Birthdays Date 1936 August | History by KabAstro

Aug 11 Bill Monbouquette, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1960, 60², 62, 63; no-hitter 1962 Boston Red Sox), born in Medford, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
Aug 11 D V Day, Principal (St John's College, Durham U)
Aug 11 J L Thompson, Bishop (Bath & Wells)
Aug 12 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener and journalist (BBC Gardener's World), born in London, England (d. 1996)
Aug 12 Gerard Masson, French composer, born in Paris, France
Aug 12 Hans Haacke, German artist (Right to Life, Dripper Boxes), born in Cologne, Germany
Aug 12 John Poindexter, American naval officer (national security advisor under Reagan, Iran-Contra affair), born in Odon, Indiana
Aug 14 Trevor Bannister, British actor (Are You Being Served?), born in Durrington, Wiltshire (d. 2011)
Aug 15 Lothar Buchmann, German soccer manager (VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt, Kickers Offenbach, Karlsruher SC), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 2023)
Aug 16 Anita Gillette, American actress (Quincy ME, Marathon, Moonstruck), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 17 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American (Dakota Sioux) country music singer-songwriter, actor (Walker, Texas Ranger; Northern Exposure), and political activist, born on Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, South Dakota (d. 2007)
Aug 17 Ivan Parik, Czech classical and electro-acoustic composer (Quadrophony), born in Bratislava (d. 2005)
Aug 17 Margaret Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer (MIT), and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (2016, for her work with NASA's Apollo missions), born in Paoli, Indiana

Robert Redford (87 years old)

Aug 18 American actor (The Sting; The Candidate; The Natural; All The President's Men), and Academy Award-winning director (Ordinary People; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It), born in Santa Monica, California

Aug 20 Carla Fracci, Italian ballerina (La Scala Theatre Ballet), born in Milan, Italy (d. 2021)
Aug 20 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist (Nobel Prize 2000 - discovery and development of conductive polymers), born in Tokyo
Aug 20 Sam Melville, American actor (The Rookies -"Mike Danko"; Roughnecks), born in Fillmore, Utah (d. 1989)
Aug 21 Mart Crowley, American playwright (Boys in the Band), born in Vicksburg, Mississippi (d. 2020)
Aug 21 Radish Tordia, Georgian painter of Figurative Art, born in Abasha, Georgia

Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999)

Aug 21 American College / Basketball HOF center (4 x NBA MVP; 13 x All Star; NBA C'ship 1967, 72 [MVP]; Philadelphia/SF Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers, LA Lakers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Aug 22 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
Aug 22 Lex Humphries, American jazz drummer (Sun Ra Arkestra), born in New York City (d. 1994)
Aug 23 Henry Lee Lucas, American drifter and serial killer, born in Blacksburg, Virginia (d. 2001)
Aug 23 Jon Urbanchek, American swimming coach (US Olympic Team 1988, 92, 96, 2000, 04; HC University of Michigan 1982-2004; ISHOF), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2024)
Aug 23 Rudy Lewis, American pop vocalist (The Drifters - "Up On The Roof"; "On Broadway"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1964)
Aug 24 A. S. Byatt [Antonia Susan Byatt], English novelist (Possession), born in Sheffield, England (d. 2023) [1]
Aug 24 Kenny Guinn, American businessman and politician, born in Garland, Arkansas (d. 2010)
Aug 24 William J. Coyne, American politician (Rep-D-Pennsylvania, 1981-2003), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
Aug 25 Hugh Hudson, English film director (Chariots of Fire), born in London, England (d. 2023) [1]
Aug 25 Max Beauvoir, Haiti Chief Voodoo Priest, born in Haiti (d. 2015)
Aug 26 Francine York, American actress (Slattery's People), born in Aurora, Minnesota (d. 2017)
Aug 27 Joel Kovel, American politician
Aug 28 Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire (World Series: 1974, 80, 85, 91; MLB All-Star Game 1971, 76, 87; "The Call"), born in Cedar Falls, Iowa (d. 2023)
Aug 28 Harry McLevy, Scottish trade unionist, born in Dundee, Scotland (d. 1995)
Aug 29 Gilbert Amy, French composer (Mouvements; Épigrammes), conductor, and educator, born in Paris, France

John McCain (1936-2018)

Aug 29 American war hero and Republican politician (Rep-Arizona, 1983-2018, Presidential candidate, 2008), born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone

Aug 29 Ken Scotland, Scottish rugby union full-back (27 Tests Scotland, 5 British & Irish Lions; Leicester Tigers RUFC, London Scottish FC), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2023)
Aug 30 Edward Pałłasz, Polish classical, theater, and film composer, born in Starogard Gdański, Poland (d. 2019)
Aug 30 Fabrizia Ramondino, Italian author, born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy (d. 2008)
Aug 31 Igor Zhukov, Russian pianist, conductor (Moscow Chamber Orchestra), and sound engineer, born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), Russia (d. 2018)
Aug 31 Marva Nettles Collins, American educator (West Side Preparatory School), born in Monroeville, Alabama (d. 2015)