| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1222 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Richard de Clare‚ 6th Earl of Hertford |
English soldier (d. 1262) |
| 1290 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Duke Leopold I of Austria |
(d. 1326) |
| 1521 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Pope Urban VII |
(d. 1590) |
| 1604 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Francois Hedelin‚ abbe d'Aubignac |
French writer (d. 1676) |
| 1701 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Thomas Blackwell |
Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757) |
| 1719 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Johann Gottlob Lehmann |
German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767) |
| 1721 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Granville Leveson-Gower |
English politician (d. 1803) |
| 1755 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Nicolas-Jacques Conte |
French painter and inventor (d. 1805) |
| 1792 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
English poet (d. 1822) |
| 1805 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
William Rowan Hamilton |
Irish mathematician (d. 1865) |
| 1821 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
James White |
American theologian (d. 1881) |
| 1821 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Louis Vuitton |
French designer (d. 1892) |
| 1834 |
August 4 |
Monday |
John Venn |
English mathematician (d. 1923) |
| 1844 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Henri Berger |
German composer and royal bandmaster (d. 1929) |
| 1848 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Vladimir Sukhomlinov |
Russian general (d. 1926) |
| 1859 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Knut Hamsun |
Norwegian writer‚ Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1952) |
| 1865 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Gus Kempis |
South African cricketer (d. 1890) |
| 1867 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Jake Beckley |
American baseball player (d. 1918) |
| 1870 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Sir Harry Lauder |
Scottish entertainer (d. 1950) |
| 1884 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Henri Cornet |
French cyclist (d. 1941) |
| 1888 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Syedna Taher Saifuddin |
Bohra spiritual leader (d. 1965) |
| 1890 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Dolf Luque |
Cuban baseball player (d. 1957) |
| 1899 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Ezra Taft Benson |
13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) |
| 1900 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002) |
| 1901 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Louis Armstrong |
American jazz musician (d. 1971) |
| 1901 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Clarence Passailaigue |
Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972) |
| 1902 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Wild Bill Hallahan |
American baseball player (d. 1981) |
| 1904 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Witold Gombrowicz |
Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969) |
| 1904 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Joe Tate |
English footballer (d. 1973) |
| 1906 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Eugen Schuhmacher |
German zoologist (d. 1973) |
| 1906 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Marie-Jose of Belgium |
queen of Italy (d. 2001) |
| 1908 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Kurt Eichhorn |
German conductor (d. 1994) |
| 1909 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Glenn Cunningham |
American runner (d. 1988) |
| 1909 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Saunders Mac Lane |
American mathematician (d. 2005) |
| 1910 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
William Schuman |
American composer (d. 1992) |
| 1910 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Anita Page |
American actress (d. 2008) |
| 1910 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Hedda Sterne |
Romanian-born American painter and printmaker |
| 1912 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov |
Russian mathematician‚ physicist‚ philosopher‚ and mountaineer (d. 1999) |
| 1912 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Raoul Wallenberg |
Swedish diplomat (d. 1947) |
| 1913 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Robert Hayden |
American poet (d. 1980) |
| 1915 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Warren Avis |
American entrepreneur (d. 2007) |
| 1918 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Iceberg Slim |
American author (d. 1992) |
| 1919 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Michel Deon |
French writer |
| 1920 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Helen Thomas |
American journalist |
| 1921 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Maurice Richard |
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000) |
| 1921 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Herb Ellis |
American jazz guitarist |
| 1923 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Reg Grundy |
Australian media and television mogul |
| 1923 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi |
Pakistani satirical and humor writer |
| 1927 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Jess Thomas |
American tenor (d. 1993) |
| 1928 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Christian Goethals |
Belgian racing driver (d. 2003) |
| 1929 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Kishore Kumar |
Indian singer and actor (d. 1987) |
| 1930 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani |
Iranian shia cleric |
| 1931 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Naren Tamhane |
Indian cricketer (d. 2002) |
| 1937 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
David Bedford |
English musician |
| 1938 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Ellen Schrecker |
American college professor |
| 1939 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Frank Vincent |
American actor |
| 1940 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Abdurrahman Wahid |
4th President of Indonesia |
| 1940 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Timi Yuro |
American singer (d. 2004) |
| 1941 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Martin Jarvis |
English actor |
| 1941 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Ted Strickland |
American politician‚ 68th Governor of Ohio |
| 1942 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Don S. Davis |
American actor and artist (d. 2008) |
| 1942 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Cleon Jones |
American baseball player |
| 1942 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
David Lange |
New Zealand politician (d. 2005) |
| 1943 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Bjorn Wirkola |
Norwegian ski jumper |
| 1943 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Vicente Alberto alvarez Areces |
President of the Government of the Principality of Asturias in Spain |
