Born in August


1 August
1990: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Junior, Son of Mir Murtaza Bhutto

4 August
1899: Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum, Urdu poet
1939: Makhdoom Ameen Faheem, politician from PPP
1944: Amjad Islam Amjad, Urdu poet
1961: Barack Obama, 44th President of US

5 August
1930: Neil Armstrong, 1st man to step on moon

6 August
1698: Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan
1928: Major Aziz Bhatti, recipient of Nishan-e-Hyder

8 August
1924: Comrade Taj Muhammad Abro, activist from Sindh

10 August
1959: Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, Nationalist from Sindh

11 August
1943: General Pervez Musharraf, 10th President of Pakistan

12 August
1915: Ibrahim Joyo, Nationalist from Sindh
1924: General Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan
1975: Syed Zia Abbas Shah, MPA in Sindh Assembly

13 August
1926: Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader of Cuba
1936: Hamida Khuhro, Sindh's Minister for Education
1975: Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer

14 August
1830: Hassan Ali Effendi, founder of Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam
1888: John Logie Baird, inventor of TV
1901: Ayub Khuhro, 1st Chief Minister of Sindh
1917: Agha Shorish Kashmiri, Urdu poet
1931: Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 1st caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan
1962: Ramiz Raja, Pakistani cricketer

15 August
1915: Dina Jinnah, daughter of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
1929: Murad Ali Mirza, Chief Minister of Sindh
1945: Khaleda Zia, politician from Bangladesh

18 August
1932: Muhammad Khan Junejo, 10th Prime Minister of Pakistan

19 August
1946: Bill Clinton, 42nd President of US
1950: Muhammad Mian Soomro, acting President of Pakistan

20 August
1944: Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, Chairman of Qaumi Watan Party
1944: Rajiv Gandhi, 6th Prime Minister of Pakistan

22 August
980: Ibn-e-Sina (Avicenna), Persian polymath
1925: Ashfaq Ahmed, Urdu writer

24 August
1929: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Nobel laureate

26 August
1910: Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic missionary

27 August
1974: Muhammad Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer

30 August
1569: Nooruddin Muhammad Jahangir, 4th Mughal Emperor
1871: Ernest Rutherford, father of nuclear physics

31 August
1900: Shaheed Allah Bux Soomro, Indian independence activist
1919: Amrita Pritam, Indian poet

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