Famous Birthdays In August - 04

1222  Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262) was born on this day in history.  

1290  Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.  

1502  On August - 04 birth of pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer  

1521  On August - 04 birth of pope Urban VII (d. 1590)  

1604  On this day in history birth of françois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)  

1664  Louis Lully, composer was born on August - 04.  

1687  On this day in history birth of johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]  

1701  Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757) was born on August - 04.  

1705  Vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer was born on this day in history.  

1719  Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767) was born on this day in history.  

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1721  On this day in history birth of granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)  

1731  Giuseppe Colla, composer was born on this day in history.  

1748  Maximilian Stadler, composer was born on this day in history.  

1755  On August - 04 birth of nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)  

1776  On August - 04 birth of wenzel Sedlak, composer  

1792  Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) was born on this day in history.  

1799  On this day in history birth of olof Wilhelm Udden, composer  

1805  On August - 04 birth of william Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)  

1816  Israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 was born on this day in history.  

1818  On August - 04 birth of lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)  

1821  James White, American theologian (d. 1881) was born on August - 04.  

1823  On this day in history birth of oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877  

1825  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer) was born on this day in history.  

1834  On August - 04 birth of john Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)  

1839  Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism) was born on August - 04.  

1843  Flor van Duyse, composer was born on this day in history.  

1846  Silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer was born on August - 04.  

1848  Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) was born on August - 04.  

1859  On August - 04 birth of knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920)  

1865  On this day in history birth of gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)  

1867  Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918) was born on August - 04.  

1870  Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin) was born on this day in history.  

1873  On this day in history birth of damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish general/minister of War  

1884  Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941) was born on August - 04.  

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1060  Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52 on August - 04.  

1113  On this day in history death of gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)  

1204  On this day in history death of boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered  

1265  Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle on August - 04.  

1306  Death of Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289) on this day in history.  

1338  Death of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300) on this day in history.  

1430  Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 on this day in history.  

1476  On this day in history death of jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded