August 04

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, born.

August 4, 1900

Birth of Margaret Pearse, teacher, politician and sister of Padraic Pearse, in Dublin

August 4, 1878

Birth of the entertainer Sir Harry Lauder.

August 4, 1870

The Great Southern & Western Railway line between Dublin and Carlow opens

August 4, 1846

Birth in Dublin of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and astronomer

August 4, 1805

French National Assembly votes to abolish remnants of Breton autonomy

August 4, 1789

Birth in Midleton, Co. Cork of Thomas Brodrick, politician in Irish and British Houses of Commons who led the inquiry into the South Sea Bubble

August 4, 1654