Famous Birthdays In August - 04

1222  Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262) was born on August - 04.  

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

1604  François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) was born on August - 04.  

1664  Louis Lully, composer was born on this day in history.  

1687  Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS] was born on this day in history.  

1701  On August - 04 birth of thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)  

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

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

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

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

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 August - 04 birth of olof Wilhelm Udden, composer  

1805  William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865) was born on this day in history.  

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

1818  Lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history birth of james White, American theologian (d. 1881)  

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

1825  On this day in history birth of arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer)  

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

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

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

1846  On this day in history 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  On August - 04 birth of gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)  

1867  On this day in history birth of jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)  

1870  Harry Lauder, Scotland, comedian/singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin) was born on August - 04.  

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

1884  On this day in history birth of henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)  

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

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

1204  On August - 04 death of boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered  

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

1306  On this day in history death of wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)  

1338  Death of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300) on August - 04.  

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

1476  Death of Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded on August - 04.