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+    },
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+    },
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+      "text": "Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)"
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+    },
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+    },
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+      "text": "Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (d. 1904)"
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+      "text": "Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1934)"
+    },
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+      "text": "Pingali Venkayya, Indian geologist, designed the Flag of India (d. 1963)"
+    },
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+      "text": "Arthur Dove, American painter and educator (d. 1946)"
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+      "text": "Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (d. 1936)"
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+      "text": "Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)"
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+      "text": "John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961)"
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+    {
+      "day": 2,
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+      "text": "Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960)"
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+      "text": "Tommy Ward, Indian-South African cricketer (d. 1936)"
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+      "text": "Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)"
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+      "text": "Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975)"
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+      "text": "Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971)"
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+      "text": "Jack L. Warner, Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978)"
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+      "text": "Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
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+      "text": "Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)"
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+      "text": "Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1974)"
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+      "text": "Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer (d. 1977)"
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+      "text": "Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995)"
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+      "text": "Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
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+      "text": "Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1902",
+      "text": "Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (d. 1971)"
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+    {
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+      "text": "Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)"
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+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1905",
+      "text": "Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1907",
+      "text": "Mary Hamman, American journalist and author (d. 1984)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1910",
+      "text": "Roger MacDougall, Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1993)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1911",
+      "text": "Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1912",
+      "text": "Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1912",
+      "text": "Håkon Stenstadvold, Norwegian painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1977)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1912",
+      "text": "Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and author (d. 2001)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1913",
+      "text": "Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic (d. 1980)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1914",
+      "text": "Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1988)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1914",
+      "text": "Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1914",
+      "text": "Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1915",
+      "text": "Gary Merrill, American actor and singer (d. 1990)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1916",
+      "text": "Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1919",
+      "text": "Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1920",
+      "text": "Louis Pauwels, French journalist and author (d. 1997)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1920",
+      "text": "Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1921",
+      "text": "Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1922",
+      "text": "Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor (d. 2006)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1922",
+      "text": "Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist and socialite"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1922",
+      "text": "Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (d. 1998)"
+    },
+    {
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+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1923",
+      "text": "Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1924",
+      "text": "James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1987)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1924",
+      "text": "Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1924",
+      "text": "Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1925",
+      "text": "K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (d. 2004)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1925",
+      "text": "John Dexter, English director and producer (d. 1990)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1925",
+      "text": "John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1925",
+      "text": "Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian general and politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1927",
+      "text": "Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, English mathematician and academic"
+    },
+    {
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+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1928",
+      "text": "Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1990)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1929",
+      "text": "Roy Crimmins, English trombonist and composer (d. 2014)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1929",
+      "text": "John Gale, English director and producer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1929",
+      "text": "K. M. Peyton, English author and educator"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1929",
+      "text": "Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1929",
+      "text": "David Waddington, Baron Waddington, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Bermuda"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1930",
+      "text": "Vali Myers, Australian painter and dancer (d. 2003)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1931",
+      "text": "Pierre DuMaine, American bishop and academic"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1931",
+      "text": "Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1931",
+      "text": "Karl Miller, English journalist and critic (d. 2014)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1931",
+      "text": "Viliam Schrojf, Czech footballer (d. 2007)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1932",
+      "text": "Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (d. 2006)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1932",
+      "text": "Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor and producer (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1933",
+      "text": "Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Defence"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1934",
+      "text": "Valery Bykovsky, Russian general and astronaut"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1935",
+      "text": "Amidou, Moroccan-French actor (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1935",
+      "text": "Betty Brosmer, American model and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1935",
+      "text": "Hank Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1936",
+      "text": "Anthony Payne, English composer and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1937",
+      "text": "Ron Brierley, New Zealand businessman"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1937",
