Anne Le Fèvre Dacier ( 1654 – 17 August 1720 ), better known during her lifetime as Madame Dacier, was a French scholar and translator of the classics.

* August 25 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan ( d. 1688 )

In keeping with French royal tradition that princes should be put in the care of men when they reached their seventh birthdays, Louis was separated from his governess, Madame de Ventadour, in February 1717, and placed in the care of the Duke of Villeroi, who had been designated as his governor in Louis XIV's will of August 1714 and whose secretary was the young Pierre-François Godard de Beauchamps.

Alain Decaux wrote: " Madame de Rambaud was officially in charge of the care of the Dauphin from the day of his birth until 10 August 1792, in other words, for seven years.

* August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer ( d. 1882 )

Trần Lệ Xuân ( 22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011 ), popularly known as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.

The United States in a position of some leverage owing to the considerable US aid flowing into South Vietnam, gave President Diem an ultimatum in August 1963 to distance himself from both his brother and Madame Nhu.

From August 27 to November 21, 1951, Wong starred in a detective series that was written specifically for her, the DuMont Television Network series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, in which she played the title role which used her birth name.

* " Madame Rosette "-First published in Harper's in August 1945.

From January 8 until August 24, 2008, she played the role of Madame Morrible in the Los Angeles production of Wicked.

However, things must have been ironed out, because August of the following year found the " far-famed unambulist performing his arduous and daring exploits " at the gardens, followed by " Madame Veroni's magic exploits ".

Upon discovering Pauline's deceit, he rebuked her with, " Please understand, Madame, that there is no princess snub to Pauline's newly assumed princely status through her August marriage where I am.

Rose Perrine le Roy de la Corbinaye ( December 10, 1730 – August 5, 1799 ) was a French actress, best known under the name of Madame Bellecour.

In August 1979 Son Sann went to Thailand with his sons ( Son Soubert and Son Monir ), Neang Chin Han ( former Director of the Executive Cabinet under President Lon Nol ), Madame Suon Kaset Sokhomaly, Colonel Thou Thip, Colonel Ea Chuor Kim Meng, Suon Sophat and Buon Say, all from France.

Her recent performances include roles of La Cieca in La Gioconda, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's Tancredi, the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Isabella in Rossini's L ' italiana in Algeri, Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle ( at the Seattle Opera ), Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's Elektra ( with the Canadian Opera Company ), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet's Cendrillon ( at London's Royal Opera House ), and the title role in Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia ( in the work's US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in July 2012 and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, in August 2012, where she scored a triumph ).

In a scene in JSA # 1 ( August, 1999 ) that depicted the funeral of the first Sandman, Wildcat wonders whether his own funeral will " be like the time they buried Madame Fatal here, and no one turned up for the funeral but the touring cast of La Cage aux Folles?

Nobile Maria Letizia Buonaparte née Ramolino ( Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, Madame Mère de l ' Empereur ) ( 24 August 1750 – 2 February 1836 ) was the mother of Napoleon I of France.

Madame Céleste or Madame Céline Céleste ( August 16, 1815, Paris – February 12, 1882, Paris ) was a French dancer and actress.

He was born in the small Danish town of Rudkoebing on the island of Langeland in the south-central part of Denmark on August 14, 1777.

Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

Prince, Field-Marshal Abbas Mirza ( عباس میرزا in Persian ) born Navaa village ( August 26, 1789 – October 25, 1833 ), was a Qajar crown prince of Persia.

Arthur Robert Jensen ( born August 24, 1923 ) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in San Diego, California, the son of Linda Mary ( née Schachtmayer ) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company.

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

Their son, David, was born in August 1928.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

Their son, Béla III, was born on August 22, 1910.

Six months later, on August 18, the couple's only child, a daughter named Frances Bean Cobain, was born.

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ( born August 1, 1960 ), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Lugdunum to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia on the day of the dedication of the altar to Augustus at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls.

Jeron Criswell King ( August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982 ), born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (), was an American psychic known for wildly inaccurate predictions.

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her temple on the Aventine Hill in the mid-6th century BC.

Alexandria Zahra Jones, Bowie and Iman's daughter, was born on 15 August.