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- 8/1/1779 :Francis Scott Key, "Star-Spangled Banner" composer.
- 8/2/1892 :Jack Warner, movie studio chief (Warner Bros.).
- 8/3/1924 :Leon Uris, author ("Exodus").
- 8/4/1962 :Roger Clemens, professional baseball player.
- 8/5/1930 :Neil Alden Armstrong, astronaut.
- 8/6/1892 :Hoot Gibson, western film star.
- 8/7/1927 :Doc Severinsen, bandleader.
- 8/8/1923 :Esther Williams, aquatic actress.
- 8/9/1957 :Melanie Griffith, actress.
- 8/10/1874:Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st president.
- 8/11/1807:David R. Atchison, president of US for 1 day (3/4/1849).
- 8/12/1939:George Hamilton, actor.
- 8/13/1860:Annie Oakley, sharpshooter.
- 8/14/1930:Earl Weaver.
- 8/15/1769:Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor.
- 8/16/1897:Robert Ringling, circus master.
- 8/17/1786:David "Davy" Crockett, frontiersman.
- 8/18/1774:Meriwether Lewis, American explorer.
- 8/19/1871:Orville Wright, aviation pioneer.
- 8/20/1833:Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president.
- 8/21/1920:Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A.
- 8/22/1920:Dr. Denton Cooley, heart surgeon.
- 8/23/1912:Gene Kelly, dancer and actor.
- 8/24/1880:Joshua Lionel Cowen, electric toy train inventor.
- 8/25/1930:Sean Connery, actor.
- 8/26/1838:John Wilkes Booth, presidential assassin.
- 8/27/1877:Charles Rolls, English automaker.
- 8/28/1943:Lou Piniella, baseball manager.
- 8/29/1809:Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and poet.
- 8/30/1797:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author ("Frankenstein").
- 8/31/1924:Buddy Hackett (Leonard Hacker), comedian.
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