Editing 1955 (section)

===August===
[[File:Billy Bob Thornton 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Billy Bob Thornton]]]]
[[File:Richard Hilton.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Richard Hilton]]]]
[[File:Apisai Ielemia cropped.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Apisai Ielemia]]]]
[[File:Mike Huckabee by Gage Skidmore 6.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mike Huckabee]]]]
[[File:Sergey Khlebnikov 1.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sergey Khlebnikov]]]]
* [[August 1]] 
** [[Tunde Adegbola]], Nigerian scientist, musician, engineer, linguist and culture activist
** [[Paul Shrubb]], English footballer, coach and scout (d. [[2020]])
* [[August 2]]
** [[John Battaglia]], American convicted murderer (d. [[2018]])
** [[Caleb Carr]], American writer
** [[Roger Cohen]], British-American journalist and author
* [[August 3]]
** [[Corey Burton]], American voice actor
** [[Gordon Davies (footballer, born 1955)|Gordon Davies]], Welsh [[Association football|footballer]]
** [[Roger Gifford]], Lord Mayor of London 2013
* [[August 4]]
** [[Gerrie Coetzee]], South African boxer, 1983-1984 [[World Boxing Association|WBA]] heavyweight champion.
** [[Billy Bob Thornton]], American actor, director and screenwriter
** [[Alberto Gonzales]], American lawyer and 80th United States Attorney General 
** [[Andrew M. Allen]], American astronaut 
* [[August 6]]
** [[Gordon J. Brand]], English golfer (d. [[2020]])
** [[Ron Davis (pitcher)|Ron Davis]], American baseball player
** [[Earl "Chinna" Smith]], Jamaican Reggae guitarist
** [[Terry Finn]], American actress 
* [[August 7]]
** [[Wayne Knight]], American actor and comedian
** [[Vladimir Sorokin]], Russian writer
** [[Peter Barca]], American politician 
* [[August 8]] – [[Diddú]], Icelandic soprano and songwriter
* [[August 9]] 
** [[Doug Williams (quarterback)|Doug Williams]], American football quarterback
** [[Sukhdev Singh Babbar]], militant and co-leader of [[Babbar Khalsa International|Babbar Khalsa]] (BK)
** [[Udo Beyer]], East German track and field athlete
* [[August 10]] 
** [[Mel Tiangco]], Filipina television anchor, journalist and humanitarian
** [[Eddie Campbell]], British comics artist and cartoonist
* [[August 11]]  
** [[Ted Robbins]], English comic, actor, television presenter and radio broadcaster
** [[Hilary Beckles]], Barbadian historian
* [[August 12]]
** [[Heintje Simons]], Dutch singer and actor
** [[Gish Jen]], American fiction writer
* [[August 13]] – [[Daryl (magician)|Daryl]], American magician (d. [[2017]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Richard Hilton]], American businessman
* [[August 19]]
** [[Peter Gallagher]], American actor
** [[Terry Harper (baseball)|Terry Harper]], American baseball player
** [[Apisai Ielemia]], 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. [[2018]])
* [[August 20]]  
** [[Agnes Chan]], Hong Kong-born TV personality in Japan
** [[Luis Alberto Urrea]], Mexican-American poet, novelist and essayist
** [[Jay Acovone]], American actor 
** [[Gloria Brame]], American sexologist, writer and sex therapist
* [[August 22]]
** [[Chiranjeevi]], Indian actor
** [[Gordon Liu]], Chinese actor
* [[August 23]] – [[Reuven Amitai]], Israeli-American historian and writer
* [[August 24]] – [[Mike Huckabee]], American politician, Governor and 2008 presidential candidate
* [[August 25]] – [[John McGeoch]], Scottish rock guitarist (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Laura Fygi]], Dutch singer
** [[Diana Scarwid]], American actress
** [[Sergey Khlebnikov]], Soviet speed skater (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 30]]
** [[Mayumi Muroyama]], Japanese manga artist
** [[Andy Pask]], English bass player and composer ([[Landscape (band)|Landscape]])
** [[Helge Schneider]], comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director
** [[Jaime Aparicio Otero]], Bolivian diplomat, lawyer and journalist 
** [[Anthony Coleman]], American avant-garde jazz pianist
* [[August 31]] – [[Edwin Moses]], American athlete