Misplaced Pages

October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 88 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
• 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
• 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
• 1363 – Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
• 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
• 1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
• 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the US state of Georgia.

1601–1900

• 1602 – Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
• 1636 – Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1693 – Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
• 1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
• 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
• 1830 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
• 1853 – The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
• 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
• 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
• 1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1895 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

1901–present

• 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• 1918 – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
• 1920 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
• 1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
• 1925 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
• 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• 1936 – The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
• 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted.
• 1960 – An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
• 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• 1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
• 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
• 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
• 1992 – El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 1993 – Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
• 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
• 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
• 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
• 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
• 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.
• 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
• 2017 – Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. c. 1220)
• 1274 – Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1319)
• 1276 – Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
• 1289 – Louis X of France (d. 1316)
• 1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 1382)
• 1379 – Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
• 1507 – Francis Bigod, English noble (d. 1537)
• 1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
• 1522 – Gabriele Paleotti, Catholic cardinal (d. 1597)
• 1524 – Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician (d. 1592)
• 1532 – Francisco de Toledo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1596)
• 1542 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1621)
• 1550 – Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
• 1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
• 1570 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and philosopher (d. 1637)
• 1579 – Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal (d. 1644)
• 1585 – Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1618)

1601–1900

• 1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (d. 1661)
• 1626 – Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1712)
• 1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and illustrator (d. 1747)
• 1694 – Lord George Murray, Scottish Jacobite General (d. 1760)
• 1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (d. 1778)
• 1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author (d. 1798)
• 1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
• 1768 – Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence (d. 1816)
• 1787 – François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
• 1793 – Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician (d. 1862)
• 1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (d. 1875)
• 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
• 1835 – Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator (d. 1921)
• 1836 – Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
• 1837 – Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1919)
• 1841 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912)
• 1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
• 1843 – Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint (d. 1927)
• 1858 – Léon Serpollet, French businessman (d. 1903)
• 1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian (d. 1918)
• 1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator (d. 1909)
• 1862 – Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, sister-in-law of Vincent van Gogh, who is credited with promoting his posthumous fame (d. 1925).
• 1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher (d. 1930)
• 1868 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942)
• 1874 – John Ellis, English executioner (d. 1932)
• 1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
• 1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
• 1879 – Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer (d. 1948)
• 1880 – Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer. (d. 1946)
• 1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
• 1884 – Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author (d. 1941)
• 1888 – Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (d. 1961)
• 1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
• 1890 – Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist (d. 1945)
• 1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator (d. 1957)
• 1895 – Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
• 1896 – Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I (d. 1964)
• 1900 – August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1987)

