Editing 1959 (section)

===August===
* [[August 3]]
** [[John C. McGinley]], American actor
** [[Koichi Tanaka]], Japanese scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041210202653/http://www1.shimadzu.com/about/nobel/index.html Nobel Prize Announcement] (Shimadzu Corporation)</ref>
*[[August 5]] - [[Pete Burns]], English singer, songwriter and television personality (d. [[2016]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Rajendra Singh (environmentalist)|Rajendra Singh]], Indian [[water conservationist]], [[Magsaysay Award]] (2001)
* [[August 7]] – [[Koenraad Elst]], Belgian Indologist
* [[August 10]] – [[Rosanna Arquette]], American actress
* [[August 11]] – [[Gustavo Cerati]], Argentinian singer (d. [[2014]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/arts/international/gustavo-cerati-a-star-of-south-americas-pop-scene-dies-at-55.html|title=Gustavo Cerati, a Star of South America's Pop Scene, Dies at 55|date=September 8, 2014|website=The New York Times|access-date=February 28, 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 14]]
** [[Marcia Gay Harden]], American actress
** [[Magic Johnson]], African-American basketball player
** [[Bill Hagerty]], US Senator 
* [[August 15]] – [[Scott Altman]], American astronaut
* [[August 17]]
** [[Jonathan Franzen]], American author
** [[David Koresh]], American spiritualist, leader of the [[Branch Davidian]] religious cult (d. [[1993]])
* [[August 25]]
** [[Guglielmo Trinci]], retired Italian professional baseball player{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
** [[Sönke Wortmann]], German film director
* [[August 26]] – [[Stan Van Gundy]], American basketball coach and TV commentator<ref name="bbr">{{cite web |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/vangust99c.html |title=Stan Van Gundy |work=basketball-reference.com |access-date=May 4, 2014}}</ref>
* [[August 27]] 
** [[Juan Fernando Cobo]], Colombian artist
**[[Daniela Romo]], Mexican singer, actress and TV hostess<ref>{{cite web|website=Historia-Biografia.com|access-date=August 24, 2019|title=Daniela Romo|author=Camila Diaz|date=December 18, 2018|url=https://historia-biografia.com/daniela-romo/}}</ref>
* [[August 28]] – [[Arthur Holden]], Canadian actor and writer
* [[August 29]]
** [[Rebecca De Mornay]], American actress
** [[Chris Hadfield]], Canadian retired astronaut
* [[August 30]] – [[Mark Jackson (Australian footballer)|Mark Jackson]], [[Australian rules football]]er and actor
* [[August 31]] – [[Tony DeFranco]], Canadian singer