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William Roger Clemens, nicknamed "Rocket", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), most notably with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees.
Famous Birthdays on August 4
1962 — Roger Clemens
American baseball player and actor
August 4 has 206 recorded notable births across history, from 1222 to 1998. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on August 4
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- 1944 Under the state of emergency law, the Finnish Parliament elects Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as the President of Finland to replace the resigned Risto Ryti. Source
- 1936 Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime. Source
- 1969 Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail. Source
- 1863 Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin. Source
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American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem.
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Jeff Gordon is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential drivers in NASCAR history, helping the sport reach mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia.
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Lil Skies signed with Atlantic Records in 2017 to release the singles "I", "Nowadays", and "Red Roses.
More major people born on August 4
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1792
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet and playwright (died 1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.
1971
Jeff Gordon
American race car driver and actor
Jeffery Michael Gordon is an American stock car racing executive and former professional stock car racing driver who currently serves as the vice chairman of Hendrick Motorsports.
1989
Jessica Mauboy
Australian singer-songwriter and actress
Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian singer and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed…
1998
Lil Skies
American rapper
Kimetrius Christopher Foose, known by his stage name Lil Skies, is an American rapper and singer from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
1958
Mary Decker
American runner
Mary Teresa Decker, is an American retired middle-distance and long-distance runner.
1960
Bernard Rose
English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
Bernard Rose is an English filmmaker, considered a pioneer of digital filmmaking.
1975
Nikos Liberopoulos
Greek footballer
Nikos Liberopoulos is a retired Greek former professional international footballer who played as a forward. He is famous for his aim-to-goal shot, his innate in-play instincts, and his technical attacking skills.
1926
Perry Moss
American football player and coach (died 2014)
Perry Lee Moss was an American professional football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s.
1922
Mayme Agnew Clayton
American librarian (died 2006)
Mayme Agnew Clayton was a librarian, and the founder, president, and leader of the Western States Black Research and Education Center (WSBREC), the largest privately held collection of African-American historical…
1964
Andrew Bartlett
Australian social worker and politician
Andrew John Julian Bartlett is an Australian politician, social worker, academic, and social campaigner who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1997 to 2008 and from 2017 to 2018.
1604
François Hédelin
abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (died 1676)
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac was a French author and cleric. He was a grandson of the surgeon Ambroise Paré. D'Aubignac worked as a lawyer in his early life, but he then joined the clergy.
1901
Louis Armstrong
American trumpet player and singer (died 1971.)
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist.
1965
Dennis Lehane
American author, screenwriter, and producer
Dennis Lehane is an American author and screenwriter. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War (1994).
1930
Ali al-Sistani
Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
Ali Husayni Sistani is an Islamic scholar and the dean of the Hawza in Najaf, Iraq. A Grand Ayatollah, Sistani is considered one of the leading religious leaders of Twelver Shia Muslims.
1929
Kishore Kumar
Indian singer-songwriter and actor (died 1987)
Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music.
1957
John Wark
Scottish footballer and sportscaster
John Wark is a Scottish former footballer who spent most of his playing time with Ipswich Town.
1821
James Springer White
American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (died 1881)
James Springer White, also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the husband of Ellen G. White.
1834
John Venn
English mathematician and philosopher (died 1923)
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science.
1888
Taher Saifuddin
Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (died 1965)
Syedna Taher Saifuddin, also known as Taher Saifuddin, was the 51st and longest serving Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras.