On This Day — February 4
4292 noted people were born and 2187 died on February 4 in our archive, including A. V. Dicey, Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle and Christopher Zeeman.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 4
A. V. Dicey
1835 – 1922
Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle
1778 – 1841
Christopher Zeeman
1925 – 2016
Friedrich Hund
1896 – 1997
Ludwig Prandtl
1875 – 1953
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
1906 – 1994
Steve Smith
b. 1952
Adolphe Pinard
1844 – 1934
Andrei Karlov
1954 – 2016
Anna Pankratova
1897 – 1957
Antoine Lacroix
1863 – 1948
Arkadiusz Mularczyk
b. 1971
Carme Junyent
1955 – 2023
Charles Soubre
1821 – 1895
Chen Jining
b. 1964
Clyde Tombaugh
1906 – 1997
Daniel Lurie
b. 1977
Dennis C. Blair
b. 1947
Elżbieta Bieńkowska
b. 1964
Eric Garcetti
b. 1971
Ernest Arushanov
b. 1941
Ernest-François Mallard
1833 – 1894
Fernando González Ollé
1929 – 2025
Francisco de Cárdenas Espejo
1817 – 1898
George Rochester
1908 – 2001
Gilbert Lazard
1920 – 2018
Herbert Wilhelmy
1910 – 2003
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
1862 – 1953
Igor Prasolov
b. 1962
Joan Bastardas i Parera
1919 – 2009
John Campbell Brown
1947 – 2019
John Westlake
1828 – 1913
Josip Juraj Strossmayer
1815 – 1905
Kaneko Kentarō
1853 – 1942
Ken Thompson
b. 1943
Lotfi A. Zadeh
1921 – 2017
Louis Camille Maillard
1878 – 1936
Louis-Albert Vachon
1912 – 2006
Ludwig Erhard
1897 – 1977
Marc Lambron
b. 1957
Masaichi Niimi
1887 – 1993
Michael J. Saylor
b. 1965
Mickey Rosenthal
b. 1955
Morton Deutsch
1920 – 2017
Nancy Cantor
b. 1952
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
1891 – 1976
Oded Goldreich
b. 1957
Osmo Antero Wiio
1928 – 2013
R. C. T. Lee
b. 1938
Raymond Dart
1893 – 1988
Richard Ryder, Baron Ryder of Wensum
b. 1949
Rolf Landauer
1927 – 1999
Roman Prymula
b. 1964
Stanislas Adotevi
1934 – 2024
Stanley Karnow
1925 – 2013
Stefan Niesiołowski
b. 1944
Vyacheslav Volodin
b. 1964
Abe Isoo
1865 – 1949
Alberto João Jardim
b. 1943
Aleksandra Ursulyak
b. 1983
Alexander Godley
1867 – 1957
Alexander Veselovsky
1838 – 1906
Aline Marie Raynal
1937 – 2022
Almeida Garrett
1799 – 1854
Andrzej Strzelecki
1952 – 2020
Andrzej Wiktor
1931 – 2018
Arjun Appadurai
b. 1949
Belisario Betancur
1923 – 2018
Ben Lerner
b. 1979
Bennie Oosterbaan
1906 – 1990
Bernard Barrera
b. 1962
Bimbo Ademoye
b. 1991
Blasius Merrem
1761 – 1824
Brad Avakian
b. 1961
Cairine Wilson
1885 – 1962
Candida Höfer
b. 1944
Charles Bally
1865 – 1947
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow
1877 – 1957
Chiara Frugoni
1940 – 2022
Choi Moon-soon
b. 1956
Christine Petit
b. 1948
Clay S. Jenkinson
b. 1955
Cruz Martínez Esteruelas
1932 – 2000
Dan Dailey
b. 1947
Dan Quayle
b. 1947
David Golomb
1933 – 2019
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906 – 1945
Donald Riegle
1938 – 2026
Edward Acton
b. 1949
Ekaterina Berezovskaya
b. 1990
Ellisiv Steen
1908 – 2001
Ernest Mercier
1878 – 1955
Eugene Chien
b. 1946
Fernando Azevedo e Silva
b. 1954
Frank Braley
b. 1968
Friedrich Solmsen
1904 – 1989
Fyodor Kulakov
1918 – 1978
