List of Famous people born in August

Adrianus Josephus Elisabeth Havermans was a Dutch politician. A member of the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal, he served as Mayor of The Hague from 1985 to 1996. He died in The Hague on 8 March 2022, at the age of 87.

Gabriela Shalev is an Israeli jurist. She was Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.

Takahiro Yanagi is a Japanese football player. He plays for J1 League side Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.

Abdul-Hamid Abbas Hussein Dashti, also known as Abdulhameed Dashti, is a lawyer and former member of the Kuwait National Assembly. He graduated from the Kuwaiti Military College in 1974, where he started his career as a pilot and held several positions in the Kuwait Air Force until he resigned from military service in 1982. In 2015, his legal immunity was revoked by the Kuwaiti National Assembly and he was subsequently tried and convicted for insulting the Kuwaiti judiciary and insulting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, for which he was sentenced in absentia to 14 years. On December 20, 2017, a new ruling was issued to imprison him for an additional 5 years, bringing the total prison sentences against him to 55 years, most of which were issued in absentia because he was not in Kuwait.

Alberto Fernando Carvalho Oliveira was one of Portugal's leading cyclists in the late 1980s and early 1990s, racing with the Lousa-Trinaranjus-Akai team and then Ruquita-Philips-Feirense team.