1901–present

• 1903 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician (d. 1993)
• 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Pierre Garbay, French general (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general (d. 1946)
• 1906 – Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1907 – Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic (d. 1994)
• 1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author (d. 1956)
• 1911 – Mary Two-Axe Earley, Canadian indigenous women's rights activist (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
• 1916 – George Sidney, American director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1916 – Ken Wood, inventor of the Kenwood Chef food mixer (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Stella Pevsner, American children's author (d. 2020)
• 1922 – Malcolm Baldrige Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group (d. 2020)
• 1922 – Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player (d. 2023)
• 1929 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (d. 1968)
• 1929 – John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
• 1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1931 – Terence Conran, English designer and businessman (d. 2020)
• 1931 – Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Felicia Farr, American actress and model
• 1933 – German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor (d. 2016)
• 1933 – Ann Thwaite, English author
• 1934 – Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021)
• 1935 – Jimmy Orr, American football player (d. 2020)
• 1936 – Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2024)
• 1936 – Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician (d. 2022)
• 1937 – Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress (d. 2015)
• 1937 – David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
• 1937 – Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Lloyd Green, American steel guitar player
• 1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1938 – Norman D. Wilson, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (d. 2018)
• 1940 – Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
• 1940 – Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
• 1940 – Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021)
• 1941 – Roy Blount Jr., American humorist and journalist
• 1941 – Karen Cushman, American author
• 1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
• 1941 – Anne Rice, American author (d. 2021)
• 1941 – Frank Stagg (Irish republican), died on hunger strike (d. 1976)
• 1941 – Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
• 1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (d. 2024)
• 1942 – Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1967)
• 1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1943 – H. Rap Brown, American activist
• 1943 – Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player (d. 2023)
• 1943 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2024)
• 1944 – Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
• 1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
• 1945 – Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
• 1946 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
• 1946 – Michael Mullen, American admiral
• 1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
• 1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 – Jim Fielder, American bass player
• 1947 – Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
• 1948 – Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
• 1948 – Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
• 1948 – Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Armand Assante, American actor and producer
• 1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Alan Rosenberg, American actor
• 1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
• 1951 – Truck Robinson, American basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Anita DeFrantz, American rower and sports administrator
• 1952 – Jody Stephens, American rock drummer
• 1952 – Zinha Vaz, Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician
• 1953 – Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1953 – Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
• 1955 – John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
• 1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1956 – Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
• 1956 – Charlie Leibrandt, American baseball player
• 1956 – Sherri Turner, American golfer
• 1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
• 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
• 1957 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
• 1958 – Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Wendy Makkena, American actress
• 1958 – Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
• 1959 – Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
• 1959 – Tony Meo, English snooker player
• 1959 – Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director
• 1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
• 1960 – Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (d. 2016)
• 1961 – Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
• 1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh! (d. 2022)
• 1962 – Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
• 1963 – A.C. Green, American basketball player
• 1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1964 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2009)
• 1964 – Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
• 1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 – Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1965 – Micky Ward, American boxer
• 1967 – Vicky Bullett, American basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Nick Green, Australian rower
• 1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
• 1968 – Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1969 – Abraham Benrubi, American actor
• 1971 – Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 – Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1973 – M. Ward, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 – Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 – Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 – Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (d. 2017)
• 1977 – Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 – Dana Davis, American actress and author
• 1978 – Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
• 1979 – Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress
• 1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
• 1979 – Björn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
• 1980 – James Jones, American basketball player
• 1980 – Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Shaura, Japanese singer
• 1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1982 – Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
• 1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
• 1983 – Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 1983 – Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
• 1983 – Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Petri Kontiola, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1984 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
• 1984 – Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
• 1985 – Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
• 1987 – Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 1987 – Will Puddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Marina Weisband, German politician
• 1988 – Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Lonnie Chisenhall, American baseball player
• 1988 – Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
• 1988 – Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
• 1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player
• 1989 – Dakota Johnson, American actress
• 1990 – Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer
• 1990 – Saki, Japanese guitarist and songwriter
• 1990 – Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler
• 1991 – Leigh-Anne Pinnock, English singer and songwriter
• 1993 – Mitchell Swepson, Australian cricketer
• 1994 – Mike Williams, American football player
• 1995 – Kenny Clark, American football player
• 1995 – Mikolas Josef, Czech singer and songwriter
• 1996 – Ella Balinska, English actress
• 1997 – Rishabh Pant, Indian cricketer
• 1997 – Yuju, South Korean singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 744 – Yazid III, Umayyad caliph (b. 701)
• 863 – Turpio, Frankish nobleman
• 1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
• 1160 – Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)
• 1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• 1221 – William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
• 1227 – Caliph al-Adil of Morocco
• 1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
• 1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
• 1361 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)
• 1497 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
• 1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
• 1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)

1601–1900

• 1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
• 1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
• 1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
• 1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (b. 1678)
• 1747 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (b. 1678)
• 1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
• 1755 – Samuel von Cocceji, Prussian jurist and statesman (b. 1679)
• 1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)
• 1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
• 1851 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
• 1852 – James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
• 1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 – Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)

1901–present

• 1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
• 1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
• 1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Friedrich Lutz, German economist (b. 1901)
• 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 – Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
• 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created the Game Boy (b. 1941)
• 1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
• 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2010 – Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2011 – Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
• 2013 – John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)
• 2013 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
• 2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
• 2015 – Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2015 – Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (b. 1934)
• 2015 – Neal Walk, American basketball player (b. 1948)
• 2020 – Clark Middleton, American actor (b. 1957)
• 2020 – Kenzō Takada, Japanese-French fashion designer (b. 1939)
• 2022 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1932)
• 2024 – Christopher Ciccone, American artist (b. 1960)
• 2024 – Billy Shaw, American football player (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Amun
  • Francis of Assisi
  • Petronius of Bologna
  • October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Cinnamon Roll Day (Sweden and Finland)
• Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966.
• The beginning of World Space Week (International)
• World Animal Day

