Anniversaries 4 August
Birth
![Bernardo Dovizi photo]()
Italian cardinal and playwright
1470–1520
![John Harington (writer) photo]()
English courtier and author
1560–1612
![Percy Bysshe Shelley photo]()
English Romantic poet
1792–1822
![William Rowan Hamilton photo]()
Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
1805–1865
![Oliver P. Morton photo]()
American politician
1823–1877
![John Venn photo]()
English logician and philosopher
1834–1923
![Walter Pater photo]()
essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer
1839–1894
![Knut Hamsun photo]()
Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient
1859–1952
![John Garland Pollard photo]()
American politician
1871–1937
![Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges photo]()
British civil servant
1892–1969
![Ezra Taft Benson photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1899–1994
![Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon photo]()
Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth …
1900–2002
![Louis Armstrong photo]()
American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer
1901–1971
![Helen Kane photo]()
American actress
1904–1966
![Robert Hayden photo]()
American writer and academic
1913–1980
![Sheldon Vanauken photo]()
American journalist
1914–1996
![Helen Thomas photo]()
American author and journalist
1920–2013
![Sheldon S. Wolin photo]()
American political philosopher
1922–2015
![Ali Sistani photo]()
Iranian-Iraqi Muslim scholar
1930
![Rudi van Dantzig photo]()
Dutch dancer and choreographer
1933–2012
![David Lange photo]()
New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zeala…
1942–2005
![Richard Belzer photo]()
American actor and comedian
1944
![Albert D'Souza photo]()
catholic prelate in India
1945
![Alberto Gonzales photo]()
80th United States Attorney General
1955
![Meg Whitman photo]()
American business executive
1956
![Jun Hong Lu photo]()
Australian Buddhist leader
1959
![Barack Obama photo]()
44th President of the United States of America
1961
![Keith Ellison photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1963
![Anna Sui photo]()
American fashion designer
1964
![Fredrik Reinfeldt photo]()
32nd Prime Minister of Sweden
1965
![Jojo Moyes photo]()
British novelist and journalist
1969
![Wang Yu-chi photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1969
![Meghan, Duchess of Sussex photo]()
American former actress and member by marriage of the Briti…
1981
![Jiayang Fan photo]()
chinese-American journalist (born 1984)
1984
Death
![William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley photo]()
English statesman
1520–1598
![John Vianney photo]()
French priest and saint
1786–1859
![Hans Christian Andersen photo]()
Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
1805–1875
![Ernestine Rose photo]()
American feminist activist
1810–1892
![William Edmondstoune Aytoun photo]()
British writer and lawyer
1813–1865
![John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland photo]()
British politician
1818–1906
![Archibald Berkeley Milne photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1855–1938
![İsmail Enver photo]()
Turkish military officer and a leader of the Young Turk rev…
1881–1922
![Ernst Bloch photo]()
German philosopher
1885–1977
![Ric Berger photo]()
Swiss professor of design, decoration and art history
1894–1984
![Norman Malcolm photo]()
American philosopher
1911–1990
![Tex Atchison photo]()
American musician
1912–1982
![Con Houlihan photo]()
Irish sportswriter
1925–2012
![Said Ramadan photo]()
Egyptian political activist
1926–1995
