page_title: 1971
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 1971 / Births / August
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fotografía del político mexicano Juan Camilo Mouriño tomada durante discurso del Secretario en la SEGOB el 11 /03/08 English: Mexican politician Juan Camilo Mouriño. Deutsch: Der mexikanische Politiker Juan Camilo Mouriño
context_page_description: 1971 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.
  The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses and two total lunar eclipses.
  The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
context_section_description: August 1 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (d. 2008)
  August 2
  Alice Evans, British actress
  Michael Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
  August 4 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
  August 5 – Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvian Prime Minister and European Commissioner
  August 6
  Yo-Yo, African-American rapper
  Merrin Dungey, American actress
  August 8 – Ali Liebegott, American author and poet
  August 9 – James Kim, American television personality and technology analyst (d. 2006)
  August 10
  Fábio Assunção, Brazilian actor
  Roy Keane, Irish footballer
  Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer
  Justin Theroux, American actor
  August 12
  Michael Ian Black, American actor and comedian
  Yvette Nicole Brown, African-American actress and comedian
  Patrick Carpentier, Canadian race car driver
  Pete Sampras, American tennis player
  Phil Western, Canadian musician (d. 2019)
  August 13
  Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
  Heike Makatsch, German actress
  August 17
  Anthony Kearns, Irish tenor
  Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
  August 18 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born British electronic musician
  August 19 – Guido Cantz, German television presenter
  August 20
  Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese actor
  David Walliams, English comedy actor
  August 21
  Robert Harvey, Australian rules footballer
  Liam Howlett, English musician
  August 22
  Richard Armitage, English actor
  Benoît Violier, French-born chef (d. 2016)
  August 25
  Crash Holly, American wrestler (d. 2003)
  Ayumi Miyazaki, Japanese singer
  Peter Oldring, Canadian voice actor, improviser, actor and comedian
  August 26
  Gaynor Faye, British actress
  Thalía, Mexican actress and singer
  August 27 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
  August 28
  Janet Evans, American swimmer
  Daniel Goddard, Australian actor and model
  August 29 – Carla Gugino, American actress
  August 31
  Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
  Chris Tucker, African-American actor and comedian
caption: Juan Camilo Mouriño
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