List of Famous people born on August 21st
Aleix Vidal
Aleix Vidal Parreu is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Sevilla FC. Mainly a right-back and a player of great speed, he can also operate as a right winger.
Marin Honda
Marin Honda is a Japanese figure skater. She is the 2016 World Junior champion, the 2017 World Junior silver medalist, the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and the 2016–17 Japanese Junior National bronze medalist. She is the former junior world record holder for the free program.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn is a Puerto Rican track and field athlete, who specializes in the 100 m hurdles. She participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres hurdles event. Her personal best of 12.32, set in 2021 is tied for the #7 time in history.
Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. He competed in boxing from 1993 to 2009, and held the WBA heavyweight title twice between 2005 and 2009. Standing at a height of 2.13 metres (7.0 ft) and a peak weight of 149 kilograms (328 lb), Valuev is best known for being the tallest and heaviest world champion in boxing history.
RJ Mitte
Roy Frank Mitte III is an American actor, best known for playing Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008–2013). Like his character on the show, he has cerebral palsy. After moving to Hollywood in 2006, he began training with personal talent manager Addison Witt. They sought acting opportunities where his disability would serve to educate viewers, which led him to audition for the role in Breaking Bad.
Kelis
Kelis Rogers is an American singer, songwriter, and chef. At age 14, Kelis was admitted to New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she learned to play the saxophone and won a spot in the Girls Choir of Harlem. After she graduated from high school in 1997, Kelis took on a variety of jobs before landing a backup vocal slot on a single called "Fairytalez" released by the American hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, known as The Neptunes, which ultimately resulted in her being signed to Virgin Records in 1998.
Karolína Muchová
Karolína Muchová is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 21 in the world. Muchová has reached two finals on the WTA Tour, winning one title, the International-level Korea Open in 2019.
Nigel Pearson
Nigel Graham Pearson is an English football manager and former professional player. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. As a coach he has taken charge of Hull City, Southampton, Carlisle United, Leicester City, Derby County, OH Leuven, and Watford; and was assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United.
Jim McMahon
James Robert McMahon Jr. is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, most notably with the Chicago Bears. He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American and later a 1998 inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame. Due to his collegiate success, McMahon was selected by the Bears in the first round of the 1982 NFL Draft as the fifth overall pick.
Sweta Singh
Sweta Singh is an Indian journalist and news presenter. She is a news anchor and Executive Editor of Special Programming at Aaj Tak.