May 4
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May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 241 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 1406 - Coluccio Salutati, Italian humanist and politician (b. 1331)
- 1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman
- 1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (b. 1453)
- 1471 – Edmund of Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (b. 1438)
- 1519 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
- 1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
- 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
- 1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian physician and naturalist (b. 1522)
- 1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
- 1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
- 1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
- 1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
- 1774 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (b. 1714)
- 1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American planter and revolutionary leader (b. 1718)
- 1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
- 1811 – Mikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
- 1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
- 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
- 1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
- 1880 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1897 - Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (b. 1847)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 - John Jones Ross, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
- 1903 - Goce Delchev, Macedonian revolutionary figure (b. 1872)
- 1916 - Easter Rising leaders executed in Ireland:
- Edward Daly (b. 1891)
- Joseph Mary Plunkett (b. 1887)
- Willie Pearse (b. 1891)
- 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist and writer (b. 1864)
- 1923 - Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
- 1924 - E. Nesbit, English writer and poet (b. 1858)
- 1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist (b. 1889)
- 1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1877)
- 1949 - Torino footballers killed in plane crash:
- Aldo Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
- Dino Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
- Guglielmo Gabetto, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
- Leslie Lievesley, English footballer (b. 1911)
- Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
- Romeo Menti, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
- 1953 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
- 1955 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
- 1961 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
- 1961 - Anita Stewart, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1970 - Victims of the Kent State shootings:
- Allison Krause, Kent State victim (b. 1951)
- Jeffrey Miller, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
- Sandra Scheuer, Kent State victim (b. 1949)
- William Schroeder, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
- 1971 – Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
- 1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist (b. 1886)
- 1980 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
- 1984 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
- 1984 - Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
- 1985 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1907)
- 1987 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
- 1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1907)
- 2000 - Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (b. 1909)
From 2001
- 2002 – François Adam, Belgian cyclist (b. 1911)
- 2008 – Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Dom DeLuise, American entertainer (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Adam Yauch, American musician (Beastie Boys) (b. 1964)
- 2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
- 2013 - Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (b. 1917)
- 2013 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
- 2013 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
- 2014 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born British tennis player (b. 1983)
- 2014 - Dick Ayers, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1924)
- 2014 - Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Eva Aeppli, Swiss artist (b. 1925)
- 2015 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2015 - Andrew Lewis, Guyanese boxer (b. 1970)
- 2015 - Joshua Ozersky, American food writer (b. 1967)
- 2015 - Zhivko Gospodinov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1957)
- 2016 - Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President of Burundi (b. 1946)
- 2016 - Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2016 - Karl W. Butzer, German-American geographer (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Olle Ljungström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
- 2016 - Rita Renoir, French entertainer and actress (b. 1934)
- 2016 - Friedrich Schattleitner, Austrian sports shooter (b. 1923)
- 2017 - William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
- 2017 - Bart Carlier, Dutch footballer (b. 1929)
- 2017 - C. Jackson Grayson, American businessman and writer (b. 1923)
- 2017 - Victor Lanoux, French actor (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Edwin Sherin, American-Canadian television director and producer (b. 1930)
- 2017 - R. Lee Wrights, American political activist and consultant (b. 1958)
- 2018 - Abi Ofarim, Israeli musician (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian musician, composer and arranger (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
- 2019 - Prospero Nograles, Filipino politician (b. 1947)
- 2019 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian writer (b. 1981)
- 2019 - Terje Moe Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1904 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (d. 1975) (official birthdate)
- 1907 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)
- 1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
- 1914 - Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
- 1916 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, writer and activist (d. 2006)
- 1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
- 1919 - Basil Yamey, South African economist
- 1921 - Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., American physicist (d. 1945)
- 1922 - Eugenie Clark, American icthyologist (d. 2015)
- 1922 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
- 1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (d. 2015)
- 1922 - Paul-Emile Charbonneau, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Eric Sykes, British comedian (d. 2012)
- 1925 - Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
- 1927 - Terry Scott, English actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 – Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt (d. 2020)
- 1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racecar driver (d. 1961)
- 1929 - Sydney Lamb, American linguist and academic
- 1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
- 1929 - Manuel Contreras, Chilean general, convicted of crimes against humanity (d. 2015)
- 1930 – Katherine Jackson, mother of Jackson musical family
- 1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
- 1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
- 1934 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
- 1935 - Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (d. 2016)
- 1937 - Ron Carter, American jazz musician
- 1938 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer and journalist (d. 2010)
- 1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1940 - Robin Cook, American physician and writer
- 1940 - Sean Barrett, British voice actor
- 1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
- 1943 - Mihail Chemyakin, Russian painter and sculptor
- 1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress
- 1944 - Monica Bleibtreu, Austrian actress (d. 2009)
- 1945 - Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer
- 1947 - Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician
- 1947 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
- 1948 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (d. 2012)
- 1949 - Stella Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1950 – Darryl Hunt, musician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer, member of the Jackson musical family
- 1951 – Gérard Jugnot, French actor and director
- 1951 – Mick Mars, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
- 1951 - Colleen Hanabusa, American politician
- 1953 - Oleta Adams, American singer and pianist
- 1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
- 1956 - Charlotte Green, English radio and television presenter
- 1956 - Michael L. Gernhardt, American engineer and astronaut
- 1956 - David Guterson, American novelist
- 1956 – Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete
- 1958 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)
- 1958 – Caroline Spelman, British politician
- 1959 – Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress
- 1959 - Maurizio Cheli, Italian astronaut and air force officer
- 1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
- 1960 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
- 1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1961 – Chris Packham, English wildlife expert and television presenter
- 1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
- 1963 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
- 1964 - Monica Bardem, Spanish actress
- 1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress
- 1968 - Francesca Bortolozzi, Italian fencer
- 1970 - Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer
- 1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
- 1972 – Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)
- 1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotti, Argentine footballer
- 1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey
- 1975 - Louise Hansen, Danish footballer
- 1975 - Catherine Trudeau, Canadian actress
From 1976
- 1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
- 1978 - Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
- 1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
- 1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan-born rugby player
- 1982 – Nathan Tyson, English footballer
- 1983 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
- 1984 – Little Boots, British singer
- 1985 – Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
- 1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
- 1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1988 - David Gray, Scottish footballer
- 1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
- 1989 - Daniel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
- 1990 – Shunki Takahashi, Japanese footballer
- 1992 - Ashley Rickards, American actress
- 1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress
- 1994 – Alexander Gould, American actor
- 1994 – Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque royal
- 2002 - Anastasiya Petryk, Ukrainian singer
- 2009 – Prince Henrik of Denmark
Deaths
Observances
- Unofficial Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you")
- International Firefighters Day
- Youth Day (China, Fiji)
- Greenery Day (Japan)
- Bird Day (United States)
- Cassinga Day (Namibia)
- Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)