| 89606 | August 8 | Birth | 1910 – Jimmy Murphy, Welsh-English footballer and manager (d. 1989) |
| 89607 | August 8 | Birth | 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 89608 | August 8 | Birth | 1911 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002) |
| 89609 | August 8 | Birth | 1915 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981) |
| 89610 | August 8 | Birth | 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer (d. 2010) |
| 89581 | August 8 | Birth | 1856 – Thomas Anstey Guthrie, English journalist and author (d. 1934) |
| 89582 | August 8 | Birth | 1857 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (d. 1944) |
| 89583 | August 8 | Birth | 1866 – Matthew Henson, American explorer (d. 1955) |
| 89584 | August 8 | Birth | 1874 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 1948) |
| 89585 | August 8 | Birth | 1875 – Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (d. 1955) |
| 89586 | August 8 | Birth | 1876 – Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly, Indian-Syrian priest, founded the Sisters of the Destitute (d. 1929) |
| 89587 | August 8 | Birth | 1879 – Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950) |
| 89588 | August 8 | Birth | 1879 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general and politician (d. 1919) |
| 89589 | August 8 | Birth | 1880 – Earle Page, Australian lawyer, academic, and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961) |
| 89590 | August 8 | Birth | 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954) |
| 89591 | August 8 | Birth | 1882 – Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1965) |
| 89592 | August 8 | Birth | 1884 – Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator (d. 1933) |
| 89593 | August 8 | Birth | 1889 – Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor (d. 1968) |
| 89594 | August 8 | Birth | 1889 – Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer (d. 1977) |
| 89595 | August 8 | Birth | 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer (d. 1952) |
| 89596 | August 8 | Birth | 1896 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (d. 1953) |
| 89597 | August 8 | Birth | 1898 – Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (d. 1990) |
| 89598 | August 8 | Birth | 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 89599 | August 8 | Birth | 1902 – Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984) |
| 89600 | August 8 | Birth | 1903 – Dayton Lummis, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 89601 | August 8 | Birth | 1904 – Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948) |
| 89602 | August 8 | Birth | 1905 – André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974) |
| 89603 | August 8 | Birth | 1907 – Benny Carter, American saxophonist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2003) |
| 89604 | August 8 | Birth | 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1990) |
| 89605 | August 8 | Birth | 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer and coach (d. 1984) |