Birthdays in Film & TV
- Aug 1 Walter Scharf, American film composer, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2003)
- Aug 2 Roger MacDougall, Scottish playwright and screenwriter (The Man in the White Suit), born in Glasgow (d. 1993)
- Aug 2 Truus van Aalten [Geertruida van Aalten], Flemish actress (Girl in Blue Hat), born in Arnhem, Netherlands (d. 1999)
- Aug 4 Anita Page, American silent screen actress (Our Dancing Daughters), born in Flushing, Queens (d. 2008)
- Aug 6 Friedrich Schröder, Swiss light classical, operetta, schlager, and film score composer, born in Nafels, Switzerland (d. 1972)
- Aug 8 Sylvia Sidney [Sophia Kosow], American actress (Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon), born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1999)
Jane Wyatt (1910-2006)
Aug 12 American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), born in Mahwah, New Jersey
- Aug 15 Signe Hasso, Swedish actress (Johnny Angel; A Double Life), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2002)
- Aug 16 Mae Clarke [Violet Mary Klotz], American actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1992)
- Aug 25 Khigh Dhiegh [Kenneth Dickerson], American actor (The Manchurian Candidate; Hawaii Five-0 - "Wo Fat"; Forbidden Nights), born in Spring Lake, New Jersey (d. 1991)
- Aug 30 Donald Bisset, British children book writer, illustrator (Upside Down Stories) and actor (Battle of the Sexes), born in Brentford, Middlesex, England (d. 1995)
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