On This Day — March 4
4348 noted people were born and 2117 died on March 4 in our archive, including Claire Voisin, John Henry Wigmore and Jules Antoine Lissajous.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 4
Claire Voisin
b. 1962
John Henry Wigmore
1863 – 1943
Jules Antoine Lissajous
1822 – 1880
Étienne Mougeotte
1940 – 2021
Adam Daniel Rotfeld
b. 1938
Alice Rivlin
1931 – 2019
Alpha Condé
b. 1938
Amitabh Joshi
b. 1965
August Köhler
1866 – 1948
Azyumardi Azra
1955 – 2022
Daniel Kastler
1926 – 2015
Eugène Cosserat
1866 – 1931
Frank Tannenbaum
1893 – 1969
George Gamow
1904 – 1968
George Harold Edgell
1887 – 1954
Georges Dumézil
1898 – 1986
Hans Eysenck
1916 – 1997
Hermann Ende
1829 – 1907
James Gustave Speth
b. 1942
Jean-Claude Schmitt
b. 1946
Ljavon Barščėŭski
b. 1958
Luther Emmett Holt
1855 – 1924
Marcos Nogueira Eberlin
b. 1959
Michael A. Rice
b. 1955
Michael Ashcroft
b. 1946
Mirela Kumbaro
b. 1966
Napier Shaw
1854 – 1945
Nicolae Titulescu
1882 – 1941
Nikolai Kondratiev
1892 – 1938
Patrick Moore
1923 – 2012
Pernel Strachey
1876 – 1951
Thomas Hill Easterfield
1866 – 1949
Thomas Patrick Melady
1927 – 2014
Ward Kimball
1914 – 2002
William C. Boyd
1903 – 1983
Alan R. Battersby
1925 – 2018
Aleksandr Popov
1859 – 1905
Alexander Goedicke
1877 – 1957
Alexei Polivanov
1855 – 1920
Alfred Judson Force Moody
1918 – 1967
Alphonse Moutte
1840 – 1913
Amédée Despans-Cubières
1786 – 1853
Anatoliy Danylenko
1953 – 2021
Andrei Serdiukov
b. 1962
Andrii Taran
b. 1955
Anisul Hoque
b. 1965
Anthony Ichiro Sanda
b. 1944
Anthony Rendon
b. 1968
Antoine-Marie Chenavard
1787 – 1883
Aribert Reimann
1936 – 2024
Arne Rostad
1894 – 1969
Arthur Aimé Bruneau
1864 – 1940
Arthur Wilson
1842 – 1921
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein
1826 – 1907
Barbara Bubula
b. 1963
Benjamin Waterhouse
1754 – 1846
Bernard Lathière
1929 – 1997
Bernhard Kellermann
1879 – 1951
Blanka Bohdanová
1930 – 2021
Carl Eduard Cramer
1831 – 1901
Carl Eric Almgren
1913 – 2001
Carl Marzani
1912 – 1994
Charles C. Krulak
b. 1942
Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick
1911 – 1984
Charles Herbert Reilly
1874 – 1948
Charles Pelot Summerall
1867 – 1955
Chris Smith
b. 1953
Christophe Bouillon
b. 1969
Constantin Coandă
1857 – 1932
David Julian Richards, Baron Richards of Herstmonceux
b. 1952
Deborah Turness
b. 1967
Edmundo Mireles Jr.
