August 31
1870 Maria Montessori, educator/physician (Chiaraville, Italy; died 1952)
1897 Frederic March, actor (Racine, WI; died 1975)
1907 William Shawn, magazine editor (Chicago, IL; died 1992)
1908 William Saroyan, novelist/playwright/short-story writer (Fresno, CA; died 1981)
1918 Alan J. Lerner, lyricist (New York, NY; died 194
1924 Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor (Brooklyn, NY)
1928 James Coburn, actor (Laurel, NE)
1935 Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager (Beaumont, T
1945 Van Morrison, singer/songwriter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Itzhak Perlman, violinist (Tel Aviv, Israel)
1949 Richard Gere, actor (Philadelphia, PA)
1955 Edwin Moses, Olympic champion track athlete (Dayton, OH)
1968 Hideo Nomo, baseball pitcher (Osaka, Japan)
1970 Deborah Gibson, singer (New York, NY)