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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of August 0070 | EVENT | The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. |
| 4th of August 0367 | EVENT | Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated to the throne aged eight. |
| 4th of August 1265 | EVENT | Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham : the army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies. |
| 4th of August 1532 | EVENT | the Duchy of Brittany is annexed to the Kingdom of France. |
| 4th of August 1578 | EVENT | Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir : the Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal. |
| 4th of August 1693 | EVENT | Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne. |
| 4th of August 1704 | EVENT | War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. |
| 4th of August 1789 | EVENT | In France members of the National Constituent Assembly take an oath to end feudalism and abandon their privileges. |
| 4th of August 1790 | EVENT | A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard). |
| 4th of August 1791 | EVENT | The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. |
| 4th of August 1821 | EVENT | Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. |
| 4th of August 1824 | EVENT | The Battle of Kos is fought between Turk and Greek forces. |
| 4th of August 1854 | EVENT | The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. |
| 4th of August 1863 | EVENT | Matica slovenska, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin. |
| 4th of August 1873 | EVENT | Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed. |
| 4th of August 1892 | EVENT | The parents of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. |
| 4th of August 1902 | EVENT | The Greenwich foot tunnel under the River Thames opens. |
| 4th of August 1906 | EVENT | Central Railway Station, Sydney opens. |
| 4th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality. |
| 4th of August 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany. |
| 4th of August 1924 | EVENT | Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established. |
| 4th of August 1936 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime. |
| 4th of August 1944 | EVENT | The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. |
| 4th of August 1946 | EVENT | An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless. |
| 4th of August 1947 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of Japan is established. |
| 4th of August 1954 | EVENT | The Government of Pakistan approves Qaumi Tarana, written by Hafeez Jullundhry and composed by Ahmed Ghulamali Chagla, as the national anthem. |
| 4th of August 1958 | EVENT | The Billboard Hot 100 is founded. |
| 4th of August 1964 | EVENT | Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. |
| 4th of August 1964 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21. |
| 4th of August 1965 | EVENT | The Constitution of Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand. |
| 4th of August 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: at the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. |
| 4th of August 1974 | EVENT | A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22. |
| 4th of August 1975 | EVENT | The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish charge d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya. |
| 4th of August 1977 | EVENT | US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. |
| 4th of August 1984 | EVENT | The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. |
| 4th of August 1987 | EVENT | The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly". |
| 4th of August 1991 | EVENT | The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa. |
| 4th of August 1993 | EVENT | A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights. |
| 4th of August 1995 | EVENT | Operation Storm begins in Croatia. |
| 4th of August 2002 | EVENT | Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. |
| 4th of August 2005 | EVENT | Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaelle Jean will be Canada's 27th Governor General. |
| 4th of August 2006 | EVENT | A massacre, is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF). |
| 4th of August 2007 | EVENT | NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched. |
| 4th of August 2007 | EVENT | Airport police officer Maria del Lujan Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing the undeclared sum of US$800,000 as it goes through an x-ray machine in Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo". |
| 4th of August 2010 | EVENT | California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger. |
| 4th of August 1222 | BIRTHDAY | Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262) |
| 4th of August 1290 | BIRTHDAY | Duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326) |
| 4th of August 1521 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Urban VII (d. 1590) |
| 4th of August 1604 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Hedelin, abbe d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676) |
| 4th of August 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757) |
| 4th of August 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767) |
| 4th of August 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803) |
| 4th of August 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas-Jacques Conte, French painter and inventor (d. 1805) |
| 4th of August 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822) |
| 4th of August 1805 | BIRTHDAY | William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (d. 1865) |
| 4th of August 1821 | BIRTHDAY | James Springer White, American theologian (d. 1881) |
| 4th of August 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Vuitton, French designer (d. 1892) |
| 4th of August 1834 | BIRTHDAY | John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923) |
| 4th of August 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (d. 1929) |
| 4th of August 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) |
| 4th of August 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Laureate (d. 1952) |
| 4th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Kempis, South African cricketer (d. 1890) |
| 4th of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Beckley, American baseball player (d. 1918) |
| 4th of August 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish entertainer (d. 1950) |
| 4th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Giuriati, Italian politician (d. 1970) |
| 4th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941) |
| 4th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Indian Dawoodi Bohra leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965) |
| 4th of August 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player (d. 1957) |
| 4th of August 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Taft Benson, American religious figure (d. 1994) |
| 4th of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Scottish consort of George VI (d. 2002) |
| 4th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (d. 1971) |
| 4th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972) |
| 4th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981) |
| 4th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969) |
| 4th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Tate, English footballer (d. 1973) |
| 4th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Kane, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 1966) |
| 4th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973) |
| 4th of August 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Jose of Belgium, consort of Umberto II of Italy (d. 2001) |
| 4th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994) |
| 4th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Cunningham, American middle-distance runner (d. 1988) |
| 4th of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician (d. 2005) |
| 4th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 4th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born American painter and printmaker |
| 4th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992) |
| 4th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (d. 1947) |
| 4th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1999) |
| 4th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980) |
| 4th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Avis, American entrepreneur (d. 2007) |
| 4th of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Iceberg Slim, American author (d. 1992) |
| 4th of August 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Deon, French writer |
| 4th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Thomas, American journalist |
| 4th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (d. 2010) |
| 4th of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000) |
| 4th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul |
| 4th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer |
| 4th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | George Irving Bell, American mountaineer (d. 2000) |
| 4th of August 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993) |
| 4th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003) |
| 4th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987) |
| 4th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iranian Shi'a cleric |
| 4th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002) |
| 4th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist (d. 2010) |
| 4th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | David Bedford, English keyboardist and composer |
| 4th of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Schrecker, American college professor |
| 4th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Vincent, American actor |
| 4th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004) |
| 4th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Jarvis, English actor |
| 4th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Strickland, American politician |
| 4th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Don S. Davis, American actor and painter (d. 2008) |
| 4th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Cleon Jones, American baseball player |
| 4th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005) |
| 4th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vicente Alberto Alvarez Areces, Spanish politician |
| 4th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bj?rn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper |
| 4th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian |
| 4th of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Doudou Ndoye?, Senegalese lawyer and politician |
| 4th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Mulally, American businessman |
| 4th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Starkey, English ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994) |
| 4th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Schulze, German composer |
| 4th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Grubb, American baseball player |
| 4th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Riggins, American football player |
| 4th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Moya Brennan, Irish singer |
| 4th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gabor Demszky, Hungarian politician |
| 4th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Valery, French singer-songwriter and composer |
| 4th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer |
| 4th of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Gonzales, 80th U.S. Attorney General |
| 4th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Cooney, American boxer |
| 4th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Brooks D. Simpson, American historian |
| 4th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Wark, Scottish footballer |
| 4th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Broudie, English music producer and vocalist (Lightning Seeds) |
| 4th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Decker, American middle-distance runner |
| 4th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kym Karath, American actress |
| 4th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Hedge Coke, American poet and writer |
| 4th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Gormley, Irish politician |
| 4th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt) (d. 2002) |
| 4th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Malenko, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Rose, English director |
| 4th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Winton, Australian writer |
| 4th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain |
| 4th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender |
| 4th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Tom, American actress |
| 4th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate |
| 4th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Clemens, American baseball player |
| 4th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reynolds, British guitarist (A Flock of Seagulls) |
| 4th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Bartlett, Australian politician and activist |
| 4th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gary King, British radio presenter |
| 4th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Chappell, American actress |
| 4th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrik Reinfeldt, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden |
| 4th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Lehane, American crime writer |
| 4th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kensuke Sasaki, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 4th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Marsh, American sprinter |
| 4th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Adams, American actor |
| 4th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Schenkenberg, Swedish model |
| 4th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Dae Kim, American actor |
| 4th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Michael DeLuise, American actor |
| 4th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Troy O'Leary, American baseball player |
| 4th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Max Cavalera, Brazilian vocalist and guitarist (Sepultura, Soulfly) |
| 4th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John August, American screenwriter |
| 4th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steve House, American mountaineer |
| 4th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Jack, South African cricketer |
| 4th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Gordon, American race car driver |
| 4th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor |
| 4th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Marchand, French swimmer |
