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| August 4th, 2007 (August 04 2007) | Event | NASA s Phoenix spaceship is launched. | |
| August 4th, 2007 (August 04 2007) | Death | Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (born in 1929) | |
| August 4th, 2006 (August 04 2006) | Event | Dame Silvia Cartwright steps down as the Governor-General of New Zealand and was replaced by The Honourable Anand Satyanand, who was sworn in on 23 August. | |
| August 4th, 2005 (August 04 2005) | Event | Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean will be Canada s 27th - and first black - Governor General. | Paul Martin Quotes |
| August 4th, 2005 (August 04 2005) | Death | Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (born in 1932) | |
| August 4th, 2003 (August 04 2003) | Death | Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1916) | |
| August 4th, 2002 (August 04 2002) | Event | Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire. | |
| August 4th, 2002 (August 04 2002) | Death | Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (born in 1991, 1991) | |
| August 4th, 2001 (August 04 2001) | Death | Lorenzo Music, American actor (born in 1937) | |
| August 4th, 2000 (August 04 2000) | Death | Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (born in 1963) | |
| August 4th, 1999 (August 04 1999) | Death | Victor Mature, American actor (born in 1915) | |
| August 4th, 1998 (August 04 1998) | Death | Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (born in 1930) | |
| August 4th, 1997 (August 04 1997) | Event | 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job. | |
| August 4th, 1997 (August 04 1997) | Death | Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world s oldest ever-human (born in 1875) | |
| August 4th, 1996 (August 04 1996) | Death | Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (born in 1936) | |
| August 4th, 1995 (August 04 1995) | Event | Operation Storm begins in Croatia. | |
| August 4th, 1993 (August 04 1993) | Event | A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King s civil rights. | |
| August 4th, 1992 (August 04 1992) | Birth | Tiffany Evans, American singer | Evans Quotes |
| August 4th, 1992 (August 04 1992) | Birth | Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors (Suite Life of Zack and Cody) | |
| August 4th, 1992 (August 04 1992) | Death | Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (born in 1909) | |
| August 4th, 1991 (August 04 1991) | Event | The Greek cruise ship Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. | |
| August 4th, 1989 (August 04 1989) | Birth | Jessica Mauboy, Australian Idol contestant | |
| August 4th, 1989 (August 04 1989) | Birth | Ashley Biggin, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1987 (August 04 1987) | Event | The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues. | |
| August 4th, 1985 (August 04 1985) | Birth | Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player | |
| August 4th, 1985 (August 04 1985) | Birth | Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer | |
| August 4th, 1985 (August 04 1985) | Birth | Mark Milligan, Australian footballer | |
| August 4th, 1984 (August 04 1984) | Event | The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. | |
| August 4th, 1982 (August 04 1982) | Death | Bruce Goff, American Architect (born in 1904) | |
| August 4th, 1981 (August 04 1981) | Birth | Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx) | |
| August 4th, 1981 (August 04 1981) | Birth | Frederick Bousquet, French swimmer | |
| August 4th, 1981 (August 04 1981) | Birth | Ben Scott, English cricketer | |
| August 4th, 1981 (August 04 1981) | Birth | Abigail Spencer, American actress | |
| August 4th, 1981 (August 04 1981) | Death | Melvyn Douglas, American actor (born in 1901) | |
| August 4th, 1980 (August 04 1980) | Birth | Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor | |
| August 4th, 1978 (August 04 1978) | Birth | Kurt Busch, American race car driver | |
| August 4th, 1977 (August 04 1977) | Event | US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| August 4th, 1977 (August 04 1977) | Birth | Luis Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer | |
| August 4th, 1977 (August 04 1977) | Birth | Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler | |
| August 4th, 1976 (August 04 1976) | Death | Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (born in 1894) | |
| August 4th, 1976 (August 04 1976) | Death | Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop | |
| August 4th, 1975 (August 04 1975) | Event | The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages included the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. | |
| August 4th, 1975 (August 04 1975) | Birth | Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress | |
| August 4th, 1975 (August 04 1975) | Birth | Andy Hallett, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1974 (August 04 1974) | Birth | Kily Gonzalez, Argentine footballer | |
| August 4th, 1974 (August 04 1974) | Birth | Keenan Milton, Professional Skater | |
| August 4th, 1973 (August 04 1973) | Birth | Xavier Marchand, French swimmer | |
| August 4th, 1973 (August 04 1973) | Birth | Eva Amaral, Spanish singer and songwriter | |
| August 4th, 1972 (August 04 1972) | Birth | Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor | |
| August 4th, 1971 (August 04 1971) | Birth | Jeff Gordon, American race car driver | |
