August 4th -
# 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
# 1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
# 1902 - Wild Bill Hallahan, baseball player (d. 1981)
# 1904 - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (d. 1969)
# 1906 - Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist (d. 1973)
# 1908 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
# 1909 - Glenn Cunningham, runner (d. 1988)
# 1910 - William Schuman, American composer (d. 1992)
# 1912 - Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
# 1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat
# 1913 - Robert Hayden, American poet (d. 1980)
# 1915 - Warren Avis, founder of Avis car rentals (d. 2007)
# 1920 - Helen Thomas, American journalist
# 1921 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (d. 2000)
# 1923 - Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi, Pakistani satirical and humor writer
# 1923 - Reg Grundy, Australian media and television mogul
# 1927 - Jess Thomas, American tenor (d. 1993)
# 1928 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (d. 2003)
# 1929 - Kishore Kumar, Indian singer and actor (d. 1987)
# 1930 - Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior shia clerics of the 21st century.
# 1936 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
# 1937 - David Bedford, English musician
# 1938 - Ellen Schrecker, American college professor
# 1940 - Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia
# 1940 - Timi Yuro, American singer (d. 2004)
# 1941 - Martin Jarvis, English actor
# 1942 - Don S. Davis, American actor
# 1942 - Cleon Jones, American baseball player
# 1942 - David Lange, New Zealand politician (d. 2005)
# 1943 - Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper
# 1944 - Richard Belzer, American actor and comedian
# 1944 - Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
# 1946 - Maureen Starkey, ex-wife of Ringo Starr (d. 1994)
# 1947 - Klaus Schulze, German composer
# 1948 - Johnny Grubb, American baseball player
# 1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, American actor and writer
Oh and also the day Lizzie Borden's family was murdered. My brother was born 06/06/06 what do you think that means?