August 1: Herman Melville, Claudius I, Yves St Laurent, Jerry Garcia, Iris Love, Evelyn Walsh McLean, Francis Scott Key, Joseph Hirshhorn, Jim Carroll, Ron Brown, Sammy Lee, Jeffrey Geoffrey Holder

August 2: James Baldwin, Peter O'Toole, Myrna Loy, Linda Fratianne, Carroll O'Connor, Bernadine Healy, Ira Progoff, Garth Hudson, Kathy Lennon, Victoria Jackson, Ruth Marcus, Geoffrey Dutton

August 3: Ernie Pyle, P.D. James, John T. Scopes, Leon Uris, Rupert Brooke, Martin Sheen, Tony Bennett, Anne Klein, Dolores Del Rio, Birgit Culberg, Marcel Dionne, John Landis, Eddie Jefferson

August 4: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Knut Hamsun, Mary Decker Slaney, Queen Mother Elizabeth of England, Herb Ellis, Anna Heidelberg, W.H. Hudson, Jess Thomas, Sir William Hamilton, Ely Culbertson

August 5: John Huston, Guy de Maupassant, Ruth Sawyer, Miriam Rothschild, Princess Irene of Holland, Sidney Omarr, Jacquetta Hawkes, Loni Anderson, Ilya Repin, Neil Armstrong, Wendell Berry

August 6: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alexander Fleming, Andy Warhol, Lucille Ball, Robert Mitchum, Piers Anthony, Abbey Lincoln, Sir Freddy Laker, Louella Parsons, Charles Crichton, Charles Fort, Mirin Dajo

August 7: Louis Leakey, Mata Hari, Roland Kirk, Garrison Keilor, Laura Martin-Smith, Alan Leo, Billy Burke, Ralph Bunch, Nicholas Ray, Emile Nolde, Manitas de Plata, Alberto Salazar, Don Larsen

August 8: Dustin Hoffman, Keith Carradine, Dino de Laurentis, Isabel Allende, Esther Williams, Helen Jacobs, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Jimmy Witherspoon, Connie Stevens, Deborah Norville, Ken Dryden

August 9: Jean Piaget, Marvin Minksy, Whitney Houston, Melanie Griffith, John Dryden, Jacques Parizeau, Robert Aldrich, Joe Jackson, Philip Larkin, Sam Elliott, Zino Francescatti, Brett Hull

August 10: Ian Anderson, Patti Austin, Ashley Putnam, Herbert Hoover, Norma Shearer, Rosanna Arquette, Rhonda Fleming, Martha Hyer, Jane Wyatt, Wolfgang Paul, Michael Mantler, Eddie Fisher

August 11: Alex Haley, Fernando Arrabal, Louise Bogan, Enid Blyton, Jerry Falwell, Hulk Hogan, Mavis Gallant, Phil Ochs, Mike Douglas, Arlene Dahl, Allegra Kent, Hugh McDiarmid, Angus Wilson

August 12: Madame Helena Blavatsky, Cecil B. DeMille, Edith Hamilton, Pat Metheny, Mark Knopfler, Diamond Jim Brady, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Robert Southey, George Hamilton, George IV of Britain

August 13: Fidel Castro, Alfred Hitchcock, Annie Oakley, Alfred Krupp, Dan Fogelbert, Sir Charles Grove, Philippe Petit, George Shearing, Kathleen Battle, Tony Garniet, Bobby Clarke, Jean Borotra

August 14: Magic Johnson, Horst, John Brodie, Alice Adams, Russell Baker, Danielle Steel, John Galsworthy, Richard Ernst, Robyn Smith, David Crosby, Richard von Kraft-Ebing, Sara Brightman

August 15: Napoleon Bonaparte, Princess Anne, Sultana Aga Khan, Ethyl Barrymore, Julia Child, Menachem Begin, Shimon Peres, James Keir Hardie, Lillian Carter, Edna Ferbert, Gene Upshaw

