American actress, television producer and co-owner of Desilu Productions (d. 1989) Norman Gordon, South African cricketer (d. 2014) Constance Fecher Heaven, British romance writer (d. 1995) August 7 – Nicholas Ray, American director (d. 1979) August 8 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002) August 9 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995) August 10 Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011) A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993) August 11 William H. Avery, American politician (d. 2009) Thanom Kittikachorn, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004) August 12 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993) August 13 – Roy Pinney, American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer (d. 2010) August 15 – Anthony Salerno, American gangster (d. 1992) August 17 Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (d. 1995) Martin Sandberger, German military officer (d. 2010) August 18 – Amelia Boynton Robinson, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015) August 23 Betty Robinson, American Olympic athlete (d. 1999) Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (d. 1998) August 25 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, General of the Vietnam People's Army (d. 2013) August 29 – John Charnley, English orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer of hip replacement operation (d. 1982) August 31 – Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (d. 1996) September September 1 – Kōmei Abe, Japanese composer (d. 2006) September 2 – Romare Bearden, American artist (d. 1988) September 6 – Harry Danning, American baseball player (d. 2004) September 7 – Todor Zhivkov, 36th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1998) September 8 – Byron Morrow, American actor (d. 2006) September 9 Paul Goodman, American author (d. 1972) Sir John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2002) September 10 Nelly Omar, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2013) Renée Simonot, French actress (d. 2021) September 13 – Bill Monroe, American musician (d. 1996) September 15 – Joseph Pevney, American director (d. 2008) September 19 – William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) September 24 Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1985) Ed Kretz, American motorcycle racer (d. 1996) September 25 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981) September 27 – John Harvey, American actor (d. 1982) September 29 – Charles Court, Australian politician (d. 2007) September 30 Bernd von Brauchitsch, German air force officer (d. 1974) Ruth Gruber, American journalist and writer (d. 2016) October October 3 – Edgar