Geneviève Meurgues
1931 – 2021
Georg Brandes
1842 – 1927
George A. Romero
1940 – 2017
George Argyros
b. 1937
George Bell
1883 – 1958
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
1776 – 1837
Grigore Trandafil
1840 – 1907
Grigoris Balakian
1877 – 1934
Gu Songfen
1930 – 2026
Gábor J. Székely
b. 1947
Hartley Shawcross
1902 – 2003
Hermann Collitz
1855 – 1935
Hideo Hatoyama
1884 – 1946
Hiroshi Ishii
b. 1956
Horst Ehmke
1927 – 2017
Hugo Schuchardt
1842 – 1927
Ida Lupino
1918 – 1995
Ignacio Garriga Vaz de Conceição
b. 1987
Ignacy Tadeusz Baranowski
1879 – 1917
Ilya Silchukov
b. 1982
Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
1889 – 1943
Jacques Copeau
1879 – 1949
James Fenton
1864 – 1950
James M. Farr
1874 – 1958
James Morris
b. 1967
Jan Gmelich Meijling
1936 – 2012
Jaume Duch Guillot
b. 1962
Jean Aicard
1848 – 1921
Jean Richepin
1849 – 1926
Jenny Harrison
b. 1949
Jenny Shipley
b. 1952
Jerome Hall
1901 – 1992
Jerome Powell
b. 1953
Jim Nicholson
b. 1938
Jiří Dvořák
b. 1967
Johan Schot
b. 1961
Johannes Heurnius
1543 – 1601
John Henry Wright
1852 – 1908
John P. Jumper
b. 1945
John Robison
1739 – 1805
Jonathan Partington
b. 1955
Josiah Quincy III
1772 – 1864
Jules Combarieu
1859 – 1916
Kadri Jäätma
b. 1961
Kari Veiteberg
b. 1961
Keith Yamamoto
b. 1946
Kim Chi-ha
1941 – 2022
Kim Yong-nam
1928 – 2025
Kiyoko Ono
1936 – 2021
Konrad Porzner
1935 – 2021
Kuranosuke Sasaki
b. 1968
Laisenia Qarase
1941 – 2020
Les Bursill
b. 1945
Liu Chen
b. 1946
Lubna Khalid Al Qasimi
b. 1962
Léon Duguit
1859 – 1928
Marceli Porowski
1894 – 1963
Mark Hopkins
1802 – 1887
María Jesús Montero Cuadrado
b. 1966
Merete Mazzarella
b. 1945
Mikuláš Dzurinda
b. 1955
Milena Králíčková
b. 1972
Movses Hakobyan
b. 1965
Nabil Georges Bonduki
b. 1955
Nicholas Hine
b. 1966
Nicholas Posse
b. 1966
Nicolle Wallace
b. 1972
Nikolai Podvoisky
1880 – 1948
Nikolay Psurtsev
1900 – 1980
Oleksandr Sienkevych
b. 1982
Otto Ohlendorf
1907 – 1951
Patrick Le Hyaric
b. 1957
Patrick Le Quément
b. 1945
Paul Althaus
1888 – 1966
Polad Bulbuloghlu
b. 1945
Rachel Treweek
b. 1963
Raoul Warocqué
1870 – 1917
Ravil Safiullin
b. 1955
Reiner Schürmann
1941 – 1993
René Reille
1835 – 1898
Robert Coover
1932 – 2024
Rosa Parks
1913 – 2005
Sanford Bishop
b. 1947
Sean Lien
b. 1970
Sergey Pugachyov
b. 1963
Shigeru Ishiba
b. 1957
Sir Charles Bunbury, 8th Baronet
1809 – 1886
Stefan Baley
1885 – 1952
Steve Yuhas
b. 1973
Steven Vanackere
b. 1964
Thaddeus Radzilowski
1938 – 2018
Theodore Ushev
b. 1968
Venelin Ganev
1880 – 1966
Victor von Ebner
1842 – 1925
Viktor Goremykin
b. 1959
Vladimir Matyukhin
1945 – 2026
Vladimir Tikhonov
b. 1947
William Ledyard Rodgers
1860 – 1944
William Leymergie
b. 1947
Yahya Khan
1917 – 1980
Édouard Estaunié
1862 – 1942
A. Roberto Frisancho
b. 1939
Abd el-Aziz el-Zoubi
1926 – 1974
… and 4,092 more
Died on February 4
Carl Rogers
1902 – 1987
Georges Lochak
1930 – 2021
Hendrik Lorentz
1853 – 1928
Alan Baker
1939 – 2018
Arkadz Kulyashow
1914 – 1978
Basil Hetzel
1922 – 2017
Brock Chisholm
1896 – 1971
Bruno Messerli
1931 – 2019
Charles Marie de La Condamine
1701 – 1774
Conrad Celtes
1459 – 1508
Don Johnston
1936 – 2022
Edward Sapir
1884 – 1939
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
1865 – 1948
Friedrich Raschig
1863 – 1928
Gjergj Pekmezi
1872 – 1938
Igal Talmi
1925 – 2026
Jan Bułhak
1876 – 1950
Louis-Adolphe Paquet
1859 – 1942
Martti Haavio
1899 – 1973
Michel Balinski
1933 – 2019
Robert Daniel
1936 – 2012
Robert Koldewey
1855 – 1925
Siegmund Günther
1848 – 1923
Stefan Meller
1942 – 2008
Aga Khan IV
1936 – 2025
Akiyama Saneyuki
1868 – 1918
Alan K. Campbell
1923 – 1998
Andre Béteille
1934 – 2026
Antonio Paolucci
1939 – 2024
Ashley Bryan
1923 – 2022
Bill Dudley
1921 – 2010
Branko Pešić
1922 – 1986
Brunetto Bucciarelli Ducci
1914 – 1994
Carl Albert
1908 – 2000
Clyde Coombs
1912 – 1988
Daniel J. Rudolf
1949 – 2010
Daniel Sandford
1798 – 1838
Daniel arap Moi
1924 – 2020
David Beattie
1924 – 2001
David Emmanuel
1854 – 1941
David Snow
1924 – 2009
Dominique-Marie Gauchet
1853 – 1931
Donald Byrd
1932 – 2013
Dossibai Patell
1881 – 1960
Edgar Mitchell
1930 – 2016
Elmar Leppik
1898 – 1978
Eustaquio de Echave-Sustaeta
1872 – 1952
George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
1720 – 1795
George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd
1879 – 1941
George W. Woodruff
1895 – 1987
George Watterston
1783 – 1854
Gerrit Willem Ovink
1912 – 1984
Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
1911 – 1998
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
1875 – 1966
Gordon Sprigg
1830 – 1913
Günter Petzow
1926 – 2024
Hage Geingob
1941 – 2024
Hakob Manandyan
1873 – 1952
Hartvig Nissen
1815 – 1874
Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke
1803 – 1878
Iannis Xenakis
1922 – 2001
Ilya Kormiltsev
1959 – 2007
Ishimoto Mishio
1893 – 1940
István Csurka
1934 – 2012
James Harry Covington
1870 – 1942
Janko Vukotić
1866 – 1927
Jean Brossel
1918 – 2003
Jean Galloway Bissell
1936 – 1990
Jean-Auguste Barre
1811 – 1896
Jerzy Osiatyński
1941 – 2022
Joachim Wilhelm Franz Philipp von Holtzendorff
1829 – 1889
Johannes Polyander
1568 – 1646
John Hugo Loudon
1905 – 1996
John Jeremiah Bigsby
1792 – 1881
Joseph W. Estabrook
1944 – 2012
Józef Pius Dziekoński
1844 – 1927
Jürgen Flimm
1941 – 2023
Jānis Kalnbērziņš
1893 – 1986
Karl Maximovich
1827 – 1891
Karl Woermann
1844 – 1933
L. Jacques Ménard
1946 – 2020
Leslie Bassett
1923 – 2016
Louis-Ernest Barrias
1841 – 1905
Lowitja O'Donoghue
1932 – 2024
Martin Grüner
1929 – 2018
Miguel Covarrubias
1904 – 1957
Mike deGruy
1951 – 2012
Mikhail Frinovsky
1898 – 1940
Milan Nedić
1878 – 1946
Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman
1871 – 1950
Natalia Gheorghiu
1914 – 2001
Nordal Wille
1858 – 1924
Pavel Shteller
1910 – 1977
Peter Hogg
1939 – 2020
Philip Game
1876 – 1961
Pierre Manhès
1841 – 1906
Pierre Quillard
1864 – 1912
Prince Fushimi Sadanaru
1858 – 1923
Rafael Alvira
1942 – 2024
Richard A. Peterson
1932 – 2010
Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam
1745 – 1816
Richard Lashof
1922 – 2010
Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo
1942 – 2000
Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey
1941 – 2021
Sanaul Huq
1924 – 1993
