August 1 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 1, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#16 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 1 birthdays
Maria Mitchell · American astronomer1818
Herman Melville · American writer and poet1819
Gaston Doumergue · French lawyer and statesman1863
George de Hevesy · Hungarian chemist1885
Henrietta Lacks · American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line1920
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia · King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 20151924
Georges Charpak · French physicist1924
Pierre Bourdieu · French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher1930
Lawrence Eagleburger · American statesman and diplomat1930
Yves Saint Laurent · French fashion designer1936
Jerry Garcia · American guitarist and singer1942
Douglas Osheroff · American physicist1945
Kurmanbek Bakiyev · Kyrgyzstani politician1949
Zoran Đinđić · Serbian politician1952
Coolio · American rapper1963
Sam Mendes · British stage and film director1965
Iván Duque · 33rd President of Colombia 2018–20221976
Jason Momoa · American actor1979
Bastian Schweinsteiger · German association football player1984
Nemanja Matić · Serbian association football player1988
On this day in history
1801First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.
1876Colorado was admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1984Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.
1991U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
1957The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1961U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1971The Concert for Bangladesh, organized by former Beatle George Harrison, is held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1980Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head of state.
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