On This Day — January 4
4449 noted people were born and 2191 died on January 4 in our archive, including May-Britt Moser, Zigmas Zinkevičius and Adrien Pouliot.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 4
May-Britt Moser
b. 1963
Zigmas Zinkevičius
1925 – 2018
Adrien Pouliot
1896 – 1980
Alfred Comyn Lyall
1835 – 1911
Aristid von Grosse
1905 – 1985
Balbino Giuliano
1879 – 1958
Baron Alexander von Bach
1813 – 1893
Bobby Tulloch
1929 – 1996
Brian David Josephson
b. 1940
Carl Humann
1839 – 1896
Christian Kern
b. 1966
Christopher Cassidy
b. 1970
Daniel Goldston
b. 1954
Darko Tanasković
b. 1948
Ekvtime Takaishvili
1863 – 1953
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
1906 – 1994
Gianni Vattimo
1936 – 2023
H. Blaine Lawson
b. 1942
Hans Bentzien
1927 – 2015
Ivan Tevosian
1902 – 1958
Jacob Grimm
1785 – 1863
James Bond
1900 – 1989
Johanna Westerdijk
1883 – 1961
John A. McCone
1902 – 1991
John Asher Johnson
b. 1977
Josef Suk
1874 – 1935
Joseph Alden
1807 – 1885
Kyrylo Budanov
b. 1986
Leonid Slutsky
b. 1968
Luigi Porta
1800 – 1875
Marek Borowski
b. 1946
Maurice Rheims
1910 – 2003
Michael A. Nielsen
b. 1974
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
1890 – 1976
Mukharbek Barakhoyev
b. 1971
Myroslav Marynovych
b. 1949
Norman Zabusky
1929 – 2018
Philip R. Goode
b. 1943
Richard R. Schrock
b. 1945
Shoshichi Kobayashi
1932 – 2012
Walther Kossel
1888 – 1956
William A. Worton
1897 – 1973
William Colby
1920 – 1996
Adolphe Guillaumat
1863 – 1940
Alan Carpenter
b. 1957
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Dyakonov
1886 – 1956
Alexander Griboyedov
1795 – 1829
Alexander Murray Drennan
1884 – 1984
Alicia Garza
b. 1981
Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul
1789 – 1865
André Rouvoet
b. 1962
Angelo De Donatis
b. 1954
Antoni Krauze
1940 – 2018
Arik Brauer
1929 – 2021
Arnold Vinnius
1588 – 1657
Augustus Agar
1890 – 1968
Augustus John
1878 – 1961
Avedis Aharonyan
1866 – 1948
Bhikhu Parekh
b. 1935
Branimir Brstina
b. 1960
Brennan Lee Mulligan
b. 1988
Candy Broad
b. 1956
Chen Cheng
1897 – 1965
Christel Happach-Kasan
b. 1950
Christian Birch-Reichenwald
1814 – 1891
Christine Jordis
b. 1942
Clint Hill
1932 – 2025
Conrad Clemens
b. 1983
Creigh Deeds
b. 1958
Cécile Pozzo di Borgo
b. 1952
Daniel Brélaz
1950 – 2025
Danuše Nerudová
b. 1979
Doris Kearns Goodwin
b. 1943
Eberhard Wagner
b. 1938
Edmon Low
1902 – 1983
Edmund Castell
1606 – 1685
Edmund Rumpler
1872 – 1940
Edward Brooker
1891 – 1948
Edward Gött-Getyński
1898 – 1943
Edwin E. Witte
1887 – 1960
Edwin Kneedler
b. 1946
Eliyahu Matza
1935 – 2021
Elliot Sperling
1951 – 2017
Fernando Alexandre
b. 1972
Fernando Aramburu
b. 1959
Frank Herman Schofield
1869 – 1942
François Dagnaud
b. 1962
Frederick York Powell
1850 – 1904
Friedrich Gottlob Haase
1808 – 1867
Gaetano Manfredi
b. 1964
George Tryon
1832 – 1893
Gianfranco Contini
1912 – 1990
Grace Bumbry
1937 – 2023
Günter Schabowski
1929 – 2015
Heinrich Laretei
1892 – 1973
Hellmuth Karasek
1934 – 2015
Henryk Tomasik
b. 1946
Herman Lieberman
1870 – 1941
Horace Binney
1780 – 1875
Hwang Sok-yong
b. 1943
Igor Shuvalov
b. 1967
Ilia II of Georgia
1933 – 2026
Ingemar Skogö
1949 – 2019
Jack Wagner
b. 1948
James Wilberforce Longley
1849 – 1922
Jan Lenica
1928 – 2001
Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois
1776 – 1842
Jean-Pierre Vernant
1914 – 2007
Joachim Chreptowicz
1729 – 1812
Johann Jakob Griesbach
1745 – 1812
Jon Appleton
1939 – 2022
Jordi Galí
b. 1961
Josef Altstötter
1892 – 1979
Jozef Kabaň
b. 1973
Juan Guiteras
1852 – 1925
Juan José Guerra Abud
b. 1952
Katsura Tarō
1848 – 1913
Konstantinos Floros
1930 – 2026
Lauro Cavazos
1927 – 2022
Lee Soo-hyuck
b. 1949
Leila Cook Barber
1903 – 1984
Leon Malhomme
1881 – 1940
Lino Cayetano
b. 1978
Lisa Appignanesi
b. 1946
Louis Léger
1843 – 1923
Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
1755 – 1827
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
1737 – 1816
Luciano Modica
1950 – 2021
Ludvig Theodor Almqvist
1818 – 1884
Luigi Firpo
1915 – 1989
Maarja Kruusmaa
b. 1970
Manuel de Abreu
1894 – 1962
Mariano Latorre
1886 – 1955
Mikhail Semevsky
1837 – 1892
Miyoshi Manabu
1862 – 1939
Musbau Adewumi Akanji
b. 1953
Nikolai Rovinsky
1887 – 1953
Oh Se-hoon
b. 1961
Olga Pilipenko
b. 1966
Paola Pisano
b. 1977
Paul, 6th duc de Noailles
1802 – 1885
Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue
1798 – 1868
Petru Poni
1841 – 1925
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés
1903 – 1985
Raymond Woodard Brink
1890 – 1973
René Bernards
b. 1953
Richard J. Curran
1838 – 1915
Robert Dick
b. 1950
Robin M. Hochstrasser
1931 – 2013
Ronald Brown
1935 – 2024
Ronan Lee
b. 1976
Scott Frost
b. 1975
Shobhana Bhartia
b. 1957
Stefaan Van Hecke
b. 1973
Stefano Zamagni
b. 1943
Stuart Babbage
1916 – 2012
Thomas Noguchi
b. 1927
Tytus Maksymilian Huber
1872 – 1950
Ufuk Uras
b. 1959
Umar Pate
b. 1964
Valentin Belonogov
1949 – 2024
Vincent Ward
1886 – 1946
Vivant Denon
1747 – 1825
Vladimir Pavićević
b. 1978
Wang Xiaotang
b. 1934
Werner Felfe
1928 – 1988
Willard H. Dow
1897 – 1949
William Deane
b. 1931
William Ralph Brody
b. 1944
William Staughton
1770 – 1829
Willis Ray Gregg
1880 – 1938
Wolfgang Tiefensee
b. 1955
Xiao Jinguang
1903 – 1989
Yoshijirō Umezu
1882 – 1949
Zurab Tsereteli
1934 – 2025
Érika Olivera
b. 1976
Évariste Lévi-Provençal
1894 – 1956
Aaron Burr Sr.