August 16: T.E. Lawrence, George Meany, Kathie Lee Gifford, Fess Parker, Eydie Gorme, Georgette Heyer, Bill Evans, Frank Gifford, Bruce Beresford, J.I Rodale, Peter Saul, Suzanne Farrel, Robert Culp

August 17: Davy Crockett, Mae West, Robert de Niro, Sean Penn, Maureen O'Hara, Mikhail Botvinnik, Larry Rivers, Ted Hughes, Jim Courier, Morse Peckham, V.S. Naipaul, Robin Cousins, George Duvivier

August 18: Meriwether Lewis, Robert Redford, Shelley Winters, Virginia Dare, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Antonio Salieri, Patrick Swayze, Robertson Davies, Brian Aldiss, Rosalynn Carter, Vijaya Pandit

August 19: Orville Wright, Bill Clinton, Malcolm Forbes, Ogden Nash, Willie Shoemaker, Coco Chanel, Gene Roddenberry, P.D. Ouspensky, Jill St John, Mme Du Barry, Ginger Baker, Ring Lardner Jr

August 20: H.P. Lovecraft, Jacqueline Susann, Benjamin Harrison, Connie Chung, Isaac Hayes, Robert Plant, Rose Hum Lee, Robert Herrick, Raymond Poincare, Christian Berard, Carla Fracci, Jim Reeves

August 21: Arthur Janov, Count Basie, Peter Weir, Kenny Rogers, Aubrey Beardsley, Joe Strummer, Janet Baker, Princess Margaret, Arthur Bremer, Nicole Massari, Archie Griffith, Toe Blake

August 22: Denton A. Cooley, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Claude Debussy, John Lee Hooker, Leni Riefenstahl, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker, Cindy Williams, Norman Schwarzkopf, Valerie Harper

August 23: Gene Kelly, Patricia McBride, Louis XVI of France, Keith Moon, River Phoenix, Bobby Watson, Vera Miles, Shelley Long, Lisa Halaby (Queen Noor of Jordan), Pete Wilson, Roland Dumas

August 24: Deng Xiao Ping, Jorge Luis Borges, Elizabeth Lee, Cal Ripken Jr., Max Beerbohm, A.S. Byatt, Fernand Braudel, George Stubbs, Malcolm Cowley, William Wilberforce, Shirley Ann Hufstedler

August 25: Ivan the Terrible, Ludwig II of Bavaria, George Wallace, Lola Montez, Rollie Fingers, Bret Harte, Van Johnson, Kiku Hamada, Althea Gibson, Ruby Keeler, Martin Amis, Eugen Gerstenmaier

August 26: Earl Long, Joseph Montgolfier, William French Smith, Ben Bradlee, Tom Heinsohn, Merlin Tuttle, Lee de Forest, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, Otto Binder, Valerie Simpson

August 27: Lyndon B. Johnson, Yasser Arafat, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Vincent Auriol, Pee-Wee Herman, Hannibal Hamlin, Charles G. Dawes, Bob Kerrey, G.W. Pabst, Theodore Dreiser

August 28: Goethe, Ben Gazarra, David Soul, Lou Piniella, Joseph Luns, Peter Fraser, Karl Bohm, William Cohen, Roger Tory Peterson, James Wong Howe, Scott Hamilton, Donald O'Connor

August 29: Charlie Parker, John Locke, Michael Jackson, Richard Attenborough, Jean Ingres, Dinah Washington, Elliott Gould, Wyomia Tyus, Peter Jennings, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Slobodan Milosovic

August 30: Mary Godwin Shelley, Ernest Rutherford, Ted Willams, Roy Wilkins, Jacques Louis David, Huey Long, Sylvia A. Earle, Shirley Booth, Fred MacMurray, Elizabeth Ashley, Joan Blondell

August 31: Maria Montessori, Caligula, James Coburn, Richard Gere, Eldridge Cleaver, Van Morrison, William Saroyan, Alan Jay Lerner, Paul Winter, Jacques Beliveau, Frank Robinson, Itzhak Perlman