| August 4th, 1970 (August 04 1970) | Event | The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. | |
| August 4th, 1970 (August 04 1970) | Birth | John August, American screenwriter | |
| August 4th, 1969 (August 04 1969) | Event | Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. | Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| August 4th, 1969 (August 04 1969) | Birth | Troy O Leary, American baseball player | |
| August 4th, 1969 (August 04 1969) | Birth | Michael DeLuise, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1968 (August 04 1968) | Birth | Daniel Dae Kim, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1968 (August 04 1968) | Birth | Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model | |
| August 4th, 1967 (August 04 1967) | Birth | Timothy Adams, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1967 (August 04 1967) | Birth | Mike Marsh, American athlete | |
| August 4th, 1967 (August 04 1967) | Death | Peter Smith, English cricketer (born in 1908) | |
| August 4th, 1966 (August 04 1966) | Birth | Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler | Saki Quotes |
| August 4th, 1965 (August 04 1965) | Birth | Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician | |
| August 4th, 1965 (August 04 1965) | Birth | Dennis Lehane, American crime writer | |
| August 4th, 1964 (August 04 1964) | Event | American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. | |
| August 4th, 1964 (August 04 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy report coming attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. The destroyers open fire at what they believed were Vietnam People s Army torpedo boats, although subsequent work has raised doubts the targets were real. This engagement became known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. | Ted Turner Quotes |
| August 4th, 1964 (August 04 1964) | Birth | Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician | |
| August 4th, 1963 (August 04 1963) | Birth | Gary King, British DJ | |
| August 4th, 1962 (August 04 1962) | Birth | Roger Clemens, American baseball player | |
| August 4th, 1962 (August 04 1962) | Birth | Paul Reynolds, British musician | |
| August 4th, 1961 (August 04 1961) | Birth | Barack Obama, American politician | Barack Obama Quotes |
| August 4th, 1961 (August 04 1961) | Birth | Lauren Tom, American actress | |
| August 4th, 1960 (August 04 1960) | Birth | Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler | |
| August 4th, 1960 (August 04 1960) | Birth | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish politician | |
| August 4th, 1960 (August 04 1960) | Birth | Bernard Rose, English director | |
| August 4th, 1960 (August 04 1960) | Birth | Tim Winton, Australian author | |
| August 4th, 1959 (August 04 1959) | Birth | Robbin Crosby, American musician (Ratt) (died in 2002) | |
| August 4th, 1959 (August 04 1959) | Birth | John Gormley, Irish politician | |
| August 4th, 1958 (August 04 1958) | Birth | Mary Decker, American athlete | |
| August 4th, 1958 (August 04 1958) | Birth | Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer | |
| August 4th, 1958 (August 04 1958) | Birth | Kym Karath, American actress | |
| August 4th, 1958 (August 04 1958) | Birth | Ian Broudie, English Music Producer and Lightning Seeds vocalist | |
| August 4th, 1958 (August 04 1958) | Death | Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (born in 1883) | |
| August 4th, 1957 (August 04 1957) | Birth | John Wark, Scottish footballer | John Scott Quotes |
| August 4th, 1957 (August 04 1957) | Birth | Brooks D. Simpson, American historian | |
| August 4th, 1957 (August 04 1957) | Death | Washington Luis Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (born in 1869) | |
| August 4th, 1956 (August 04 1956) | Birth | Gerry Cooney, American boxer | |
| August 4th, 1955 (August 04 1955) | Birth | Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer | |
| August 4th, 1955 (August 04 1955) | Birth | Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer | |
| August 4th, 1955 (August 04 1955) | Birth | Alberto Gonzales, American U.S. Attorney General | |
| August 4th, 1954 (August 04 1954) | Event | Government of Pakistan approves the National Anthem, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed G. Chagla. | |
| August 4th, 1952 (August 04 1952) | Birth | Moya Brennan, Irish singer | |
| August 4th, 1952 (August 04 1952) | Birth | Gabor Demszky, Hungarian politician | |
| August 4th, 1949 (August 04 1949) | Birth | John Riggins, American football player | |
| August 4th, 1948 (August 04 1948) | Birth | Johnny Grubb, American baseball player | |
| August 4th, 1947 (August 04 1947) | Event | The Supreme Court of Japan is established. | |
| August 4th, 1947 (August 04 1947) | Birth | Klaus Schulze, German composer | |
| August 4th, 1946 (August 04 1946) | Event | 1946 Dominican Republic earthquakeearthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 killed, 20,000 left homeless. | |
| August 4th, 1946 (August 04 1946) | Birth | Maureen Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo Starr (died in 1994) | Ringo Starr Quotes |
| August 4th, 1944 (August 04 1944) | Event | Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family. | Anne Frank Quotes |
| August 4th, 1944 (August 04 1944) | Birth | Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian | |
| August 4th, 1944 (August 04 1944) | Birth | Doudou Ndoye?, Senegalese lawyer and politician | |
| August 4th, 1943 (August 04 1943) | Birth | Bjorn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper | |
| August 4th, 1942 (August 04 1942) | Birth | Don S. Davis, American actor | |
| August 4th, 1942 (August 04 1942) | Birth | Cleon Jones, American baseball player | |
| August 4th, 1942 (August 04 1942) | Birth | David Lange, New Zealand politician (died in 2005) | |
| August 4th, 1941 (August 04 1941) | Birth | Martin Jarvis, English actor | |
| August 4th, 1940 (August 04 1940) | Birth | Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia | |
| August 4th, 1940 (August 04 1940) | Birth | Timi Yuro, American singer (died in 2004) | |
| August 4th, 1938 (August 04 1938) | Birth | Ellen Schrecker, American college professor | |
| August 4th, 1938 (August 04 1938) | Death | Pearl White, American actress (born in 1889) | |
| August 4th, 1937 (August 04 1937) | Birth | David Bedford, English musician | |
| August 4th, 1936 (August 04 1936) | Event | Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator. | |
| August 4th, 1936 (August 04 1936) | Birth | Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker | |
| August 4th, 1930 (August 04 1930) | Birth | Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior shia clerics of the 21st century. | |
| August 4th, 1929 (August 04 1929) | Birth | Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (died in 1987) | |
| August 4th, 1928 (August 04 1928) | Birth | Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (died in 2003) | |
| August 4th, 1927 (August 04 1927) | Birth | Jess Thomas, American tenor (died in 1993) | |
| August 4th, 1924 (August 04 1924) | Event | The diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union were established. | |
| August 4th, 1923 (August 04 1923) | Birth | Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer | |
| August 4th, 1923 (August 04 1923) | Birth | Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul | |
| August 4th, 1921 (August 04 1921) | Birth | Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 2000) | |
| August 4th, 1920 (August 04 1920) | Birth | Helen Thomas, American journalist | |
| August 4th, 1918 (August 04 1918) | Birth | Iceberg Slim, popular African-American author also known as Robert Beck (died in 1992) | |
| August 4th, 1916 (August 04 1916) | Event | World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany. | |
| August 4th, 1915 (August 04 1915) | Birth | Warren Avis, founder of Avis car rentals (died in 2007) | |
| August 4th, 1914 (August 04 1914) | Event | World War I: Germany invades Belgium; in response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States proclaims neutrality. | |
| August 4th, 1913 (August 04 1913) | Birth | Robert Hayden, American poet (died in 1980) | |
| August 4th, 1912 (August 04 1912) | Birth | Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (died in 1999) | Philo Quotes |
| August 4th, 1912 (August 04 1912) | Birth | Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (died in 1947) | |
| August 4th, 1910 (August 04 1910) | Birth | William Schuman, American composer (died in 1992) | |
| August 4th, 1909 (August 04 1909) | Birth | Glenn Cunningham, runner (died in 1988) | |
| August 4th, 1908 (August 04 1908) | Birth | Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (died in 1994) | |
| August 4th, 1906 (August 04 1906) | Event | Central Railway Station, Sydney opens. | |
| August 4th, 1906 (August 04 1906) | Birth | Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (died in 1973) | |
| August 4th, 1906 (August 04 1906) | Birth | Marie-Jose of Belgium, queen of Italy (died in 2001) | |
| August 4th, 1904 (August 04 1904) | Birth | Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (died in 1969) | |
| August 4th, 1904 (August 04 1904) | Birth | Joe Tate, English footballer (died in 1973) | |
| August 4th, 1902 (August 04 1902) | Event | Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. | |
| August 4th, 1902 (August 04 1902) | Birth | Wild Bill Hallahan, baseball player (died in 1981) | |
| August 4th, 1901 (August 04 1901) | Birth | Louis Armstrong, American jazz musician (died in 1971) | Louis Armstrong Quotes |
| August 4th, 1900 (August 04 1900) | Birth | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (died in 2002) | the Queen Mother Elizabeth Quotes |
| August 4th, 1900 (August 04 1900) | Death | Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (born in 1860) | |
| August 4th, 1899 (August 04 1899) | Birth | Ezra Taft Benson, 13th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (died in 1994) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| August 4th, 1892 (August 04 1892) | Event | The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. | |
| August 4th, 1890 (August 04 1890) | Birth | Dolf Luque, baseball player (died in 1957) | |
| August 4th, 1888 (August 04 1888) | Birth | Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader (died in 1965) | |
| August 4th, 1884 (August 04 1884) | Birth | Henri Cornet, French cyclist (died in 1941) | |
| August 4th, 1875 (August 04 1875) | Death | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (born in 1805) | |
| August 4th, 1873 (August 04 1873) | Event | Indian Wars: Whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clash for the first time with the Sioux (near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed). | |
