Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 4

Births

 * 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
 * 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
 * 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
 * 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. circa 1947)
 * 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
 * 1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian (d. 2023)
 * 1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, (pictured) Prime Minister of Spain
 * 1961 - Barack Obama, President of the United States
 * 1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
 * 1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
 * 1992 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors

Deaths

 * 1306 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
 * 1578 - King Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
 * 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)

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