August
- August 4 – Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx)
- August 5
- Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)
- Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer and actress
- Travie McCoy, American alternative hip-hop artist
- August 6 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver
- August 8
- Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
- Harel Skaat, Israeli singer
- Meagan Good, American actress
- Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress
- Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist
- Bradley McIntosh, English singer (S Club 7)
- August 9 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
- August 10
- Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress
- Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player
- August 11 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer & song writer
- August 12
- Djibril Cissé, French footballer
- Steve Talley, American actor
- August 14 – Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional wrestler
- August 15 – Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
- August 16 – Taylor Rain, American actress
- August 20 – Benjamin Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)
- August 21 – Ross Thomas, American actor
- August 23 – Carmen Luvana, Puerto Rican adult actress
- August 24
- Jiro Wang, Actor and Singer Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
- Chad Michael Murray, American actor
- August 25
- Rachel Bilson, American actress
- Shiva Keshavan, Indian Luge Pilot
- August 28 – Charlie Frye, National Football League quarterback
- August 29 – Lanny Barbie, American pornstar
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)
“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“To go by the asters
and breathe
the sweetness that hovers
in August about the tall milkweeds,
without a direct look ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)