Born on August 3rd
LISTS
Name
Occupation
Birth
Death
Known for
Richard Adler
Songwriter
3-Aug-1921 Damn Yankees
Lance Alworth
Football
3-Aug-1940 NFL Hall of Famer, "Bambi"
Ian Bairnson
Guitarist
3-Aug-1953 Guitarist for The Alan Parsons Project
Stanley Baldwin
Head of State
3-Aug-1867 14-Dec-1947 UK Prime Minister three times
Rod Beck
Baseball
3-Aug-1968 23-Jun-2007 MLB relief pitcher
Angela Beesley
Business
3-Aug-1977 Co-Founder of Wikia, Inc.
Tony Bennett
Singer
3-Aug-1926 Left his heart in San Francisco
Steven Berkoff
Actor
3-Aug-1937 London Theatre Group
Tom Brady
Football
3-Aug-1977 New England Patriots QB
Sid Bream
Baseball
3-Aug-1960 Former MLB first baseman
Rupert Brooke
Poet
3-Aug-1887 23-Apr-1915 1914 and Other Poems
Butterbean
Boxing
03-Aug-1966 365 pound boxer in Jackass: The Movie
Hayden Carruth
Poet
3-Aug-1921 29-Sep-2008 Brothers, I Loved You All
Philip Casnoff
Actor
3-Aug-1949 Dr. Robert Jackson on Strong Medicine
Ingrid Caven
Actor
3-Aug-1938 In a Year of 13 Moons
Walter van Tilburg Clark
Novelist
3-Aug-1909 10-Nov-1971 The Ox-Bow Incident
Joan Claybrook
Activist
3-Aug-1938 Public Citizen
Alfred Deakin
Head of State
3-Aug-1856 7-Oct-1919 2nd Prime Minister of Australia
Dolores del Rio
Actor
3-Aug-1905 11-Apr-1983 Flying Down to Rio
William K. L. Dickson
Inventor
3-Aug-1860 28-Sep-1935 Motion picture camera
Marcel Dionne
Hockey
3-Aug-1951 NHL Hall of Famer
Lucky Dube
Singer
3-Aug-1964 18-Oct-2007 South African reggae star
Christine M. Durham
Judge
3-Aug-1945 Utah Chief Justice
Michael Ealy
Actor
3-Aug-1973 Barbershop
John Erman
Film Director
3-Aug-1935 Scarlett
Hamilton Fish
Politician
3-Aug-1808 7-Sep-1893 US Secretary of State, 1869-77
Jon Foster
Actor
3-Aug-1984 Damien Cutler on Windfall
Andrés Gimeno
Tennis
3-Aug-1937 Winner, 1972 French Open
Alex Grass
Business
3-Aug-1927 27-Aug-2009 Founder of Rite Aid
Mamie Gummer
Actor
3-Aug-1983 Daughter of Meryl Streep
Jean Hagen
Actor
3-Aug-1923 29-Aug-1977 Singin' in the Rain
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Mathematician
3-Aug-1805 2-Sep-1865 Inventor of Quaternions
James B. Harris
Film Director
3-Aug-1928 The Bedford Incident
James Hetfield
Musician
3-Aug-1963 Metallica
Ms. Jade
Rapper
3-Aug-1979 She's a Gangsta
P. D. James
Novelist
3-Aug-1920 Adam Dalgliesh series, etc.
