What happened on August 4 ?

1060 - King Henry I of France (b. 1008)

1265 - Killed in the Battle of Evesham: Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)

Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)

Peter de Montfort

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)

1306 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)

1338 - Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)

1526 - Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)

1578 - King Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)

1578 - Thomas Stucley, English adventurer

1598 - William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)

1612 - Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)

1639 - Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist

1727 - Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)

1741 - Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer

1784 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (b. 1706)

1792 - John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)

1795 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711)

1873 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)

1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)

1900 - Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)

1938 - Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)

1957 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)

1976 - Roy Herbert Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)

1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

1981 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)

1997 - Jeanne Calment, the oldest ever human.

1998 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (b. 1930)

1999 - Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)

2000 - Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)

2001 - Lorenzo Music, American actor, writer, and producer (b. 1937)

2003 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)