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| 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, 1995 (August 04 1995) | Event | Operation Storm begins in Croatia. | |
| 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, 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, 1965 (August 04 1965) | Birth | Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician | |
| August 4th, 1965 (August 04 1965) | Birth | Dennis Lehane, American crime writer | |
| 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, 1915 (August 04 1915) | Birth | Warren Avis, founder of Avis car rentals (died in 2007) | |
| August 4th, 1875 (August 04 1875) | Death | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (born in 1805) | |
| 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, 1755 (August 04 1755) | Birth | Nicolas-Jacques Conte, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (died in 1805) | |
| 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.) | |
