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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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




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