| August 4th, 1873 (August 04 1873) | Death | Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (born in 1834) | |
| August 4th, 1870 (August 04 1870) | Birth | Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (died in 1950) | |
| August 4th, 1867 (August 04 1867) | Birth | Jake Beckley, baseball player (died in 1918) | |
| August 4th, 1859 (August 04 1859) | Birth | Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (died in 1952) | |
| August 4th, 1854 (August 04 1854) | Event | The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. | |
| August 4th, 1848 (August 04 1848) | Birth | Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (died in 1926) | |
| August 4th, 1844 (August 04 1844) | Death | Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (born in 1773) | |
| August 4th, 1834 (August 04 1834) | Birth | John Venn, English mathematician (died in 1923) | |
| August 4th, 1824 (August 04 1824) | Event | Battle of Kos fought between Turks and Greeks. | |
| August 4th, 1821 (August 04 1821) | Event | Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. | |
| August 4th, 1821 (August 04 1821) | Birth | James White, cofunder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (died in 1881) | |
| August 4th, 1821 (August 04 1821) | Birth | Louis Vuitton, founder of Louis Vuitton (died in 1892) | |
| August 4th, 1805 (August 04 1805) | Birth | William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (died in 1865) | |
| August 4th, 1795 (August 04 1795) | Death | Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (born in 1711) | |
| August 4th, 1792 (August 04 1792) | Birth | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (died in 1822) | Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| August 4th, 1792 (August 04 1792) | Death | John Burgoyne, British general (born in 1723) | |
| August 4th, 1791 (August 04 1791) | Event | The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. | |
| August 4th, 1790 (August 04 1790) | Event | A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). | |
| August 4th, 1789 (August 04 1789) | Event | In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. | |
| August 4th, 1784 (August 04 1784) | Death | Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (born in 1706) | |
| August 4th, 1755 (August 04 1755) | Birth | Nicolas-Jacques Conte, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (died in 1805) | |
| August 4th, 1741 (August 04 1741) | Death | Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer | |
| August 4th, 1727 (August 04 1727) | Death | Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (born in 1647) | |
| August 4th, 1721 (August 04 1721) | Birth | Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (died in 1803) | |
| August 4th, 1719 (August 04 1719) | Birth | Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (died in 1767) | |
| August 4th, 1718 (August 04 1718) | Death | Rene Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (born in 1656) | |
| August 4th, 1704 (August 04 1704) | Event | War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar captured by English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. | |
| August 4th, 1701 (August 04 1701) | Birth | Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (died in 1757) | |
| August 4th, 1693 (August 04 1693) | Event | Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon s invention of Champagne. | |
| August 4th, 1639 (August 04 1639) | Death | Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Mexican dramatist | |
| August 4th, 1612 (August 04 1612) | Death | Hugh Broughton, English scholar (born in 1549) | |
| August 4th, 1604 (August 04 1604) | Birth | Francois Hedelin, abbe d Aubignac, French writer (died in 1676) | |
| August 4th, 1598 (August 04 1598) | Death | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (born in 1520) | |
| August 4th, 1578 (August 04 1578) | Event | Battle of Al Kasr al KebirMoroccans defeat Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is defeated and killed in North Africa, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. | |
| August 4th, 1578 (August 04 1578) | Death | Sebastian of Portugal (born in 1554) | |
| August 4th, 1578 (August 04 1578) | Death | Thomas Stucley, English adventurer | |
| August 4th, 1526 (August 04 1526) | Death | Juan Sebastian Elcano, Spanish explorer (born in 1476) | |
| August 4th, 1521 (August 04 1521) | Birth | Pope Urban VII (died in 1590) | |
| August 4th, 1338 (August 04 1338) | Death | Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (born in 1300) | Edward Thomas Quotes |
| August 4th, 1306 (August 04 1306) | Death | Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (born in 1289) | |
| August 4th, 1290 (August 04 1290) | Birth | Duke Leopold I of Austria (died in 1326) | |
| August 4th, 1265 (August 04 1265) | Event | Second Barons War: Battle of EveshamThe army of Prince Edward (future Edward I of England) defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester; killing de Montfort and many of his allies. (This is sometimes considered the end of the age of chivalry in England.) | |
| August 4th, 1222 (August 04 1222) | Birth | Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (died in 1262) | |
| August 4th, 1113 (August 04 1113) | Death | Gertrude of Saxony (born in 1030) | |
| August 4th, 1060 (August 04 1060) | Death | Henry I of France (born in 1008) | |
