| Date | Person |
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| 1st August 1779 |
Francis Scott Key born
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| 1st August 1819 |
Herman Melville born
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| 1st August 1933 |
Dom DeLuise born
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| 1st August 1936 |
Yves Saint Laurent born
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| 1st August 1942 |
Jerry Garcia born
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| 1st August 1956 |
Tom Leykis born
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| 1st August 1963 |
Coolio born
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| 1st August 1973 |
Tempestt Bledsoe born
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| 1st August 1981 |
Ashley Angel born
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| 2nd August 1905 |
Myrna Loy born
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| 2nd August 1924 |
James Baldwin born
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| 2nd August 1924 |
Carroll O'Connor born
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| 2nd August 1932 |
Peter O'Toole born
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| 2nd August 1950 |
Judge Lance Ito born
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| 2nd August 1959 |
Victoria Jackson born
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| 2nd August 1974 |
Jeremy Castle born
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| 2nd August 1977 |
Edward Furlong born
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| 3rd August 1926 |
Tony Bennett born
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| 3rd August 1940 |
Martin Sheen born
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| 3rd August 1941 |
Martha Stewart born
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| 3rd August 1950 |
John Landis born
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| 3rd August 1951 |
Jay North born
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| 3rd August 1963 |
James Hetfield born
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| 3rd August 1977 |
Tom Brady born
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| 4th August 1792 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley born
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| 4th August 1901 |
Louis Armstrong born
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| 4th August 1912 |
Raoul Wallenberg born
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| 4th August 1955 |
Billy Bob Thornton born
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| 4th August 1961 |
Barack Obama born
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| 4th August 1962 |
Roger Clemens born
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| 4th August 1971 |
Jeff Gordon born
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| 5th August 1895 |
Communist father Friedrich Engels dies
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| 5th August 1906 |
John Huston born
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| 5th August 1930 |
Neil Armstrong born
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| 5th August 1946 |
Loni Anderson born
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| 5th August 1956 |
Maureen McCormick born
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| 5th August 1962 |
Patrick Ewing born
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| 5th August 1962 |
Marilyn Munroe found dead
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| 5th August 1964 |
Adam Yauch born
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| 5th August 1975 |
Kajol born
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| 6th August 1911 |
Lucille Ball born
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| 6th August 1917 |
Robert Mitchum born
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| 6th August 1928 |
Andy Warhol born
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| 6th August 1962 |
Michelle Yeoh born
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| 6th August 1965 |
David Robinson born
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| 6th August 1970 |
M. Night Shyamalan born
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| 6th August 1972 |
Geri Estelle Halliwell born
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| 7th August 1876 |
Mata Hari born
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| 7th August 1884 |
Billie Burke born
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| 7th August 1903 |
Louis Leakey born
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| 7th August 1904 |
Ralph Bunche born
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| 7th August 1926 |
Stan Freberg born
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| 7th August 1927 |
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer born
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| 7th August 1942 |
Garrison Keillor born
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| 7th August 1960 |
David Duchovny born
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| 7th August 1975 |
Charlize Theron born
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| 8th August 1866 |
Matthew Henson born
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| 8th August 1922 |
Rudi Gernreich born
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| 8th August 1922 |
Rory Calhoun born
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| 8th August 1923 |
Esther Williams born
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| 8th August 1932 |
Mel Tillis born
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| 8th August 1937 |
Dustin Hoffman born
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| 8th August 1938 |
Connie Stevens born
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| 8th August 1947 |
Willie P. Richardson born
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| 8th August 1949 |
Keith Carradine born
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| 8th August 1952 |
Robin Quivers born
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| 8th August 1953 |
Donny Most born
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| 8th August 1961 |
Dave "The Edge" Evans born
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| 8th August 1976 |
J.C. Chasez born
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| 8th August 1976 |
Drew Lachey born
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| 8th August 1981 |
Vanessa Amorosi born
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| 8th August 1981 |
Roger Federer born
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| 8th August 1981 |
Bradley McIntosh born
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| 8th August 1988 |
Princess Beatrice born
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| 9th August 1927 |
Robert Shaw born
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| 9th August 1944 |
Sam Elliott born
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| 9th August 1957 |
Melanie Griffith born
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| 9th August 1963 |
Whitney Houston born
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| 9th August 1968 |
Gillian Anderson born
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| 9th August 1969 |
Sharon Tate murdered
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| 10th August 1874 |
Herbert Hoover born
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| 10th August 1909 |
George Crockett born
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| 10th August 1923 |