b. 1953
Eduard Grégr
1827 – 1907
Edwards Pierrepont
1817 – 1892
Eli Vakil
b. 1953
Elme Marie Caro
1826 – 1887
Ernest William Titterton
1916 – 1990
Ernst Håkon Jahr
b. 1948
F. W. Bernstein
1938 – 2018
Florian Pop
b. 1952
Francis Charles Robert Jourdain
1865 – 1940
Frank Pattyn
b. 1966
Frank S. Bowen
1905 – 1976
François Fillon
b. 1954
Frédéric Encel
b. 1969
Gary Williams
b. 1945
George Shenton
1842 – 1909
Giorgio Bassani
1916 – 2000
Glenis Willmott
b. 1951
Gord Kluzak
b. 1964
Haile Gerima
b. 1946
Halim El-Dabh
1921 – 2017
Heinz Kuhrig
1929 – 2001
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
1526 – 1596
Henry Edward Fox
1755 – 1811
Henry Keazor
b. 1965
Henry S. Dennison
1877 – 1952
Howard Norman
b. 1949
Hristo Matov
1869 – 1922
Hélène Geoffroy
b. 1970
Ignaty Krachkovsky
1883 – 1951
Inezita Barroso
1925 – 2015
Innocent Vareed Thekkethala
1948 – 2023
Irfan Siddiqi
b. 1976
Irit Dinur
b. 1973
Izkia Siches
b. 1986
J.D. Scholten
b. 1980
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor
1750 – 1828
Jacques Fouques-Duparc
1897 – 1966
Jacques Julliard
1933 – 2023
Jakob von Weizsäcker
b. 1970
James M. Love
1820 – 1891
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
1715 – 1763
Jan Zachwatowicz
1900 – 1983
Jan Černý
1874 – 1959
Janez Strnad
1934 – 2015
Jean Lecanuet
1920 – 1993
Jeanne Samary
1857 – 1890
Joan Tomàs de Rocabertí
1627 – 1699
John Blair
b. 1955
John Burland
b. 1936
John Garfield
1913 – 1952
John Lawrence
1811 – 1879
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
1651 – 1716
Josefina Cuesta Bustillo
1947 – 2021
Karol Estreicher
1906 – 1984
Karol Polakiewicz
1893 – 1962
Kazimierz Lutosławski
1880 – 1924
Kazimierz Świtalski
1886 – 1962
Kazushi Ōno
b. 1960
Kazys Bobelis
1923 – 2013
Ken Robinson
1950 – 2020
Kevin Johnson
b. 1966
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
b. 1968
Károly Zichy
1753 – 1826
Leo Trepp
1913 – 2010
Leone Wollemborg
1859 – 1932
Leslie Issott Grange
1894 – 1980
Leslie Ronald Kay
1920 – 2019
Lin Homer
b. 1957
Lisa Kaltenegger
b. 1977
Luis de Florez
1889 – 1962
Léon-Paul Fargue
1876 – 1947
Mack Bernard
b. 1976
Manuel Ureña Pastor
b. 1945
Marcelo Viana
b. 1962
Mihály Károlyi
1875 – 1955
Míriam Díaz Aroca
b. 1962
Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia
b. 1937
Nina Pillard
b. 1961
Norman Bethune
1890 – 1939
Norman Robertson
1904 – 1968
Pedro Duarte Guimarães
b. 1971
Pepa Fernández Vallés
b. 1965
Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco
b. 1964
Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda
1909 – 1992
Reginald Innes Pocock
1863 – 1947
Richard Chace Tolman
1881 – 1948
Rick Perry
b. 1950
Robert A. McClure
1897 – 1957
Robert Emden
1862 – 1940
Robert Emmet Callan
1864 – 1936
Robert R. Wilson
1914 – 2000
Robert Shaye
b. 1939
Robin Lyth Hudson
1940 – 2021
Rubén Alfonso Ramírez
1936 – 2021
Ruslan Jaqsylyqov
b. 1966
Sergei Bagapsh
1949 – 2011
Soong May-ling
1898 – 2003
Swire Smith
1842 – 1918
Takeshi Araki
1916 – 1994
Tancredo Neves
1910 – 1985
Thomas R. Wilson
b. 1946
Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1881 – 1965
Tiit-Rein Viitso
1938 – 2022
Tom Kalin
b. 1962
Troy Downing
b. 1967
Verena Ross
b. 1968
Vladimir Barmin
1909 – 1993
Vladimir Minkin
b. 1935
Walter Campbell
1921 – 2004
Wang Peiyu
b. 1978
Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht
1800 – 1876
William Henry Keeler
1931 – 2017
Yuri Simonov
b. 1941
Yōsuke Matsuoka
1880 – 1946
Zygmunt Vetulani
1894 – 1942
Abdulmalik Dehamshe
b. 1943
Adam Deacon
b. 1983
Adam Polewka
1903 – 1956
Adhar Kumar Chatterji
1914 – 2001
Adrian Prakhov
1846 – 1916
Agustí Villaronga
1953 – 2023
Aiko Shimajiri
b. 1965
Al Riley
b. 1953
Alan J. Faller
1929 – 2022
Alan Soble
1947 – 2025
Alastair Ross
b. 1981
Albert Baciocco
1931 – 2015
Alejandro Lerroux
1864 – 1949
… and 4,148 more
Died on March 4
Constantin Cândea
1887 – 1971
Célestin Port
1828 – 1901
Ira Remsen
1846 – 1927
Amo Houghton
1926 – 2020
Aubrey Strahan
1852 – 1928
Charles Scott Sherrington
1857 – 1952
Clayton Keith Yeutter
1930 – 2017
Evarts Ambrose Graham
1883 – 1957
Fernando Lázaro Carreter
1923 – 2004
Harold Barrowclough
1894 – 1972
Harry Blackmun
1908 – 1999
Hermann Brück
1905 – 2000
James Rowland Angell
1869 – 1949
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
1920 – 2020
Jean Starobinski
1920 – 2019
Jean-François Champollion
1790 – 1832
Joanne Simpson
1923 – 2010
Johannes Kert
1959 – 2021
Johannes Martin Bijvoet
1892 – 1980
John Schofield
1831 – 1906
Karolina Widerström
1856 – 1949
Klaus Kinkel
1936 – 2019
Lin Lanying
1918 – 2003
Louis Laloy
1874 – 1944
Ludwig Quidde
1858 – 1941
Mikhail Simonov
1929 – 2011
Nancy Tyson Burbidge
1912 – 1977
Nikolaos Politis
1872 – 1942
Peter Kristian Prytz
1851 – 1929
Satō Tetsutarō
1866 – 1942
Simon van der Meer
1925 – 2011
Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet
1936 – 2018
Ta-You Wu
1907 – 2000
Vladislav Ardzinba
1945 – 2010
Władysław Daniłowski
1902 – 2000
Xie Xide
1921 – 2000
Abraham Baldwin
1754 – 1807
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
1937 – 2025
Alberto Carlos Taquini
1905 – 1998
Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough
1857 – 1945
Alexander H. Stephens
1812 – 1883
Alexandru Ivasiuc
1933 – 1977
Alexey Sorokin
1922 – 2020
Alfred Jeanroy
1859 – 1953
Alphonse Poitevin
1819 – 1882
Antonio Iturmendi Bañales
1903 – 1976
Antonio Villar Ponte
1881 – 1936
Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
1783 – 1868
Arjun Singh
1930 – 2011
Arne Skaug
1906 – 1974
Arthur Kinsella
1918 – 2004
Augustin Nicolas Gilbert
1858 – 1927
Bernard Rands
1934 – 2026
Bruno Étienne
1937 – 2009
Bud Collins
1929 – 2016
Byambyn Rinchen
1905 – 1977
Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
1788 – 1868
Christian Leopold von Buch
1774 – 1853
Dean Smith
1899 – 1987
Ding Ling
1904 – 1986
Dmytro Abramovych
1873 – 1955
Egidio Meneghetti
1892 – 1961
Elaine Kellett-Bowman
1923 – 2014
Ethan Allen Andrews
1787 – 1858
Felix Ehrenhaft
1879 – 1952
George Gordon Coulton
1858 – 1947
George Vasey
1822 – 1893
Hachirō Arita
1884 – 1965
Harold Stassen
1907 – 2001
Harve Bennett
1930 – 2015
Horace Wilson
1843 – 1927
Hori Shigeru
1901 – 1979
Iris Nazmy
2000 – 2018
Ivan Taranenko
1912 – 1995
Jaba Ioseliani
1926 – 2003
Jacques Leibowitch
1942 – 2020
James Luna
1950 – 2018
James M. Farr
1874 – 1958
James Ward
1843 – 1925
Jane H. Rider
1889 – 1981
Jean Christophe Averty
1928 – 2017
Jean-Louis Debré
1944 – 2025
Jeffery Amherst, 5th Earl Amherst
1896 – 1993
Joachim Chreptowicz
1729 – 1812
Joe Nickell
1944 – 2025
Johannes Carsten Hauch
1790 – 1872
John A. Gilruth
1871 – 1937
John Knight
1943 – 1981
John McMichael
1904 – 1993
José Antonio de Artigas Sanz
1887 – 1977
Julius Ailio
1872 – 1933
József Simándy
1916 – 1997
Karel van het Reve
1921 – 1999
Knut Ångström
1857 – 1910
