Famous Personalities Born In August - 04
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
1222 On August - 04 birth of richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)
1290 On August - 04 birth of duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)
1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer was born on this day in history.
1521 Pope Urban VII (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.
1604 François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) was born on this day in history.
1664 On August - 04 birth of louis Lully, composer
1687 Johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS] was born on August - 04.
1701 On August - 04 birth of thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)
1705 On August - 04 birth of vaclav Matyas Gurecky, composer
1719 On August - 04 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 August - 04 birth of giuseppe Colla, composer
1748 On August - 04 birth of maximilian Stadler, composer
1755 On this day in history 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 Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer was born on August - 04.
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865) was born on this day in history.
1816 On August - 04 birth of israel Vogdes, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1818 On this day in history birth of lovell Harrison Rosseau, Major General (Union volunteers)
1821 James White, American theologian (d. 1881) was born on August - 04.
1823 Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, (Gov-Ind), died in 1877 was born on August - 04.
1825 On August - 04 birth of arthur Haygarth, cricketer (Middlesex & Surrey bat, famous biographer)
1834 John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923) was born on this day in history.
1839 Walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism) was born on this day in history.
1843 On August - 04 birth of flor van Duyse, composer
1846 On August - 04 birth of silas Gamaliel Pratt, composer
1848 On August - 04 birth of vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
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 On this day in history birth of jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
1870 On August - 04 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)