References

1. Alexander, Michael (1998). Three crises in early English history: personalities and politics during the Norman Conquest, the reign of King John, and the Wars of the Roses. Lanham, Md: University Press of America. p. 123. ISBN 9780761811886.
2. Henry Stevens (1878). The Bibles in the Caxton celebration, MDccclxxvii, or, A bibliographical description of ... Bibles in various languages. p. 71.
3. Jaques, Tony (2006). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century. Vol. 2. Greenwood Press. p. 714. ISBN 978-0-313-33536-5.
4. Varmavuori, Marjaana (January 22, 2020). "Sophie Mannerheim käveli Kalliossa ja järkyttyi: Sitten hän keksi ovelan juonen, jolla koko Suomi saatiin syytämään apua äärimmäisessä köyhyydessä eläville lapsille". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved September 15, 2021.
5. Khoury, Philip Shukry (2014). Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920–1945. Princeton University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-1-4008-5839-2. Retrieved 20 April 2021. On 4 October 1925, a rebellious captain in the Syrian Legion, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, led a mixed force of dissident Legionnaires ...
6. Honkasalo, Antero (2005). "Torpedovene S2:n tuho 4.10.1925" (in Finnish). Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2006-08-30. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
7. Burgess, Colin; Hall, Rex (2009). The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact. Berlin: Springer. p. 1. ISBN 9780387848235. LCCN 2008935694.
8. "Charles IX | king of Sweden". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
9. Crecelius, Kathryn J.; Offen, Karen (1991). "Juliette Adam". In Wilson, Katharina M. (ed.). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers Volume 1. New York: Garland. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-82408-547-6.
10. Luijtens, Hans. Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman who Made Vincent Famous. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2022
11. "Edwards, Robert". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00057575.
12. Robinson, Amanda (March 23, 2017). "Mary Two-Axe Earley". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
13. Frisbie, Thomas (2020-06-12). "Stella Pevsner dead: Longtime Chicago children's author kept writing into her 90s". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2020-06-12.
14. ^ "Famous birthdays for Oct. 4: Susan Sarandon, Tony La Russa". UPI. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
15. ^ Rose, Mike (4 October 2022). "Today's famous birthdays list for October 4, 2022 includes celebrities Dakota Johnson, Alicia Silverstone". The Plain Dealer. Associated Press. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
16. Goldstein, Richard (29 October 2020). "Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts' Unitas, Dies at 85". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
17. Hedges, John (1 June 2017). "Mayo's heroes". An Phoblacht. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
18. Gabriel, Trip (2024-07-19). "Bernice Johnson Reagon, a Musical Voice for Civil Rights, Is Dead at 81". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
19. "Truck Robinson". National Basketball Association. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
20. "Olympedia – Yvonne Murray". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
21. "Vicky Bullett". WNBA. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
22. "Petri Kontiola". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
23. "Lonnie Chisenhall". Major League Baseball. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
24. "Derrick Rose stats". NBA. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
25. "Dakota Johnson Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
26. "Signy Aarna – Estonia – WEURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
27. "地獄のゆるふわバンド「NEMOPHILA」最終目標は宇宙でSHOUT! 15日にインディーズデビュー" (in Japanese). Sports Nippon. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
28. "Sergey Shubenkov". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
29. "Mitchell Swepson". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
30. "Mike Williams". ESPN. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
31. "Kenny Clark". ESPN. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
32. "Mikolas Josef je novou tváří návrháře Lukáše Macháčka" (in Czech). ČTK. 14 February 2016.
33. "Happy Birthday Rishabh Pant: Young Superstar Turns 22". News18. 2019-10-04. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
34. Choi Jin-shil (February 14, 2015). 여.친.소① 여자친구를 소개합니다 [G.F.I① Introducing Gfriend]. TenAsia (in Korean). Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
35. Kennedy, Hugh (1996) Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. London: Addison-Wesley-Longman
36. "340 aniversario del nacimiento del corsario tinerfeño Amaro Pargo". SantaCruzDeTenerife.es. Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
37. Klemme, Heiner F.; Kuehn, Manfred, eds. (2016). "Cocceji, Samuel von". The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Bloomsbury. pp. 138–139. ISBN 9781474255981.
38. Grudev, Lachezar (Fall 2023). "Friedrich Lutz: A Forgotten Monetary Economist and Social Philosopher". The Independent Review. Vol. 28, no. 2. pp. 225–236. ISSN 1086-1653. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
39. Michelle Kaufman (7 October 2015). "Former Florida Gators and NBA standout Neal Walk dies at 67". Miami Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
40. Oganesyan, Natalie (5 October 2020). "Clark Middleton, Actor in 'The Blacklist,' 'Twin Peaks,' Dies at 63". Variety.
41. "Kenzo Takada: Japanese designer dies after catching Covid-19". BBC News. 4 Oct 2020.
42. "Loretta Lynn, country music icon, dead at 90". Fox News. 4 October 2022.
43. "Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, has died at 63". AP News. 2024-10-06. Retrieved 2024-10-08.
44. "HOF guard Shaw, 'driving force' for Bills, dies". ESPN.com. 2024-10-05. Retrieved 2024-10-06.

External links

• "On This Day". BBC.
• The New York Times: On This Day
• "Historical Events on October 4". OnThisDay.com.

• Days of the year
• October