Well there’s a thing, as the Moody Blues once sang, isn’t life strange? I was looking up some information about Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) with whom I share a birthday (I’m six years older than Bruce) and low and behold, I find another famous (perhaps infamous) person also born on 7 August. On this occasion though I share not only the day, but the year: Alexi Sale and I were both born on 7 August 1952, does this make us twins? Yes I'm sure it does and that makes me famous! 
Disturbingly, Jack the Ripper committed the first of his Whitechapel murders on 7 August 1888. 
In 1945, American President Harry Truman announced the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic device on 7 August. 
The great Oliver Hardy died on 7 August 1957, singer Esther Phillips died on 7 August 1984 and fire-fighter extraordinaire Red Adair died on 7 August 2004. 
On a lighter note, Stan Freiberg, the American comic was born on 7 August 1926 and the World Wide Web went public on 7 August 1991 without which we wouldn’t all be here would we? 
I must check out my birth doubles 
Yep, August is a pretty important month.