1716 – 1757
Abdelwahed Radi
1935 – 2023
Abner Reid McClelan
1831 – 1917
Adrián Barbón Rodríguez
b. 1979
Afzal Tahir
b. 1949
Agnes E. Wells
1876 – 1959
Agnès Merlet
b. 1959
Aimé Majorique Beauparlant
1864 – 1911
Al Jefferson
b. 1985
Alan Fabbri
b. 1979
Alan Schlesinger
b. 1958
Alberto Gutman
1959 – 2019
Alberto Iniesta Jiménez
1923 – 2016
Aleksandr Chudinov
b. 1961
Alexander Bogomolny
1948 – 2018
Alexandra Grey
b. 1991
Alfred Sohn-Rethel
1899 – 1990
Alfred-Robert Simonis
b. 1985
Ali Ahmeti
b. 1959
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
b. 1940
Amarsinhji Banesinhji
1879 – 1954
Ambika Dhurandhar
1912 – 2009
Amitai Etzioni
1929 – 2023
… and 4,249 more
Died on January 4
Frank Harary
1921 – 2005
Gavriel Salomon
1938 – 2016
Alan Mackay-Sim
1951 – 2023
Alfred von Schlieffen
1833 – 1913
Archibald Alexander
1888 – 1958
Carl Frelinghuysen Gould
1873 – 1939
Claude Allègre
1937 – 2025
Elisabeth Leinfellner
1938 – 2010
Enrica Malcovati
1894 – 1990
Erwin Schrödinger
1887 – 1961
Fay Weldon
1931 – 2023
Fred Chappell
1936 – 2024
Gabriel Cramer
1704 – 1752
Georg von Hertling
1843 – 1919
Gerardus J. Sizoo
1900 – 1994
Harold Brown
1927 – 2019
Harold Demsetz
1930 – 2019
Henri Bergson
1859 – 1941
Jaakko Jonkka
1953 – 2022
Johan Joseph Faict
1813 – 1894
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
1854 – 1928
John William Draper
1811 – 1882
Joseph Hubert Reinkens
1821 – 1896
Martinus J. G. Veltman
1931 – 2021
Nicolas Fuss
1755 – 1826
Stefan Żółkiewski
1911 – 1991
Yasumasa Matsudaira
1893 – 1957
Yves Bouthillier
1901 – 1977
Édouard Hervé
1835 – 1899
Aharon Appelfeld
1932 – 2018
Albert Camus
1913 – 1960
Alberto Lleras Camargo
1906 – 1990
Aleksander Paweł Sapieha
1672 – 1734
Aleksey Yermolov
1847 – 1917
Ales Bachyla
1918 – 1983
Alexander Pagenstecher
1825 – 1889
Alfred Grünfeld
1852 – 1924
Ali Abu al-Ragheb
1946 – 2026
Anatoliy Butenko
1938 – 2021
Andreas Hermes
1878 – 1964
André Turcat
1921 – 2016
Anton von Werner
1843 – 1915
Arthur Rose Eldred
1895 – 1951
Auguste Chauveau
1827 – 1917
Benito Pérez Galdós
1843 – 1920
Bernard D. Meltzer
1914 – 2007
Boris Nikolsky
1900 – 1990
Brendan Byrne
1924 – 2018
Brian Horrocks
1895 – 1985
Carl Aarsleff
1852 – 1918
Carlo Levi
1902 – 1975
Caroline Haslett
1895 – 1957
Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury
1773 – 1856
Charles Phibbs Jones
1906 – 1988
Clarence Dutton
1841 – 1912
Douglas Jung
1924 – 2002
Dvora Netzer
1897 – 1989
Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński
1944 – 2015
Eleanor A. Maguire
1970 – 2025
Ellen Hartman
1860 – 1945
Epameinondas Thomopoulos
1878 – 1976
Ernest Denis
1849 – 1921
Fabio Fabbri
1933 – 2024
Francisco Soc Rodrigo
1914 – 1998
George A. Drew
1894 – 1973
George Halsey Perley
1857 – 1938
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington
1885 – 1972
Godefroid Kurth
1847 – 1916
Hans Heinrich Lammers
1879 – 1962
Harold Eugene Edgerton
1903 – 1990
Harold Page Smith
1904 – 1993
Hartog Jacob Hamburger
1859 – 1924
Heinz Billing
1914 – 2017
Hikojirō Ijichi
1860 – 1912
Hilton Cheong-Leen
1922 – 2022
Ivan Bortnik
1939 – 2019
James Bowling Mozley
1813 – 1878
Jean Raynal
1929 – 2015
Johan Ferrier
1910 – 2010
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
1882 – 1958
John Henderson
1870 – 1923
John R. Cunningham
1927 – 2020
John Walter Scott
1845 – 1919
Joseph Pholien
1884 – 1968
Jules Radich
1955 – 2026
K. S. S. Nambooripad
1935 – 2020
Karl Friedrich Lessing
1808 – 1880
Karl von Hasenauer
1833 – 1894
Keishu Tanaka
1938 – 2022
Kishin Shinoyama
1940 – 2024
Konráð Gíslason
1808 – 1891
Laurent Mailhot
1931 – 2021
