Birthdays Date 1921 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

Apr 16 British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster (Death on the Nile; Logan's Run; Billy Budd), born in London, England

Apr 19 Glyn England, British electrical engineer and CEO (CEGB, Windcluster Ltd), born in Llantrisant, Cardiff, South Wales (d. 2013)
Apr 19 Will Ogdon, American composer, born in Redlands, California (d. 2013)
Apr 20 Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist, born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
Apr 20 Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress and comedian (Guide de la petite vengeance), born in Paris, France (d. 2017)
Apr 21 Jack Fletcher, American actor (Calucci's Department, Once Upon a Mattress), born in Forest Hills, New York (d. 1990)
Apr 22 Cándido Camero, Cuban American percussionist (congo drum) and bandleader, born in Havana, Cuba (d. 2020) [1]
Apr 22 Philip "Gabby" Pahinui, Hawaiian slack-key guitarist and singer, born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (d. 1980)
Apr 23 Janet Blair [Martha Janet Lafferty], American singer and actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family), born in Altoona, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)

Warren Spahn (1921-2003)

Apr 23 American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (17 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1957; Cy Young Award 1957; 8 × NL wins leader; Boston/Milwaukee Braves), born in Buffalo, New York

Apr 24 Laci Boldemann, Swedish composer, born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1969)
Apr 25 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet (Pastures of Silence), and playwright, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1986)
Apr 25 Karel Appel, Dutch painter (Vragende Children), born in Amsterdam (d. 2006)
Apr 26 Jimmy Giuffre, American jazz clarinetist, composer, arranger, and proponent of "free improv" jazz, born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2008)
Apr 26 Margaret Gowing, English historian (Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy), born in Kensington, London (d. 1998)
Apr 28 Rowland Evans, American news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak), born in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
Apr 29 Tommy Noonan, American actor, screenwriter and producer (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises), born in Bellingham, Washington (d. 1968)
Apr 29 [Cornelis] Kees de Jager, Dutch astronomer (predicted solar variation), born in Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands (d. 2021)
Apr 30 (Dorothy) "Dottie" Green, American AAGPBL baseball player, 1943-47 (Rockford Peaches), born in Natick, Massachusetts (d. 1992)
Apr 30 Roger L. Easton, American scientist and inventor (GPS), born in Craftsbury, Vermont (d. 2014)
May 2 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Goddess, Adversary), born in Calcutta, India (d. 1992)
May 3 Joe Ames, American singer and actor (The Ames Brothers Show), born in Malden, Massachusetts (d. 2007)

Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989)

May 3 American boxer (world welterweight champion 1946-51; middleweight champion 1951-52, 55, 58), born in Ailey, Georgia

May 3 Vasco Gonçalves, Portuguese army officer and 103rd Prime Minister of Portugal (1974-75), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2005)
May 4 Edo Murtić, Croatian painter, born in Velika Pisanica, Bjelovar, Croatia (d. 2005)
May 4 John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2008)
May 4 Virginia "Patsy" Garrett, American singer (Fred Waring's Pleasure Time), and actress (Nanny & the Professor), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2015)

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921-1999)

May 5 American physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers, born in Mount Vernon, New York

