Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Wesley Addy |
Actor |
4-Aug-1913 |
31-Dec-1996 |
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Lloyd Anderson |
Business |
4-Aug-1902 |
13-Sep-2000 |
Founder of REI |
Robert E. Andrews |
Politician |
4-Aug-1957 |
|
Congressman, New Jersey 1st |
Louis Armstrong |
Jazz Musician |
4-Aug-1901 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Jazz trumpeter |
Warren Avis |
Business |
4-Aug-1915 |
24-Apr-2007 |
Founder of Avis Rent A Car |
Bret Baier |
Journalist |
4-Aug-1970 |
|
Fox News Channel anchor |
Richard Belzer |
Comic |
4-Aug-1944 |
|
Munch on Homicide, Law & Order: SVU |
Ezra Taft Benson |
Religion |
4-Aug-1899 |
30-May-1994 |
President of the Mormon Church, 1985-94 |
David M. Borden |
Judge |
4-Aug-1937 |
|
Justice, CT Supreme Court, 1990-2007 |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon |
Royalty |
4-Aug-1900 |
30-Mar-2002 |
The Queen Mother |
Ralph Bunche |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1904 |
9-Dec-1971 |
UN Mediator in Palestine 1948 |
Joseph Calleia |
Actor |
4-Aug-1897 |
31-Oct-1975 |
Touch of Evil |
Robin Carnahan |
Politician |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
Missouri Secretary of State |
Max Cavalera |
Musician |
4-Aug-1969 |
|
Sepultura frontman |
Christian-Jaque |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1904 |
8-Jul-1994 |
Fan-Fan the Tulip |
Roger Clemens |
Baseball |
4-Aug-1962 |
|
Twice pitched 20 strikeouts |
Tina Cole |
Actor |
4-Aug-1943 |
|
Katie on My Three Sons |
Don S. Davis |
Actor |
4-Aug-1942 |
29-Jun-2008 |
Lt. Gen. Hammond on Stargate SG-1 |
Kenneth T. Derr |
Business |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
CEO of Chevron, 1989-99 |
Assia Djebar |
Author |
4-Aug-1936 |
|
So Vast the Prison |
Walter C. Dowling |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1905 |
1977 |
US Ambassador to Germany, 1959-63 |
Adolph Dubs |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1920 |
14-Feb-1979 |
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1978-79 |
Keith Ellison |
Politician |
4-Aug-1963 |
|
Congressman, Minnesota 5th |
Lane Evans |
Politician |
4-Aug-1951 |
|
Congressman, Illinois 17th |
Tiffany Evans |
Singer |
4-Aug-1992 |
|
Promise Ring |
George Finch |
Chemist |
4-Aug-1888 |
22-Nov-1970 |
Oxygen for mountain climbing |
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen |
Government |
4-Aug-1817 |
20-May-1885 |
US Secretary of State, 1881-85 |
Greta Gerwig |
Actor |
4-Aug-1983 |
|
Greenberg |
Alberto Gonzales |
Government |
4-Aug-1955 |
|
US Attorney General, 2005-07 |
Jeff Gordon |
Auto Racing |
4-Aug-1971 |
|
Four-time Winston Cup winner |
D. Maybank Hagood |
Business |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
William M. Bird & Co. |
Knut Hamsun |
Novelist |
4-Aug-1859 |
19-Feb-1952 |
Norwegian novelist, Sult |
Robert Hayden |
Poet |
4-Aug-1913 |
25-Feb-1980 |
Words in the Mourning Time |
Bernadine P. Healy |
Doctor |
4-Aug-1944 |
6-Aug-2011 |
President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001 |
Marques Houston |
Singer |
4-Aug-1981 |
|
Immature/IMx |
W. H. Hudson |
Author |
4-Aug-1841 |
18-Aug-1922 |
Green Mansions |
Hubert Ingraham |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1947 |
|
Prime Minister of the Bahamas |
Edward Irving |
Religion |
4-Aug-1792 |
7-Dec-1834 |
Holy Catholic Apostolic Church |
Judith S. Kaye |
Judge |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Chief Judge, State of New York |
William Keighley |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1889 |
24-Jun-1984 |
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
Daniel Dae Kim |
Actor |
4-Aug-1968 |
|
Jin Kwon on Lost |
Anatoliy Kinakh |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1954 |
|
Prime Minister of Ukraine, 2001-02 |
David Lange |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1942 |
13-Aug-2005 |
Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1984-89 |
Harry Lauder |
Singer |
4-Aug-1870 |
26-Feb-1950 |
Roamin' in the Gloamin' |
Dennis Lehane |
Novelist |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Mystic River |
Frank E. Lucas |
