Editing 1949 (section)

===August===
[[File:Mar-Knopfler-Pensa-Blue.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mark Knopfler]]]]
[[File:Fernando Collor no Senado em Posse presidencial - 2019.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Fernando Collor de Mello]]]]
[[File:Beverly_Burns.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Beverly Burns]]]]
[[File:Thin lizzy 22041980 01 400.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Phil Lynott]]]]
[[File:2018 Vicky Leandros - by 2eight - DSC4806.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Vicky Leandros]]]]
[[File:Richard Gere, December 2017.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Richard Gere]]]]
* [[August 1]] &ndash; [[Mugur Isărescu]], 58th prime minister of Romania
* [[August 7]] &ndash; [[Walid Jumblatt]], leader of the Lebanese Druze
* [[August 8]] &ndash; [[Keith Carradine]], American actor
* [[August 11]] &ndash; [[Ian Charleson]], Scottish actor (d. [[1990]])
* [[August 12]]
** [[Fernando Collor de Mello]], 32nd [[President of Brazil]]
** [[Mark Knopfler]], British rock guitarist 
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Philippe Petit]], French high-wire artist
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[Morten Olsen]], Danish football player, manager 
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Beverly Burns]], American pilot, first woman to captain a Boeing 747
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[Sue Draheim]], American fiddler (d. [[2013]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Sue Draheim: Widely admired folk violinist|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sue-draheim-widely-admired-folk-violinist-8635048.html|date=August 28, 2013|author=Ken Hunt|work=The Independent|access-date=September 24, 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] – [[Don Koivisto]], American politician from [[Michigan]]
* [[August 20]] &ndash; [[Phil Lynott]], Irish rock musician (d. [[1986]])
* [[August 21]]
** [[Loretta Devine]], African-American actress
** [[Keetie van Oosten-Hage]], Dutch cyclist
* [[August 23]]
** [[Vicky Leandros]], Greek singer
** [[Shelley Long]], American actress (''[[Cheers]]'')
** [[Rick Springfield]], Australian rock singer, actor
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Anna Lee Fisher]], American astronaut, chemist and physician
* [[August 25]]
** [[Willy Rey]], Dutch-Canadian model (d. [[1973]])
** [[Martin Amis]], English novelist (d. [[2023]])
** [[Gene Simmons]], Israeli-American rock musician (''[[Kiss (band)|Kiss]]'')
* [[August 26]] &ndash; [[Leon Redbone]], Canadian-American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and guitarist (d. [[2019]])
* [[August 28]] &ndash; [[Svetislav Pešić]], Serbian basketball player, coach
* [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Peter Maffay]], German singer
* [[August 31]]
** [[Richard Gere]], American actor  
** [[H. David Politzer]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate