These authors were born on the 21th of August

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Giambattista Gelli (1498-1563) - Italian writer
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) - French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)
Anne Johnson (1686-1752) - 21 Aug 1686 - aft. 28 Apr 1752
Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) - of the Declaration of Independence.
Jules Michelet (1798-1874) - French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance
August Bournonville (1805-1879) - Danish ballet master and choreographer (1805–1879)
Paul Henry (1848-1901) - French astronomer (1848–1905)
Nanna Thrane (1854-1948) - Norwegian author
Joe Burnett (1867-1917) - American police officer (1867-1917)
Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) - Russian playwright, author and poet (1871–1919)
Clarence Briggs (1871-) - politician in Massachusetts, US
Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) - British illustrator and author (1872–1898)
Henri Petit (1876-1938) - French trader and sailor
Charles Bush (1883-1963) - American school principal (1883-1963)
Henry Lewis (1889-1968) - British academic (1889-1968)
Dick Goss (1890-1962) - American baseball player (1890-1962)
Gunnar Reiss-Andersen (1896-1964) - Norwegian author
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (1902-1988) - American politician (1902-1988)
Count Basie (1904-1984) - US bandleader
Frank Braynard (1916-2007) - US Maritime historian
Jon Petersen (1918-) - in prison during WWII (1918)
Vincent Scully (1920-2017) - American architectural historian (1920-2017)
Jack Buck (1924-2002) - American sportscaster (1924–2002)
Knut Gjertsen (1924-2018) - production director at Hammerfest LNG
Thomas S. Monson (1927-2018) - president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1927-2018)
Chris Brasher (1928-2003) - London marathon co-founder, athlete, journalist
Princess Margaret (1930-2002) - English royalty
Maria Rivas (1931-2013) - Mexican actress (1931-2013)
Gregg Smith (1931-2016) - American choral conductor and composer (1931-2016)
Melvin Van Peebles (1932-2021) - American filmmaker (1932–2021)
Janet Baker (1933-) - British opera and concert singer
Barry Norman (1933-2017) - British film critic
Ted Phillips (1933-2018) - English footballer (1933-2018)
Jim Shepherd (1933-2013)
Tone Berg (1935-) - acoustics researcher
Carmine Romano (1935-2011) - American mobster
Ephraim Yaar (1935-2025) - sociologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University
Wilt Chamberlain (1936-1999) - American basketball player (1936–1999)
Donald Camp (1937-2000) - Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (in office from 1999 to 2000)
Joe Morrison (1937-1989) - athlete and football coach (1937-1989)
Robert Stone (1937-2015) - American novelist (1937–2015)
Irene McCormack (1938-1991) - Australian Catholic Sister murdered by guerrillas in Peru (1938-1991)
Gabrielle Burton (1939-2015) - American novelist and screenwriter (1939-2015)
Lyubov Kondratyeva (1939-)
Festus Mogae (1939-2026) - President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008
Dave Meade (1940-2019) - American Army general
Andreas Hamnes (1941-) - former mayor of Skedsmo
Ernst Welteke (1942-) - German economist
Perry Christie (1943-) - Bahamian politician
Hermann Friele (1943-) - coffee entrepreneur and chairman of the board at Kaffehuset Friele
Øivind Lund (1943-) - former chairman of the board at Yara
Øivind Lunde (1943-) - former smoker and cancer patient
John Austin (1944-) - British politician
Pat Hayes (1944-) - computer science researcher in artificial intelligence
Peter Weir (1944-) - Australian film director (born 1944)
Willie Lanier (1945-) - American football player
