Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : August 8

Check all the award winners born on August 8.
BirthDate
Winner
08-August-1998

Shawn Mendes (Canada)

Shawn Mendes is a music artist.
08-August-1988

Ni Ni (China)

Ni Ni is a Chinese actress best known for her role as "Yu Mo" in the 2011 film The Flowers of...
08-August-1988

Fred Khoshtinat

Farbod Khoshtinat, better known by his pseudonym Fred, is an Iranian director, editor, and...
08-August-1984

Omkar Singh (India)

Omkar Singh is an Indian sports shooter. He won three gold medals and a silver medal in shooting...
08-August-1983

Fahadh Faasil (India)

Fahadh Faasil is an Indian film actor known for his work in Malayalam cinema. Fahadh made his...
08-August-1983

Rajpal Singh (India)

Rajpal Singh is a former captain of India national hockey team. He plays from the forward...
08-August-1983

Willie Tonga (Australia)

Willie Tonga is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Parramatta Eels of...
08-August-1981

Roger Federer (Switzerland, South Africa)

Tennis player Roger Federer (IPA pronunciation: [ˈɹɑ.dʒər ˈfɛ.dər.ər]) (born August 8, 1981) is...
08-August-1980

Michael Urie (United States of America)

Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor, presenter, director, and producer. He is best known...
08-August-1979

Bryan Hymel (United States of America)

Bryan Hymel is an American operatic tenor who was born and raised in New Orleans and was a...
08-August-1978

Countess Vaughn (United States of America)

Countess Danielle Vaughn is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Alexandria...
08-August-1977

Marsha Ambrosius (United Kingdom)

Marsha Ambrosius is an English singer-songwriter. A former member of Floetry, she released her...
08-August-1976

Drew Lachey (United States of America)

Andrew John "Drew" Lachey is an American singer and actor. He is known as a member of 98...
08-August-1974

Manjul Bhargava (United States of America)

Manjul Bhargava is an Canadian-American mathematician. He is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of...
08-August-1974

Donald Miralle (United States of America)

Donald Miralle, Jr. is a 2009, 2004 World Press Photo Award for Sports Action winner and a 2011...
08-August-1973

Mark Wills (United States of America)

Daryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills...
08-August-1973

Scott Stapp (United States of America)

Scott Alan Stapp is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is also the lead vocalist and...
08-August-1972

Joely Collins (Canada)

Joely Collins is a Canadian actress. Collins is the daughter of Andrea Bertorelli, and adoptive...
08-August-1971

Ramandeep Singh (India)

Ramandeep Singh Grewal is a former field hockey midfielder from India, who made his...
08-August-1970

Pascal Duquenne (Belgium)

Pascal Duquenne is a Belgian actor. He shared the prize for a male role in 1996 Cannes Film...
08-August-1970

Stephen Barden (Canada)

Stephen Barden is a Production Sound Mixer.
08-August-1969

Faye Wong (China, Hong Kong)

Faye Wong is a Chinese-Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress, who is usually referred to in...
08-August-1967

Lee Unkrich (United States of America)

Lee Unkrich is an American director, film editor and screenwriter. He is a longtime member of...
08-August-1967

Vladimir Vasilyev (Russia)

Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilyev is a Russian science fiction writer and musician. His first book...
08-August-1963

Heo Jin-ho (South Korea)

Hur Jin-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.
08-August-1962

Debashree Roy (India)

Debashree Roy is a Bengali cinema actress. She acted in more than 100 films and has 40 awards,...
08-August-1962

Kool Moe Dee (United States of America)

Mohandas Dewese, better known as Kool Moe Dee, is an American hip hop MC prominent in the late...
08-August-1961

Rafael López

Rafael López is an illustrator.
08-August-1961

The Edge (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland)

David Howell Evans, more widely known by his stage name The Edge, is an Irish musician, best...
08-August-1961

Pierre McGuire (Canada, United States of America)

Regis Pierre McGuire, is an American/Canadian ice hockey analyst for National Hockey League...
08-August-1958

