May 4

2024 Calendar

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)