Mathieu Kassovitz
Film Director
3-Aug-1967 La Haine
Vera Katz
Politician
3-Aug-1933 Mayor of Portland Oregon, 1993-2005
Yvonne Kauger
Judge
3-Aug-1937 Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court
Bud Krogh
Government
3-Aug-1939 Nixon's plumbers
Maggie Kuhn
Activist
3-Aug-1905 22-Apr-1995 Organizer of the Gray Panthers
John Landis
Film Director
3-Aug-1950 An American Werewolf in London
Marv Levy
Football
3-Aug-1925 NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach
George L. Lilley
Politician
3-Aug-1859 21-Apr-1909 Governor of Connecticut, 1909
Evangeline Lilly
Actor
3-Aug-1979 Kate on Lost
Ryan Lochte
Swimmer
3-Aug-1984 Olympic swimmer
Marilyn Maxwell
Actor
3-Aug-1921 20-Mar-1972 Stand by for Action
John C. McGinley
Actor
3-Aug-1959 Dr. Perry Cox on Scrubs
Nate McMillan
Basketball
3-Aug-1964 Head Coach, Portland Trail Blazers
Roberto Micheletti
Head of State
3-Aug-1943 President of Honduras, after 2009 coup
Steven Millhauser
Author
3-Aug-1943 Martin Dressler
Roscoe Mitchell
Musician
3-Aug-1940 Founder of The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Christopher Murphy
Politician
3-Aug-1973 Congressman, Connecticut 5th
John M. Murphy
Politician
3-Aug-1926 Congressman snagged in ABSCAM
Nathan Myhrvold
Business
3-Aug-1959 CTO of Microsoft, 1996-2000
Pete Newell
Basketball
3-Aug-1915 17-Nov-2008 Influential NCAA coach
Jay North
Actor
3-Aug-1951 Dennis the Menace
Elisha Otis
Inventor
3-Aug-1811 8-Apr-1861 Invented the safety elevator
Vernon Louis Parrington
Historian
3-Aug-1871 16-Jun-1929 Main Currents in American Thought
Jo Marie Payton
Actor
3-Aug-1950 Family Matters
Ernie Pyle
Journalist
3-Aug-1900 18-Apr-1945 Scripps-Howard war correspondent
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Head of State
3-Aug-1948 Prime Minister of France, 2002-05
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
Business
3-Aug-1950 CEO of State Farm Insurance
Jonas Savimbi
Military
3-Aug-1934 22-Feb-2002 Angolan UNITA rebel
John T. Scopes
Educator
3-Aug-1900 21-Oct-1970 Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial
Gordon Scott
Actor
3-Aug-1926 30-Apr-2007 Played Tarzan, 1955-60
Martin Sheen
Actor
3-Aug-1940 The West Wing
Clifford D. Simak
Novelist
3-Aug-1904 25-Apr-1988 City and The Visitors
Judith A. Sprieser
Business
3-Aug-1953 CFO of Sara Lee, 1995-99
Harley O. Staggers, Sr.
Politician
3-Aug-1907 20-Aug-1991 Congressman from West Virginia,
1949-81
John C. Stennis
Politician
3-Aug-1901 23-Apr-1995 US Senator from Mississippi, 1947-89
Martha Stewart
Business
3-Aug-1941 Professional housekeeper, insider trader
Max van der Stoel
Politician
3-Aug-1924 23-Apr-2011 Two-time Dutch Foreign Minister
Jack Straw
Politician
3-Aug-1946 Leader, House of Commons, 2006-07
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Film Director
3-Aug-1958 How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Koichi Tanaka
Chemist
3-Aug-1959 Refinements in mass spectrometry
Kenneth Tomlinson
Business
3-Aug-1944 Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Leon Uris
Novelist
3-Aug-1924 21-Jun-2003 Battle Cry
Diane Wakoski
Poet
3-Aug-1937 Coins & Coffins
Isaiah Washington
Actor
3-Aug-1963 Dr. Burke on Grey's Anatomy
George M. Whitesides
Chemist
3-Aug-1939 Harvard chemist, highest H-Index
Lambert Wilson
Actor
3-Aug-1958 The Merovingian
Terry Wogan
Radio Personality
3-Aug-1938 BBC's Wake Up To Wogan
William Burnham Woods
Judge
3-Aug-1824 14-May-1887 US Supreme Court Justice, 1881-87
Walter B. Wriston
Business
3-Aug-1919 19-Jan-2005 CEO of Citibank, 1967-84