Bente Larsen (1945-) - Director of the Students' Welfare Organization in Bodø
Barry Axelrod (1946-2024) - American lawyer
Greg Urwin (1946-2008) - Australian diplomat (1946–2008)
Kjell Veivåg (1946-) - former city councillor for culture and deputy chair of the city council's culture committee
Roland Andersson (1947-) - site manager
Richard Clark (1947-) - British television director
Carl Giammarese (1947-) - American singer
Lars Hedström (1947-) - paragliding instructor
Dan Kapanke (1947-) - Wisconsin State Senator
Beate Lupton (1947-) - former county chief physician in Finnmark
Chris Miles (1947-) - Australian politician
Jane Ranum (1947-) - defense attorney
Ben Shneiderman (1947-) - American computer scientist
Mary Simon (1947-) - president of the national Inuit organization Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Nido Qubein (1948-) - American businessman
Larry Fisher (1949-2015) - Convicted in 1999 of a murder he allegedly committed in 1969
Sidiki Kaba (1950-) - Senegalese politician
Meredith Maran (1951-) - American writer
Michael Sylvester (1951-) - American opera singer
Andreas Gross (1952-) - Swiss politician
Keith Hart (1952-) - Canadian professional wrestler
Glenn Hughes (1952-) - British bassist and singer
Luise Müller (1952-) - epidemiologist from the Statens Serum Institut
Jiri Paroubek (1952-) - Czech politician, former prime minister
Robin Selvig (1952-) - American basketball player-coach
Joe Strummer (1952-2002) - English singer (Clash)
Tor Wennesland (1952-) - Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process
Doug James (1953-) - musical artist
Geir Knutson (1953-) - former county council leader in Nordland
Archie Griffin (1954-) - player of American football
Toril Johansson (1954-) - director general in the Ministry of Education and Research
Hermann Kopp (1954-) - politician (H)
Kevin Maher (1954-) - American lawyer, former diplomat
Reinhard Otto (1954-) - German historian
Pia Sterner (1954-) - SD politician
Ulf Bengtsson (1956-) - National Auditor
Kim Cattrall (1956-) - British–Canadian actress (born 1956)
Kim Levins (1956-) - British–Canadian actress (born 1956)
Steinar Madsen (1956-) - medical director at the Norwegian Medical Products Agency
Randy Mastro (1956-) - American attorney and government official
Kirk Speraw (1956-) - American basketball coach
Jon Tester (1956-) - American politician and farmer (born 1956)
John Howe (1957-) - Canadian illustrator, best known for his work based on J. R. R. Tolkien's worlds
James Rogan (1957-) - American politician, lawyer, writer and judge
Ed Seidel (1957-) - American computer scientist and astrophysicist
Steve Case (1958-) - businessman and former CEO of AOL (born 1958)
Idris Jala (1958-) - Malaysian politician
Kate Robbins (1958-) - Actress
David Teague (1958-) - Technical Lead, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2008–18
Harald Tunheim (1958-) - dog musher
Steve Vernon (1958-) - Canadian writer
Karol Wight (1958-) - executive director at The Corning Museum of Glass
Jim McMahon (1959-) - American football player
Shawn Nelson (1959-1995) - plumber (1959-1995)
Stefan Attefall (1960-) - Minister for Housing
Alastair Martin (1960-) - the Duchy of Cornwall’s secretary and keeper of records
Scott Bessent (1962-) - US Secretary of the Treasury
Carl Francis (1962-) - English footballer (born 1962)
Joakim Nivre (1962-) - AI researcher at the research institute RISE and Uppsala University
Klaus Wiener (1962-) - head of analysis at Generali Investments in Cologne
Richmond Arquette (1963-) - actor
Kazuko Ito (1963-) - Japanese tennis player
Nigel Pearson (1963-) - English association football player and manager (born 1963)
Hugo Pedersen (1963-) - mayor
Mohammed VI (1963-) - King of Morocco