May 5 Eric Tweedale, Australian rugby union prop (10 caps; NSW RFU, Parramatta RFC), born in Rochdale, England (d. 2023)
May 5 Sonja Oosterman, Dutch pop singer and lyricist (De Marketentsters en De Musketiers), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2008)
May 6 Alan Dewitt, American actor (It's About Time), born in Canton, Ohio (d. 1976)
May 6 Elizabeth Sellars, Scottish actress ("Chalk Garden"; "A Voyage Round My Father"), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2019) [1]
May 6 Erich Fried, Austrian-British writer, born in Vienna (d. 1988)
May 6 Freddy Randall, English jazz trumpeter, born in London (d. 1999)
May 6 Robert Fell, British 1st paid Chief Executive of the London Stock Exchange
May 7 Gale Robbins [Betty Gale Murphy], American singer and actress (Fuller Brush Girl; Mr Hex), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1980)
May 7 Sam B. Williams, American engineer and inventor of small fan-jet engine that made long-range cruise missiles feasible, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2009) [1]
May 8 Graham Leonard, Bishop of London, most senior Anglican to convert to Catholicism since the reformation (d. 2010)
May 9 Daniel Berrigan, American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War), born in Virginia, Minnesota (d. 2016)
May 9 Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
May 9 Sophie Scholl, German anti-Nazi political activist, active in the non-violent resistance group, the White Rose (Die Weisse Rose), born in Forchtenberg, Germany (d. 1943)
May 11 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician, born in Essen, Germany (d. 2016)
May 11 Ian Percival, British politician (C) and Solicitor General (d. 1998)
May 12 (Otis W.) "Joe" Maphis, American session and country music guitarist ("Dim Lights"), born in Suffolk, Virginia (d. 1986)
May 12 Edvard Mirzoyan, Armenian composer, born in Gori, Georgia (d. 2012)
May 12 Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist, born in Belleville, Ontario, (d. 2014)
May 12 Giovanni Benelli, Italian archbishop of Florence and Papal candidate, born in Vernio, Italy (d. 1982)
May 12 Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter (d. 1994)
May 12 Joseph Beuys, German avant-garde painter (Fluxus, movement), born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1986)
May 13 Sid Vincent, British trade union leader (d. 1992)
May 14 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor and stand-up comedian (Mot i brøstet, Olsen-banden), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2007)
May 16 Harry Carey Jr, American actor (Back to the Future Part III, Gremlins), born in Saugus, California (d. 2012)
May 17 Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (People, Mambo Italiano), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 1998)
May 17 Dennis Brain, British classical horn player (Serenade), born in London, England (d. 1957)
May 18 Anthony Epstein, English pathologist and virologist (co-discover of the Epstein–Barr virus), born in London, England (d. 2024) [1]
May 18 Witold Silewicz, Polish-Austrian classical double bassist (Tonkünstler Orchestra), arranger, and composer, born in Rajsko, Poland (d. 2007)
May 19 Daniel Gélin, French actor (Obsession, The Man Who Knew Too Much), born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire (d. 2002)
May 19 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator, and Russian literature historian (Comrade's Religion), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1999)
May 19 William H. Stewart, 10th US Surgeon General (1965-69), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2008)
May 20 Hal Newhouser, American Baseball HOF pitcher (7 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1945; AL MVP 1944, 45; Triple Crown 1945; Detroit Tigers), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1998)
May 20 John Harrison, British vice admiral and surgeon (Medical Director Royal Navy during Falklands War), born in Simla, British India (d. 2010)
May 20 John Marchi, US Senator (Rep-R-NY 1957-2006), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 2009)
May 20 Wolfgang Borchert, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1947)

Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989)

May 21 Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (Nobel 1975), born in Moscow, Russia

May 21 Leona Wood, American surrealist painter and ballet and folk dancer, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2008)
May 23 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader ("Bad Penny Blues"), and broadcaster (BBC2 - Best Of Jazz, 1967-2007; BBC4 - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, 1972-2008), born in Eton, Buckinghamshire (d. 2008)
May 23 James Blish [pseudonym William Atheling, Jr], American-British, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader), born in East Orange, New Jersey (d. 1975)
May 23 Loren Tindall, American actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost), born in Hastings, Oklahoma (d. 1973)
May 23 Montague Modlyn, English radio and TV broadcaster, born in London, England (d. 1994)
May 25 (Catherine) "Kitty" Kallen, American big band (Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden) and pop singer ("Little Things Mean A Lot"; "My Coloring Book"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016) [1]
May 25 Hal David, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"; "What The World Needs Now Is Love"; "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
May 25 Jack Steinberger, American physicist (1988 Nobel Prize for Physics - Neutrinos), born in Bad Kissingen, Germany (d. 2020) [1]
May 26 Frank Mooney, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper (13 Tests, 30 dismissals; Wellington), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 2004)
May 27 Caryl Chessman, American kidnapper and rapist who got the death penalty, born in St. Joseph, Michigan (d. 1960)
May 28 Heinz G. Konsalik, German author, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1999)
May 28 Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner, born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2015)
May 29 George Terry, British chief constable (Sussex, England) (d. 1995)
May 31 Alida Valli [Baroness Alida von Marckenstein-Frauenberg], Italian actress (The Paradine Case, The Third Man), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2006)
May 31 Andrew Grima, Italian-born British jeweller known for his modern designs, born in Rome, Italy (d. 2007)
May 31 Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer, born in New York City (d. 2008)
May 31 Robert Arthur Ley, English sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X) (d. 1968)
Jun 1 Nelson Riddle, American Grammy Award-winning bandleader, conductor, and orchestrator for Capitol and Reprise Records (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, Linda Ronstadt), born in Oradell, New Jersey (d. 1985)
Jun 2 Alexander Salkind, Polish-French film producer (Superman film franchise), born in Danzig (d. 1997)
Jun 3 Aubrey Frank, British jazz saxophonist, and educator, born in East End of London (d. 1993)
Jun 3 Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete and influential swimming coach, born in Melbourne (d. 2016)
Jun 4 Bobby Wanzer, American basketball guard (NBA All-Star 1952–56; Rochester Royals) and coach (NBA All-Star Game 1957), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
Jun 4 Nina Vyroubova, Russian-French ballerina (Pavlova Prize, 1957), born in Gurzuf, Crimea, Ukrainian S.S.R. (d. 2007)
Jun 5 Lancelot Pierre, West Indian cricketer (1 Test WI v England 1948, 0-28), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 1989)
Jun 7 Richard M. Givan, American jurist (Indiana Supreme Court, 1969-94), born in Indianapolis, Indians (d. 2009)
Jun 7 Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist, born in Greensboro, North Carolina (d. 1998)
Jun 8 Alexis Smith, Canadian actress and singer (The Age of Innocence; Follies), born in Penticton, British Columbia (d. 1993)
Jun 8 Alwyn Williams, Welsh geologist and Vice-Chancellor (University of Glasgow), born in Aberdare, Wales (d. 2004)
Jun 8 LeRoy Neiman, American painter, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2012)
Jun 8 Sheila Ryan, American actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury), born in Topeka, Kansas (d. 1975)

Suharto (1921-2008)

Jun 8 Indonesian army officer and 2nd President of Indonesia (1967-98), born in Yogyakarta, Java

Jun 9 Arthur Hertzberg, Polish-American Jewish rabbi and Hebrew scholar, born in Lubaczów, Poland (d. 2006)
Jun 9 Forrest Bird, American aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators), born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
Jun 10 Jean Robic, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1947; World C'ship gold cyclo-cross 1950), born in Vouziers, France (d. 1980)

Prince Philip (1921-2021)

Jun 10 Duke of Edinburgh and consort of Great Britain's Elizabeth II, born in Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece

Jun 11 Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 2012)
Jun 11 Michael Meyer, English novelist and translator, born in London (d. 2000)
Jun 12 Christopher Derrick, British writer, born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England (d. 2007)
Jun 12 H. C. Artmann, Austrian writer, born in Vienna (d. 2000)
Jun 12 James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2005)
Jun 12 Johan Witteveen, Dutch economist, Minister of Finance (1963–65; 1967–71) and managing director of the IMF (1973-78), born in Zeist, Netherlands (d. 2019)
Jun 18 Angelo Bertelli, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1943, National C'ship 1943, Notre Dame), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1999)
Jun 18 Wesley Lau, American actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (d. 1984)
Jun 19 Allan Davis, London mayor (1985-86), born in London (d. 1994)
Jun 19 Hermanus Berserik, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2002)
Jun 19 Howell Heflin, American politician (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979-97), born in Poulan, Georgia (d. 2005)
Jun 19 Louis Jourdan [Louis Robert Gendre], French actor (The Paradine Case, Count Dracula, Gigi, Octopussy), born in Marseille, France (d. 2015)
Jun 21 Frank Scott, American pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), born in Fargo, North Dakota (d. 1995)
Jun 21 Jane Russell, American actress and leading sex symbol in 1940s-50s (The Outlaw), born in Bemidji, Minnesota (d. 2011)
Jun 21 Jean de Broglie, French politician, born in Paris (d. 1976)
Jun 21 Jean Kent [Joan Summerfield], British actress (Caravan, Bond Street), born in London, England (d. 2013)
Jun 21 Joan Tetzel, American actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning), born in New York City (d. 1977)

Judy Holliday (1921-1965)

Jun 21 American comedienne and actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib), born in New York City