Rhonda Fleming born
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| 10th August 1928 |
Jimmy Dean born
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| 10th August 1928 |
Eddie Fisher born
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| 10th August 1933 |
Rocky Colavito born
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| 10th August 1947 |
Ian Anderson born
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| 10th August 1959 |
Rosanna Arquette born
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| 10th August 1960 |
Antonio Banderas born
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| 10th August 1964 |
Nicole Bass born
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| 10th August 1982 |
Devon Aoki born
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| 11th August 1921 |
Alex Haley born
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| 11th August 1925 |
Mike Douglas born
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| 11th August 1928 |
Arlene Dahl born
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| 11th August 1933 |
Reverend Jerry Falwell born
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| 11th August 1950 |
Steve Wozniak born
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| 11th August 1953 |
Hollywood Hulk Hogan born
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| 12th August 1881 |
Cecil B. DeMille born
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| 12th August 1911 |
Cantinflas born
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| 12th August 1912 |
Jane Wyatt born
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| 12th August 1926 |
John Derek born
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| 12th August 1931 |
William Goldman born
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| 12th August 1939 |
George Hamilton born
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| 12th August 1971 |
Pete Sampras born
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| 12th August 1980 |
Dominique Swain born
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| 13th August 1860 |
Annie Oakley born
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| 13th August 1895 |
Bert Lahr born
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| 13th August 1899 |
Alfred Hitchcock born
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| 13th August 1919 |
George Shearing born
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| 13th August 1926 |
Fidel Castro born
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| 13th August 1929 |
Pat Harrington born
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| 13th August 1930 |
Don Ho born
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| 13th August 1951 |
Dan Fogelberg born
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| 14th August 1925 |
Russell Baker born
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| 14th August 1941 |
Lynne Cheney born
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| 14th August 1941 |
David Crosby born
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| 14th August 1945 |
Steve Martin born
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| 14th August 1946 |
Susan St. James born
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| 14th August 1947 |
Danielle Steel born
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| 14th August 1950 |
Gary Larson born
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| 14th August 1959 |
Earvin "Magic" Johnson born
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| 14th August 1968 |
Halle Berry born
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| 14th August 1970 |
Kevin Cadogan born
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| 15th August 1769 |
Napoleon Bonaparte born
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| 15th August 1879 |
Ethel Barrymore born
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| 15th August 1912 |
Julia Child born
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| 15th August 1919 |
Huntz Hall born
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| 15th August 1924 |
Phyllis Schlafly born
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| 15th August 1925 |
Mike Connors born
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| 15th August 1925 |
Rose Marie born
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| 15th August 1944 |
Linda Ellerbee born
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| 15th August 1946 |
Jimmy Webb born
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| 15th August 1950 |
Princess Anne born
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| 15th August 1972 |
Ben Affleck born
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| 16th August 1819 |
The Peterloo Massacre
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| 16th August 1913 |
Menachem Begin born
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| 16th August 1920 |
Charles Bukowski born
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| 16th August 1925 |
Fess Parker born
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| 16th August 1928 |
Ann Blyth born
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| 16th August 1930 |
Robert Culp born
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| 16th August 1930 |
Frank Gifford born
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| 16th August 1932 |
Eydie Gorme born
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| 16th August 1946 |
Lesley Ann Warren born
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| 16th August 1953 |
Kathie Lee Gifford born
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| 16th August 1954 |
James Cameron born
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| 16th August 1958 |
Madonna born
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| 16th August 1958 |
Angela Bassett born
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| 16th August 1960 |
Timothy Hutton born
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| 16th August 1972 |
Emily Robison born
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| 16th August 1977 |
Elvis Presley dies
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| 16th August 1980 |
Vanessa Carlton born
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| 16th August 2003 |
Former dictator Idi Amin dies
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| 17th August 1786 |
Davy Crockett born
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| 17th August 1892 |
Mae West born
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| 17th August 1920 |
Maureen O'Hara born
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| 17th August 1926 |
Jiang Zemin born
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| 17th August 1943 |
Robert De Niro born
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| 17th August 1960 |
Sean Penn born
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| 17th August 1969 |
Donnie Wahlberg born
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| 17th August 1970 |
Jim Courier born
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| 17th August 1987 |
Former Deputy Furher Rodulf Hess commits suicide
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| 18th August 1774 |
Meriwether Lewis born
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| 18th August 1922 |
Shelley Winters born
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| 18th August 1927 |
Rosalynn Carter born
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| 18th August 1933 |
Roman Polanski born
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| 18th August 1937 |
