August 4
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (d. 1822)
- 1839 - Walter Pater, English essayist, critic and writer (d. 1894)
- 1859 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1952)
- 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
- 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
- 1945 - Paul McCarthy, American artist
- 1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
- 1952 - Franco Saudelli Italian illustrator
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Deaths
- 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (b. 1805)
- 1927 - Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, French photographer (b. 1857)
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