0 August 4 Birthday Features - The Leo Woman

August 4 Birthday

YOUR SIGN - Leo

YOUR ELEMENT - Fire

YOUR RULERS - Sun, Jupiter.

August 4 Birthday interpretation

The August 4 Leo birth date identifies with an individual who will approach each and every day with a great sense of optimism and anticipation.

Other influences associated with this August 4 date, indicate a protective energy, and this can be related to the fact that a person born on this date will have a tendency to encounter little in the way of obstacles in their life.

On the emotional front, the August 4 can have a tendency to feel a little insecure at times, and this can result in you being considerably possessive in relation to a loved one, and concerned as too whether or not, they are remaining faithful to you.

Financial success, money and possessions are important factors to those people born on this August 4 birth date.

You will certainly want the finer things that life has to offer such as, the latest new car, the best clothing, good quality jewellery, and to be seen to eat at the best restaurants in town.

For you, it is important to create an impression with others and you will feel very complimented when others, whom you may have only met briefly, quickly remember not only your name, but also the events and circumstances that surrounded an earlier encounter or meeting.

You preference for impression and quality will extend to your partner in life, and you will certainly require that he or she takes pride in their appearance and looks to meet your standards.

To balance your intensity in this respect you must learn not only how to relax, but also to literally “let your hair down”. You can do this by simply putting on some old, or very casual clothes now and then, such as a T-shirt and old jeans and just hang out and laze about.

As an August 4 you have an inherent talent for identifying that which is advantageous to you, and then being able to follow through in order to obtain it. On most occasions these experiences will relate to your own self-growth.

The August 4 individual is generous by nature, and one who can easily lead other by persuasion. Part of your generosity is that of sharing your development with your family, friends, and possibly a wider circle.

One interpretation related to this day identifies with the terms of to “seize” or to “lock up.” This might indicate a career possibility in the field of law enforcement.

In respect of your personal life however, it indicates that you can have the desire to keep your personal thoughts, ideas and concepts, very close to your chest

Having been born on this August 4 day you have a path in life of carefree and innocent involvement in every creative opportunity that life presents to you.

This pattern provides the opportunity for you to heighten your sensitivity to those rare opportunities and fleeting or unexpected chances in order to explore your ambitions.

Remember therefore to keep your eyes wide and hearing tuned, because your open mind, together with your eagerness to explore, are great asset qualities to have.

In order to help further develop your intuition, focus, attention and memory, consider playing some games that require you to utilize those qualities -chess, bridge and card games for example.

The colours of crimson, yellow, coral white resonate well with the August 4 date, and the gemstones of “agate”, “Apache flame agate” and “fire opal” will fire up your imagination.

The sapphire is a gem associated with loyalty. Consider giving a sapphire ring to your partner as it may help to settle any fears you may have as to their faithfulness.

On the home front, the August 4 is one who will love to entertain, so that your home is likely to be both open and hospitable.

In keeping with your outlook for success in life you will want a home environment that projects an atmosphere of luxury and opulence.

Make sure your kitchen is well stocked to cater for your entertaining times with suitable foods for impromptu visits from friends and associates. A well-stocked wine cellar or cabinet is likely to be a feature for you.

Mirrors in particular, are wonderful decorative items for the August 4, and gilt or gold-plated framed ones will be especially pleasing to you.

In your bedroom, a canopy type bed with fine quality furnishings will meet your needs plus a few warn bathrobes to lounge about in.

The element of water has a positive effect upon your August 4 personality, and you can help to increase your general all-round feeling for happiness by keeping a fish tank with some brilliant gold fish in your living room.

On the out doors front, the sea, hot weather and water sports will appeal to the August 4.

At home, a deck that leads out onto the garden can form a perfect setting for your outdoor entertaining and summer time lawn parties.

Some artistic garden feature pieces such as water pieces or statues will satisfy your desire for success imagery.

Include some form game activity if you physically can such as a badminton net, small crochet area or, a small tennis court if possible.

Flowers for August 4 are dahlias, lilies, hibiscus, trumpet honeysuckle, and the shrub pineapple guava.

Your special magic numbers are 3 and 1.

The fourth day of the eighth month reduces to three, and the number three represents that of development and creative expression.

The 217th day of the year reduces to one, and the number one helps to heighten your awareness so that you can always ready for the next sign or opportunity sitting around the corner.

0 Louis Armstrong

Born: August 04, 1901 

Died: July 06, 1971 

Louis Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, and he became the most influential musician in the music's history. As a trumpet virtuoso, his playing, beginning with the 1920s studio recordings made with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, charted a future for jazz in highly imaginative, emotionally charged improvisation. For this, he is revered by jazz fans. But Armstrong also became an enduring figure in popular music, due to his distinctively phrased bass singing and engaging personality, which were on display in a series of vocal recordings and film roles.

Armstrong had a difficult childhood. William Armstrong, his father, was a factory worker who abandoned the family soon after the boy's birth. Armstrong was brought up by his mother, Mary (Albert) Armstrong, and his maternal grandmother. He showed an early interest in music, and a junk dealer for whom he worked as a grade-school student helped him buy a cornet, which he taught himself to play. He dropped out of school at 11 to join an informal group, but on December 31, 1912, he fired a gun during a New Year's Eve celebration, for which he was sent to reform school. He studied music there and played cornet and bugle in the school band, eventually becoming its leader. He was released on June 16, 1914, and did manual labor while trying to establish himself as a musician. He was taken under the wing of cornetist Joe "King" Oliver, and when Oliver moved to Chicago in June 1918, he replaced him in the Kid Ory Band. He moved to the Fate Marable band in the spring of 1919, staying with Marable until the fall of 1921.

Armstrong moved to Chicago to join Oliver's band in August 1922 and made his first recordings as a member of the group in the spring of 1923. He married Lillian Harden, the pianist in the Oliver band, on February 5, 1924. (She was the second of his four wives.) On her encouragement, he left Oliver and joined Fletcher Henderson's band in New York, staying for a year and then going back to Chicago in November 1925 to join the Dreamland Syncopators, his wife's group. During this period, he switched from cornet to trumpet.

Armstrong had gained sufficient individual notice to make his recording debut as a leader on November 12, 1925. Contracted to OKeh Records, he began to make a series of recordings with studio-only groups called the Hot Fives or the Hot Sevens. For live dates, he appeared with the orchestras led by Erskine Tate and Carroll Dickerson. The Hot Fives' recording of "Muskrat Ramble" gave Armstrong a Top Ten hit in July 1926, the band for the track featuring Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Lillian Harden Armstrong on piano, and Johnny St. Cyr on banjo.

By February 1927, Armstrong was well-enough known to front his own group, Louis Armstrong & His Stompers, at the Sunset Café in Chicago. (Armstrong did not function as a bandleader in the usual sense, but instead typically lent his name to established groups.) In April, he reached the charts with his first vocal recording, "Big Butter and Egg Man," a duet with May Alix. He took a position as star soloist in Carroll Dickerson's band at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago in March 1928, later taking over as the band's frontman. "Hotter than That" was in the Top Ten in May 1928, followed in September by "West End Blues," which later became one of the first recordings named to the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Armstrong returned to New York with his band for an engagement at Connie's Inn in Harlem in May 1929. He also began appearing in the orchestra of +Hot Chocolates, a Broadway revue, given a featured spot singing "Ain't Misbehavin'." In September, his recording of the song entered the charts, becoming a Top Ten hit.

Armstrong fronted the Luis Russell Orchestra for a tour of the South in February 1930, then in May went to Los Angeles, where he led a band at Sebastian's Cotton Club for the next ten months. He made his film debut in Ex-Flame, released at the end of 1931. By the start of 1932, he had switched from the "race"-oriented OKeh label to its pop-oriented big sister Columbia Records, for which he recorded two Top Five hits, "Chinatown, My Chinatown" and "You Can Depend on Me" before scoring a number one hit with "All of Me" in March 1932; another Top Five hit, "Love, You Funny Thing," hit the charts the same month. He returned to Chicago in the spring of 1932 to front a band led by Zilner Randolph; the group toured around the country. In July, Armstrong sailed to England for a tour. He spent the next several years in Europe, his American career maintained by a series of archival recordings, including the Top Ten hits "Sweethearts on Parade" (August 1932; recorded December 1930) and "Body and Soul" (October 1932; recorded October 1930). His Top Ten version of "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train," in the charts in early 1933, was on Victor Records; when he returned to the U.S. in 1935, he signed to recently formed Decca Records and quickly scored a double-sided Top Ten hit, "I'm in the Mood for Love"/"You Are My Lucky Star."

Armstrong's new manager, Joe Glaser, organized a big band for him that had its premiere in Indianapolis on July 1, 1935; for the next several years, he toured regularly. He also took a series of small parts in motion pictures, beginning with Pennies From Heaven in December 1936, and he continued to record for Decca, resulting in the Top Ten hits "Public Melody Number One" (August 1937), "When the Saints Go Marching in" (April 1939), and "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (April 1946), the last a duet with Ella Fitzgerald. He returned to Broadway in the short-lived musical +Swingin' the Dream in November 1939.

With the decline of swing music in the post-World War II years, Armstrong broke up his big band and put together a small group dubbed the All Stars, which made its debut in Los Angeles on August 13, 1947. He embarked on his first European tour since 1935 in February 1948, and thereafter toured regularly around the world. In June 1951 he reached the Top Ten of the LP charts with Satchmo at Symphony Hall ("Satchmo" being his nickname), and he scored his first Top Ten single in five years with "(When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas" later in the year. The single's B-side, and also a chart entry, was "A Kiss to Build a Dream On," sung by Armstrong in the film The Strip. In 1993, it gained renewed popularity when it was used in the film Sleepless in Seattle.

Armstrong completed his contract with Decca in 1954, after which his manager made the unusual decision not to sign him to another exclusive contract but instead to have him freelance for different labels. Satch Plays Fats, a tribute to Fats Waller, became a Top Ten LP for Columbia in October 1955, and Verve Records contracted Armstrong for a series of recordings with Ella Fitzgerald, beginning with the chart LP Ella and Louis in 1956.

Armstrong continued to tour extensively, despite a heart attack in June 1959. In 1964, he scored a surprise hit with his recording of the title song from the Broadway musical +Hello, Dolly!, which reached number one in May, followed by a gold-selling album of the same name. It won him a Grammy for best vocal performance. This pop success was repeated internationally four years later with "What a Wonderful World," which hit number one in the U.K. in April 1968. It did not gain as much notice in the U.S. until 1987 when it was used in the film Good Morning, Vietnam, after which it became a Top 40 hit. Armstrong was featured in the 1969 film of Hello, Dolly!, performing the title song as a duet with Barbra Streisand. He performed less frequently in the late '60s and early '70s, and died of a heart ailment at 69.

Louis Armstrong was embraced by two distinctly different audiences: jazz fans who revered him for his early innovations as an instrumentalist, but were occasionally embarrassed by his lack of interest in later developments in jazz and, especially, by his willingness to serve as a light entertainer; and pop fans, who delighted in his joyous performances, particularly as a vocalist, but were largely unaware of his significance as a jazz musician. Given his popularity, his long career, and the extensive label-jumping he did in his later years, as well as the differing jazz and pop sides of his work, his recordings are extensive and diverse, with parts of his catalog owned by many different companies. But many of his recorded performances are masterpieces, and none are less than entertaining. William Ruhlmann, Rovi

0 Jeff Gordon

American racecar driver Jeff 'Rainbow Warrior' Gordon was born on Aug. 4, 1971, in Vallejo, California, but was raised in Pittsboro, Indiana. Jeff began racing at age five, and before he turned 18 he already won three short track races and was named USAC Midget Car Racing rookie of the Year in 1989. He went on to have two triumphant years in the NASCAR Busch series and set a record by capturing 11 poles in one season. In 1993, Jeff raced his first full season in Nextel Cup for Hendricks Motorsports and finished 14th in points and was named Rookie of the Year. He is the four-time NASCAR Cup series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner as well as a four-time Brickyard 400 winner and is the youngest driver in Nextel Cup history to achieve 50 career wins. Jeff is married to Belgian model Ingrid Vandebosch, and they have one child.

0 Daniel Dae Kim

A handsome, chiseled actor of South Korean origins who labored for over a decade onscreen before officially landing his breakout role in the hit ABC seriesLost, Daniel Dae Kim got his start with bit roles in such popular shows asBeverly_Hills_90210, Angel, and 24 before turning heads as the only non-English-speaking passenger to be stranded on a mysterious island paradise inhabited by psychic smoke monsters and malevolent "Others." Born in Pusan, South Korea, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, Kim earned his B.A. from Haverford college before briefly considering a career in law. It was a fateful early-career appearance on an episode of Law & Order that spurred the burgeoning actor to ditch the courtroom and take to the stage, with subsequent roles in +Romeo and Juliet and +A Doll's House providing all the encouragement Kim needed to continue developing his craft. Later, after earning his M.F.A. through the Graduate Acting Program at New York University, roles in such high-profile television hits as Seinfeld, Ally McBeal,The_Practice, and Party of Five came fast and furious. Though additional appearances in such features as The_Jackal and For Love of the Game showed big-screen promise as well, it was on the small screen that Kim seemed most comfortable. Increasingly prominent roles in Angel, Enterprise, ER, and 24hinted at something big in Kim's future, and with the turbulent descent of Oceanic flight 815 that something big came crashing down in a very big way.

A virtual phenomenon from the very first episode, Lost proved the kind of television series capable of literally starting its own mythology -- and Kim was directly at the center of the firestorm from the very beginning. Cast as the son of a poor fisherman who eventually married into one of Korea's most powerful crime families, Kim proved a captivating presence on the show and was voted one of People Magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2005. Though Lost would indeed prove to be Kim's bread and butter, the actor continued to appear in features (Spider-Man 2, Crash) as well as branching out into the increasingly lucrative world of video-game voice-overs (*24: The Game, *Saints Row). Somehow, in the midst of his wildfire success, Kim has even found the time to keep his passion for the theater alive by appearing in a New York stage production of Chekhov's +Ivanov. Jason Buchanan, Rovi