Jun 22 Barbara F. Vucanovich, American politician (Rep-R-NV, 1983-1997), born in Camp Dix, New Jersey (d. 2013)
Jun 22 Joseph Papp, American stage producer and director (Pirates of Penzance; A Chorus Line), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991)
Jun 23 Jean [Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano], Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000), born in Berg Castle, Luxembourg (d. 2019)
Jun 25 Celia Franca [Franks], British-Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada and its artistic director (1951-75), born in London, England (d. 2007)
Jun 25 Peter Wishart, English composer, born in Crowborough, England (d. 1984)
Jun 26 Abe Jan Koldijk, Dutch physician for the Nazi regime (Limburg's family doctor), born in Vreeland, Netherlands (d. 2015)
Jun 26 Violette Szabo, French WWII secret agent, born in Paris, France (d. 1945)
Jun 27 Muriel Pavlow, British actress (Murder, She Said, Reach for the Sky), born in Lewisham, London (d. 2019)

P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921-2004)

Jun 28 Indian politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (1991-96), born in Warangal District, India

Jun 29 Frédéric Dard, French writer (San-Antonio), born in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France (d. 2000)
Jun 30 Gordon Reynolds, English organist and master of the Choristers at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, born in Hull, England (d. 1995)
Jul 1 Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (1966-80), born in Serowe, Botswana (d. 1980)
Jul 2 Maria Britneva, Russian actress (A Room with a View, Maurice), born in Petrograd, Russia (d. 1994)
Jul 3 Susan Peters [Suzanne Carnahan], American actress (Random Harvest, Young Ideas), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 1952)
Jul 4 Gérard Debreu, French-American economist (Nobel Prize, 1983), born in Calais, France (d. 2004)
Jul 4 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader (Ripley's Game), born in Győr, Hungary (d. 2003)

Dmitri Polyakov (1921-1988)

Jul 6 Soviet Major General and spy for the CIA, born in Ukraine

Nancy Reagan (1921-2016)

Jul 6 US First Lady (1981-89), born in New York City

Jul 7 Adolf von Thadden, German politician and possible MI6 agent, born in Gut Trieglaf, Germany (d. 1996)

Ezzard Charles (1921-1975)

Jul 7 American world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), born in Lawrenceville, Georgia

Jul 7 Stanislaw Wislocki, Polish conductor, born in Rzeszów, Poland (d. 1998)
Jul 9 Irv Kluger, American big band jazz and session drummer (Artie Shaw; Gramercy Five), born in New York City (d. 2006)
Jul 9 Jacob J. Hage, Dutch farmer and WW II resistance fighter, born in St. Maartensdijk, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Jul 10 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F. Kennedy, founder of the Special Olympics, born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 2009)
Jul 10 Harvey Ball, American inventor and designer of popular 'smiley-face' graphic, born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 2001)
Jul 10 Jean "Jeff" Donnell, American actress (Gidget Goes to Rome, Hoedown, 9 Girls), born in Windham, Maine (d. 1988)
Jul 10 Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, Georgian composer (Tbiliso), born in Baghdati, Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (d. 1981)
Jul 11 Ilse Werner [Ilse Charlotte Still], Dutch-German actress (Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow), born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies (d. 2005)
Jul 13 Charles Scribner IV, American literary publisher, born in Quogue, New York (d. 1995)
Jul 13 Ernest Gold [Goldner], Austrian-born American film composer (Exodus), born in Vienna (d. 1999)
Jul 13 Friedrich Peter, Austrian far-right politician, born in Attnang-Puchheim, Austria (d. 2005)
Jul 13 Git Gay [Birgit Carp], Swedish revue director, actress and singer (Git Gay Show, Ge mig en lektion i kärlek), born in Karlshamn, Sweden (d. 2007)
Jul 14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist (1973 Nobel Prize - organometallic compounds), born in Todmorden, England (d. 1996)
Jul 14 Leon Garfield, English children's author (Devil-in-the-Fog), born in Brighton, England (d. 1996)
Jul 14 Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), born in Boston, America (d. 2016)
Jul 15 Jack Beeson, American classical pianist and opera composer (Lizzie Borden; Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines ), born in Muncie, Indiana (d. 2010)
Jul 16 Bernard W. Rogers, United States Army general who served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army and NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, born in Fairview, Kansas (d. 2008)
Jul 16 Trevor Illtyd Williams, scientific writer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1996)
Jul 17 Acquanetta [Mildred Davenport], American actress nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano" (Tarzan & Leopard Woman), born in Newberry, South Carolina (d. 2004)
Jul 17 František Zvarík, Slovakian stage actor (Slovak National Theatre), born in Vrútky, Slovakia (d. 2008)
Jul 17 George Barnes, American swing-jazz and session guitarist, and electric guitar pioneer, born in South Chicago Heights, Illinois (d. 1977)

