Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : August 1

Check all the award winners born on August 1.
BirthDate
Winner
01-August-1986

Elijah Kelley (United States of America)

Elijah Kelley is an American actor, singer, and dancer. Kelley appeared in the films Take the...
01-August-1982

Orelsan (France)

Aurélien Cotentin better known by his stage name Orelsan, sometimes stylized as OrelSan, is a...
01-August-1978

Edgerrin James (United States of America)

Edgerrin Tyree James is a former American football running back who played in the National...
01-August-1976

Don Hertzfeldt (United States of America)

Don Hertzfeldt an American animator and filmmaker. He is the creator of many animated films,...
01-August-1975

Elizabeth Cervantes (Mexico)

Elizabeth Cervantes is a Mexican actress of soap operas and film. She studied acting in Casa del...
01-August-1974

Ross Gay (United States of America)

Ross Gay is an American poet and professor. He is the author of two collections of poetry,...
01-August-1970

Elon Lindenstrauss (Israel)

Elon Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal. Since...
01-August-1970

Susie Grondin (Canada)

Susie Grondin is a television producer.
01-August-1969

Steven J. Escobar (United States of America)

Steven J. Escobar is a television editor, film editor and film producer.
01-August-1969

David Wain (United States of America)

David Benjamin Wain is an American comedian, writer, actor and director. He is most widely known...
01-August-1968

Stacey Augmon (United States of America)

Stacey Orlando Augmon is a retired American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA...
01-August-1968

Michelle Melanson (Canada)

Michelle Melanson is a television producer.
01-August-1968

Hanse Warns (Germany)

Hanse Warns is a film producer.
01-August-1967

José Padilha (Brazil)

José Padilha is a Brazilian film director, producer and writer. He is best known for directing...
01-August-1964

Gisela Casillas (Mexico)

Gisela Casillas is an actress and set decorator.
01-August-1963

Coolio (United States of America)

Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American musician, rapper,...
01-August-1963

Demián Bichir (Mexico)

Demián Bichir Nájera is a Mexican actor and member of the Bichir family. Both of his parents,...
01-August-1962

Jack Steinberg (United States of America)

Jack Steinberg is a film producer.
01-August-1962

Thomas Jay Ryan (United States of America)

Thomas Jay Ryan is a veteran stage actor who also starred in the 1997 film Henry Fool. Ryan...
01-August-1961

Michael Spiller (United States of America)

Michael Alan Spiller is an American cinematographer and television director. Spiller has...
01-August-1960

Lee Kyung-kyu (South Korea)

Lee Kyung-kyu is a South Korean actor and comedian. He patented his instant noodle recipe...
01-August-1960

Ning Xu (China)

Ning Xu is an actress.
01-August-1958

Michael Penn (United States of America)

Michael Penn is an American singer, songwriter and composer. He is the eldest son of...
01-August-1958

Silvio Soldini (Italy)

Silvio Soldini is an Italian film director. Soldini has received 11 awards in his career as of...
01-August-1958

Edward Gajdel (Poland, Canada)

Edward Gajdel is a Polish born photographer based in Toronto, Canada, best known for his...
01-August-1957

Madison Smartt Bell (United States of America)

Madison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. He is known for his trilogy of novels about...
01-August-1954

Zhou Sun (China)

Sun Zhou is a film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter.
01-August-1953

Jan Burke (United States of America)

Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar...
01-August-1953

Robert Cray (United States of America)

Robert Cray is an American blues guitarist and singer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he has...
01-August-1953

Martin Goodman (United Kingdom)

Martin David Goodman is an historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature...
01-August-1952

Ralph Lemon (United States of America)

Ralph Lemon was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lemon has been classified as many things; an...
01-August-1950

Roy Williams (United States of America)

Roy Allen Williams is an American basketball coach, currently the head coach of the men's...
01-August-1949

Nigel Finch (England)

Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch was an English film director and filmmaker whose career influenced the...
01-August-1949

Christopher Gilbert (United States of America)

Christopher Gilbert was an American poet.
01-August-1949

Primous Fountain (United States of America)

Primous Fountain is a 1974 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
01-August-1949

Santiago Ramos (Spain)

Santiago Ramos is an actor.
01-August-1947

David Satter (United States of America)

David Satter is a former Moscow correspondent and expert on Russia and the Soviet Union who...
01-August-1947

Jan T. Gross (United States of America, Poland)

Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish-born American historian and sociologist. He is the Norman B...
01-August-1946

Mike Emrick (United States of America)

Michael "Doc" Emrick is an American sports commentator noted mostly for his work in ice hockey...
01-August-1945

Laila Morse (United Kingdom)

Maureen Oldman, known as Laila Morse is an English actress, best known for playing Mo Harris in...
01-August-1945

Douglas Osheroff (United States of America)

Douglas Dean Osheroff is a physicist known for his work in experimental condensed matter...
01-August-1944

Edward Tenner (United States of America)

01-August-1944

Andrew G. Vajna (Hungary, United States of America, Kingdom of Hungary)

Andrew George Vajna is a Hungarian film producer.
01-August-1943

David Rosenberg (United States of America)

David Rosenberg is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship winner for the Creative Arts.
01-August-1943

John Goldschmidt (Austria, United Kingdom)

John Goldschmidt is a film director and producer. Goldschmidt was born in London, but grew up in...
01-August-1941

Ron Brown (United States of America)

Ronald Harmon "Ron" Brown was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first...
01-August-1941

Frederick Busch (United States of America)

Frederick Busch was an American writer. Busch was a master of the short story and one of...
01-August-1940

Tod Papageorge (United States of America)

Tod Papageorge is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street...
01-August-1940

Co Hoedeman (Canada, Netherlands)

