August 31 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 31, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#73 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 31 birthdays
Hermann von Helmholtz · German physicist and physiologist1821
Maria Montessori · Italian physician and educator1870
Edward Thorndike · American psychologist1874
Emperor Taishō · Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 19261879
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands · Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 19481880
Fredric March · American actor1897
William Saroyan · Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer1908
James Coburn · American actor1928
Itzhak Perlman · Israeli-American violinist and conductor1945
Richard Gere · American actor1949
Hugh David Politzer · American physicist1949
Angelique Rockas · South African Greek actress1951
Robert Kocharyan · Former leader of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Armenia1954
Edwin Moses · American track and field athlete1955
Tsai Ing-wen · 14th and 15th President of Republic of China1956
Queen Rania of Jordan · Queen Consort of Jordan1970
Chris Tucker · American actor and comedian1971
Jeff Hardy · American professional wrestler1977
Pepe Reina · Spanish association football player1982
Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi crown prince1985
On this day in history
1968Start of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century anarchist congresses.
1969On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.
2010The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police drama in British television history, was broadcast.
2016Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
1897Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.
1935In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1941World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
1943USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
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