April 4

April 4 is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

397 – Saint Ambrose of Milan (b. 338)
636 – Isidore of Seville, Spanish archbishop and saint (b. 560)
896 – Pope Formosus
968 – Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Arab prince, general and poet (b. 932)
1284 – Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
1292 – Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
1305 – Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of France (b. 1273)
1406 – King Robert III of Scotland (b. 1337)
1459 – Eric of Pomerania, King of Denmark (b. 1382)
1536 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
1588 – King Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534)
1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
1761 – Theodore Gardell, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer (b. 1728)
1807 – Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
1817 – Andre Massena, Marshal of France (b. 1758)
1841 – William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
1846 – Solomon Sibley, United States Senator (b. 1769)
1861 – John McLean, 6th United States Postmaster General (b. 1785)
1863 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1870 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1874 – Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1875 – Karl Mauch, German explorer (b. 1837)
1879 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
1883 – Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1890 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, 1st Premier of Quebec (b. 1820)
1890 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)

1901 – 2000

1912 – Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1859)
1919 – Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1908)
1923 – John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1834)
1929 – Karl Benz, German automobile designer and inventor (b. 1844)
1931 – André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
1932 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist (b. 1853)
1933 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American writer (b. 1842)
1939 – King Ghazi of Iraq (b. 1912)
1951 – George Albert Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1870)
1953 – King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
1961 – Simeon Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1962 – James Hanratty, British murderer (b. 1936)
1967 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1967 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist (b. 1929)
1972 – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician (b. 1908)
1976 – Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to Information Theory (b. 1889)
1979 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b. 1928)
1983 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
1984 – Oleg Antonov, Russian airplane designer (b. 1906)
1991 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1991 – H. John Heinz III, US Senator (b. 1938)
1991 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
1993 – Alfred Mosher-Butts, American inventor of Scrabble (b. 1899)
1995 – Kenny Everett, British entertainer (b. 1944)
1995 – Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
1996 – Barney Ewell, American runner (b. 1918)
1999 – Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)

From 2001

2003 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
2004 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
2007 – Bob Clark, American director (b. 1941)
2007 – Karen Sparck Jones, British computer scientist (b. 1935)
2009 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (b. 1983)
2012 – Claude Miller, French movie director (b. 1942)
2013 – Roger Ebert, American movie critic and writer (b. 1942)
2013 – Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2014 – Margo MacDonald, Scottish politician, member of the Scottish Parliament (b. 1943)
2014 – Kumba Iala, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1953)
2014 – Anja Niedringhaus, German journalist (b. 1965)
2014 – José Aguilar, Cuban boxer (b. 1958)
2015 – Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2015 – Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian politician (b. 1951)
2015 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (b. 1931)
2015 – Donald N. Levine, American sociologist (b. 1931)
2015 – Ira Lewis, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
2016 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2016 – Getatchew Mekurya, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist (b. 1935)
2016 – Royston Nash, English conductor (b. 1933)
2016 – George Radosevich, American football player (b. 1928)
2016 – Mike Sandlock, American baseball player (b. 1915)
2016 – Abe Segal, South African tennis player (b. 1930)
2017 – Samir Farid, Egyptian film critic and historian (b. 1943)
2017 – Giovanni Sartori, Italian political scientist and journalist (b. 1924)
2018 – Andres Ammas, Estonian politician (b. 1956)
2018 – Soon-Tek Oh, South Korean–American actor (b. 1932)
2018 – Johnny Valiant, American professional wrestler (b. 1946)
2018 – Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (b. 1956)
2018 – Leonid Sokov, Russian artist and sculptor (b. 1941)
2019 – Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
2019 – Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2019 – Barry Malkin, American film editor (b. 1938)
2019 – Marilyn Mason, American concert organist and academic (b. 1925)

