Famous Birthdays In August - 04

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

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

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

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

1687  On this day in history 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  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.   

1721  On August - 04 birth of granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)   

1731  On this day in history 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  Wenzel Sedlak, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1799  Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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 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  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  On this day in history birth of walter Pater, London England, writer (Plato & Platoism)   

1843  On August - 04 birth of flor van Duyse, composer   

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

1848  On this day in history birth of vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)   

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

1865  On August - 04 birth of gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)   

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

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1060  On this day in history henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52   

1113  Death of Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030) on August - 04.   

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

1265  On August - 04 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  Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 on August - 04.   

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