obama birthday

Obama turns into 49: The American president Obama spent his big day at home in Chicago, flying solo while First Lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha are away in Spain and daughter Malia’s at summer camp.

But the president isn't the only newsworthy person blowing out candles.




August 4 is also the birthday of Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (who would be 110) and famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong (who would be 109). Writer Percy Bysshe, the husband of "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelly, would be 218.