August 7 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 7, 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
#59 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 7 birthdays
Mata Hari · Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy1876
Billie Burke · American stage and film actress1884
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn · American politician1890
Ralph Bunche · Diplomat, educator, civil rights activist and the first African1904
Nicholas Ray · American film director1911
James Randi · Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent1928
Elinor Ostrom · American political economist1933
Tobin Bell · American actor1942
Robert Mueller · American attorney and sixth director of the FBI1944
John C. Mather · American astrophysicist and cosmologist1946
Sofia Rotaru · Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress1947
James P. Allison · American immunologist and Nobel laureate1948
Wayne Knight · American actor1955
Bruce Dickinson · English heavy metal singer1958
David Duchovny · American actor and writer1960
Harold Perrineau · American actor1963
Michael Shannon · American actor1974
Charlize Theron · South African and American actress1975
Yun Hyon-seok · South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist1984
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone · American hurdler and sprinter1999
On this day in history
1782The Badge of Military Merit, the precursor to the U.S. Purple Heart, was established as a military decoration of the Continental Army.
1942World War II: U.S. Marines initiated the first American offensive of the Guadalcanal campaign, with landings on Tulagi, Gavutu–Tanambogo and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
1987Lynne Cox became the first person to swim between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in the Bering Strait in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
1990First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1962Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1969Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1978U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1981The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
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