Birthdays
Born on August 1
Famous people who share August 1 as their birthday, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages write about them. Their sign: Leo.
Famous people born on August 1
- Herman MelvilleAmerican writer and poet · born 1819
- Georges CharpakFrench physicist · born 1924
- Yves Saint LaurentFrench fashion designer · born 1936
- Jason MomoaAmerican actor · born 1979
- Bastian SchweinsteigerGerman association football player · born 1984
- Douglas OsheroffAmerican physicist · born 1945
- Sam MendesBritish stage and film director · born 1965
- CoolioAmerican rapper · born 1963
- Nemanja MatićSerbian association football player · born 1988
- Iago AspasSpanish association football player · born 1987
- Maria MitchellAmerican astronomer · born 1818
- Giancarlo GianniniItalian actor · born 1942
- Kaspar CapparoniItalian actor · born 1964
- Meena KumariIndian actress and poet · born 1933
- David JamesEnglish association football player · born 1970
- Yoshio KatoJapanese association football player · born 1957
- Satoshi YamaguchiJapanese association football player · born 1959
- Elena VesninaRussian female tennis player · born 1986
- Domenico BerardiItalian association football player · born 1994
- Mariano DíazSpanish-Dominican Republic association football player · born 1993
- Jordi SavallSpanish-Catalan composer, conductor, viol player, and musicologist · born 1941
- Taapsee PannuIndian actress · born 1987
- Christoph BaumgartnerAustrian association football player · born 1999
- Gerda TaroGerman photographer, best known for her reporting on the Spanish Civil War · born 1910
- Jerry GarciaAmerican guitarist and singer · born 1942
- Salman Al-FarajSaudi Arabian footballer · born 1989
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What happened on August 1
- 1952 · The first Holiday Inn openedKemmons Wilson opened his first motel in Memphis, the start of a worldwide chain.
- 1954 · Hitchcock's Rear Window openedJames Stewart played a laid-up photographer spying on his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller.
- 1981 · MTV launchesThe music video channel went live, opening with "Video Killed the Radio Star."
- 2014 · Guardians of the Galaxy openedA talking raccoon and a tree named Groot joined Marvel's movie heroes.
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