List of Famous people born on August 31st

Daniel Bernhardt is a Swiss actor, model, and martial artist.

Cédric Ricardo Alves Soares CvIH ComM, known simply as Cédric, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right back for Premier League club Arsenal and the Portugal national team.

Herbert Reul is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who currently serves as State Minister for Internal Affairs in the government of Minister-President Armin Laschet. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Kōichi Hagiuda is a Japanese politician, currently representing the 24th district (Hachiōji) of Tokyo in the House of Representatives of Japan as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He is currently serving as the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe since 11 September 2019. Hagiuda previously served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary from 7 October 2015 to 3 August 2016.

Adilson Angel Abreu de Almeida Gomes is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Portuguese club Boavista, on loan from French club Lille.

Sir George Ivan Morrison is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s, playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band, Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria". His solo career began in 1967, under the pop-hit orientated guidance of Bert Berns with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl". After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought out his contract and allowed him three sessions to record Astral Weeks (1968). Though this album gradually garnered high praise, it was initially a poor seller.

Earnie Dee Shaver, best known as Earnie Shavers, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1969 to 1983, with two further comebacks in 1987 and 1995. A two-time world heavyweight championship challenger, Shavers is known for being one of the hardest punchers in boxing history. He scored 68 knockout wins with 46 of them in the first 3 rounds and 23 first round knockouts. He holds a 91.8% knockout-to-win ratio, and a 76.4% overall knockout ratio.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Lukashenko is the third son of Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus.

Masashi Tashiro is a former Japanese television performer and the founding member of the band Rats & Star. Tashiro was a tenor vocalist for Rats & Star, and later on made himself a name as a TV entertainer in Japan. He also directed a movie after his band broke up.

Hideo Nomo is a retired Japanese baseball pitcher who played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He achieved early success in his native country, where he played with the Kintetsu Buffaloes from 1990 to 1994. He then exploited a loophole to free himself from his contract, and became the first Japanese major leaguer to permanently relocate to MLB in the United States, debuting with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995. Although he was not the first Japanese player in American professional baseball, Nomo is often credited with opening the door for Japanese players in MLB, due to his star status.