(d. 1987) Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, German-British pharmacologist (d. 2018) July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (d. 2005) July 31 Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (d. 1971) Mel Hirsch, American basketball player (d. 1968) Julieta Pinto, Costa Rican educator and writer (d. 2022) August August 1 George Büchi, American chemist (d. 1998) Jack Kramer, American tennis player and commentator (d. 2009) August 2 – Mable Lee, American tap dancer, singer, and entertainer (d. 2019) August 3 – Richard Adler, American Broadway composer (d. 2012) August 4 Charles H. Coolidge, American Medal of Honour recipient (d. 2021) Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000) August 5 – Anita Foss, American baseball player August 8 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress (d. 2013) August 9 Ernest Angley, American evangelist, author and station owner (d. 2021) Patricia Marmont, American-English actress (d. 2020) August 10 Ion Negoițescu, Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1993) Jack B. Weinstein, American federal judge (d. 2021) August 11 – Alex Haley, American author (d. 1992) August 13 – Mary Lee, Scottish singer (d. 2022) August 15 – K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (d. 2000) August 17 Betty Cody, Canadian-born country music singer (d. 2014) Geoffrey Elton, born Gottfried Ehrenberg, German-born British political and constitutional historian (d. 1994) August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (Star Trek) (d. 1991) August 21 Babbis Friis-Baastad, Norwegian children's writer (d. 1970) John Osteen, American televangelist (d. 1999) Victor Szebehely, Hungarian-American astronomer (d. 1997) August 22 – Lee Loy Seng, Malaysian businessman (d. 1993) August 23 – Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017) August 24 – Gerald Tanner, Australian rules footballer (d. 2022) August 26 Shimshon Amitsur, Israeli mathematician, Israel Prize recipient (d. 1994) Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist, executive editor of The Washington Post (d. 2014) August 27 Leo Penn, American actor and director (d. 1998) Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1996) Abang Muhammad Salahuddin, 3rd and 6th Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak (d. 2022) August 28 Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991) Lidia Gueiler Tejada , 56th President of Bolivia (d. 2011) August 29 Iris Apfel, American interior designer, fashion designer Arlo Hullinger, American politician (d. 2021) Wendell Scott, American race car driver (d. 1990) Paddy Roy Bates, British pirate radio broadcaster, founder of the Principality of Sealand (d. 2012) August