21 August: today's birthdays

• Count Basie - American musician and composer
• Aubrey Beardsley - English illustrator
• Usain Bolt - Jamaican athlete. He is considered the fastest man of all time
• Kim Cattrall - English-born Canadian actress, best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the TV series Sex and the City 
• Wilton Norman Chamberlain - Former American basketball player
• Stéphane Charbonnier - French caricaturist and journalist, editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo, killed during a terrorist attack
• Ivan Fatić - Montenegrin football player
• Reuven Feuerstein - Israeli psychologist born in Romania.
• Jules Michelet - French historian and writer
• Laura Morante - Italian actress
• Hayden Panettiere - American actress and singer
• François Pinault - French entrepreneur
• Emilio Salgari - Italian writer,born Emilio Carlo Giuseppe Maria Salgari. He wrote The Black Corsair, The Tigers of Mompracem and The Pirates of Malaysia.
• Géza Szőcs - Hungarian poet and politician, born in Romania
• Serj Tankian - Lebanese-born American singer of Armenian descent and leader of the American group System of a Down
• Nikolaj Valuev (Nikolai Valuev) - Russian boxer
• Peter Weir - Australian film director. He directed Dead Poets Society, Green Card and The Truman Show 
• Wilt the Stilt - Nickname of American basketball player Wilton Norman Chamberlain