Births

1901 – 1950

1905 – Dougie Gray, Scottish footballer (d. 1972)
1905 – George Stevenson, Scottish footballer (d. 1990)
1905 – Shojiro Sugimura, Japanese footballer (d. 1975)
1906 – Yasuo Haruyama, Japanese footballer (d. 1987)
1906 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
1906 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
1907 – Robert Askin, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1981)
1910 – Barthélemy Boganda, Central African politician (d. 1959)
1910 – Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese physician (d. 1967)
1911 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
1913 – Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer (d. 1974)
1913 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1913 – Jules Léger, Canadian diplomat and Governor General of Canada (d. 1980)
1914 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
1914 – Richard Coogan, American actor (d. 2014)
1915 – Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)
1916 – Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslavian general and politician (d. 2005)
1920 – Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (d. 2012)
1920 – Eric Rohmer, French movie director (d. 2010)
1921 – Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (d. 2015)
1921 – Orunamamu, American–Canadian storyteller (d. 2014)
1922 – Elmer Bernstein, American movie composer (d. 2004)
1923 – Peter Vaughan, English actor (d. 2016)
1924 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
1925 – Gene Reynolds, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1925 – Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1925 – Frank Truitt, American sports coach (d. 2014)
1926 – Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (d. 2014)
1928 – Maya Angelou, American writer and poet (d. 2014)
1928 – Elina Bystritskaya, Russian actress (d. 2019)
1931 – Catherine Tizard, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand
1931 – Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet movie maker (d. 1986)
1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1993)
1932 – Richard Lugar, American politician (d. 2019)
1932 – Clive Davis, American music manager and producer
1935 – Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
1935 – Trevor Griffiths, English playwright
1938 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, 7th Commissioner of Major League Baseball (d. 1989)
1938 – Norro Wilson, American country music singer–songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
1939 – Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, Norwegian politician (d. 2017)
1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African musician (d. 2018)
1939 – Ernie Terrell, American boxer and singer (d. 2014)
1942 – Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Kitty Kelley, American actress
1942 – Michel Fourniret, French serial killer
1944 – Ann-Louise Hanson, Swedish singer
1944 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
1945 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French–German political activist
1945 – Katherine Neville, American writer
1946 – Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
1946 – Dave Hill, English musician (Slade)
1948 – Abdullah Ocalan, Kurdish activist
1948 – Berry Oakley, American musician (d. 1997)
1948 – Pick Withers, British musician
1949 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1950 – Christine Lahti, American actress

1951 – 1975

1951 – Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia
1952 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish musician (d. 2011)
1952 – Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
1952 – Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater
1952 – Cherie Lunghi, English actress
1953 – Chen Yi, Chinese composer and violinist
1953 – Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer
1954 – Michel Camilo, Dominican pianist
1954 – Dave Ulliott, English poker player (d. 2015)
1956 – David E. Kelley, American writer and television producer
1957 – Aki Kaurismaki, Finnish director
1957 – Graeme Kelling, Scottish guitarist (Deacon Blue) (d. 2004)
1958 – Cazuza, Brazilian composer and singer (d. 1990)
1958 – Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (d. 2018)
1960 – Hugo Weaving, Australian actor
1960 – Jonathan Agnew, English cricketer
1962 – Craig Adams, English bass player and songwriter
1963 – Graham Norton, Irish television host
1963 – A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1963 – Jane McDonald, English singer and actress
1964 – Branco, Brazilian footballer
1965 – Robert Downey Jr., American actor
1966 – Mike Starr, American musician (d. 2011)
1966 – Stefan Mappus, German politician
1967 – Edith Masai, Kenyan runner
1969 – Karren Brady, British sports executive and broadcaster
1970 – Georgius Amanatidis, Greek footballer
1970 – Greg Garcia, American director, producer and screenwriter
1970 – Yelena Yelesina, Russian high jumper
1972 – Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
1972 – Jill Scott, American singer and actress
1972 – Xenia Seeberg, German actress
1973 – David Blaine, American illusionist and magician
1973 – Chris McCormack, Australian athlete
1974 – Dave Mirra, American BMX rider (d. 2016)
1975 – Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross–country skier
1975 – Carl Ruiz, American chef and television personality (d. 2019)

From 1976

1976 – Emerson, Brazilian footballer
1977 – Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer
1977 – Stephen Mulhern, English magician
1978 – Lemar, English singer
1978 – Irene Skliva, Greek model
1978 – Sam Moran, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
1980 – Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight)
1980 – Trevor Moore, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1981 – Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper
1981 – Ned Vizzini, American writer (d. 2013)
1983 – Amanda Righetti, American actress
1983 – Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player
1984 – Sean May, American basketball player
1985 – Rudy Fernandez, Spanish basketball player
1986 – Eunhyuk, South Korean singer
1986 – Rachel Korine, American actress
1986 – Aiden McGeady, Scottish–Irish footballer
1987 – Devon Anderson, English actor
1987 – Sami Khedira, German footballer
1988 – Nadine Kessler, German footballer
1991 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American singer and actress
1992 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
1992 – Lucy Mae Barker, English actress and singer
1992 – Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer-songwriter
1996 – Austin Mahone, American singer
1999 – Miki Nishino, Japanese singer, dancer and actress (AKB48)
2012 – Grumpy Cat, famous American cat and internet celebrity (d. 2019)

Deaths

Holidays and Observances

Independence Day in Senegal
International Day for Landmine Awareness and Assistance
Peace Day (Angola)
Children's Day (Republic of China and Hong Kong)