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What happend on 4. August in History
In our data base we found 316 events happened on 4. August:
• 70: The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. [category: Events]
• 367: Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight. [category: Events]
• 1060: Henry I of France (b. 1008) [category: Deaths]
• 1113: Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030) [category: Deaths]
• 1222: Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262) [category: Births]
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• 1265: Henry de Montfort (b. 1238) [category: Deaths]
• 1265: Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223) [category: Deaths]
• 1265: Killed in the Battle of Evesham: [category: Deaths]
• 1265: Peter de Montfort (b. 1215) [category: Deaths]
• 1265: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208) [category: Deaths]
• 1265: Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies. [category: Events]
• 1290: Leopold I, Duke of Austria (d. 1326) [category: Births]
• 1306: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289) [category: Deaths]
• 1327: First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England. [category: Events]
• 1338: Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English son of Edward I of England (b. 1300) [category: Deaths]
• 1521: Pope Urban VII (d. 1590) [category: Births]
• 1526: Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476) [category: Deaths]
• 1532: the Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France. [category: Events]
• 1578: Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554) [category: Deaths]
• 1578: Thomas Stukley, English adventurer (b. c. 1520) [category: Deaths]
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• 1578: Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir – the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. [category: Events]
• 1598: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520) [category: Deaths]
• 1604: François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) [category: Births]
• 1612: Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549) [category: Deaths]
• 1639: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581) [category: Deaths]
• 1693: Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine. [category: Events]
• 1701: Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar (d. 1757) [category: Births]
• 1704: War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. [category: Events]
• 1718: René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French founder of Rimouski (b. 1656) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767) [category: Births]
• 1721: Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803) [category: Births]
• 1727: Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647) [category: Deaths]
• 1741: Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
• 1755: Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1778: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-French Governor General of New France (b. 1698) [category: Deaths]
• 1789: In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. [category: Events]
• 1790: A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). [category: Events]
• 1791: The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. [category: Events]
• 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822) [category: Births]
• 1792: John Burgoyne, English general and politician (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: Timothy Ruggles, American politician (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato. [category: Events]
• 1804: Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English navy admiral (b. 1731) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865) [category: Births]
• 1821: James Springer White, American theologian (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1821: Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1821: Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. [category: Events]
• 1824: The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces. [category: Events]
• 1834: John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1834: Dimitrios Panourgias Greek military commander (b. 1754) [category: Deaths]
• 1839: Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1844: Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1844: Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1848: Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1849: Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. [category: Events]
• 1859: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1859: John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1863: Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin. [category: Events]
• 1865: Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1867: Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1870: Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1873: Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed. [category: Events]
• 1875: Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1884: Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1884: Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1886: Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814) [category: Deaths]
• 1887: Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1888: Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1890: Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1891: Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1892: The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. [category: Events]
• 1893: Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1899: Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1900: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1900: Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1901: Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1902: Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1902: The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. [category: Events]
• 1904: Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1904: Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1904: Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1906: Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1906: Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1906: Central railway station, Sydney opens. [category: Events]
• 1908: Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1909: Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1909: Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1910: Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1910: Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1910: William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1912: Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1913: Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1914: Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality. [category: Events]
• 1915: Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1918: Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1918: Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1919: Michel Déon, French writer [category: Births]
• 1919: Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1920: Helen Thomas, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1921: Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1921: Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1922: Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican archbishop (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1922: Enver Pasha, Ottoman military officer (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani writer [category: Births]
• 1923: Reg Grundy, Australian television producer [category: Births]
• 1924: Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established. [category: Events]
• 1926: George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1927: Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1928: Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1929: Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1930: Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric [category: Births]
• 1931: Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1932: Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1934: Dallas Green, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1936: Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime. [category: Events]
• 1937: David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1938: Ellen Schrecker, American historian [category: Births]
• 1938: Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Frank Vincent, American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Larry Knechtel, keyboard and bass player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1940: Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1941: Martin Jarvis, English actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Ted Strickland, American politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Mihály Babits, Hungarian writer and poet (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Cleon Jones, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1942: Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1942: Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1943: Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Amjad Islam Amjad, Pakistani poet [category: Births]
