| 86791 | August 1 | Birth | 1939 – Terry Kiser, American actor |
| 86792 | August 1 | Birth | 1939 – Stephen Sykes, English bishop and theologian (d. 2014) |
| 86793 | August 1 | Birth | 1939 – Robert James Waller, American author and photographer |
| 86794 | August 1 | Birth | 1940 – Mervyn Kitchen, English cricketer and umpire |
| 86795 | August 1 | Birth | 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli director and screenwriter |
| 86796 | August 1 | Birth | 1940 – Henry Silverman, American businessman, founded the Cendant Corporation |
| 86797 | August 1 | Birth | 1941 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1996) |
| 86798 | August 1 | Birth | 1941 – Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 86799 | August 1 | Birth | 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage) (d. 1995) |
| 86800 | August 1 | Birth | 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 86801 | August 1 | Birth | 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Russian banker and politician (d. 1998) |
| 86802 | August 1 | Birth | 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer |
| 86803 | August 1 | Birth | 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 86804 | August 1 | Birth | 1946 – Boz Burrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (King Crimson and Bad Company) (d. 2006) |
| 86805 | August 1 | Birth | 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer (The Grass Roots) (d. 2011) |
| 86806 | August 1 | Birth | 1946 – Richard O. Covey, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut |
| 86807 | August 1 | Birth | 1946 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer |
| 86808 | August 1 | Birth | 1946 – Fiona Stanley, Australian epidemiologist and academic |
| 86809 | August 1 | Birth | 1947 – Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author |
| 86810 | August 1 | Birth | 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios |
| 86811 | August 1 | Birth | 1948 – Cliff Branch, American football player |
| 86812 | August 1 | Birth | 1948 – David Gemmell, English journalist and author (d. 2006) |
| 86813 | August 1 | Birth | 1949 – Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Kyrgyzstani politician, 2nd President of Kyrgyzstan |
| 86814 | August 1 | Birth | 1949 – Jim Carroll, American poet and author (d. 2009) |
| 86815 | August 1 | Birth | 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player (d. 2009) |
| 86816 | August 1 | Birth | 1950 – Bunkhouse Buck, American wrestler |
| 86817 | August 1 | Birth | 1950 – Roy Williams, American basketball player and coach |
| 86818 | August 1 | Birth | 1951 – Tim Bachman, Canadian singer and guitarist (Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt) |
| 86819 | August 1 | Birth | 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang) (d. 1976) |
| 86820 | August 1 | Birth | 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player, coach, and manager |