Leanne Armand
1968 – 2022
Leo de Block
1904 – 1988
Lew Allen
1925 – 2010
Lily Laskine
1893 – 1988
Marais Viljoen
1915 – 2007
Marie-Thérèse Cheroutre
1924 – 2020
Marina Raskova
1912 – 1943
Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
1801 – 1880
Mike Sadler
1920 – 2024
Milan Balabán
1929 – 2019
Nora Ikstena
1969 – 2026
Norman Birnbaum
1926 – 2019
Philipp Jenninger
1932 – 2018
R. Phelps
1926 – 2013
Rajagopala Chidambaram
1936 – 2025
Raymond Léopold Bruckberger
1907 – 1998
René Basset
1855 – 1924
René Vautier
1928 – 2015
Robert Heilbroner
1919 – 2005
Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds
1942 – 2016
Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune
1913 – 1993
Sir Thomas Frankland, 6th Baronet
1750 – 1831
Spiridon Markezinis
1909 – 2000
Stanisław Mieroszowski
1827 – 1900
T. S. Eliot
1888 – 1965
Taki Fujita
1898 – 1993
Thomas Richard Fraser
1841 – 1920
Tobie Goedewaagen
1895 – 1980
Tōgō Masamichi
1852 – 1906
Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone
1863 – 1936
William Peterson
1856 – 1921
Xu Xusheng
1888 – 1976
Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
1902 – 1953
Yekaterina Dashkova
1743 – 1810
Yuri Sleptsov
1960 – 2025
Abdul Ghafoor Breshna
1907 – 1974
Abner Coburn
1803 – 1885
Abram W. Hendricks
1822 – 1887
Albert Roux
1935 – 2021
Ali Reza Pahlavi
1966 – 2011
Alice Schanzer
1873 – 1936
Allen Sapp
1922 – 1999
Alliott Verdon Roe
1877 – 1958
Alwin Walther
1898 – 1967
Alwyn Sheppard Fidler
1909 – 1990
Anselm Feuerbach
1829 – 1880
Anthony Winkler Prins
1817 – 1908
Antoine Chanzy
1823 – 1883
Antonio Ranieri
1806 – 1888
Archibald Vincent Arnold
1889 – 1973
Armando Salati
1884 – 1963
Arnold Naudain
1790 – 1872
Arthur Ford
1897 – 1971
Aubert C. Dunn
1896 – 1987
August Herman Pfund
1879 – 1949
Aylmer Liesemer
1905 – 1995
Bambang Suryadi
1968 – 2021
Barry Kramer
1942 – 2025
Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
1923 – 1983
Bernard P. Randolph
1933 – 2021
Carl Shipp Marvel
1894 – 1988
Carmen Naranjo
1928 – 2012
Caroline Girard
1830 – 1925
Chang Sung-hwan
1920 – 2015
Charles B. Stuart
1814 – 1881
Charles Henry Morgan
1842 – 1912
Charles Jasper Joly
1864 – 1906
Charles Manners, 10th Duke of Rutland
1919 – 1999
Charles Mengel Allen
1916 – 2000
Charles-Bernard van de Werve
1740 – 1813
Christopher Isherwood
1904 – 1986
Conrado Benitez
1889 – 1971
Constant Permeke
1886 – 1952
Constantin Vișoianu
1897 – 1994
Céline Bellot
1970 – 2026
David Branch
1948 – 2026
David Soul
1943 – 2024
Dick King-Smith
1922 – 2011
Donald Campbell
1921 – 1967
Earl T. Ricks
1908 – 1954
Edward H. Kruse
1918 – 2000
Edward Loveden Loveden
1751 – 1822
Elias Rahbani
1938 – 2021
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss
1865 – 1944
Elizabeth H. West
1873 – 1948
Elwood Hillis
1926 – 2023
Ernani Bernardi
1911 – 2006
Everett Hughes
1897 – 1983
Fabian Månsson
1872 – 1938
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
1751 – 1825
Francis Charmes
1848 – 1916
Francis T. Nicholls
1834 – 1912
Francisco Merry y Colom
1829 – 1900
Francisco Olivencia Ruiz
1934 – 2019
Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux Padre Pancho
1908 – 1982
Frank Dunlop
1927 – 2026
Frank L. McVey
1869 – 1953
Frans Otten
1895 – 1969
Fred Householder
1913 – 1994
Frederic George Young
1858 – 1929
Frederick Matthew Darley
1830 – 1910
Frederick Selous
1851 – 1917
Fredrik Mellbye
1917 – 1999
Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin
1891 – 1963
Friedrich Jolly
1844 – 1904
Fritz Lindström
1874 – 1962
Fukuchi Genichiro
1841 – 1906
Genshin Takano
1895 – 1969
… and 1,991 more