Jacobus Willem Hoedeman is a Dutch-Canadian filmmaker known for his mastery of stop motion...
01-August-1939

Terry Kiser (United States of America)

Terry Kiser is an actor.
01-August-1937

Alfredo Joskowicz (Mexico)

Alfredo Joskowicz Bobrownicki was a film director.
01-August-1936

Brian M. Fagan (United States of America)

Brian Murray Fagan is a prolific author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of...
01-August-1935

Lloyd E. Berry (United States of America)

Lloyd E. Berry was a 1966 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
01-August-1933

Jack Patera (United States of America)

John Arlen "Jack" Patera is a former American football player and coach in the National Football...
01-August-1933

Dom DeLuise (United States of America)

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise was an American actor, comedian, film director, television producer,...
01-August-1932

Meena Kumari (India)

Meena Kumari is an actor.
01-August-1931

Ramblin' Jack Elliott (United States of America)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.
01-August-1931

Tom Wilson (United States of America)

Thomas Albert Wilson, better known as Tom Wilson, was an American cartoonist. Wilson was the...
01-August-1930

Geoffrey Holder (Trinidad and Tobago)

Geoffrey Richard Holder is a Trinidadian actor, choreographer, director, dancer, painter,...
01-August-1930

Julie Bovasso (United States of America)

Julie Bovasso was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was born in...
01-August-1928

Jack Shea (United States of America)

Jack Shea was an American film and television director. He was the president of the Directors...
01-August-1928

Fulvio Lucisano (Italy, Kingdom of Italy)

Fulvio Lucisano is an Italian film producer. In 2005 he was honored with a retrospective at the...
01-August-1926

Karl Kohn

Karl Georg Kohn is an American composer, teacher and pianist.
01-August-1925

Pam Gems (United Kingdom)

Pam Gems was an English playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of...
01-August-1925

Ernst Jandl (Austria)

Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.
01-August-1924

John Clive Ward (United Kingdom, Australia)

John Clive Ward was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the...
01-August-1924

Georges Charpak (Poland, France)

Georges Charpak was a French physicist from a Polish Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel...
01-August-1924

Michael Stewart (United States of America)

Michael Stewart was an American playwright and librettist for the stage.
01-August-1922

Arthur Hill (Canada)

Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and...
01-August-1922

Tom Donovan (United States of America)

Tom Donovan is a film director and producer.
01-August-1921

Pat McDonald (Australia)

Patricia Ethell "Pat" McDonald was an Australian radio and television actress and the daughter...
01-August-1919

James Hill (United Kingdom)

James Hill was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career...
01-August-1919

Stanley Middleton (United Kingdom)

Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist.
01-August-1918

Gaje Ghale (Nepal)

Gaje Ghale VC was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
01-August-1918

Artur Brauner (Poland)

Artur "Atze" Brauner is a Polish film producer and entrepreneur. He was born to a Jewish family...
01-August-1917

N. L. Gage (United States of America)

Nathaniel Lees Gage was an educational psychologist who made significant contributions to a...
01-August-1916

Anne Hébert (Canada)

Anne Hébert is a 1963 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts.
01-August-1915

Martin Melcher (United States of America)

Martin Melcher was an American film producer and husband of Doris Day.
01-August-1914

Hughie Edwards (United Kingdom, Australia)

Air Commodore Sir Hughie Idwal Edwards VC, KCMG, CB, DSO, OBE, DFC was a senior officer in the...
01-August-1914

Edd Cartier (United States of America)

Edward Daniel Cartier, known professionally as Edd Cartier, was an American pulp magazine...
01-August-1913

Leonard Hoffman (United States of America)

Leonard Hoffman was an Edgar Award winning screenwriter.
01-August-1912

Henry Jones (United States of America)

Henry Burk Jones was an American actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in...
01-August-1912

Donald Seawell (United States of America)

Donald R. Seawell was born in Jonesboro, North Carolina. His father was Aaron A. F. Seawell, a...
01-August-1910

Walter Scharf (United States of America)

Walter Scharf was an American film composer. Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre...
01-August-1907

Eric Shipton (United Kingdom)

Eric Earle Shipton CBE was a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer.
01-August-1905

Helen Sawyer Hogg (United States of America, Canada)

Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC was an astronomer noted for pioneering research into globular...
01-August-1903

Paul Horgan (United States of America)

Paul Horgan was an American author of fiction and non-fiction, most of which was set in the...
01-August-1899

F. R. Scott (Canada)

Francis Reginald Scott, CC, commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott, was a Canadian poet,...
01-August-1898

Thomas Wilkinson (United Kingdom)

Thomas Wilkinson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
01-August-1898

Morris Stoloff (United States of America)

Morris Stoloff was a musical composer. Stoloff worked as a music director at Columbia Pictures...
01-August-1890

Berta Hader (United States of America)

Berta Hader was a writer.
01-August-1888

Alva Johnston (United States of America)

Alva Johnston was an American journalist and biographer who won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism...
01-August-1885

George de Hevesy (Hungary, Germany)

George Charles de Hevesy was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for...
01-August-1882

Purushottam Das Tandon (India)

Purushottam Das Tandon, was a freedom fighter from Uttar Pradesh in India. He is widely...
01-August-1867

William Speirs Bruce (United Kingdom)

William Speirs Bruce FRSE was a Scottish naturalist, polar scientist and oceanographer who...
01-August-1849

George Mercer Dawson (Canada)

Dr. George Mercer Dawson FRS CMG, was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. He was born in Pictou,...
01-August-1831

George Richardson (United Kingdom)

George Richardson VC was born in Derrylane, Killeshandra, County Cavan and was an Irish...
01-August-1819

Augustus Charles Gregory

Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, KCMG was an English-born Australian explorer. Between 1846 and...