- Aug 3 Cécile Aubry, French actress (The Black Rose), author (Belle et Sébastien), television screenwriter and director, born in Paris, France (d. 2010)
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Aug 6 American pop artist (Campbell's Soup Cans; Marilyn Diptych) and film producer (Frankenstein; Bad), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Aug 7 Romeo Muller, American screenwriter, born in the Bronx, New York (d. 1992)
- Aug 8 Lord Alfred Hayes, English pro wrestler, manager and commentator (WWF), born in London, England (d. 2005)
- Aug 10 Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (The Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee II), born in West Bend, Wisconsin (d. 2010)
- Aug 10 Jimmy Dean, American country and rockabilly singer ("Big Bad John"), television host (Jimmy Dean Show), actor (Diamonds Are Forever), and sausage maker, born in Plainview, Texas (d. 2010)
- Aug 14 Lina Wertmüller [Arcangela Braueich], Italian screenwriter, film director, and 1st woman nominated for an Academy Award for Directing (Seven Beauties), born in Rome, Italy
- Aug 15 Nicolas Roeg, English cinematographer and director (Aria, Eureka), born in London, England (d. 2018)
- Aug 16 Ann Blyth [Anne Blythe], American Academy Award-winning actress (Kismet; Mildred Pierce), and singer, born in Mount Kisco, New York
- Aug 17 Willem Duys, Dutch radio and TV host, born in Bussum, Netherlands (d. 2011)
- Aug 19 Walter Massey, Canadian stage and screen actor (Shoestring Theatre; Arthur), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2014)
- Aug 22 John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1993)
- Aug 23 Marian Seldes, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Father's Day), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2014)
- Aug 26 Yvette Vickers [Vedder], American actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman; Attack of the Giant Leeches), and Playboy playmate (July 1959), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. c. 2010)
- Aug 29 Charles Gray, British actor (Clay-Rawhide, Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), born in Bournemouth, Hampshire (d. 2000)
- Aug 31 James Coburn, American actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven), born in Laurel, Nebraska (d. 2002)
About August 1928
How Old? 95 or 96 years old
Generation: Silent Generation
Leap Year: Yes
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