This Day in History : [ 04 / Aug ]

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

Pieter Coecke van Aelst Flemish painter and carpet designer

Franois Hdelin abb dAubignac French writer born in Paris (d. 1676)

Louis Lully French musician and son of Jean-Baptiste Lully born in Paris France (d. 1734)

Johan Willem Friso prince of Orangemonarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]

Thomas Blackwell Scottish classical scholar born in Aberdeen Scotland (d. 1757)

Johann Gottlob Lehmann German minerologist and geologist born in Bad Gottleuba-Berggiehbel Germany (d. 1767)

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

Nicolas-Jacque Conte French painter and inventor (modern pencil) born in Aunou-sur-Orne France (d. 1805)

Wenzel Sedlak Bohemian clarinetist and composer born in Jezboice Bohemia (d. 1851)

Percy Bysshe Shelley English romantic poet (Adonais) born in Horsham Sussex England (d. 1822)

William Rowan Hamilton Irish astronomer and mathematician born in Dublin Ireland (d. 1865)

Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich Sulz am Neckar German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine

Israel Vogdes American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Chester County Pennsylvania (d. 1889)

Lovell Harrison Rosseau American lawyer politician and Major General (Union Army) born in Stanford Kentucky (d. 1869)

James Springer White American theologian (co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) born in Palmyra Maine (d. 1881)

Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton American politician (Governor of Indiana) born in Salisbury Indiana (d. 1877)

Arthur Haygarth English cricket batsman (Middlesex & Surrey cricket historian) born in Hastings Sussex England (d. 1903)

John Venn English mathematician (Venn Diagram) born in Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire England (d. 1923)

Walter Pater writer (Plato & Platoism) born in London England

Vladimir Sukhomlinov Russian general (d. 1926)

Knut Hamsun Norwegian writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1920) born in Lom Gudbrandsdalen Norway (d. 1952)

Gus Kempis South African cricketer (South Africas 1st Test) born in Port Elizabeth South Africa (d. 1890)

Jake Beckley American baseball player born in Hannibal Missouri (d. 1918)

Harry Lauder Scottish comedian and singer (Roamin in the Gloamin) born in Portobello Edinburgh Scotland (d. 1950)

Damaso Berenguer Spanish soldier and politician (122nd Prime Minister of Spain) born in San Juan de los Remedios Cuba (d. 1953)

Dame Laura Knight English impressionist artist born in Long Eaton Derbyshire England (d. 1970)

Henri Cornet French cyclist who won the second Tour de France born in Desvres France (d. 1941)

Syedna Taher Saifuddin Bohra Spiritual Leader born in Surat India (d. 1965)

Erich Weinert German communist writer born in Magdeburg (d. 1953)

Dolf Luque Cuban baseball player born in Havana Cuba (d. 1957)

Joseph Calleia Maltese-American actor (Jungle Book Gilda Touch of Evil) born in Mdina Malta (d. 1975)

Ezra Taft Benson 13th President of Mormon Church and US Secretary of Agriculture born in Whitney Idaho (d. 1994)