• 1944: Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1944: The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. [category: Events]
• 1945: Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman [category: Births]
• 1946: Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser, wife of Isaac Tigrett (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1946: An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. [category: Events]
• 1947: Klaus Schulze, German composer [category: Births]
• 1947: The Supreme Court of Japan is established. [category: Events]
• 1948: Johnny Grubb, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1949: John Riggins, American football player [category: Births]
• 1952: Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (Clannad and T with the Maggies) [category: Births]
• 1953: Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer [category: Births]
• 1954: Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian politician [category: Births]
• 1954: François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer [category: Births]
• 1955: Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General [category: Births]
• 1955: Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer [category: Births]
• 1955: Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Gerry Cooney, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1957: Brooks D. Simpson, American historian [category: Births]
• 1957: John Wark, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1957: Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer [category: Births]
• 1958: Ian Broudie, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds, Big in Japan, and Care) [category: Births]
• 1958: Kym Karath, American actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Mary Decker, American runner [category: Births]
• 1958: Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician [category: Births]
• 1958: Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1959: John Gormley, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1959: József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Bernard Rose, English director [category: Births]
• 1960: Dean Malenko, American wrestler and agent [category: Births]
• 1960: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain [category: Births]
• 1960: Tim Winton, Australian writer [category: Births]
• 1961: Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1961: Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender [category: Births]
• 1961: Lauren Tom, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Peter Reichert, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls) [category: Births]
• 1962: Roger Clemens, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist [category: Births]
• 1964: Anna Sui, American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1964: Gary King, English radio host [category: Births]
• 1964: American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. [category: Events]
• 1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. [category: Events]
• 1965: Crystal Chappell, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Dennis Lehane, American author [category: Births]
• 1965: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden [category: Births]
• 1965: James Tupper, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Michael Skibbe, German football manager [category: Births]
• 1965: Terri Lyne Carrington, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1965: Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian [category: Births]
• 1965: The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand. [category: Events]
• 1966: Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1967: Michael Marsh, American sprinter [category: Births]
• 1967: Timothy Adams, American actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Daniel Dae Kim, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Lee Mack, English comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Mark Bickley, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1969: Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy) [category: Births]
• 1969: Michael DeLuise, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Troy O'Leary, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. [category: Events]
• 1970: Bret Baier, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1970: John August, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1970: Steve House, American mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1970: Steven Jack, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1971: Jeff Gordon, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1972: Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral) [category: Births]
• 1973: Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Xavier Marchand, French swimmer [category: Births]
• 1974: Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1974: Kily González, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22. [category: Events]
• 1975: Andy Hallett, American actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1975: Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Joe Saenz, American criminal [category: Births]
• 1975: Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician [category: Births]
• 1975: Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. [category: Events]
• 1976: Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1977: Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. [category: Events]
• 1978: Kurt Busch, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Robin Peterson, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1980: Richard Dawson, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1981: Abigail Spencer, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Ben Scott, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1981: Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx) [category: Births]
• 1981: Meghan Markle, American model and actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Rubinho, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Greta Gerwig, American actress and director [category: Births]
• 1984: Mardy Collins, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. [category: Events]
• 1985: Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Kina Grannis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1985: Mark Milligan, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Cicinho, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Nick Augusto, Italian-American drummer (Trivium) [category: Births]
• 1987: Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1987: Phil Younghusband, English–Filipino footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly". [category: Events]
• 1988: Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Tom Parker, English singer (The Wanted) [category: Births]
• 1989: Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Young Divas) [category: Births]
• 1989: Michael Allen Martinez, American drummer (Allstar Weekend) [category: Births]
• 1989: Wang Hao, Chinese chess player [category: Births]
• 1991: Lucinda Dryzek, English actress [category: Births]
• 1991: River Viiperi, Spanish model [category: Births]
• 1991: Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. [category: Events]
• 1992: Cole Sprouse, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Dylan Sprouse, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1992: Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights. [category: Events]
• 1994: Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1995: Jessica Sanchez, American singer [category: Births]
• 1995: Operation Storm begins in Croatia. [category: Events]
• 1996: Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Yury Artyukhin, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Rodney Ansell, Australian hunter, inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Leslie Glass, American porn actress (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 2001: Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 2003: Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General. [category: Events]
• 2006: A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF). [category: Events]
• 2007: Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Airport police officer discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US $800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina. [category: Events]
• 2007: NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched. [category: Events]
• 2008: Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger. [category: Events]
• 2011: Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bud Riley, American football coach (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Metin Erksan, Turkish director (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: The Municipality of Cabuyao becomes a component city in the Province of Laguna in the Philippines [category: Events]
• _: August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Coast Guard Day (U.S.) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Cook Islands) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John Vianney [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Matica Slovenská Day (Slovakia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Revolution Day (Burkina Faso) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca (Vitoria-Gasteiz) [category: Holidays and observances]