August 4
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[edit] Births
- 1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria
- 1521 - Pope Urban VII, (d. 1590)
- 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
- 1834 - John Venn, British mathematician (d. 1923)
- 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, sexologist
- 1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 (d. 1952)
- 1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
- 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
- 1901 - Louis Armstrong, jazz musician (d. 1971)
- 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
- 1906 - Marie-José Van Sachsen Coburg-Gotha, last Queen of Italy (d. 2001)
- 1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, zoologist (d. 1973)
- 1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
- 1909 - Glenn Cunningham, athlete
- 1909 - Otto Steiger, writer
- 1910 - William Schuman, composer (d. 1992)
- 1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, mathematician, physicist, philosopher and a mountaineer (d. 1999)
- 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947 presumed)
- 1913 - Robert Hayden, poet, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (d. 1980)
- 1921 - Maurice Richard, hockey player (d. 2000)
- 1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
- 1929 - Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (d. 2004)
- 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
- 1930 - Götz Friedrich, opera director (d. 2000)
- 1932 - Hans Jürgen Fröhlich, writer
- 1932 - Guillermo Mordillo, graphic artist and cartoonist
- 1936 - Assia Djebar, member of the Académie française
- 1937 - David Bedford, musician
- 1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1944 - Richard Belzer, actor and comedian
- 1947 - Klaus Schulze, composer, perforner
- 1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor, writer
- 1958 - Mary Decker Slaney, track star
- 1960 - Dean Malenko, professional wrestler
- 1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister
- 1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
- 1962 - Roger Clemens, baseball player
- 1967 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
- 1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, model
- 1970 - Michael DeLuise, American actor
- 1971 - Jeff Gordon, race car driver
