On This Day — April 4
4588 noted people were born and 2065 died on April 4 in our archive, including Aimo Cajander, Alessandro Vespignani and Algernon West.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on April 4
Aimo Cajander
1879 – 1943
Alessandro Vespignani
b. 1965
Algernon West
1832 – 1921
Amos Elegbe
1947 – 2025
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
1938 – 2020
Arthur Philemon Coleman
1852 – 1939
Attila Chikán
b. 1944
Augustinas Voldemaras
1883 – 1942
Benjamin Peirce
1809 – 1880
Bobby Ray Inman
b. 1931
Carl Mundt
1802 – 1873
Catherine Tizard
1931 – 2021
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
b. 1945
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
1865 – 1948
Francis Evans
1897 – 1983
George Barger
1878 – 1939
George Rowley
1782 – 1836
Henry Pickering Bowditch
1840 – 1911
Howardena Pindell
b. 1943
Ignatius IV of Antioch
1920 – 2012
Jaime Lamo de Espinosa Michels de Champourcin
b. 1941
John Beith
1914 – 2000
John W. Sprague
1817 – 1893
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
1688 – 1768
Kari Hag
1941 – 2026
Mikhail Shifman
b. 1949
Mitsuhiro Yanagida
b. 1941
Mkrtich Khrimian
1820 – 1907
Peter Englund
b. 1957
Raoul Pictet
1846 – 1929
René Taton
1915 – 2004
Yolanda Barcina
b. 1960
Aaron Mike Oquaye
b. 1944
Abdul Rashid
b. 1950
Adeline Magloire Chancy
b. 1931
Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro
1940 – 2000
Alex George
b. 1939
Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș
1872 – 1952
Ali Babacan
b. 1967
Allan A. Lamport
1903 – 1999
Andrei Tarkovsky
1932 – 1986
Angelica Domröse
1941 – 2026
Anna-Kaisa Ikonen
b. 1977
Antoine Galland
1646 – 1715
Ants Käärma
b. 1942
Asim Dasgupta
b. 1946
Bassam Tibi
b. 1944
Bastian Pastewka
b. 1972
Berend George Escher
1885 – 1967
Björn Rosengren
b. 1959
C. Robert Cloninger
b. 1944
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
1823 – 1883
Casey Biggs
b. 1955
Catherine Saunders
1942 – 2025
Cesare Segre
1928 – 2014
Charles Bernstein
b. 1950
Charles Dubin
1921 – 2008
Charles Lauritsen
1892 – 1968
Daniel Bonade
1896 – 1976
Daniel Caspary
b. 1976
Daniel Kottke
b. 1954
Deborah L. Birx
b. 1956
Edward Nicholas
1593 – 1669
Elchin Babayev
b. 1965
Elina Bystritskaya
1928 – 2019
Elisabeth Luce Moore
1903 – 2002
Elmer Bernstein
1922 – 2004
Emil Filla
1882 – 1953
Florea Dumitrescu
1927 – 2018
Franz Joseph von Stein
1832 – 1909
François Clément Sauvage
1814 – 1872
Fred Norris Robinson
1871 – 1966
Fred Turner
b. 1961
Frédéric Lopez
b. 1967
Gary Hill
b. 1951
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
1918 – 2007
George Pierce Baker
1866 – 1935
George Zambellas
b. 1958
Giorgio Mortara
1885 – 1967
Giorgio Pighi
b. 1949
Giorgos Mavrotas
b. 1967
Greg Knight
b. 1949
Guo Yonghuai
1909 – 1968
Gyula Juhász
1883 – 1937
Hans van den Doel
1937 – 2012
Henri Huchard
1844 – 1910
Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
