August 4, 1901 – Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
August 4, 1961 – 44th U. S. President Barack Obama is born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He wins the Presidential election of November 4, 2008 to become the first President of African American origin.
August 6, 1809 – British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (who authored “The Charge of the Light Brigade” among other works) is born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
August 7, 1876 – International spy Mata Hari is born in the Netherlands. She was arrested by the French in 1917, tried as a German spy, and executed by a firing squad.