Shun-ichi Iwasaki, Japanese engineer August 5 – Clifford Husbands, 6th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 2017) August 6 Janet Asimov, American writer and psychiatrist (d. 2019) János Rózsás, Hungarian writer (d. 2012) Frank Finlay, English stage, film and television actor (d. 2016) Elisabeth Beresford, British author (d. 2010) Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999) August 7 – Stan Freberg, American author, recording artist and comedian (d. 2015) August 8 Silvio Amadio, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1995) Jimmy Brown, American trumpeter, saxophonist and singer (d. 2006) Angelo Bonfietti, Brazilian basketball player (d. 2004) August 9 – Frank M. Robinson, American science fiction and techno-thriller writer (d. 2014) August 10 Marie-Claire Alain, French organist (d. 2013) Carol Ruth Vander Velde, American mathematician (d. 1972) Arthur Maxwell House, Canadian neurologist (d. 2013) August 11 Ron Bontemps, American basketball player (d. 2017) Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018) Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (d. 2019) John Gokongwei, Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist (d. 2019) August 12 John Derek, American actor and film director (d. 1998) Osamu Ishiguro, Japanese tennis player (d. 2016) Hiroshi Koizumi, Japanese actor (d. 2015) René Vignal, French footballer (d. 2016) August 13 Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and politician (d. 2016) Valentina Levko, Russian opera and chamber singer (d. 2018) Norris Bowden, Canadian figure skater (d. 1991) August 14 Martin Broszat, German historian (d. 1989) René Goscinny, French comic book writer (d. 1977) Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (d. 2017) August 15 Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright (d. 1947) Ivy Bottini, American activist and artist (d. 2021) Julius Katchen, American concert pianist (d. 1969) Sami Michael, Iraqi-Israeli author Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, former President of Greece (d. 2016) August 16 Jack Britto, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (d. 2013) Eivind Hjelmtveit, Norwegian cultural administrator (d. 2017) Yu Min, Chinese nuclear physicist (d. 2019) August 17 Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1992) Jiang Zemin, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (d. 2022) August 18 – Orlando Bosch, Cuban terrorist (d. 2011) August 19 – Luis Bordón, Paraguayan musician and composer (d. 2006) August 20 – Hocine Aït Ahmed, Algerian politician (d. 2015) August 21 – Marian Jaworski, Polish cardinal (d. 2020) August 22 – Werner Spitz, German-American forensic pathologist August 23 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (d. 2006) August 29 Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian