Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 4

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[edit] 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
• 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
• 1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
• 1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, (pictured) Prime Minister of Spain
• 1961 - Barack Obama, American politician
• 1962 - Roger Clemens, American baseball player
• 1971 - Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
• 1992 - Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Italian-born American child actors

[edit] 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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