| 86701 | August 1 | Birth | 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (d. 1433) |
| 86702 | August 1 | Birth | 1545 – Andrew Melville, Scottish theologian and scholar (d. 1622) |
| 86703 | August 1 | Birth | 1555 – Edward Kelley, English occultist (d. 1597) |
| 86704 | August 1 | Birth | 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1644) |
| 86705 | August 1 | Birth | 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi and theorist (d. 1676) |
| 86706 | August 1 | Birth | 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1673) |
| 86707 | August 1 | Birth | 1659 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (d. 1734) |
| 86708 | August 1 | Birth | 1713 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1780) |
| 86709 | August 1 | Birth | 1714 – Richard Wilson, Welsh painter and academic (d. 1782) |
| 86710 | August 1 | Birth | 1738 – Jacques François Dugommier, French general (d. 1794) |
| 86711 | August 1 | Birth | 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (d. 1829) |
| 86712 | August 1 | Birth | 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician, 4th Governor of Missouri Territory (d. 1838) |
| 86713 | August 1 | Birth | 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and poet (d. 1843) |
| 86714 | August 1 | Birth | 1779 – Lorenz Oken, German-Swiss botanist, biologist, and ornithologist (d. 1851) |
| 86715 | August 1 | Birth | 1809 – William B. Travis, American colonel and lawyer (d. 1836) |
| 86716 | August 1 | Birth | 1815 – Richard Henry Dana, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1882) |
| 86717 | August 1 | Birth | 1818 – Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1889) |
| 86718 | August 1 | Birth | 1819 – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1891) |
| 86719 | August 1 | Birth | 1831 – Antonio Cotogni, Italian opera singer and educator (d. 1918) |
| 86720 | August 1 | Birth | 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War (d. 1926) |
| 86721 | August 1 | Birth | 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer (d. 1883) |
| 86722 | August 1 | Birth | 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France (d. 1937) |
| 86723 | August 1 | Birth | 1858 – Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1884) |
| 86724 | August 1 | Birth | 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer (d. 1951) |
| 86725 | August 1 | Birth | 1871 – John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player (d. 1969) |
| 86726 | August 1 | Birth | 1877 – George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman (d. 1968) |
| 86727 | August 1 | Birth | 1881 – Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1940) |
| 86728 | August 1 | Birth | 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) |
| 86729 | August 1 | Birth | 1889 – Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (d. 1979) |
| 86730 | August 1 | Birth | 1891 – Karl Kobelt, Swiss lawyer and politician, 52nd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1968) |