What happened on August 4 ?

1222 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)

1290 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)

1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)

1604 - François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)

1701 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)

1719 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)

1721 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)

1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)

1805 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)

1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)

1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (d. 1902)

1848 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)

1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)

1870 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950)

1899 - Ezra Taft Benson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)

1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)

1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)

1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)

1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)

1909 - Glenn Cunningham, runner (d. 1988)

1910 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)

1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)

1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat

1913 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)

1921 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)

1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul

1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)

1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestine leader (d. 2004)

1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)

1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker

1937 - David Bedford, English musician

1940 - Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)

1942 - David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)

1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper

1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian

1946 - Maureen Starkey, one-time wife of Beatle, Ringo Starr (d. 1994)

1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer

1948 - Johnny Grubb, US baseball player

1952 - Moya Brennan, Irish singer

1952 - Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician

1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer

1957 - John Wark, Scottish footballer

1958 - Mary Decker, American athlete

1960 - Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain

1961 - Barack Obama, American politician

1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player

1967 - Mike Marsh, American athlete

1968 - Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model

1968 - Daniel Dae Kim, American actor

1969 - Troy O'Leary, American baseball player

1970 - Michael DeLuise, American actor

1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver

1972 - Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor

1974 - Cristian González, Argentine footballer

1975 - Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress

1977 - Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer

1978 - Kurt Busch, American race car driver

1985 - Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player

1985 - Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer

1992 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors