Notable Birthdays for August 31
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Those born on this date include:
- Roman Emperor Caligula in A.D. 12
- Italian educator Maria Montessori in 1870
- actor Fredric March in 1897
- entertainer Arthur Godfrey in 1903
- writer William Saroyan in 1908
- English astronomer Alfred Bernard Lovell in 1913
- actor Richard Basehart in 1914
- journalist Daniel Schorr in 1916
- lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1918
- comedian Buddy Hackett in 1924
- actor James Coburn in 1928
- baseball Hall of Fame member Frank Robinson, first African-American to manage a Major League Baseball team, in 1935 (age 81)
- black militant Eldridge Cleaver in 1935
- violinist Itzhak Perlman in 1945 (age 71)
- musician Van Morrison in 1945 (age 71)
- musician Bob Welch in 1945
- actor Richard Gere in 1949 (age 67)
- Olympic track star Edwin Moses in 1955 (age 61)
- Jordanian Queen Rania in 1970 (age 46)
- singer/actor Debbie Gibson in 1970 (age 46)
- actor Chris Tucker in 1972 (age 44)
- Olympic gold medal skier Ted Ligety in 1984 (age 32).
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