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August 4

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  1. 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.

  2. 1927 CEEgyptian · born

    The French Egyptologist Jean Yoyotte, a scholar of Egypt's religious geography and the Third Intermediate Period, was born in 1927.

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