People born on August 31

Tsai Ing-wen

President of Taiwan (R.O.C. authorities) and former Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party

Maria Montessori

Italian pedagogue and physician

Richard Gere

American actor (born 1949)

Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi crown prince and Minister of Defense (born 1985)

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948 (1880-1962)

Pepe Reina

Spanish association football player

Hassan Nasrallah

Secretary-General of Hezbollah since 1992

Emperor Taishō

Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926

Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Consort of Jordan

Chris Tucker

American actor and comedian

Robert Kocharyan

Second President of Armenia

William Saroyan

Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (1908-1981)

James Coburn

American actor (1928–2002)

Hugh David Politzer

American physicist