Gaby Bisping (1964-) - operations manager for care and support
Henrik Engelbrecht (1964-) - opera expert
Esteban González Pons (1964-) - vice-chair of the Christian conservatives in the European Parliament
John Ioannidis (1965-) - professor of medicine and statistics
Erik Söderberg (1965-) - press chief at MTR
Silvia Tcherassi (1965-) - Colombian fashion designer
Ken Mehlman (1966-) - American politician and businessman
Carrie Ann (1967-) - DWTS judge
Stephane Charbonnier (1967-2015) - editor-in-chief
Ellen Harvey (1967-) - British artist (born 1967)
Abel Maldonado (1967-) - American politician
Carrie-Anne Moss (1967-) - Canadian actor
Serj Tankian (1967-) - Armenian-American rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
Rune Arstein (1968-) - operations manager in Nord-Trøndelag police district
Barbara Moore (1968-) - American playboy playmate
Carlos Das Neves (1968-) - veterinarian and director of research at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute
Tuffy Rhodes (1968-) - American baseball player
Hanne Tømta (1968-) - theatre director
Glen Boss (1969-) - Australian jockey
Frithjof Jacobsen (1969-) - political editor at Dagens Næringsliv
Thea Totland (1969-) - children's lawyer
Craig Counsell (1970-) - American baseball player and manager (born 1970)
Eric Daman (1970-) - Costume designer
Kristin J. Forbes (1970-) - American economist
Simone Larsen (1970-) - member of D'sound
Megan Abbott (1971-) - The Deuce scriptwriter
Gjert Lage Dyndal (1971-) - major general, deputy commander and chief of staff at the Norwegian Joint Headquarters
Liam Howlett (1971-) - British musician
Alessandro Nasini (1971-) - exhibition curator
Adam Frost (1972-) - Gardeners' World presenter and horticultural expert
Arnulf Refsnes (1972-) - Brødboksen founder
Erik Schlopy (1972-) - American Alpine skier
Sergey Brin (1973-) - American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Ola Pettersson (1973-) - Chief Economist at LO
Ismael Valdez (1973-) - Mexican pitcher
Nikolai Valuev (1973-) - Russian politician and former heavyweight boxer
Nikolay Valuev (1973-) - Russian politician and former heavyweight boxer
Nikolaj Valujev (1973-) - Former heavyweight boxing world champion and member of the Russian parliament
Martin Andanar (1974-) - the president's spokesperson
Amy Fisher (1974-) - American pornographic actress, journalist and writer
Jason Jefferson (1975-) - American racing driver
Simon Katich (1975-) - Australian Test cricketer
Joanna Krupa (1975-) - model and TV personality
Pavle Radovanović (1975-) - vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of Montenegro
Craig Waibel (1975-) - American soccer player
Alicia Witt (1975-) - American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1975)
Jeff Cunningham (1976-) - Jamaican-American soccer player
Greg Shields (1976-) - Scottish footballer (born 1976)
Philip Simon (1976-) - Dutch author and writer
Tone Sofie Aglen (1977-) - political commentator at NRK
Tone-Sofie Aglen (1977-) - municipal commissioner for the Centre Party in Trondheim
Greg Kasavin (1977-) - American video game writer
Kristian Storm-Hansen (1977-) - weekly winner of Aksje-NM and Statoil analyst
Therese Bohman (1978-) - Henry's mother
Reuben Droughns (1978-) - American football player (born 1978)
Jason Marquis (1978-) - US baseball pitcher
David Romer (1978-) - Swiss cross-country skier
Stina Sætre (1978-) - mayor of Drangedal
Stina Anlaug Sætre (1978-) - mayor
Kelis (1979-) - American singer
Marc Jackson (1979-) - rugby league footballer
Kimberly Stewart (1979-) - American model
Brian Hart (1980-) - American reality television participant (Big Brother)
Burney Lamar (1980-) - American stock car racing driver
Paul Menard (1980-) - American racing driver
