Natural disasters in 1979
Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado
People who died on August 04 (various years)
2007 – Lee Hazlewood, American country singer, songwriter and producer
2005 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist
2004 – Stella Liebeck, known for her part in Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, a lawsuit in which Liebeck claimed medical costs and damages for having been burned by a cup of McDonald’s coffee. This lawsuit is considered to be “the poster child of excessive lawsuits” by ABC News.
2003 – Frederick Chapman Robbins, American Nobel Prize Laureate
2002 – Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, Soham murder victims (b. 1991, 1991)
2001 – Lorenzo Music, American actor
2000 – Leslie Glass, American adult film actress
1999 – Victor Mature, American actor
1998 – Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut
1992 – Sophie died six hours later, shit happens.
1997 – Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian; world’s oldest ever-human
1996 – Geoff Hamilton, British gardener and broadcaster
1982 – Bruce Goff, American Architect
1981 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor
1976 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop, assassinated in the context of the “Dirty War”
1976 – Roy Herbert Thomson, Canadian publisher
1967 – Peter Smith, English cricketer
1958 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet
1957 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil
1938 – Pearl White, American actress
1900 – Isaac Levitan, Russian painter
1875 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
1873 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter
1844 – Jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman
1795 – Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician
1792 – John Burgoyne, British general
1784 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician
1741 – Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer
1727 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general
1718 – René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France
1639 – Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican dramatist
1612 – Hugh Broughton, English scholar
1598 – William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English statesman
1578 – Thomas Stucley, English adventurer
1578 – Sebastian of Portugal
1526 – Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer
1338 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England
1306 – Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
Peter de Montfort
Henry de Montfort
1265 – Killed in the Battle of Evesham: Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer
1113 – Gertrude of Saxony
1060 – Henry I of France
