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

1521  On this day in history birth of pope Urban VII (d. 1590)  

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  Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS] was born on August - 04.  

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

1705  On this day in history 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 August - 04.  

1731  On this day in history birth of giuseppe Colla, composer  

1748  On August - 04 birth of maximilian Stadler, composer  

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

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

1792  Percy Bysshe Shelley, England, romantic poet (Adonais) was born on August - 04.  

1799  On August - 04 birth of olof Wilhelm Udden, composer  

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

1816  On this day in history birth of israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889  

1818  Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers) was born on August - 04.  

1821  On August - 04 birth of james White, American theologian (d. 1881)  

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 this day in history.  

1834  John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923) was born on August - 04.  

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

1843  Flor van Duyse, composer was born on August - 04.  

1846  On August - 04 birth of silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer  

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

1859  Knut Hamsun, Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920) was born on this day in history.  

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 August - 04.  

1870  On this day in history birth of harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin)  

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

1884  On August - 04 birth of henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)  

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

1113  Death of Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030) on this day in history.  

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

1265  On this day in history simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle  

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

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