisa Teresa Pacheco de Chacón primera gobernadora del estado Táchira|date=11 August 2023|access-date=2024-01-03|website=Diario Católico |last1=Católico |first1=Diario }}</ref>
** [[Abdul Latif Rashid]], Iraqi Kurd politician and the ninth [[president of Iraq]]
* [[August 11]]
** [[Ian McDiarmid]], Scottish actor
** [[Frederick W. Smith]], American founder of [[FedEx]]
* [[August 12]] &ndash; [[Larry Troutman]], American funk musician (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Kevin Tighe]], American actor
* [[August 15]] 
** [[Sylvie Vartan]], French singer
** [[Linda Ellerbee]], American journalist and author
** [[Thomas J. Murphy, Jr.]], politician, 56th [[Mayor of Pittsburgh]]
** [[R. A. W. Rhodes]], British political scientist and academic
* [[August 17]] 
** [[Larry Ellison]], co-founder of [[Oracle Corporation]]
** [[Bobby Murdoch]], Scottish footballer and football manager (d. [[2001]])
* [[August 18]]
** [[Robert Hitchcock]], Australian sculptor
** [[Françoise Lebrun]], French actress
** [[Volker Lechtenbrink]], German television actor and singer
** [[Helena Rojo]], Mexican actress and model
* [[August 19]]
** [[Mordechai Spiegler]], Israeli footballer and manager<ref>Bob Wechsler (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=mordechai+spiegler+born+1944&pg=PA232 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History'']</ref>
** [[Charles Wang]], Chinese-born American businessman, philanthropist and sports team owner (d. [[2018]])
** [[Bodil Malmsten]], Swedish novelist and poet (d. [[2016]])
** [[Steve Sloan]], American football player and coach (d. [[2024 in the United States|2024]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Rajiv Gandhi]], Prime Minister of India (d. [[1991]])
** [[Brian Barnes (artist)|Brian Barnes]], British artist (d. [[2021]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[Kari S. Tikka]], Finnish Professor of Finance (d. [[2006]])
** [[Peter Weir]], Australian film director
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Ayşen Gruda]], Turkish actress and comedian (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 23]]
** [[Saira Banu]], Indian actress
** [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]], Salvadorean Army officer and right-wing political leader (d. [[1992]])
* [[August 24]] 
** [[Rocky Johnson]], Canadian professional wrestler and father of [[Dwayne Johnson]] (d. [[2020]])
** [[Henry Braden]], American lawyer and politician (d. [[2013 in the United States|2013]])
** [[Gregory Jarvis]], American astronaut (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Pat Martino]], American jazz guitarist (d. [[2021]])
** [[Abdullah Tarmugi]], Singaporean politician
** [[Christine Chubbuck]], American television reporter (d. [[1974]])
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester]]
* [[August 27]] &ndash; [[G. W. Bailey]], American actor
* [[August 28]]
** [[Ray Lowry]], English cartoonist (d. [[2008]])
** [[Kay Parker]], English pornography actress (d. [[2022]])
* [[August 30]] 
** [[Tug McGraw]], American baseball player (d. [[2004]])
** [[Freek de Jonge]], Dutch cabaret performer and writer
** [[John Surman]], English [[jazz]] saxophone, [[Clarinet family|clarinet]], and synthesizer player and composer
* [[August 31]]
** [[Jos LeDuc]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. [[1999]])
** [[Earnie Shavers]], African-American professional boxer (d. [[2022]])
** [[Roger Dean (artist)|Roger Dean]], English graphic artist