Roberto H. Schonmann (Brazil, United States of America)

Roberto H. Schonman is a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-August-1956

Lena Stolze (Germany)

Lena Stolze is a German television and film actress.
08-August-1956

Cecilia Roth (Argentina)

Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.
08-August-1954

Mark Lee Ping Bin (Taiwan, United States of America)

Mark Ping Bing Lee is a cinematographer.
08-August-1953

Nigel Mansell (United Kingdom, England)

Nigel Ernest James Mansell, CBE is a British racing driver who won both the Formula One World...
08-August-1952

Jim Shaw (United States of America)

Jim Shaw is a contemporary American artist, born in Midland, MI. He received his B.F.A. from...
08-August-1952

Robin Quivers (United States of America)

Robin Ophelia Quivers is an American radio personality, author, and actress, best known for...
08-August-1952

Jostein Gaarder (Norway)

Jostein Gaarder is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and...
08-August-1952

Robert D. Zimmerman (United States of America)

Robert Dingwall Zimmerman is an American author of mysteries, psychological thrillers, and...
08-August-1952

Philip Vilas Bohlman (United States of America)

Philip Vilas Bohlman is an American ethnomusicologist. He is the Mary Werkman Distinguished...
08-August-1951

Randy Shilts (United States of America)

Randy Shilts was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance...
08-August-1951

Martin Brest (United States of America)

Martin Brest is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
08-August-1950

Jamie O'Hara (United States of America)

James Paul "Jamie" O'Hara is an American country music artist. Between 1986 and 1990, he and...
08-August-1950

Philip Salom (Australia)

Philip Salom is a contemporary Australian poet and novelist whose books have attracted...
08-August-1949

Brian Sipe (United States of America)

Brian Winfield Sipe is a former professional American football quarterback who played in the...
08-August-1949

Keith Carradine (United States of America)

Keith Ian Carradine is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. He...
08-August-1948

Veronica Redd (United States of America)

Veronica Redd is an American actress who played the recurring character of Mamie Johnson on The...
08-August-1948

Dennis Slamon (United States of America)

Dennis Joseph Slamon, is an American oncologist and chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology...
08-August-1948

Daniel James (United Kingdom)

Daniel James is a British historian educated at Oxford University and the London School of...
08-August-1947

William Hamilton Meeks (United States of America)

William Hamilton Meeks is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-August-1947

Alurista (United States of America)

Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia better known by his nom de plume Alurista, is a Chicano poet and...
08-August-1947

Nicolás Echevarría (Mexico)

Nicolás Echevarría is a Mexican film director and cinematographer. He has directed over 20 films...
08-August-1946

Carolyn Wheat (United States of America)

Carolyn Wheat is an Edgar Award nominated author.
08-August-1945

Massimo Dapporto (Italy)

Massimo Dapporto is an actor and voice actor.
08-August-1944

Peter Biziou (United Kingdom)

Peter Biziou BSC is a British cinematographer. Peter Biziou is the son of a special effects...
08-August-1944

Michael Johnson (United States of America)

Michael Johnson, is an American pop, country and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is...
08-August-1944

Bill Hewitt (United States of America)

William Severlyn Hewitt is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'7" forward...
08-August-1942

Balbir Singh Kullar (India)

Balbir Singh Kular is an Indian field hockey player and a Punjab Police officer. Alternative...
08-August-1941

David Novros (United States of America)

David Novros is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
08-August-1940

Dilip Sardesai (India)

Dilip Narayan Sardesai was a former Indian Test cricketer. He was the only Goa-born cricketer to...
08-August-1940

Barbara Stoler Miller (United States of America, United Kingdom)

Barbara Stoler Miller was a scholar of Sanskrit literature. Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita...
08-August-1937

Dustin Hoffman (United States of America)

Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since...
08-August-1936

Jan Pieńkowski (United Kingdom, Poland)

Jan Michel Pieńkowski is a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as...
08-August-1935