| 1944 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Richard Belzer |
American actor and comedian |
| 1944 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Doudou Ndoye? |
Senegalese lawyer and politician |
| 1945 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Alan Mulally |
American businessman‚ chairman of Ford Motor Company |
| 1946 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Maureen Starkey |
ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994) |
| 1947 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Klaus Schulze |
German composer |
| 1948 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Johnny Grubb |
American baseball player |
| 1949 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
John Riggins |
American football player |
| 1952 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Moya Brennan |
Irish singer |
| 1952 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Gabor Demszky |
Hungarian politician |
| 1954 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Francois Valery |
French singer-songwriter and composer |
| 1955 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Gerrie Coetzee |
South African boxer |
| 1955 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Alberto Gonzales |
80th U.S. Attorney General |
| 1955 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Billy Bob Thornton |
American actor and writer |
| 1956 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Gerry Cooney |
American boxer |
| 1957 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Brooks D. Simpson |
American historian |
| 1957 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
John Wark |
Scottish footballer |
| 1958 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Ian Broudie |
English music producer and Lightning Seeds vocalist |
| 1958 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Allison Hedge Coke |
American poet and writer |
| 1958 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Mary Decker |
American athlete |
| 1958 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Kym Karath |
American actress |
| 1959 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Robbin Crosby |
American musician (Ratt) (d. 2002) |
| 1959 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
John Gormley |
Irish politician |
| 1960 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Dean Malenko |
American professional wrestler |
| 1960 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Bernard Rose |
English director |
| 1960 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Tim Winton |
Australian author |
| 1960 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero |
Prime Minister of Spain |
| 1961 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Barack Obama |
44th President of the United States‚ Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 1961 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Lauren Tom |
American actress |
| 1962 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Roger Clemens |
American baseball player |
| 1962 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Paul Reynolds |
British musician |
| 1964 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Andrew Bartlett |
Australian politician and activist |
| 1964 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Gary King |
British radio presenter |
| 1965 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Dennis Lehane |
American crime writer |
| 1965 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Prime Minister of Sweden |
| 1966 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Kensuke Sasaki |
Japanese professional wrestler |
| 1967 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Timothy Adams |
American actor |
| 1967 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Michael Marsh |
American athlete |
| 1968 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Daniel Dae Kim |
American actor |
| 1968 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Marcus Schenkenberg |
Swedish model |
| 1969 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Michael DeLuise |
American actor |
| 1969 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Troy O'Leary |
American baseball player |
| 1969 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Max Cavalera |
Brazilian musician (Sepultura‚ Soulfly) |
| 1970 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
John August |
American screenwriter |
| 1970 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Steven Jack |
South African cricketer |
| 1971 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Jeff Gordon |
American race car driver |
| 1972 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Stefan Brogren |
Canadian actor |
| 1973 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Eva Amaral |
Spanish singer and songwriter |
| 1973 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Xavier Marchand |
French swimmer |
| 1974 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Kily Gonzalez |
Argentine footballer |
| 1974 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Keenan Milton |
Professional Skater |
| 1975 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Andy Hallett |
American actor (d. 2009) |
| 1975 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Nikos Liberopoulos |
Greek footballer |
| 1975 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Daniella van Graas |
Dutch model and actress |
| 1976 |
August 4 |
Wednesday |
Andrew McLeod |
Australian footballer |
| 1977 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Frankie Kazarian |
American professional wrestler |
| 1977 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Luis Boa Morte |
Portuguese footballer |
| 1978 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Kurt Busch |
American race car driver |
| 1979 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Robin Peterson |
South African cricketer |
| 1980 |
August 4 |
Monday |
Richard Dawson |
English cricketer |
| 1981 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Frederick Bousquet |
French swimmer |
| 1981 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Marques Houston |
American singer and actor (IMx) |
| 1981 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Ben Scott |
English cricketer |
| 1984 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Mardy Collins |
American basketball player |
| 1985 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Crystal Bowersox |
American singer |
| 1985 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Mark Milligan |
Australian footballer |
| 1985 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Ha Seung-Jin |
Korean basketball player |
| 1985 |
August 4 |
Sunday |
Luis Antonio Valencia |
Ecuadorean footballer |
| 1987 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Jang Geun Suk |
Korean actor |
| 1989 |
August 4 |
Friday |
Jessica Mauboy |
Australian singer (Young Divas) |
| 1992 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Dylan and Cole Sprouse |
Identical twin American child actors |
| 1992 |
August 4 |
Tuesday |
Tiffany Evans |
American singer |
| 1994 |
August 4 |
Thursday |
Mayuko Fukuda |
Japanese actress |
| 2001 |
August 4 |
Saturday |
Seishiro Kato |
Japanese child actor |