Politician |
4-Aug-1876 |
26-Nov-1948 |
Governor of Wyoming, 1924-25 |
Armistead Thomson Mason |
Politician |
4-Aug-1787 |
6-Feb-1819 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17 |
Paul Mooney |
Comic |
4-Aug-1941 |
|
Negrodamus |
Oliver Perry Morton |
Politician |
4-Aug-1823 |
1-Nov-1877 |
US Senator from Indiana, 1867-77 |
Alan Mulally |
Business |
4-Aug-1945 |
|
CEO of Ford Motor Company |
John Newton |
Religion |
4-Aug-1725 |
31-Dec-1807 |
Amazing Grace |
Theodore Newton |
Actor |
4-Aug-1904 |
28-Feb-1963 |
The Working Man |
Barack Obama |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
44th President of the United States |
Anita Page |
Actor |
4-Aug-1910 |
6-Sep-2008 |
The Broadway Melody |
Walter Pater |
Critic |
4-Aug-1839 |
30-Jul-1894 |
Marius the Epicurean |
Sandra Pianalto |
Economist |
4-Aug-1954 |
|
President and CEO, Cleveland Fed |
John G. Pollard |
Politician |
4-Aug-1871 |
28-Apr-1937 |
Governor of Virginia, 1930-34 |
Simon Preston |
Organist |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
Organist at Westminster Abbey, 1981-87 |
Steven C. Preston |
Government |
4-Aug-1960 |
|
US Secretary of HUD, 2008-09 |
Robert Purvis |
Activist |
4-Aug-1810 |
15-Apr-1898 |
President of the Underground Railroad |
Fredrik Reinfeldt |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Prime Minister of Sweden |
Jesse W. Reno |
Inventor |
4-Aug-1861 |
2-Jun-1947 |
Invented the escalator |
Maurice Richard |
Hockey |
4-Aug-1921 |
27-May-2000 |
NHL Hall of Famer |
John Riggins |
Football |
4-Aug-1949 |
|
NFL running back, The Diesel |
Hugh G. Robinson |
Military |
4-Aug-1932 |
|
CEO of Global Building Systems |
Sebastian Roché |
Actor |
4-Aug-1964 |
|
James Craig on General Hospital |
Bernard Rose |
Film Director |
4-Aug-1960 |
|
Candyman |
Sapphire |
Novelist |
4-Aug-1950 |
|
Push |
Marcus Schenkenberg |
Model |
4-Aug-1968 |
|
Male supermodel |
Klaus Schulze |
Electronic Musician |
4-Aug-1947 |
|
Synthesizer pioneer |
William Schuman |
Composer |
4-Aug-1910 |
15-Feb-1992 |
Symphony No. 6 |
Robert B. Shapiro |
Business |
4-Aug-1938 |
|
CEO of Monsanto, 1995-2000 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Poet |
4-Aug-1792 |
8-Jul-1822 |
Prometheus Unbound |
Ayatollah al-Sistani |
Religion |
4-Aug-1929 |
|
Highest ranking Shia cleric in Iraq |
Mary Decker Slaney |
Track and Field |
4-Aug-1958 |
|
Runner |
Jim Slattery |
Politician |
4-Aug-1948 |
|
Congressman from Kansas, 1983-95 |
Iceberg Slim |
Criminal |
4-Aug-1918 |
28-Apr-1992 |
Pimp-turned-author |
Abigail Spencer |
Actor |
4-Aug-1981 |
|
Cowboys & Aliens |
Cole Sprouse |
Actor |
4-Aug-1992 |
|
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody |
Dylan Sprouse |
Actor |
4-Aug-1992 |
|
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody |
Ted Strickland |
Politician |
4-Aug-1941 |
|
Governor of Ohio, 2007-11 |
Gunter Thielen |
Business |
4-Aug-1942 |
|
CEO of Bertelsmann |
Helen Thomas |
Journalist |
4-Aug-1920 |
|
White House reporter since 1961 |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Actor |
4-Aug-1955 |
|
Sling Blade |
Lauren Tom |
Actor |
4-Aug-1961 |
|
Amy Wong on Futurama |
Gabriella Tucci |
Singer |
4-Aug-1929 |
|
Operatic soprano |
James Tupper |
Actor |
4-Aug-1965 |
|
Jack Slattery on Men in Trees |
Robert H. Tuttle |
Diplomat |
4-Aug-1943 |
|
US Ambassador to the UK, 2005-09 |
Pope Urban VII |
Religion |
4-Aug-1521 |
27-Sep-1590 |
Roman Catholic Pope, 1590 |
John Venn |
Mathematician |
4-Aug-1834 |
4-Apr-1923 |
Venn diagrams |
Frank Vincent |
Actor |
4-Aug-1939 |
|
Raging Bull |
Louis Vuitton |
Business |
4-Aug-1821 |
27-Feb-1892 |
French luggage manufacturer |
Abdurrahman Wahid |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1940 |
30-Dec-2009 |
President of Indonesia, 1999-2001 |
Raoul Wallenberg |
Activist |
4-Aug-1912 |
16-Jul-1947 |
Worked to save Hungarian Jews |
Meg Whitman |
Business |
4-Aug-1956 |
|
CEO of Hewlett-Packard |
Sheldon Wolin |
Philosopher |
4-Aug-1922 |
|
Politics and Vision |
Professor X |
Rapper |
4-Aug-1956 |
17-Mar-2006 |
Vanglorious |
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Head of State |
4-Aug-1960 |
|
Prime Minister of Spain |