August 1 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, scientists, athletes and authors, and 4 of them are billionaires.
Axel Oberwelland is a German billionaire heir and businessman, the owner of the confectionery manufacturer August Storck, founded by his eponymous great-grandfather in 1903. The company is best known for its brands Werther's Original, Riesen and Toffifee.
Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty is an Indian-born businessman and former billionaire, the founder and acquirer of a number of companies based in the United Arab Emirates, including Abu Dhabi–based NMC Health, Neopharma, BRS Ventures, and Finablr.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs30% (15 people)
Scientists22% (11 people)
Athletes20% (10 people)
Authors18% (9 people)
Politicians16% (8 people)
Musicians12% (6 people)
Actors10% (5 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States11 (11 people)
France4 (4 people)
Italy4 (4 people)
Spain4 (4 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
India2 (2 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on August 1 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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~21Meena KumariReceived the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (1954)
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes is a British filmmaker and stage director. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List.
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George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals. He also co-discovered the element hafnium.
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Hersz Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.
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Douglas Dean Osheroff is an American physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter physics, in particular for his co-discovery of superfluidity in Helium-3. For his contributions he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David Lee and Robert C.
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Douglas James Burgum is an American businessman and politician who has served as the 55th United States secretary of the interior since 2025 under President Donald Trump.
United States Department of the Interior, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amber Augusta Rudd is a British former politician who served as Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019.
Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent, better known as Yves Saint Laurent, was a French fashion designer who founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962. He was the last of the grand couturiers and is regarded as one of the foremost designers of the 20th century.
Constantin Mugur Isărescu is the governor of the National Bank of Romania, a position he has been holding since September 1990, with the sole exception of a period of time of one year, during which he served as Prime Minister of Romania.
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Edurne Pasaban Lizarribar is a Basque Spanish mountaineer. On May 17, 2010, she became the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders – and the 21st person to do so.
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Jerome John Garcia was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s.
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia from 1 August 2005 until his death in 2015. Prior to his accession, he was Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 13 June 1982. He was the tenth son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia.
Cherie A. Thurlby, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
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Bastian Schweinsteiger is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Earlier in his career, he primarily played as a wide midfielder before later switching to a central midfield role.
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Meena Kumari was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Known as "The Tragedy Queen", she is regarded among the finest and greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinema.
Nwankwo Christian Kanu is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A member of the Arsenal 'Invincibles', he was named by the club as one of its greatest ever players. Kanu is widely considered one of the greatest African footballers of all time.
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David Benjamin James is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His most recent position was manager at Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League in 2018. He is also a pundit on Sky Sports football coverage.
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Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields.
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Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love and Anarchy (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for Seven Beauties (1975).
Vincenzo Iaconianni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mariano Díaz Mejía, better known as Mariano, is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Alavés. Born in Spain, he plays for the Dominican Republic national team.
Antonio Negri was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt.
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Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993, one of the shortest terms in modern history.
Ned Bittinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Gerta Pohorylle, known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first female photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
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Maria Mitchell was an American astronomer, librarian, naturalist, and educator. In 1847, she discovered a comet named 1847 VI that was later known as "Miss Mitchell's Comet" in her honor.
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Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments in contemporary performance and recording.
Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich. He founded the journal Isis.
Joseph Jack Cayre is an American billionaire businessman and real estate developer. Together with his brothers he co-founded the record label Salsoul Records, video tape distributor and producer GoodTimes Entertainment, and video game publisher GT Interactive.
Dice Ailes is a Nigerian singer whose musical style blends Afro-pop, hip-hop, and R&B. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he began his musical career in Toronto, Canada. He began creating music at the age of 15.
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This page lists 50 people born on August 1, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on August 1. Read the full methodology.
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