August 4

August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 149 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 70 – The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans.
• 367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight.
• 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo (Korea) during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.
• 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.
• 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
• 1532 – the Duchy of Brittany is united to the Kingdom of France.
• 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.
• 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne, although he actually did not have anything to do with sparkling wine.
• 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.
• 1789 – In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges.
• 1790 – A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
• 1791 – The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
• 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
• 1824 – The Battle of Kos is fought between Turkish and Greek forces.
• 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
• 1863 – Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
• 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.
• 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
• 1902 – The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens.
• 1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.
• 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
• 1924 – Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
• 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.
• 1946 – An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
• 1947 – The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
• 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is published for the first time.
• 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.
• 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
• 1965 – The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
• 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.
• 1974 – A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
• 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. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
• 1977 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
• 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
• 1991 – The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
• 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.
• 1995 – Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
• 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.
• 2005 – Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General.
• 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).
• 2007 – NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
• 2007 – Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk 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 known as "Maletinazo".
• 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.
• 2012 – The Municipality of Cabuyao becomes a component city in the Province of Laguna in the Philippines

Births

• 1222 – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)
• 1290 – Leopold I, Duke of Austria (d. 1326)
• 1521 – Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
• 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)
• 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar (d. 1757)
• 1719 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
• 1721 – Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803)
• 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor (d. 1805)
• 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
• 1805 – William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865)
• 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
• 1821 – James Springer White, American theologian (d. 1881)
• 1834 – John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
• 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic (d. 1894)
• 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
• 1848 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926)
• 1859 – Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
• 1865 – Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890)
• 1867 – Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918)
• 1870 – Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970)
• 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet (d. 1949)
• 1884 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
• 1887 – Albert M. Greenfield, American businessman (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
• 1890 – Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957)
• 1891 – Margit Makay, Hungarian actress (d. 1989)
• 1893 – Fritz Gause, German historian (d. 1973)
• 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
• 1900 – Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (d. 2002)
• 1901 – Louis Armstrong, American trumpeter and singer (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
• 1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist (d. 1969)
• 1904 – Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
• 1906 – Marie José of Belgium (d. 2001)
• 1908 – Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1910 – William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
• 1910 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter (d. 2011)
• 1912 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947)
• 1913 – Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
• 1917 – John Fitch, American race car driver (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Michel Déon, French writer
• 1920 – Helen Thomas, American journalist
• 1921 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
• 1922 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican archbishop (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Reg Grundy, Australian television producer
• 1923 – Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani writer
• 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (d. 2000)
• 1927 – Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
• 1928 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
• 1929 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1930 – Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric
• 1931 – Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
• 1932 – Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Dallas Green, American baseball player
• 1935 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer (d. 1997)
• 1937 – David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1938 – Ellen Schrecker, American historian
• 1939 – Frank Vincent, American actor
• 1940 – Larry Knechtel, keyboard and bass player (d. 2009)
• 1940 – Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
• 1941 – Martin Jarvis, English actor
• 1941 – Ted Strickland, American politician
• 1942 – Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008)
• 1942 – Cleon Jones, American baseball player
• 1942 – David Lange, New Zealand politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
• 1943 – Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician
• 1943 – Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1944 – Amjad Islam Amjad, Pakistani poet
• 1944 – Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
• 1944 – Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
• 1945 – Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
• 1946 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English hairdresser, wife of Isaac Tigrett (d. 1994)
• 1946 – Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist
• 1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer
• 1948 – Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
• 1949 – John Riggins, American football player
• 1952 – Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player (Clannad and T with the Maggies)
• 1952 – Gábor Demszky, Hungarian politician
• 1953 – Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer
• 1954 – Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian politician
• 1954 – François Valéry, French singer-songwriter and composer
• 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General
• 1955 – Dariusz Lipiński, Polish politician
• 1955 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
• 1956 – Gerry Cooney, American boxer
• 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian
• 1957 – John Wark, Scottish footballer
• 1958 – Ian Broudie, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Lightning Seeds, Big in Japan, and Care)
• 1958 – Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer
• 1958 – Mary Decker, American runner
• 1958 – Kym Karath, American actress
• 1958 – Silvan Shalom, Israeli politician
• 1959 – Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (Ratt) (d. 2002)
• 1959 – John Gormley, Irish politician
• 1960 – Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
• 1960 – Dean Malenko, American wrestler and agent
• 1960 – Bernard Rose, English director
• 1960 – Tim Winton, Australian writer
• 1960 – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
• 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender
• 1961 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 – Peter Reichert, German footballer
• 1961 – Lauren Tom, American actress
• 1962 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
• 1962 – Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls)
• 1964 – Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist
• 1964 – Gary King, English radio host
• 1964 – Anna Sui, American fashion designer
• 1965 – Terri Lyne Carrington, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1965 – Crystal Chappell, American actress
• 1965 – Dennis Lehane, American author
• 1965 – Wayne Pacelle, American humanitarian
• 1965 – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1965 – Michael Skibbe, German football manager
• 1965 – James Tupper, Canadian actor
• 1966 – Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese wrestler
• 1967 – Timothy Adams, American actor
• 1967 – Michael Marsh, American sprinter
• 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor
• 1968 – Lee Mack, English comedian and actor
• 1968 – Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model and actor
• 1969 – Mark Bickley, Australian footballer
• 1969 – Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly, Nailbomb, and Cavalera Conspiracy)
• 1969 – Michael DeLuise, American actor
• 1969 – Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
• 1970 – John August, American screenwriter and director
• 1970 – Bret Baier, American journalist
• 1970 – Steve House, American mountaineer
• 1970 – Steven Jack, South African cricketer
• 1971 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
• 1972 – Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor
• 1973 – Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Amaral)
• 1973 – Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
• 1973 – Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
• 1973 – Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Kily González, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (d. 2001)
• 1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1975 – Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1975 – Joe Saenz, American criminal
• 1975 – Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician
• 1975 – Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
• 1976 – Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
• 1977 – Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler
• 1977 – Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer
• 1978 – Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Luke Allen, American baseball player
• 1978 – Victor Marius Beliciu, Romanian sitarist
• 1978 – Emmanuelle Boidron, French actor
• 1978 – Kurt Busch, American race car driver
• 1978 – Mick Cain, American actor
• 1978 – Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian track and field sprinter
• 1978 – Ibán Espadas, Spanish football player
• 1978 – Shaunard Harts, American football player
• 1978 – Satoshi Hino, Japanese-American voice actor
• 1978 – Suja Irfan, Bangladeshi cricket player
• 1978 – Benet Kaci, Kosovan media personality, journalist, and singer
• 1978 – Jon Knott, American baseball player
• 1978 – Karine Legault, Canadian swimmer
• 1978 – Duane Ludwig, American martial artist
• 1978 – Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
• 1978 – Danish Nawaz, Pakistani director, actor and comedian
• 1978 – Siri Nordby, Norwegian football player
• 1978 – Talinda Nyathi, Botswanan footballer
• 1978 – JD Samson, American musician
• 1978 – Ricardo Serrano, Spanish racing cyclist
• 1978 – Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Michail Stifunin, Russian ice dancer
• 1979 – Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
• 1980 – Richard Dawson, English cricketer
• 1981 – Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (IMx)
• 1981 – Meghan Markle, American model and actress
• 1981 – Ben Scott, English cricketer
• 1981 – Abigail Spencer, American actress
• 1982 – Rubinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Greta Gerwig, American actress and director
• 1984 – Mardy Collins, American basketball player
• 1985 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1985 – Kina Grannis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
• 1985 – Ha Seung-Jin, South Korean basketball player
• 1985 – Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
• 1986 – Nick Augusto, Italian-American drummer (Trivium)
• 1986 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
• 1987 – Phil Younghusband, English–Filipino footballer
• 1988 – Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
• 1988 – Tom Parker, English singer (The Wanted)
• 1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
• 1989 – Michael Allen Martinez, American drummer (Allstar Weekend)
• 1989 – Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Young Divas)
• 1991 – Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 – Lucinda Dryzek, English actress
• 1991 – River Viiperi, Spanish model
• 1992 – Tiffany Evans, American singer and actress
• 1992 – Yvonne Neuwirth, Austrian tennis player
• 1992 – Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1994 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
• 1995 – Jessica Sanchez, American singer
• 2001 – Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor

Deaths

• 1060 – Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• 1113 – Gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)
• 1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
  • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
  • Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
  • Peter de Montfort (b. 1215)
  • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
• 1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
• 1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
• 1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
• 1578 – Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
• 1578 – Thomas Stukley, English adventurer (b. c. 1520)
• 1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
• 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
• 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist (b. 1581)
• 1718 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French founder of Rimouski (b. 1656)
• 1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
• 1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer (b. 1676)
• 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, Canadian-French Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
• 1792 – John Burgoyne, English general and politician (b. 1723)
• 1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American politician (b. 1711)
• 1804 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan English navy admiral (b. 1731)
• 1834 – Dimitrios Panourgias Greek military commander (b. 1754)
• 1844 – Jacob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
• 1849 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (b. 1821)
• 1859 – John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
• 1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
• 1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
• 1914 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
• 1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
• 1922 – Enver Pasha, Ottoman military officer (b. 1881)
• 1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1940 – Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Jewish-Zionist political activist, theorist and general (b. 1880)
• 1941 – Mihály Babits, Hungarian writer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1942 – Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Washington Luís, Brazilian politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 – József Révai, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923)
• 1976 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (b. 1933)
• 1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Chinmayananda, Indian spiritual leader and teacher (b. 1916)
• 1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, broadcaster, and author (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Jeanne Calment, at 122, the longest-living human in recorded history (b. 1875)
• 1998 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Rodney Ansell, Australian hunter, inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
• 1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2000 – Leslie Glass, American porn actress (b. 1963)
• 2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Iván Szabó, Hungarian politician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)
• 2011 – Mark Duggan, English shooting victim (b. 1982)
• 2011 – Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
• 2012 – Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Metin Erksan, Turkish director (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Hanley Funderburk, American academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Con Houlihan, Irish journalist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bud Riley, American football coach (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Arnie Risen, American basketball player (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • John Vianney
  • Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
  • August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Coast Guard Day (U.S.)
• Constitution Day (Cook Islands)
• Matica Slovenská Day (Slovakia)
• Revolution Day (Burkina Faso)
• The first day of Fiestas de la Virgen Blanca (Vitoria-Gasteiz)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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