Robert Redford born
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| 18th August 1943 |
Martin Mull born
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| 18th August 1954 |
Patrick Swayze born
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| 18th August 1969 |
Edward Norton born
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| 18th August 1969 |
Christian Slater born
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| 18th August 1969 |
Erik "Everlast" Schrody born
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| 18th August 1970 |
Malcolm-Jamal Warner born
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| 19th August 1871 |
Orville Wright born
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| 19th August 1902 |
Ogden Nash born
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| 19th August 1919 |
Malcolm Forbes born
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| 19th August 1921 |
Gene Roddenberry born
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| 19th August 1931 |
Willie Shoemaker born
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| 19th August 1940 |
Jill St. John born
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| 19th August 1944 |
Conductor Sir Henry Wood dies
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| 19th August 1946 |
Bill Clinton born
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| 19th August 1948 |
Tipper Gore born
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| 19th August 1951 |
John Deacon born
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| 19th August 1955 |
Peter Gallagher born
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| 19th August 1956 |
Adam Arkin born
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| 19th August 1963 |
John Stamos born
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| 19th August 1966 |
LeAnn Womack born
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| 19th August 1969 |
Matthew Perry born
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| 20th August 1833 |
Benjamin Harrison born
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| 20th August 1890 |
H.P. Lovecraft born
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| 20th August 1914 |
Pope Pius X dies
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| 20th August 1921 |
Jacqueline Susann born
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| 20th August 1942 |
Isaac Hayes born
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| 20th August 1946 |
Connie Chung born
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| 20th August 1948 |
Robert Plant born
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| 20th August 1954 |
Al Roker born
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| 20th August 1962 |
James Marsters born
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| 20th August 1971 |
Fred Durst born
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| 21st August 1872 |
Aubrey Beardsley born
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| 21st August 1904 |
Count Basie born
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| 21st August 1923 |
Chris Schenkel born
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| 21st August 1924 |
Jack Weston born
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| 21st August 1932 |
Melvin Van Peebles born
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| 21st August 1936 |
Wilt Chamberlain born
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| 21st August 1938 |
Kenny Rogers born
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| 21st August 1940 |
Leon Trotsky murdered
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| 21st August 1956 |
Kim Cattrall born
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| 21st August 1983 |
Opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated in Manila
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| 22nd August 1862 |
Claude Debussy born
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| 22nd August 1893 |
Dorothy Parker born
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| 22nd August 1904 |
Deng Xiaoping born
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| 22nd August 1917 |
John Lee Hooker born
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| 22nd August 1920 |
Ray Bradbury born
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| 22nd August 1922 |
Irish Nationalist Michael Collins is killed
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| 22nd August 1934 |
Norman Schwarzkopf born
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| 22nd August 1939 |
Carl Yastrzemski born
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| 22nd August 1940 |
Valerie Harper born
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| 22nd August 1947 |
Cindy Williams born
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| 22nd August 1963 |
Tori Amos born
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| 22nd August 1967 |
Layne Staley born
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| 22nd August 1973 |
Howie Dorough born
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| 22nd August 1978 |
President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya dies
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| 23rd August 1912 |
Gene Kelly born
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| 23rd August 1930 |
Vera Miles born
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| 23rd August 1932 |
Mark Russell born
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| 23rd August 1934 |
Barbara Eden born
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| 23rd August 1949 |
Shelley Long born
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| 23rd August 1970 |
River Phoenix born
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| 23rd August 1977 |
Nicole Bobek born
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| 23rd August 1978 |
Kobe Bryant born
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| 24th August 1890 |
Duke Kahanamoku born
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| 24th August 1912 |
Durward Kirby born
|
| 24th August 1929 |
Yasser Arafat born
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| 24th August 1958 |
Steve Guttenberg born
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| 24th August 1960 |
Cal Ripken born
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| 24th August 1962 |
Craig Kilborn born
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| 24th August 1965 |
Marlee Matlin born
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| 24th August 1973 |
Dave Chappelle born
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| 24th August 1981 |
Chad Michael Murray born
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| 24th August 1988 |
Rupert Grint born
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| 25th August 1900 |
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies
|
| 25th August 1905 |
Clara Bow born
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| 25th August 1909 |
Ruby Keeler born
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| 25th August 1916 |
Van Johnson born
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| 25th August 1917 |
Mel Ferrer born
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| 25th August 1918 |
Leonard Bernstein born
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| 25th August 1923 |
Monty Hall born
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| 25th August 1930 |
Sean Connery born
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| 25th August 1933 |
Regis Philbin born
