What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every August birthday · battle August 31 against another date · all rankings
Who shares August 31
Share of the 40 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
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.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1949 · United States
Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began appearing in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978).
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1985 · Saudi Arabia
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MbS, is the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, formally serving as Crown Prince and Prime Minister. He is the heir apparent to the Saudi throne, the son of King Salman, and the grandson of the nation's founder, Ibn Saud.
وكالة الأنباء السعودية, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1971 · United States
Christopher Tucker is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He made his debut in 1992 as a stand-up performer on the HBO comedy series Def Comedy Jam, where he frequently appeared on the show during the 1990s.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1949 · United States
Hugh David Politzer is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction".
Musician
1945 · United Kingdom
Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish musician, singer, and songwriter whose recording career started in the 1960s.
Art Siegel (artolog on flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1928–2002 · United States
James Harrison Coburn III was an American actor who featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career.
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1948 · Germany
Heinrich Rudolf Schenker is a German guitarist and songwriter, best known as the founder and leader of the hard rock band Scorpions. He is the rhythm and lead guitarist, primary songwriter and the sole constant member of the band.
Bartek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1947 · Italy
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is an Italian businessman and motorsport executive who is best known as the former chairman of Ferrari, Fiat S.p.A., Confindustria and Alitalia.
MEDEF, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1958 · France
Serge Blanco is a former rugby union rugby player who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback. His alternative position was wing. He was generally nicknamed by French rugby fans as the Pelé of Rugby.
Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1947 · Thailand
Somchai Wongsawat is a Thai politician who served as the 26th prime minister of Thailand in 2008. He is a former executive member of the People's Power Party (PPP) whose political rights were disenfranchised by the Constitutional Court for five years.
Entrepreneur
1959 · France
Laurence Parisot is a French businesswoman who was head of the French MEDEF employers' union from 2005 until 2013. She also directs the IFOP poll institute. She became the 276th wealthiest French person after she inherited the Parisot group.
Nicolas Vanbremeersch, Versac - http://vanb.typepad.com/versac/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1925–2004 · United States
Marvin H. Davis was an American industrialist. He made his fortunes as the chair of Davis Petroleum and at one time owned 20th Century Fox, the Pebble Beach Corporation, the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Aspen Skiing Company.
August 31 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Musician
1977 · United States
Jeffrey Nero Hardy is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where he is a five-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with brother Matt. He is also known for his tenure in WWE and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Super Festivals, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1962 · United States
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor. Much of his work has consisted of vocalizations of animals and monsters.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive
1986 · Russia
Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova is a Russian scientist, manager, and former acrobatic dancer. She is the second daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Екатерина Лызлова / Росконгресс, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1870–1952 · Italy
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy. At an early age, Montessori enrolled in classes at an all-boys technical school, with hopes of becoming an engineer.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Argentina
Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Argentina national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1956 · Taiwan
Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she was the first woman to serve in the office.
Athlete
1982 · Spain
José Manuel "Pepe" Reina Páez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the current manager of Villarreal CF's Juvenil A squad.
Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1897–1975 · United States
Fredric March was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1988 · France
David Ospina Ramírez is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Colombia national team.
Fotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1958 · France
Éric Justin Léon Zemmour is a French far-right politician, essayist, writer, political journalist and pundit. He was an editor and panelist on Face à l'Info, a daily show broadcast on CNews, from 2019 to 2021.
Anh De France, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1919–2005 · India
Amrita Pritam was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi. A prominent figure in Punjabi literature, she is the recipient of the 1956 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Amarjit Chandan Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1567–1622
Francis de Sales was a Catholic prelate from Savoyard who served as Bishop of Geneva from 1602 to 1622. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the religious divisions in his land resulting from the Protestant Reformation.
Benjamin Gavaudo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1908–1981 · United States
William Saroyan was an American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy.
Al Aumuller, World-Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1879–1964 · Czechoslovakia
Alma Mahler-Werfel was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she became a fixture of Vienna's fin de siècle cultural scene, and struck up friendships and relationships with a number of notable artists and composers.
Not known; Specht does not identify photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1821–1894 · Germany
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1991 · Portugal
Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares, known simply as Cédric, is a professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club São Paulo.
Екатерина Лаут, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1863–1944 · France
Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in colour photography and his effort to document early 20th-century Russia.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1918–1986 · United States
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film.
Distributed by NBC (Motown). Photographer uncredited and unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1843–1919 · German Empire
Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party.
Bruckmann, F., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1970 · North Macedonia
Nikola Gruevski is a former Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation in 2016, in accordance with the internationally mediated Pržino Agreement due to the Macedonian political crisis, and led the party VMRO-DPMNE from 2004 to 2017.
European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1786–1889 · France
Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work contributed to significant developments in science, medicine, and art.
Nicolas Eustache Maurin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1834–1886 · Kingdom of Italy
Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera La Gioconda. He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla.
Icilio Calzolari / Adam Cuerden, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1840–1922 · Kingdom of Italy
Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca was an Italian realist (verista) writer. His novels I Malavoglia (1881) and Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) are widely recognized as masterpieces. Verga has been called the greatest Italian novelist after Manzoni. D. H.
not stated, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1951 · United Kingdom
Angelique Rockas is an actress, producer and activist. Rockas founded the theatre company Internationalist Theatre in the UK with her patron Athol Fugard.
Inventor
1663–1705 · France
Guillaume Amontons was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact.
Émile Deschamps (1822-1893), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1974 · Japan
Teruyoshi Ito is a former Japanese professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Hayato from Tokyo, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1912–2007 · Japan
Ichiji Otani was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Athlete
1929–2021 · Japan
Osamu Yamaji was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
This page lists 40 people born on August 31, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. 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 31. Read the full methodology.
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