Did you know
For portraying Billy Flynn in the musical Chicago (2002), he won a Golden Globe Award.
Famous Birthdays on August 31
1949 — Richard Gere
American actor and producer
August 31 has 255 recorded notable births across history, from 12 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Famous Birthdays
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12 – 2004
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Major events on August 31
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- 1933 The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage. Source
- 1798 Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht. Source
- 1999 The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others. Source
- 1795 War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands. Source
Did you know
Baker's roles include animated series such as Adventure Time, American Dad!
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One of those singles, "Foolish Beat", made Gibson the youngest female artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single.
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Ramon Magsaysay was the first Philippine president born in the 20th century and the first to be born after the Spanish colonial era.
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Yuvan has won two Filmfare Awards South, five Mirchi Music Awards South, three Vijay Awards and two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.
More major people born on August 31
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1962
Dee Bradley Baker
American voice actor
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor. Much of his work has consisted of vocalizations of animals and monsters.
1970
Debbie Gibson
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Deborah Ann Gibson is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She released her debut album Out of the Blue (1987) at age 16, writing and largely producing the material.
1907
Ramon Magsaysay
Filipino captain, engineer, and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (died 1957)
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. was a Filipino politician and military officer who was the seventh president of the Philippines, serving from 1953 until his death in 1957.
1979
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Indian Tamil singer-songwriter and producer
Yuvan Shankar Raja, known officially as Abdul Khaliq, is an Indian composer and playback singer. He mainly scores music for Tamil films along with few Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi films.
1944
Clive Lloyd
Guyanese cricketer
Sir Clive Hubert Lloyd is a Guyanese-British former cricketer and captain of the West Indies cricket team.
1980
Joe Budden
American broadcaster and former rapper
Joseph Anthony Budden II is an American broadcaster and former rapper.
1968
Hideo Nomo
Japanese baseball player
Hideo Nomo is a Japanese former baseball pitcher who played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB).
1946
Tom Coughlin
American football player and coach
Thomas Richard Coughlin is an American former football coach and executive of the National Football League (NFL). He was the head coach for the New York Giants from 2004 to 2015.
1979
Mark Johnston
Canadian swimmer
Mark Johnston is a former freestyle swimmer from Canada, who competed at two consecutive Summer Olympic Games, Sydney, Australia in 2000 and Athens, Greece in 2004.
1905
Robert Bacher
American physicist and academic (died 2004)
Robert Fox Bacher was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.
1982
Ian Crocker
American swimmer
Ian Lowell Crocker is an American former competition swimmer, five-time Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder.
1884
George Sarton
Belgian-American historian of science (died 1956)
George Alfred Leon Sarton was a Belgian-American chemist and historian. He is considered the founder of the discipline of the history of science as an independent field of study.
1542
Isabella de' Medici
Italian princess (died 1576)
Princess Isabella Romola de' Medici, Duchess of Bracciano, was a Tuscan noblewoman, daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Eleanor of Toledo.
1767
Henry Joy McCracken
Irish businessman and activist, founded the Society of United Irishmen (died 1798)
Henry Joy McCracken was an Irish republican executed in Belfast for his part in leading United Irishmen in the Rebellion of 1798.
1941
William DeWitt
Jr., American businessman
William Orville DeWitt Jr. is an American businessman who is currently the principal owner, managing partner and chairman of the St.
1931
Jean Béliveau
Canadian ice hockey player (died 2014)
Joseph Arthur Jean Béliveau was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's (NHL) Montreal Canadiens from 1950 to 1971.
1984
Ted Ligety
American skier
Theodore Sharp Ligety is a retired American alpine ski racer, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, and an entrepreneur, having cofounded Shred Optics.
1797
Ramón Castilla
Peruvian military leader and politician, President of Peru (died 1867)
Ramón Castilla y Marquesado was a Peruvian caudillo who served twice as President of Peru, first in 1845–1851, and then in 1855–1862.
1996
Jalen Brunson
American basketball player
Jalen Marquis Brunson, nicknamed "Captain Clutch", is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).