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Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-10-13
Births
1977-08-04 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1222-08-04 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290-08-04 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1521-08-04 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1604-08-04 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
1701-08-04 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1719-08-04 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
1721-08-04 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
1755-08-04 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1792-08-04 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
1805-08-04 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
1834-08-04 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1848-08-04 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1859-08-04 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1952)
1867-08-04 - Jake Beckley, baseball player (d. 1918)
1870-08-04 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)
1884-08-04 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1890-08-04 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (d. 1957)
1899-08-04 - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1994)
1900-08-04 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901-08-04 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1902-08-04 - Wild Bill Hallahan, baseball player (d. 1981)
1904-08-04 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
1906-08-04 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
1908-08-04 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1909-08-04 - Glenn Cunningham, runner (d. 1988)
1910-08-04 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
1912-08-04 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912-08-04 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
1913-08-04 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
1920-08-04 - Helen Thomas, American journalist
1921-08-04 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
1923-08-04 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
1923-08-04 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
1927-08-04 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
1929-08-04 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
1930-08-04 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior shia clerics of the 21st century.
1936-08-04 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
1937-08-04 - David Bedford, English musician
1940-08-04 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
1940-08-04 - Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)
1942-08-04 - Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1942-08-04 - David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1943-08-04 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
1944-08-04 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
1946-08-04 - Maureen Starkey, one-time wife of Beatle, Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
1947-08-04 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
1948-08-04 - Johnny Grubb, US baseball player
1952-08-04 - Moya Brennan, Irish singer
1952-08-04 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
1955-08-04 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
1955-08-04 - Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General
1957-08-04 - John Wark, Scottish footballer
1958-08-04 - Mary Decker, American athlete
1958-08-04 - Kym Karath, American actress
1959-08-04 - Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002)
1959-08-04 - John Gormley, Irish politician
1960-08-04 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler
1960-08-04 - José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
1961-08-04 - Barack Obama, American politician, United States Senator from Illinois
1961-08-04 - Lauren Tom, American actress and voice actress
1962-08-04 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
1963-08-04 - Gary King, British DJ
1965-08-04 - Fredrik Reinfeldt, 32nd Prime Minister of Sweden
1965-08-04 - Dennis Lehane, American crime writer
1966-08-04 - Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1967-08-04 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
1968-08-04 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
1968-08-04 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model
1969-08-04 - Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
1970-08-04 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
1971-08-04 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
1972-08-04 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
1974-08-04 - Cristian González, Argentine footballer
1975-08-04 - Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1977-08-04 - LuÃs Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
1977-08-04 - Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler
1978-08-04 - Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1985-08-04 - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player
1985-08-04 - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1985-08-04 - Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1989-08-04 - Jessica Mauboy, Australian Idol contestant
1992-08-04 - Cole and Dylan Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors
1992-08-04 - Tiffany Evans, American singer
Bizarre
2006-08-04 - U.S. Coast Guard Day
2007-08-04 - Coast Guard Day
2007-08-04 - U.S. Coast Guard Day
Deaths
1985-08-04 - Pope Benedict III
2023-08-04 - Gordian I, Roman Emperor (suicide)
2023-08-04 - Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire (killed in battle)
1974-08-04 - Empress Gensho of Japan (b. 680)
1060-08-04 - Henry I of France (b. 1008)
1265-08-04 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
1306-08-04 - Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1338-08-04 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
1526-08-04 - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
1578-08-04 - Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
1578-08-04 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
1598-08-04 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
1612-08-04 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
1639-08-04 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
1718-08-04 - René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656)
1727-08-04 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1741-08-04 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1784-08-04 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)
1792-08-04 - John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
1795-08-04 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)
1873-08-04 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
1875-08-04 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
1900-08-04 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
1938-08-04 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1957-08-04 - Washington LuÃs Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1967-08-04 - Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1976-08-04 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
1981-08-04 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
1997-08-04 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world's oldest ever-human (b. 1875)
1998-08-04 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)
1999-08-04 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
2000-08-04 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
2001-08-04 - Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
2003-08-04 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
2005-08-04 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
Declared
2007-08-04 - El Salvador - Transfiguration Bank Holiday
Events
1993-08-04 - A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
1995-08-04 - Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1997-08-04 - 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.
2002-08-04 - Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire.
2005-08-04 - Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th — and first black — Governor General.
2006-08-04 - Dame Silvia Cartwright will step down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and will be replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who will be sworn in on 23 August.
1970-08-04 - The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
1265-08-04 - Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham - The army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes conside
1578-08-04 - Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir - Moroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1693-08-04 - Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne.
1704-08-04 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1753-08-04 - George Washington, then a young Virginia planter, becomes a Master Mason, the highest basic rank in the fraternity of Freemasonry.
1782-08-04 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is married to Constanze Weber.
1789-08-04 - In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
1790-08-04 - A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1821-08-04 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1824-08-04 - Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks.
1854-08-04 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1873-08-04 - Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed).
1892-08-04 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
1902-08-04 - Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
1906-08-04 - Central Railway Station, Sydney opens.
1914-08-04 - World War I: Germany invaded Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality.
1936-08-04 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
1944-08-04 - Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family. Her diary was scattered all over the floor and eventually published by her father Otto Frank
1947-08-04 - The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1954-08-04 - Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla.
1964-08-04 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964-08-04 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are allegedly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats. Years later, the claim of NVA attack was
1969-08-04 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, US representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1971-08-04 - The US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft
1975-08-04 - The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and
1977-08-04 - US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1983-08-04 - Thomas Sankara becomes president of Upper Volta.
1983-08-04 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield accidentally kills a gull during warmups in the outfield prior to a baseball game in Toronto at Exhibition Stadium and is charged by local police for his "act of cruelty to animals". His manager Billy Martin quippe
1984-08-04 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1985-08-04 - In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300th career games and Rod Carew of the California Angels becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3000 career hits. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4–1 six-hit
1987-08-04 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.
1991-08-04 - The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
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