Lajos Martin
1827 – 1897
Laureano Calderón y Arana
1847 – 1894
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
1887 – 1977
María Ugarte
1914 – 2011
Michel Clemenceau
1873 – 1964
Michel Plancherel
1885 – 1967
Mikhail Tikhonravov
1900 – 1974
Noah Porter
1811 – 1892
Oleksander Shulhyn
1889 – 1960
P. A. Sangma
1947 – 2016
Pare Lorentz
1905 – 1992
Patricia De Martelaere
1957 – 2009
Philip Poole-Wilson
1943 – 2009
Richard Davies Hanson
1805 – 1876
Richard Ruggles
1916 – 2001
Ross Rizley
1892 – 1969
Ruben Liljefors
1871 – 1936
Sir James Carmichael-Smyth, 1st Baronet
1779 – 1838
Sándor Veress
1907 – 1992
Tetsuo Kondo
1929 – 2010
Thomas Blizard Curling
1811 – 1888
Thomas E. Starzl
1926 – 2017
Thomas Eagleton
1929 – 2007
Thomas Oakland
1939 – 2015
Tina Lagostena Bassi
1926 – 2008
Walter H. Schottky
1886 – 1976
Willi Unsoeld
1926 – 1979
William A. Chanler
1867 – 1934
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale
1787 – 1872
William Scovell Savory
1826 – 1895
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
1926 – 1992
Yuriy Kravchenko
1951 – 2005
Édouard Belin
1876 – 1963
A. Atwater Kent
1873 – 1949
Adrian Nepenin
1871 – 1917
Adriana Innocenti
1926 – 2016
Albert Vanloo
1846 – 1920
Alenush Terian
1920 – 2011
Alexander Campbell
1788 – 1866
Alexandre Charpentier
1856 – 1909
Alfred E. Reames
1870 – 1943
Alfred Iverson Sr.
1798 – 1873
Amiya Pujari
1948 – 2003
Antonin Artaud
1896 – 1948
Art Babbitt
1907 – 1992
Atish Chandra Sinha
1940 – 2010
Barry Locke
1930 – 2007
Benjamin Dobson
1847 – 1898
Beverly Sedgwick King
1876 – 1935
Bill Phipps
1942 – 2022
Booth Grey
1740 – 1802
Branislav Petronijević
1875 – 1954
Bruno Zwintscher
1838 – 1905
Bullet Rogan
1893 – 1967
Carl Wilhelm von Sydow
1878 – 1952
Catherine C. Blake
1950 – 2026
Charles Eugène de Lalaing d'Audenarde
1779 – 1859
Charles H. MacDowell
1867 – 1954
Charles W. Bryan
1867 – 1945
David Murray Gates
1921 – 2016
David W. Schindler
1940 – 2021
Denise Vernay
1924 – 2013
Domingo Amunátegui Solar
1860 – 1946
Eduard Alekseevich Kuraev
1940 – 2014
Edward Greenly
1861 – 1951
Edward MacLysaght
1887 – 1986
Emil Spjøtvoll
1940 – 2002
Ernest Clarke
1856 – 1923
Ernest Mercier
1914 – 2002
Etta Cameron
1939 – 2010
Farhang Mehr
1923 – 2018
Farnham Maxwell-Lyte
1828 – 1906
Felix Gras
1844 – 1901
Francesco Cocco-Ortu
1842 – 1929
Francesco Dentice di Accadia
1873 – 1944
Francisco Dueñas Díaz
1810 – 1884
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Talavera
1942 – 2024
Frank Fox
1874 – 1960
Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter
1910 – 1973
Franz Delitzsch
1813 – 1890
François Joseph Herrgott
1814 – 1907
Frederick W. Plaisted
1865 – 1943
Fyodor Kryukov
1870 – 1920
Gao Lingwei
1870 – 1940
Georg von Kopp
1837 – 1914
George Edward Hughes
1918 – 1994
George McAfee
1918 – 2009
George Owen
1901 – 1986
George Rowland Patrick Roupell
1892 – 1974
George Washington Burr
1865 – 1923
Georges Arnaud
1917 – 1987
Georges Cain
1856 – 1919
Gerrit de Vries
1818 – 1900
Ghoulem Berrah
1938 – 2011
Gordon Warner
1913 – 2010
H. E. Carter
1910 – 2007
H. Wayne Norman, Jr.
1955 – 2018
Hamlin Garland
1860 – 1940
Hank Gathers
1967 – 1990
Hans von Aachen
1552 – 1615
Harlan Page Beach
1854 – 1933
Harry Chauvel
1865 – 1945
Helen Marshall
1929 – 2017
Helmut Winschermann
1920 – 2021
Henry Augustus Reeves
1832 – 1916
Henry Boyd
1831 – 1922
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