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August 4 Deaths in History - August 4 Birthdays - August 4 Events
August 4, 2005 Little Milton, American Musician
August 4, 2001 Lorenzo Music, voice, ", voice of Garfield, the Cat, ", dies at 64
August 4, 2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist
August 4, 1999 Victor Mature, actor, Samson and Delilah, dies at 86
August 4, 1997 Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person in 1997, dies at 122
August 4, 1996 Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
August 4, 1995 Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
August 4, 1995 J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
August 4, 1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
August 4, 1994 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
August 4, 1994 Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
August 4, 1993 Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
August 4, 1993 Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
August 4, 1992 Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
August 4, 1992 Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
August 4, 1991 Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
August 4, 1987 Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
August 4, 1985 Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
August 4, 1984 Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
August 4, 1984 Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
August 4, 1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
August 4, 1981 Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
August 4, 1977 Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92
August 4, 1976 Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher
August 4, 1975 John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57
August 4, 1973 Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
August 4, 1942 Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
August 4, 1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
August 4, 1938 L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
August 4, 1938 Pearl White, U.S. actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
August 4, 1938 Rudolf G Binding, German poet and writer, dies at 70
August 4, 1936 Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
August 4, 1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
August 4, 1930 Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
August 4, 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
August 4, 1925 Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
August 4, 1922 Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
August 4, 1920 Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
August 4, 1915 Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
August 4, 1904 Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
August 4, 1892 Andrew and Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
August 4, 1892 Ernestine Rose, Activist
August 4, 1891 George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
August 4, 1889 Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
August 4, 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
August 4, 1875 Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author
August 4, 1856 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
August 4, 1850 Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
August 4, 1821 William Floyd, U.S. soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
August 4, 1712 Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
August 4, 1708 Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
August 4, 1639 Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
August 4, 1633 George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
August 4, 1598 William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
August 4, 1584 John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
August 4, 1578 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle
August 4, 1578 Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
August 4, 1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
August 4, 1526 Juan Sebasti n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
August 4, 1476 Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
August 4, 1430 Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
August 4, 1306 Vaclav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered
August 4, 1265 Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
August 4, 1204 Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
August 4, 1060 Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52



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