List of Famous people born on August 4th

Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, was a Perthshire gentleman who joined the 1745 rebellion of Charles Edward Stuart. He was captured at the Battle of Culloden, taken to London, and convicted of treason. He was hanged, his estates were forfeit to the Crown, and his family was attainted. The Blackness in his title is Blackness House in Dundee rather than Blackness in Lothian just west of Edinburgh. His son John Wedderburn of Ballendean fled after his father's death to Jamaica, where he re-established the family's fortunes via slave sugar, and eventually regained his father's title.

Hendra Wijaya is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Liga 2 club PSIM Yogyakarta.

Lucy Neal Dahl is a British screenwriter. She is the daughter of British author Roald Dahl and American actress Patricia Neal.

Moya Brennan, also known as Máire Brennan, is an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist. She began performing professionally in 1970 when her family formed the band Clannad, and is considered as the "First Lady of Celtic Music". Moya released her first solo album in 1992 called Máire, a successful venture. She has been nominated for two Grammys and has won an Emmy Award. She has recorded music for several soundtracks, including Titanic, To End All Wars and King Arthur.

Friedrich Casimir of Hanau was a member of the Hanau-Lichtenberg branch of the House of Hanau. He was the ruling Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1641 and of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1642.

Ekaterina or Yekaterina Ryabova may refer to:

• Ekaterina Ryabova (singer), Russian singer
• Ekaterina Ryabova, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater
• Yekaterina Ryabova (1921–1974), Soviet aviator

Ole Torvalds was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet. He was the father of journalist-politician Nils Torvalds and grandfather of software engineer Linus Torvalds famous for the Linux kernel.

Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st Duc de Cadore was a French admiral and politician.