+      "text": "Billy Cannon, American football player and dentist"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1937",
+      "text": "Garth Hudson, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Band and The Call)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1937",
+      "text": "Gundula Janowitz, Austrian operatic soprano"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1937",
+      "text": "John Salt, English painter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1938",
+      "text": "Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1938",
+      "text": "Pierre de Bané, Israeli-Canadian lawyer and politician"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1938",
+      "text": "Paul Jenkins, American actor (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1938",
+      "text": "Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier (d. 2006)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1939",
+      "text": "Benjamin Barber, American theorist, author, and academic"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1939",
+      "text": "Wes Craven, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1939",
+      "text": "John W. Snow, American businessman and politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1940",
+      "text": "Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian physician and activist (d. 2006)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1940",
+      "text": "Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1941",
+      "text": "Doris Coley, American singer (The Shirelles) (d. 2000)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1941",
+      "text": "Jules A. Hoffmann, Luxembourgian-French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1941",
+      "text": "Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1941",
+      "text": "François Weyergans, Belgian director and screenwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1942",
+      "text": "Isabel Allende, Chilean-American journalist and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1942",
+      "text": "Juan Formell, Cuban singer-songwriter and bass player (Los Van Van) (d. 2014)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Herbert M. Allison, American lieutenant and businessman (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Jon R. Cavaiani, English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Julia Foster, English actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Rose Tremain, English author and academic"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Patrick Adiarte, American theater, film and television actor and dancer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1943",
+      "text": "Max Wright, American actor"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1944",
+      "text": "Jim Capaldi, English drummer and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1944",
+      "text": "Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and berimbau player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1945",
+      "text": "Joanna Cassidy, American actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1945",
+      "text": "Alex Jesaulenko, Austrian-Australian footballer and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1945",
+      "text": "Bunker Roy, Indian educator and activist"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1945",
+      "text": "Eric Simms, Australian rugby player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1946",
+      "text": "James Howe, American journalist and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1947",
+      "text": "Massiel, Spanish singer and actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1947",
+      "text": "Ruth Bakke, Norwegian organist and composer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1947",
+      "text": "Lawrence Wright, American journalist, author, and screenwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1948",
+      "text": "Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Fair Weather and Amen Corner)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1948",
+      "text": "Dennis Prager, American radio host and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1948",
+      "text": "James Street, American football and baseball player (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1948",
+      "text": "Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2013)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1949",
+      "text": "James Fallows, American journalist and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1949",
+      "text": "Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian general and astronaut"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1950",
+      "text": "Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author and publisher"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1950",
+      "text": "Kathryn Harrold, American actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1950",
+      "text": "Lance Ito, American lawyer and judge"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1950",
+      "text": "Sue Rodriguez, Canadian activist (d. 1994)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1951",
+      "text": "Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (Wax) (d. 2011)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1951",
+      "text": "Steve Hillage, English guitarist (Uriel, Gong, Khan, and System 7)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1951",
+      "text": "Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fandango, Brazen Abbot, and Hughes Turner Project)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1951",
+      "text": "Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Leather Nun and Blue for Two)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1951",
+      "text": "Per Westerberg, Swedish businessman and politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1953",
+      "text": "Marjo, Canadian singer-songwriter (Corbeau)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1953",
+      "text": "Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist (Runrig)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1953",
+      "text": "Butch Patrick, American actor and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1953",
+      "text": "Anthony Seldon, English historian and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1954",
+      "text": "James Charles Kopp, American murderer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1954",
+      "text": "Ken MacLeod, Scottish blogger and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1954",
+      "text": "Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1955",
+      "text": "Caleb Carr, American historian and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1955",
+      "text": "Tim Dunigan, American actor"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1955",
+      "text": "Tony Godden, English footballer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1956",
+      "text": "Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1956",
+      "text": "Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer and actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1957",
+      "text": "Farhat Basir Khan, Indian photographer and academic"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1957",
+      "text": "Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1957",
+      "text": "Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Garbage and Spooner)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1958",
+      "text": "Arshad Ayub, Indian cricketer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1958",
+      "text": "Shō Hayami, Japanese voice actor and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1959",
+      "text": "Victoria Jackson, American actress and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1959",
+      "text": "Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1959",
+      "text": "Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress (Apollonia 6)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1960",
+      "text": "Linda Fratianne, American figure skater"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1960",
+      "text": "Neal Morse, American singer and keyboard player (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Yellow Matter Custard, and Flying Colors)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1960",
+      "text": "David Yow, American singer-songwriter (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, and Qui)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1961",
+      "text": "Cold 187um, American rapper and producer (Above the Law)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1961",
+      "text": "Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer and producer (Echo & the Bunnymen) (d. 1989)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1962",
+      "text": "Lee Mavers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The La's)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1962",
+      "text": "Billy Kilson, American drummer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1962",
+      "text": "Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1963",
+      "text": "Laura Bennett, American architect and fashion designer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1963",
+      "text": "Daniel Pelosi, American murderer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1963",
+      "text": "Uğur Tütüneker, Turkish footballer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1964",
+      "text": "Frank Biela, German race car driver"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1964",
+      "text": "Mary-Louise Parker, American actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1965",
+      "text": "Joe Hockey, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Treasurer of Australia"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1965",
+      "text": "Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1966",
+      "text": "Takashi Iizuka, Japanese wrestler"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1966",
+      "text": "Tim Wakefield, American baseball player and sportscaster"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1967",
+      "text": "Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1967",
+      "text": "Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter and producer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1968",
+      "text": "Stefan Effenberg, German footballer and sportscaster"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1968",
+      "text": "John Stanier, American drummer (Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1969",
+      "text": "Jan Axel Blomberg, Norwegian drummer and songwriter (Winds, Mayhem, and Arcturus)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1969",
+      "text": "Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1969",
+      "text": "Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1970",
+      "text": "Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1970",
+      "text": "Kevin Smith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1970",
+      "text": "Philo Wallace, Barbadian cricketer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1971",
+      "text": "Jason Bell, Australian rugby player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1971",
+      "text": "Michael Hughes, Irish footballer and manager"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1972",
+      "text": "Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1972",
+      "text": "Jacinda Barrett, Australian-American model and actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1972",
+      "text": "Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1972",
+      "text": "Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer-songwriter and actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1973",
+      "text": "Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer, created Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1973",
+      "text": "Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1973",
+      "text": "Miguel Mendonca, Zimbabwean journalist and author"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1973",
+      "text": "Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1974",
+      "text": "Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1974",
+      "text": "Phil Williams, English journalist and radio host"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1975",
+      "text": "Mineiro, Brazilian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1975",
+      "text": "Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-German badminton player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1975",
+      "text": "Tamás Molnár, Hungarian water polo player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1975",
+      "text": "Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1975",
+      "text": "Michelle Thorne, English porn actress and director"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1976",
+      "text": "Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1976",
+      "text": "Jay Heaps, American soccer player and coach"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1976",
+      "text": "Michael Weiss, American figure skater"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1976",
+      "text": "Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor and producer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1976",
+      "text": "Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1977",
+      "text": "Edward Furlong, American actor and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1977",
+      "text": "Mark Velasquez, American photographer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1978",
+      "text": "Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1978",
+      "text": "Matt Guerrier, American baseball player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1978",
+      "text": "Kazuki Namioka, Japanese actor"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1978",
+      "text": "Deividas Šemberas, Lithuanian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1978",
+      "text": "Dragan Vukmir, Serbian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1979",
+      "text": "Donna Air, English model, actress, and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1979",
+      "text": "Marco Bonura, Italian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1979",
+      "text": "Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan runner"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1980",
+      "text": "Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1980",
+      "text": "Nadia Bjorlin, American actress and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1980",
+      "text": "Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor, singer, director, and producer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1980",
+      "text": "Uğur Rıfat Karlova, Turkish comedian and actor"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1981",
+      "text": "Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and boxer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1981",
+      "text": "Tim Murtagh, English cricketer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1982",
+      "text": "Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1982",
+      "text": "Kerry Rhodes, American football player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1982",
+      "text": "Grady Sizemore, American baseball player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1983",
+      "text": "Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1983",
+      "text": "Nick Diaz, American mixed martial artist and boxer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1983",
+      "text": "Kim Jungah, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1984",
+      "text": "Britt Nicole, American singer-songwriter and producer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1984",
+      "text": "Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1985",
+      "text": "Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1985",
+      "text": "David Hart Smith, Canadian wrestler"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1986",
+      "text": "Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1987",
+      "text": "Csilla Borsányi, Hungarian tennis player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1987",
+      "text": "Yura Movsisyan, Armenian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1988",
+      "text": "Nayer, American singer-songwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1988",
+      "text": "Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1988",
+      "text": "Alice Moran, Canadian actress and screenwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1989",
+      "text": "Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1989",
+      "text": "Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1990",
+      "text": "Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1990",
+      "text": "Skylar Diggins, American basketball player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1991",
+      "text": "Skyler Day, American actress and singer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1991",
+      "text": "Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1992",
+      "text": "Hallie Eisenberg, American actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1992",
+      "text": "Eddie Generazio, American poet and dancer"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1992",
+      "text": "Charli XCX, English singer-songwriter"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1993",
+      "text": "Cassidy Gifford, American actress"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1993",
+      "text": "Serhiy Nigoyan, Ukrainian activist (d. 2014)"
+    },
+    {
+      "day": 2,
+      "month": 8,
+      "year": "1994",
+      "text": "Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player"
+    }
+  ]
+}