Donald Bellisario (United States of America)

Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and...
08-August-1935

Ciriaco Morón Arroyo (Spain)

Ciriaco Morón Arroyo is a Spanish philologist and professor. He took his bachelor's degree in...
08-August-1935

Paul Krasny (United States of America)

Paul Krasny is a film director.
08-August-1935

James Applewhite (United States of America)

James Applewhite is an American poet, and Professor Emeritus in creative writing at Duke...
08-August-1934

Michael Lombard (United States of America)

Michael Lombard is an actor.
08-August-1932

Mel Tillis (United States of America)

Lonnie Melvin "Mel" Tillis is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since...
08-August-1931

Roger Penrose (United Kingdom)

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of...
08-August-1929

Gianni Sbarra (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Gianni Sbarra is a production designer.
08-August-1929

José Luis Borau (Spain)

José Luis Borau Moradell was a Spanish producer, screenwriter, writer, and film director. He won...
08-August-1926

John Oscar Rasmussen

John Oscar Rasmussen is a 1973 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
08-August-1925

Ernst Badian (Austria, United States of America)

Ernst Badian was an Austrian-born classical scholar who served as a professor at Harvard...
08-August-1925

Hermann A. Haus (United States of America, Slovenia)

Hermann Anton Haus was a Slovene-American physicist, electrical engineer, and Institute...
08-August-1924

Donald S. Fredrickson

Donald Sharp "Don" Fredrickson was an American medical researcher, principally of the lipid and...
08-August-1924

Donald Stewart Taylor (United States of America)

Donald Stewart Taylor is a 1972 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-August-1923

Philip Barry Jr. (United States of America)

Philip Semple Barry was the eldest son of playwright Philip Barry to Ellen Semple. He was a film...
08-August-1921

Esther Williams (United States of America)

Esther Jane Williams was an American competitive swimmer and actress. Williams set multiple...
08-August-1921

William Asher (United States of America)

William Asher was an American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter.
08-August-1920

Arthur S. Link (United States of America)

Arthur S. Link was a leading American historian and a scholarly authority on Woodrow Wilson.
08-August-1920

Pierre Aubery (France)

Pierre Aubery is a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
08-August-1919

Dino De Laurentiis (Kingdom of Italy, Italy)

Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis was an Italian film producer best known for producing science...
08-August-1915

Agnar Mykle (Norway)

Agnar Mykle was a Norwegian author. He became one of the most controversial figures in Norwegian...
08-August-1915

Ian McLellan Hunter (United Kingdom)

Ian McLellan Hunter was an English screenwriter, most noted for fronting for the blacklisted...
08-August-1915
08-August-1915

María Rostworowski (Peru)

María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco is a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and...
08-August-1914

William Thornton Mustard (Canada)

William Thornton Mustard, OC MBE was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949, he was...
08-August-1911

Norman Rockett (United States of America)

Norman Rockett was an American set decorator. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the...
08-August-1910

Sylvia Sidney (United States of America)

Sylvia Sidney was an American character actress of stage, screen and film, who rose to...
08-August-1907

Benny Carter (United States of America)

Bennett Lester "Benny" Carter was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter,...
08-August-1903

Eigil Knuth (Denmark)

Count Eigil Knuth was a Danish explorer, archaeologist, sculptor and writer. He is referred to...
08-August-1902

Paul Dirac (Switzerland, United Kingdom)

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental...
08-August-1901

Ernest Lawrence (United States of America)

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1939...
08-August-1900

Robert Siodmak (United States of America, Germany)

Robert Siodmak was a German-born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller...
08-August-1900

Victor Young (United States of America)

Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.
08-August-1896

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (United States of America)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with...
08-August-1884

Sara Teasdale (United States of America)

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis,...
08-August-1882

Alfred Shout (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa)

Alfred John Shout VC, MC was a New Zealand-born Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria...
08-August-1833

Karl Klaus von der Decken (Germany)

Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken was a German explorer of eastern Africa and the first European...