| Date | Text | |
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04 Aug 1561
John Harington |
birth John Harington John Harington, English inventor (died 1612) |
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04 Aug 1608
John Tradescant the younger |
birth John Tradescant the younger John Tradescant the younger, English botanist (died 1662) |
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04 Aug 1695
William Oliver |
birth William Oliver William Oliver, Cornish-born English physician (died 1764) |
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04 Aug 1719
Johann Gottlob Lehmann |
birth Johann Gottlob Lehmann Johann Gottlob Lehmann, geologist (died 1767) |
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04 Aug 1808
Johann Ritter von Oppolzer |
birth Johann Ritter von Oppolzer Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Austrian physician (died 1871). |
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04 Aug 1840
Richard von Krafft-Ebing |
birth Richard von Krafft-Ebing Richard von Krafft-Ebing (died 1902), sexologist. |
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04 Aug 1841
W. H. Hudson |
birth W. H. Hudson W. H. Hudson (died 1922), naturalist. |
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04 Aug 1929
Raymond Smallman |
birth Raymond Smallman Raymond Smallman, British metallurgist and academic (died 2015). |
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04 Aug 1997
Jeanne Calment |
death Jeanne Calment Jeanne Calment (b. 1875), oldest person in confirmed history. |
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04 Aug 1998
Yuri Artyukhin |
death Yuri Artyukhin Yuri Artyukhin (b. 1930), cosmonaut. |
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