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| 25th August 1946 |
Rollie Fingers born
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| 25th August 1949 |
Gene Simmons born
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| 25th August 1950 |
Willy DeVille born
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| 25th August 1954 |
Elvis Costello born
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| 25th August 1958 |
Tim Burton born
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| 25th August 1961 |
Billy Ray Cyrus born
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| 25th August 1970 |
Claudia Schiffer born
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| 25th August 1978 |
Kel Mitchell born
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| 26th August 1904 |
Christopher Isherwood born
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| 26th August 1921 |
Ben Bradlee born
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| 26th August 1926 |
Rudolf Valentino dies
|
| 26th August 1935 |
Geraldine Ferraro born
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| 26th August 1960 |
Branford Marsalis born
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| 26th August 1980 |
Macaulay Culkin born
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| 27th August 1908 |
Lyndon B. Johnson born
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| 27th August 1910 |
Mother Teresa born
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| 27th August 1916 |
Martha Raye born
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| 27th August 1942 |
Daryl Dragon born
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| 27th August 1943 |
Tuesday Weld born
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| 27th August 1947 |
Barbara Bach born
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| 27th August 1952 |
Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens born
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| 27th August 1953 |
Alex Lifeson born
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| 27th August 1967 |
Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles dies
|
| 27th August 1978 |
Mason Betha born
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| 27th August 1979 |
Lord Mountbatten murder by IRA bomb
|
| 27th August 1988 |
Alexa Vega born
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| 28th August 1749 |
Johann von Goethe born
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| 28th August 1774 |
Elizabeth Ann Seton born
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| 28th August 1828 |
Leo Tolstoy born
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| 28th August 1899 |
Charles Boyer born
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| 28th August 1925 |
Donald O'Connor born
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| 28th August 1930 |
Ben Gazzara born
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| 28th August 1943 |
David Soul born
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| 28th August 1957 |
Daniel Stern born
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| 28th August 1958 |
Scott Hamilton born
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| 28th August 1965 |
Shania Twain born
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| 28th August 1969 |
Jason Priestley born
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| 28th August 1972 |
Prince William of Gloucester killed in plance crash
|
| 28th August 1982 |
LeAnn Rimes born
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| 29th August 1877 |
Mormon leader Brigham Young dies
|
| 29th August 1898 |
Preston Sturges born
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| 29th August 1915 |
Ingrid Bergman born
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| 29th August 1917 |
Isabel Sanford born
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| 29th August 1920 |
Charlie "Bird" Parker born
|
| 29th August 1923 |
Richard Attenborough born
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| 29th August 1928 |
Dick O'Neill born
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| 29th August 1936 |
John McCain born
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| 29th August 1938 |
Elliott Gould born
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| 29th August 1939 |
William Friedkin born
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| 29th August 1941 |
Robin Leach born
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| 29th August 1947 |
James Hunt born
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| 29th August 1958 |
Michael Jackson born
|
| 29th August 1971 |
Carla Gugino born
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| 29th August 1975 |
Dante Basco born
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| 30th August 1797 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley born
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| 30th August 1898 |
Shirley Booth born
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| 30th August 1908 |
Fred MacMurray born
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| 30th August 1918 |
Ted Williams born
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| 30th August 1930 |
Warren Buffett born
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| 30th August 1943 |
Jean-Claude Killy born
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| 30th August 1944 |
Frank "Tug" McGraw born
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| 30th August 1947 |
Peggy Lipton born
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| 30th August 1951 |
Timothy Bottoms born
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| 30th August 1953 |
Robert Parrish born
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| 30th August 1966 |
Michael Michele born
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| 30th August 1972 |
Cameron Diaz born
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| 30th August 1973 |
Lisa Ling born
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| 30th August 1974 |
Rich Cronin born
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| 30th August 1982 |
Andy Roddick born
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| 31st August 1870 |
Maria Montessori born
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| 31st August 1903 |
Arthur Godfrey born
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| 31st August 1908 |
William Saroyan born
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| 31st August 1918 |
Alan Jay Lerner born
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| 31st August 1924 |
Buddy Hackett born
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| 31st August 1928 |
James Coburn born
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| 31st August 1932 |
Roy Castle born
|
| 31st August 1935 |
Frank Robinson born
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| 31st August 1935 |
Eldridge Cleaver born
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| 31st August 1945 |
Itzhak Perlman born
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| 31st August 1945 |
Van Morrison born
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| 31st August 1949 |
Richard Gere born
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| 31st August 1970 |
Deborah Gibson born
|
| 31st August 1972 |
Chris Tucker born
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| 31st August 1977 |
Jeff Hardy born
|
| 31st August 1979 |
Chad Brannon born
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| 31st August 1997 |
Princess Diana killed in car crash
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