Famous people born on August 31 include Caligula, Tsai Ing-wen and Maria Montessori. Find your celebrity birthday twins and see who shares your birthday.
26 famous people were born on August 31, including Caligula, Tsai Ing-wen and Maria Montessori. Anyone born on August 31 is a Virgo, an earth sign ruled by Mercury. Notable events on August 31 include Gleiwitz incident (1939) and August 2025 Afghanistan earthquake (2025).
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (1985): De facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, formally serving as Crown Prince and Prime Minister
Pepe Reina (1982): Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the current manager of Villarreal CF's…
Chris Tucker (1971): American stand-up comedian and actor
Queen Rania of Jordan (1970): Queen of Jordan as the wife of King Abdullah II
Nikola Gruevski (1970): Former Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation in 2016, in…
Tsai Ing-wen (1956): Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024
Robert Kocharyan (1954): Armenian politician
Angelique Rockas (1951): Actress, producer and activist
Richard Gere (1949): American actor
Hugh David Politzer (1949): American theoretical physicist
James Coburn (1928): American actor who featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a…
William Saroyan (1908): American novelist, playwright, and short story writer of Armenian descent
Fredric March (1897): American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880): Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948
Emperor Taishō (1879): Emperor of Japan from 29 July 1912 until his death in 1926
Edward Thorndike (1874): American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University
Maria Montessori (1870): Italian physician and educator best known for her philosophy of education and her writing on scientific pedagogy
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821): German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly…
Commodus (161): Roman emperor from 177 to 192, first serving as nominal co-emperor under his father Marcus Aurelius and then ruling…
Caligula (12): Third Roman emperor, ruling from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41
1939: Gleiwitz incident. The Gleiwitz incident, or Gliwice incident, was a false flag attack on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz staged by Nazi Germany on the night of 31…
2025: August 2025 Afghanistan earthquake. On 31 August 2025, at 23:47 AFT, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale struck eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan.…
2023: 80 Albert Street Fire. On 31 August 2023 at around 01:30 SAST, a fire engulfed an illegally occupied government-owned building in Johannesburg, South Africa; 77 people were killed…
2024: Typhoon Yagi. Typhoon Yagi was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in Southeast Asia and South China in early September 2024. Known in the Philippines…
2007: Hurricane Felix. Hurricane Felix was an extremely powerful and destructive tropical cyclone which became the southernmost-landfalling Category 5 storm on record. It was the…
Who was born on August 31? Famous people born on August 31 include Caligula (12), Tsai Ing-wen (1956), Maria Montessori (1870), Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (1985) and Richard Gere (1949). In total, 26 famous people in our archive were born on August 31.
Which celebrities share a August 31 birthday? Famous people alive today with a August 31 birthday include Tsai Ing-wen, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Richard Gere and Angelique Rockas.
What star sign is someone born on August 31? People born on August 31 are Virgo, an earth sign ruled by Mercury. Virgo runs from August 23 to September 22.
What happened on August 31 in history? Notable events on August 31 include Gleiwitz incident (1939), August 2025 Afghanistan earthquake (2025) and 80 Albert Street Fire (2023).
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