What day of the week was August 4, 1859?

The day of the week August 4th, 1859 fell on was a Thursday.

Knut Hamsun the Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952) was born on 04 August in 1859.

John Vianney the French priest and saint (b. 1786) died on this day in 1859.