Toni Stone (1921-1996)

Jul 17 American baseball second baseman (first woman to play in men's Negro League), born in St. Paul, Minnesota

Jul 18 Aaron Beck, American psychiatrist (father of cognitive behavioural therapy), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2021) [1]

John Glenn (1921-2016)

Jul 18 American astronaut who was the 1st American to orbit the earth and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio

Jul 19 Rosalyn Yalow, American medical physicist (Nobel 1977), born in New York City (d. 2011)
Jul 20 Ted Schroeder, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1942, Wimbledon 1949), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2006)
Jul 22 Colin Madigan, Australian architect (National Gallery of Australia), born in Glen Innes, New South Wales (d. 2011)
Jul 22 William Roth, American politician (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971-2001), born in Great Falls, Montana (d. 2003)
Jul 23 Calvert DeForest, American comedian (Larry "Bud" Melman), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2007)
Jul 23 Harry Hookway, English first Chief Executive of the British Library (1973-84), born in London, England (d. 2014)
Jul 23 Heinz Bennent, German actor (Possession, The Serpent's Egg), born in Stolberg, Germany (d. 2011)
Jul 23 Jerome Rosen, American composer and educator, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2011)
Jul 23 Peter Twiss, British test pilot (breaking the World Air Speed Record and being the first person to exceed 1,000 mph in flight), born in Lindfield, Sussex (d. 2011)
Jul 24 Billy Taylor, American jazz pianist (Birdland), orchestra leader (David Frost Show), and broadcaster (NPR), born in Greenville, North Carolina (d. 2010) [1]
Jul 24 Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor, born in Motta Sant'Anastasia, Catania, Sicily (d. 2008)
Jul 25 John Christopherson, English artist and collector, born in Blackheath, London (d. 1996)
Jul 26 Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (A Christmas Story), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1999)
Jul 27 Émile Genest, French Canadian actor (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Les Plouffe), born in Quebec City, Canada (d. 2003)
Jul 29 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, born in Llandudno (d. 1996)
Jul 29 Richard Egan, American actor (Empire; Redigo; Pollyanna), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1987)
Jul 30 George Lampe, Dutch painter and director (Free Academy), born in Schiedam, Netherlands (d. 1982)
Jul 30 Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist, born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2005)
Jul 30 Jacques Van der Schueren, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, born in Aalst, Belgium (d. 1997)
Jul 31 Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International, born in London (d. 2005)
Jul 31 Whitney Young Jr, American civil rights leader, head of the Urban League, born in Shelby County, Kentucky (d. 1971)
Aug 1 Galip Haktanır, Turkish soccer defender (5 caps; Vefaspor SK), born in Iznik, Turkey (d. 2023)

Jack Kramer (1921-2009)

Aug 1 American tennis player (Wimbledon 1947, US Open 1946, 47), born in Las Vegas, Nevada

Aug 2 Alan Whicker, British journalist and TV broadcaster (Whicker's World), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2013)
Aug 3 Alec Wyton, English-born American composer, born in London, England (d. 2007)
Aug 3 Hayden Carruth, American poet (The Crow and the Heart), born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 2008)
Aug 3 Marilyn Maxwell, American actress and entertainer (Champion, The Lemon Drop Kid, East of Sumatra), born in Clarinda, Iowa (d. 1972)
Aug 3 Richard Adler, American composer and songwriter (The Pajama Game; Damn Yankees), born in New York City (d. 2012)

Maurice Richard (1921-2000)

Aug 4 Canadian NHL star (Montreal Canadiens, MVP-1947), born in Montreal, Quebec

Aug 5 Nazar Mohammad, Pakistani cricket batsman (5 Tests, 1 x 100 Pakistan's 1st centurion), born in Lahore, Pakistan (d. 1996)
Aug 7 Karel Husa, Czech-American Pulitzer prize winning composer (Trojan Women), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (d. 2016)
Aug 7 Manitas de Plata [Ricardo Baliardo], French gypsy flamenco guitarist, born in Sète, France (d. 2014)