| 4th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Amaral, Spanish singer and songwriter |
| 4th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kily Gonzalez, Argentine footballer |
| 4th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Keenan Milton, American professional skater (d. 2001) |
| 4th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Hallett, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 4th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer |
| 4th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress |
| 4th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician |
| 4th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer |
| 4th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer |
| 4th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Kazarian, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Busch, American race car driver |
| 4th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Peterson, South African cricketer |
| 4th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dawson, English cricketer |
| 4th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Bousquet, French swimmer |
| 4th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Scott, English cricketer |
| 4th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Marques Houston, American singer (IMx) and actor |
| 4th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mardy Collins, American basketball player |
| 4th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Crystal Bowersox, American singer |
| 4th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Milligan, Australian footballer |
| 4th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kina Grannis, American musician |
| 4th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer |
| 4th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ha Seung-Jin, Korean basketball player |
| 4th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Geun Suk, Korean actor |
| 4th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer (Young Divas) |
| 4th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Cole Sprouse, American actor |
| 4th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Evans, American singer |
| 4th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Sprouse, American actor |
| 4th of August 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress |
| 4th of August 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Seishiro Kato, Japanese child actor |
| 4th of August 1060 | DEATH | King Henry I of France (Born 1008) |
| 4th of August 1113 | DEATH | Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and wife of Floris I, Count of Holland (Born 1030) |
| 4th of August 1265 | DEATH | Killed in the Battle of Evesham: Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (Born 1223) Henry de Montfort (b. 1238) Peter de Montfort (b. c. 1215) Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208) |
| 4th of August 1306 | DEATH | King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (Born 1289) |
| 4th of August 1338 | DEATH | Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (Born 1300) |
| 4th of August 1526 | DEATH | Juan Sebastian Elcano, Spanish explorer (Born 1476) |
| 4th of August 1578 | DEATH | King Sebastian of Portugal (Born 1554) |
| 4th of August 1578 | DEATH | Thomas Stukley, English adventurer (Born c. 1520) |
| 4th of August 1598 | DEATH | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (Born 1520) |
| 4th of August 1612 | DEATH | Hugh Broughton, English scholar (Born 1549) |
| 4th of August 1639 | DEATH | Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Mexican dramatist |
| 4th of August 1718 | DEATH | Rene Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French lord-founder of the town of Rimouski in New France (Born 1656) |
| 4th of August 1727 | DEATH | Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (Born 1647) |
| 4th of August 1741 | DEATH | Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer |
| 4th of August 1778 | DEATH | Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (Born 1698) |
| 4th of August 1792 | DEATH | John Burgoyne, British general (Born 1723) |
| 4th of August 1795 | DEATH | Timothy Ruggles, American politician (Born 1711) |
| 4th of August 1804 | DEATH | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Royal Navy Admiral (Born1731) |
| 4th of August 1844 | DEATH | Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (Born 1773) |
| 4th of August 1859 | DEATH | Jean Vianney, French priest (Born 1786) |
| 4th of August 1873 | DEATH | Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (Born 1834) |
| 4th of August 1875 | DEATH | Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (Born 1805) |
| 4th of August 1886 | DEATH | Samuel Jones Tilden, Governor of New York and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the 1876 presidential election (Born 1814) |
| 4th of August 1900 | DEATH | Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (Born 1860) |
| 4th of August 1914 | DEATH | Jules Lemaitre, French critic and dramatist (Born 1853) |
| 4th of August 1919 | DEATH | Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (Born 1845) |
| 4th of August 1938 | DEATH | Pearl White, American actress (Born 1889) |
| 4th of August 1957 | DEATH | Washington Luis, 13th President of Brazil (Born 1869) |
| 4th of August 1958 | DEATH | Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (Born 1883) |
| 4th of August 1967 | DEATH | Peter Smith, English cricketer (Born 1908) |
| 4th of August 1976 | DEATH | Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (Born 1894) |
| 4th of August 1976 | DEATH | Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (Born 1923) |
| 4th of August 1981 | DEATH | Melvyn Douglas, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 4th of August 1982 | DEATH | Bruce Goff, American architect (Born 1904) |
| 4th of August 1985 | DEATH | Don Whillans, British mountaineer (Born 1933) |
| 4th of August 1991 | DEATH | Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (Born 1912) |
| 4th of August 1992 | DEATH | Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (Born 1909) |
| 4th of August 1993 | DEATH | Bernard Barrow, American actor (Born 1927) |
| 4th of August 1996 | DEATH | Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (Born 1936) |
| 4th of August 1997 | DEATH | Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, the world's oldest human on record and the only person ever to live past the age of 120 (Born 1875) |
| 4th of August 1998 | DEATH | Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (Born 1930) |
| 4th of August 1999 | DEATH | Rodney Ansell, Australian who was the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (Born 1953) |
| 4th of August 1999 | DEATH | Victor Mature, American actor (Born 1915) |
| 4th of August 2000 | DEATH | Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (Born 1963) |
| 4th of August 2001 | DEATH | Lorenzo Music, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 4th of August 2003 | DEATH | Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Laureate (Born 1916) |
| 4th of August 2005 | DEATH | Anatoly Larkin, Russian-born American physicist (Born 1932) |
| 4th of August 2007 | DEATH | Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American political scientist and historian of the Holocaust (Born 1926) |
| 4th of August 2007 | DEATH | Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (Born 1929) |
| 4th of August 2008 | DEATH | Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (Born 1985) |
| 4th of August 2009 | DEATH | Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (Born 1957) |