Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018) Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010) August August 1 Artur Brauner, German film producer and entrepreneur (d. 2019) Zhou Xuan, Chinese singer, actress (d. 1957) August 2 – Dada Vaswani, Indian spiritual leader (d. 2018) August 3 Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (d. 1999) Cheng Kaijia, Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer (d. 2018) August 4 – Noel Willman, Irish actor (d. 1988) August 5 Kondapalli Koteswaramma, Indian communist leader, feminist, revolutionary and writer (d. 2018) Betty Oliphant, co-founder of National Ballet of Canada (d. 2004) August 6 – Charles Coulston Gillispie, American historian (d. 2015) August 11 – Thomas A. Bird, British WWII army officer, architect (d. 2017) August 12 – Roy C. Bennett, American songwriter (d. 2015) August 13 Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2006) Tao Porchon-Lynch, American yoga master and author (d. 2020) Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, two time Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) August 19 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, 9th President of India (d. 1999) August 20 – Crystal Bennett, British archaeologist, pioneering researcher on Jordan (d. 1987) August 21 – Bruria Kaufman, American-born Israeli physicist (d. 2010) August 22 Said Mohamed Djohar, President of the Comoros (d. 2006) Martin Pope, American physical chemist (d. 2022) August 23 – Bernard Fisher, American surgeon (d. 2019) August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer, conductor (d. 1990) August 26 Hutton Gibson, American religion writer, father of actor Mel Gibson (d. 2020) Katherine Johnson, African-American physicist, space scientist and mathematician (d. 2020) Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz, Brazilian sociologist (d. 2018) August 27 Simeon Booker, American journalist (d. 2017) Chang Yun Chung, Chinese-born billionaire shipping magnate (d. 2020) Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1966 to 1967 (d. 2001) August 28 – Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, 37th President of Argentina (d. 1996) August 29 Clemens C. J. Roothaan, Dutch physicist (d. 2019) Brian Stonehouse, English painter, WWII spy (d. 1998) August 30 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002) August 31 Griffin Bell, American politician (d. 2009) Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist, librettist (d. 1986) Kenny Washington, African-American football player (d. 1971) September September 1 James D. Martin, American politician (d. 2017) Phyllis Wallbank, English educationalist (d. 2020) September 3 – Helen Wagner, American soap opera actress (d. 2010) September 4 John Carrick, Australian politician (d. 2018) Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009) Gerald