August 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1060 – King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• 1113 – Gertrude of Saxony, daughter of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony and wife of Floris I, Count of Holland (b. 1030)
• 1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham:
  • Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (b. 1223)
  • Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
  • Peter de Montfort (b. c. 1215)
  • Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (b. 1208)
• 1306 – King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (b. 1289)
• 1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)
• 1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer (b. 1476)
• 1578 – King Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
• 1578 – Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
• 1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman (b. 1520)
• 1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)
• 1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
• 1718 – René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French lord-founder of the town of Rimouski in New France (b. 1656)
• 1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
• 1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
• 1778 – Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)
• 1792 – John Burgoyne, British general (b. 1723)
• 1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American politician (b. 1711)
• 1804 – Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Royal Navy Admiral (b.1731)
• 1844 – Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)
• 1859 – Jean Vianney, French priest (b. 1786)
• 1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)
• 1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
• 1886 – Samuel Jones Tilden, Governor of New York and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the 1876 presidential election (b. 1814)
• 1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860)
• 1914 – Jules Lemaître, French critic and dramatist (b. 1853)
• 1919 – Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1845)
• 1938 – Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1957 – Washington Luís, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
• 1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1976 – Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher (b. 1894)
• 1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop (b. 1923)
• 1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Bruce Goff, American architect (b. 1904)
• 1985 – Don Whillans, British mountaineer (b. 1933)
• 1991 – Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek writer and poet (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese writer and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Bernard Barrow, American actor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster (b. 1936)
• 1997 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian, the world's oldest human on record and the only person ever to live past the age of 120 (b. 1875)
• 1998 – Yuri Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Rodney Ansell, Australian who was the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee (b. 1953)
• 2000 – Leslie Glass, American adult film actress (b. 1963)
• 2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-born American physicist (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American political scientist and historian of the Holocaust (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
• 2009 – Blake Snyder, American screenwriter (b. 1957)