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  On August - 04 birth of duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)  

1502  On this day in history birth of pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer  

1521  Pope Urban VII (d. 1590) was born on August - 04.  

1604  On August - 04 birth of françois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)  

1664  On this day in history birth of louis Lully, composer  

1687  On August - 04 birth of johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]  

1701  On this day in history birth of thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)  

1705  On August - 04 birth of vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer  

1719  On this day in history birth of johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)  

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1721  Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803) was born on this day in history.  

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

1748  Maximilian Stadler, composer was born on August - 04.  

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

1776  Wenzel Sedlak, composer was born on August - 04.  

1792  On August - 04 birth of percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais)  

1799  Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer was born on August - 04.  

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

1816  On August - 04 birth of israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889  

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

1821  James White, American theologian (d. 1881) was born on this day in history.  

1823  Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877 was born on August - 04.  

1825  Arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer) was born on August - 04.  

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

1839  Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism) was born on this day in history.  

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

1846  On this day in history birth of silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer  

1848  Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) was born on this day in history.  

1859  Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920) was born on August - 04.  

1865  Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890) was born on this day in history.  

1867  Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1113  On August - 04 death of gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)  

1204  Death of Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered on August - 04.  

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

1306  On August - 04 death of wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)  

1338  On August - 04 death of thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)  

1430  On August - 04 philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26  

1476  On August - 04 death of jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded