On this day in history
August 4
ChristianEgyptian
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on August 4 this year.
- R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (R. Chaim Brisker)d. 1918 CE
Rabbi of Brisk; founder of the Brisker analytic method
- 1859 CEChristian · died
Jean-Marie Vianney, the French parish priest known as the Curé of Ars, died at Ars around 2 a.m. after decades in the confessional.
- 1927 CEEgyptian · born
The French Egyptologist Jean Yoyotte, a scholar of Egypt's religious geography and the Third Intermediate Period, was born in 1927.