| 89191 | August 7 | Birth | 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649) |
| 89192 | August 7 | Birth | 1598 – Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672) |
| 89193 | August 7 | Birth | 1726 – James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790) |
| 89194 | August 7 | Birth | 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (d. 1776) |
| 89195 | August 7 | Birth | 1742 – Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786) |
| 89196 | August 7 | Birth | 1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820) |
| 89197 | August 7 | Birth | 1779 – Louis de Freycinet, French navigator and explorer (d. 1842) |
| 89198 | August 7 | Birth | 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859) |
| 89199 | August 7 | Birth | 1783 – Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810) |
| 89200 | August 7 | Birth | 1844 – Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911) |
| 89201 | August 7 | Birth | 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917) |
| 89202 | August 7 | Birth | 1862 – Victoria of Baden (d. 1931) |
| 89203 | August 7 | Birth | 1867 – Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (d. 1956) |
| 89204 | August 7 | Birth | 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931) |
| 89205 | August 7 | Birth | 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917) |
| 89206 | August 7 | Birth | 1877 – Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (d. 1949) |
| 89207 | August 7 | Birth | 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931) |
| 89208 | August 7 | Birth | 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970) |
| 89209 | August 7 | Birth | 1884 – Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940) |
| 89210 | August 7 | Birth | 1887 – Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (d. 1970) |
| 89211 | August 7 | Birth | 1890 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964) |
| 89212 | August 7 | Birth | 1901 – Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981) |
| 89213 | August 7 | Birth | 1903 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972) |
| 89214 | August 7 | Birth | 1904 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) |
| 89215 | August 7 | Birth | 1907 – Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (d. 1980) |
| 89216 | August 7 | Birth | 1910 – Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965) |
| 89217 | August 7 | Birth | 1911 – István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979) |
| 89218 | August 7 | Birth | 1911 – Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979) |
| 89219 | August 7 | Birth | 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998) |
| 89220 | August 7 | Birth | 1916 – Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (d. 2008) |