Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He is number 23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male American screen...
Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE (born Barbara Ann Deeks on 6 August 1937) is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, such as: The Maltese Falcon(1941), Key...
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong...
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president...
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English poets and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime,...
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG PC FRS (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in Great Britain between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only...
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born 2 August 1925- 12July 2013) was a British journalist and broadcaster. He was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt. After the Second World War, Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper...
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, known as Yves Saint Laurent , August 1, 1936 – June 1, 2008), was a French fashion designer, and is regarded as one of the greatest names in fashion history. He is also credited with...
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his ousting in 1943. In 1926...
Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her children’s books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit. As a child, summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in...
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958) is a famous English ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill. They also won a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter...
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extroverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830), commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader. Bolívar played a key role...
John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the “Acid Bath Murderer”, was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed...
Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American novelist and screen writer. Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive...
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, founder of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt’s Manufacturing Company). When he died in 1862,he was one...
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian politician. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he seized power in a Nazi-backed coup d’état. From...