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 – 1974
Senjūrō Hayashi
1876 – 1943
Sir Francis Champneys, 1st Baronet
1848 – 1930
Sir Robert Phillimore, 1st Baronet
1810 – 1885
Sévère Rivard
1834 – 1888
Teodor Shanin
1930 – 2020
Terry Hands
1941 – 2020
Thomas Richardson
1569 – 1635
Toyosuke Hata
1872 – 1933
Ulf Söderblom
1930 – 2016
Vasile Tarnavschi
1859 – 1945
William Nott-Bower
1849 – 1939
Wojciech Pokora
1934 – 2018
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
1908 – 1987
Yamakawa Hiroshi
1845 – 1898
Yrjö Pulkkinen
1875 – 1945
Zohar Shavit
1951 – 2026
Zvi Arad
1942 – 2018
Árpád Prandler
1930 – 2014
A. Rangaswami Iyengar
1877 – 1934
Adolfas Jucys
1904 – 1974
Agatha Barbara
1923 – 2002
Agostino Borromeo
1944 – 2024
Alan B. Slifka
1929 – 2011
Albert L. Nash
1921 – 2015
Alexander Dovzhenko
1918 – 1995
Alexandre Martins Pamplona Ramos
1865 – 1933
Alfred C. Smith
1893 – 1962
Alfred S. Yue
1918 – 2014
Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
1946 – 1968
Anders Frostenson
1906 – 2006
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
1671 – 1713
Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe
1761 – 1840
Anton Schaars
1887 – 1963
Antonín Rezek
1853 – 1909
Aram J. Pothier
1854 – 1928
Archibald Sayce
1845 – 1933
Astrid Gräfin von Hardenberg
1925 – 2015
Barbara Angus
1924 – 2005
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola
1562 – 1631
Benyoucef Benkhedda
1920 – 2003
Bergen Evans
1904 – 1978
Bernard Lietaer
1942 – 2019
Berta Karlik
1904 – 1990
Betty Friedan
1921 – 2006
Blažo Jovanović
1907 – 1976
Bonnie MacLean
1939 – 2020
Bruce Dohrenwend
1927 – 2025
C. Delisle Burns
1879 – 1954
Carl Leverkus
1804 – 1889
Cassius C. Dowell
1864 – 1940
Cecil Heftel
1924 – 2010
Charles Owen Waterhouse
1843 – 1917
Charles Parlange
1851 – 1907
Chauncey W. Brownell
1847 – 1938
Christian Tell
1808 – 1884
Claude Mangin
1786 – 1835
Claudio Bonadío
1956 – 2020
Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde
1922 – 1998
Cyrus-Marie-Alexandre de Timbronne de Valence
1757 – 1822
Dan L. Burk
Daniel Halévy
1872 – 1962
Daulat Singh Kothari
1906 – 1993
Dave Mirra
1974 – 2016
David Shepard
1947 – 2021
Dennis Bushyhead
1826 – 1898
Donald L. Turcotte
1932 – 2025
E. Harold Cluett
1874 – 1954
Earl Cureton
1957 – 2024
Ed Seeman
1931 – 2025
Edgar Whitcomb
1917 – 2016
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill
1901 – 1980
Edmund Cranch
1922 – 2015
Elena Mikhailovskaya
1949 – 1995
Elettra Deiana
1941 – 2023
Elizabeth Wilmot
1912 – 1998
Eranuhi Aslamazyan
1909 – 1998
Fedele De Giorgis
1886 – 1964
Fidenzio Dall'Ora
1879 – 1961
Fitzhugh L. Fulton
1925 – 2015
Frank Calder
1877 – 1943
Frank J. Weber
1849 – 1943
Franz Adickes
1846 – 1915
Franz Xaver Nagl
1855 – 1913
François-Emmanuel Fodéré
1764 – 1835
François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac
1757 – 1832
Frederick J. Clarke
1915 – 2002
Félicien Cattier
1869 – 1946
Gardner Lindzey
1920 – 2008
George D. Wise
1831 – 1908
George Engelmann
1809 – 1884
George M. Varnell
1882 – 1967
George Nader
1921 – 2002
George William Hunter
1874 – 1948
Georgy Taratorkin
1945 – 2017
… and 1,987 more