Hong Kong actress August 7 – Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer August 8 – Yūji Machi, Japanese voice actor August 10 – Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author ((The Hunger Games)) August 11 – Rob Minkoff, American filmmaker August 12 – Ariel López Padilla, Mexican actor August 13 Marcello Novaes, Brazilian actor John Slattery, American actor and film director August 15 – Tom Colicchio, American chef August 16 Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (d. 2018) Steve Carell, American actor and comedian August 17 – Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director August 18 Felipe Calderón, Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico Rob Minnig, American musician (The Ocean Blue) August 19 Valérie Kaprisky, French actress Bernd Lucke, German politician and economist August 20 – James Marsters, American actor and musician August 21 Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (d. 2008) Gilberto Santa Rosa, Puerto Rican salsa singer August 23 – Dean Karnazes, American ultramarathon runner August 24 David Koechner, American actor and comedian Mary Ellen Weber, American astronaut August 25 – Theresa Andrews, American swimmer August 26 Roger Kingdom, American hurdler Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco August 28 – David Fincher, American director and producer August 29 Jutta Kleinschmidt, German rally driver Lycia Naff, American actress and journalist August 30 – Alexander Litvinenko, Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d. 2006) August 31 Dee Bradley Baker, American comedian, announcer and voice artist Mark L. Walberg, American television personality and show host September September 1 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer September 2 – Keir Starmer, English politician, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition September 4 – Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and researcher September 8 Thomas Kretschmann, German actor Miss Amy (Amy Otey), American musical fitness singer-songwriter Al Pardo, Spanish-born American baseball catcher Jay Ziskrout, American punk rock drummer September 11 Kristy McNichol, American actress Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian composer September 12 – Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter, musician and producer September 13 – Hisao Egawa, Japanese voice actor September 15 – François Bloemhof, South African author September 17 Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director Hesham Qandil, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt September 19 Shaharuddin Badaruddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2018) Cheri Oteri, American comic actress Gottfried von Bismarck, German aristocrat and socialite (d. 2007) September 20 – Vittorio De Angelis, Italian voice actor (d. 2015) September 21 – Rob Morrow, American actor September 22 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer (d. 2016) September 24 Rosamund