Anniversaries 4 August

Birth

Bernardo Dovizi13

Italian cardinal and playwright 1470–1520

John Harington (writer)4

English courtier and author 1560–1612

Percy Bysshe Shelley246

English Romantic poet 1792–1822

William Rowan Hamilton4

Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician 1805–1865

Oliver P. Morton6

American politician 1823–1877

John Venn1

English logician and philosopher 1834–1923

Walter Pater11

essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer 1839–1894

Knut Hamsun22

Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient 1859–1952

John Garland Pollard1

American politician 1871–1937

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges1

British civil servant 1892–1969

Ezra Taft Benson19

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1899–1994

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon13

Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth … 1900–2002

Louis Armstrong12

American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer 1901–1971

Helen Kane3

American actress 1904–1966

Witold Gombrowicz9

Polish writer 1904–1969

Robert Hayden5

American writer and academic 1913–1980

Sheldon Vanauken2

American journalist 1914–1996

Helen Thomas20

American author and journalist 1920–2013

Sheldon S. Wolin3

American political philosopher 1922–2015

Ali Sistani5

Iranian-Iraqi Muslim scholar 1930

Rudi van Dantzig1

Dutch dancer and choreographer 1933–2012

David Lange34

New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zeala… 1942–2005

Richard Belzer1

American actor and comedian 1944

Albert D'Souza1

catholic prelate in India 1945

Alberto Gonzales18

80th United States Attorney General 1955

Meg Whitman2

American business executive 1956

Brooks D. Simpson17

American historian 1957

Jun Hong Lu26

Australian Buddhist leader 1959

Tim Winton28

Australian writer 1960

Barack Obama1158

44th President of the United States of America 1961

Keith Ellison3

American politician and lawyer 1963

Anna Sui38

American fashion designer 1964

Dennis Lehane26

Novelist 1965

Fredrik Reinfeldt5

32nd Prime Minister of Sweden 1965

Wayne Pacelle14

American activist 1965

Daniel Dae Kim4

American actor 1968

Jojo Moyes1

British novelist and journalist 1969

Wang Yu-chi9

Taiwanese politician 1969

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex15

American former actress and member by marriage of the Briti… 1981

Натаниэль Бузолич3

Australian actor 1983

Jiayang Fan1

chinese-American journalist (born 1984) 1984

Коул Спроус1

American actor 1992

Death

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley9

English statesman 1520–1598

John Vianney1

French priest and saint 1786–1859

Hans Christian Andersen41

Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet 1805–1875

Ernestine Rose4

American feminist activist 1810–1892

William Edmondstoune Aytoun3

British writer and lawyer 1813–1865

John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland1

British politician 1818–1906

Archibald Berkeley Milne1

Royal Navy admiral 1855–1938

İsmail Enver15

Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk rev… 1881–1922

Ernst Bloch16

German philosopher 1885–1977

Ric Berger1

Swiss professor of design, decoration and art history 1894–1984

Norman Malcolm7

American philosopher 1911–1990

Tex Atchison3

American musician 1912–1982

Con Houlihan2

Irish sportswriter 1925–2012

Said Ramadan3

Egyptian political activist 1926–1995