Tarek El-Moussa (1981-) - Christina's ex-husband
Jon Engen-Helgheim (1981-) - Member of Parliament for Frp
Joe Gebbia (1981-) - Airbnb co-founder
Jon Helgheim (1981-) - FrP politician
Jarrod Lyle (1981-2018) - Australian professional golfer (1981–2018)
Tarek El Moussa (1981-) - husband of Heather Rae Young
Joe Murphy (1981-) - Irish association football player
Kim Andersson (1982-) - Högernio
Benedikte Pryneid Hansen (1982-) - party secretary of Rødt
Henrik Asheim (1983-) - Minister of Research and Higher Education
Jenny Cho (1983-) - hairstylist
Brody Jenner (1983-) - Kendall Jenner's older brother
Tyrone Wood (1983-) - The groom
Adam Fisher (1984-) - American basketball coach
Angela Lewis (1984-) - American Actress & Philanthropist
Bobby Nash (1984-) - Captain of the 118
Marit Liabø Sandvik (1984-) - Mayor of Heim municipality
Vinegar Strokes (1984-) - Drag queen
B.J. Upton (1984-) - American baseball player
Nicolas Almagro (1985-) - Spanish tennis player (born 1985)
Laura Haddock (1985-) - Actress
Mitch Henke (1985-) - basketball player
Ruben Klipper (1985-) - speaker and author
DeAndre Rice (1985-) - American basketball player (born 1985)
Aleksander Hesseberg Vikebø (1985-) - special forces soldier/patrol leader
Hanna Zavecz (1985-) - Australian basketball player (born 1985)
USA (1986-) - country
Usain Bolt (1986-) - sprint star
Sara Omar (1986-) - author
Olayinka Sanni (1986-) - American basketball player
Paetongtarn Shinawatra (1986-) - Thai prime minister
Per Åslund (1986-) - ice hockey player for Färjestad BK
Yannick Anzuluni (1987-) - basketball player
Marianne Clementine Håheim (1987-) - communications manager at Rådgiving om eteforstyrring (Ros)
Anders Kvernmo Langset (1987-) - leader of the National Union of Students in Norway
Jodie Meeks (1987-) - American basketball player (born 1987)
Nyasha Mushekwi (1987-) - football player for Djurgården
Anton Sjipulin (1987-) - biathlete
Sean Sweeney (1987-) - college basketball player (2010–2010) Charleston Southern
Victoria Baker-Harber (1988-) - Celebrity
Martin Christiansen (1988-) - distributor
Robert Lewandowski (1988-) - football player
Kacey Musgraves (1988-) - artist
Louise Setara (1988-) - Cleaner from Reading
Ben Tate (1988-) - American football running back
Olof Unogård (1988-) - coach
Elin Gustafsson (1989-) - works at Borgå guest harbour
Rob Knox (1989-2008) - British actor (1989–2008)
Hayden Panettiere (1989-2026) - Actress
Marcus Berggren (1990-) - comedian
Regine Emilie Mathisen (1990-) - hunter and trapper
Jeff Hass (1991-) - Canadian rugby union player
Ryan Rae (1991-) - football player
Amalie Szigethy (1991-) - contestant in 'Et ton cash'
RJ Mitte (1992-) - Actor
Millie Bright (1993-) - football player
Kim Bruun (1993-) - police inspector at North Zealand Police
Jonathan Solis (1993-) - badminton player
Luke Weaver (1993-) - American baseball player
Alex Cooper (1994-) - Call Her Daddy host
Ekin-Su Culculoglu (1994-) - reality star
Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu (1994-) - Love Island star
Wilhelm Næss (1994-) - reserve
Adam Lewis (1995-) - lawyer and head of the commission
Will Harrison (1996-) - American actor
Mark Patton (1997-) - Canadian athletics competitor (born 1997)
Fredrik André Bjørkan (1998-) - Bodø/Glimt player
Fredrik Bjørkan (1998-) - player
Christoffer Ellingsen (1998-) - People's Action Oil-Free Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja
Sarah Mellouk (1998-) - midfielder
Severi Savonsalmi (2000-) - volleyball player for Finland's men's national team
Oscar Jansson (2002-) - football player
Alexander Warneryd (2005-) - plays for Tromsø IL
Piper Rockelle (2007-) - YouTuber
Theodor Lundbergh (2008-) - player for Malmö FF

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