1900 – 1984
Hélène Masson-Maret
b. 1947
Ivan Korčok
b. 1964
Jabez Hogg
1817 – 1899
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy
1851 – 1931
Jan Vladimír Hráský
1857 – 1939
Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger
1790 – 1874
Jean-Marc Pujol
b. 1949
Jesús Posada
b. 1945
Jim Fitzpatrick
b. 1952
Joachim Latacz
b. 1934
Joan Rigol i Roig
1943 – 2024
John C. H. Spence
1946 – 2021
John Clarkson
1764 – 1828
John Kotelawala
1897 – 1980
John West, 1st Earl De La Warr
1693 – 1766
Jonathan Agnew
b. 1960
Jukka Vieno
b. 1957
Just Knud Qvigstad
1853 – 1957
Karren Brady
b. 1969
Klaus Hentschel
b. 1961
Kronid Lyubarsky
1934 – 1996
Lidija Liepiņa
1891 – 1985
Ljubiša Rajić
1947 – 2012
Lois Towles
1912 – 1983
Louis Gustave Vapereau
1819 – 1906
Magda Aelvoet
b. 1944
Marcin Kulasek
b. 1976
Marguerite Duras
1914 – 1996
Mary Colter
1869 – 1958
Maya Angelou
1928 – 2014
Mehdi Huseyn
1909 – 1965
Mercè Durfort i Coll
1943 – 2022
Michael C. Burda
b. 1959
Mo Cowan
b. 1969
Natalya Vorozhbit
b. 1975
Nathan M. Pusey
1907 – 2001
Nikolay Firyubin
1908 – 1983
Oliver Vitouch
b. 1971
Olufemi Obafemi
b. 1950
Otto Folin
1867 – 1934
P. C. Skovgaard
1817 – 1875
Paloma del Río
b. 1960
Parveen Ali
b. 1979
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem
b. 1952
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
b. 1949
Pavel Gusev
b. 1949
Pavle Popović
1868 – 1939
Philippa Fawcett
1868 – 1948
Phyllida Barlow
1944 – 2023
Remy de Gourmont
1858 – 1915
Richard Lugar
1932 – 2019
Robert Askin
1907 – 1981
Robert Lawson Vaught
1926 – 2002
Robert Reid-Pharr
b. 1965
Robert Scheer
b. 1936
Rouslan Bodelan
1942 – 2025
Salvatore Sciarrino
b. 1947
Sarah Henderson
b. 1964
Selwyn Toogood
1916 – 2001
Serge Dassault
1925 – 2018
Shing-Tung Yau
b. 1949
Simplice Sarandji
b. 1955
Stephen Bradley
b. 1958
Sven Arntzen
1897 – 1976
Uvedale Price
1747 – 1829
Valentyna Astakhova
b. 1935
Viktor Kazakov
b. 1949
Viktor Sokolov
1962 – 2023
Villy Søvndal
b. 1952
Vitaly Efimov
b. 1940
W. Harmon Ray
b. 1940
Walter J. Kohler, Jr.
1904 – 1976
William F. Clinger, Jr.
1929 – 2021
William J. Burns
b. 1956
Wilmot H. Bradley
1899 – 1979
Yehudit Naot
1944 – 2004
Yuriy Hnatkevych
1940 – 2025
Zénobe Gramme
1826 – 1901
Édouard Lucas
1842 – 1891
A. Bartlett Giamatti
1938 – 1989
Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur
1931 – 2003
Abdullah al Mahmood
1900 – 1975
Adam Stanisław Krasiński
1714 – 1800
Adedayo Clement Adeyeye
b. 1957
Adele Khoury Graham
b. 1938
Adolf Mwesige
b. 1966
Adolph J. Sabath
1866 – 1952
Aki Kaurismäki
b. 1957
Albert R. Jonsen
1931 – 2020
Alberto Cárdenas
b. 1958
Alejandro Gómez
1908 – 2005
Alex Miller
b. 1977
Alfonso Dávila Ortiz
1922 – 2015
Alfred Cadart
1828 – 1875
Alfred M. Simpson
1843 – 1917
Alison Bales
b. 1985
Allan Lichtman
b. 1947
Alok Sanjar
b. 1963
Alupa Clarke
b. 1986
Alvin Anthony Schall
b. 1944
Ambrosius Moibanus
1494 – 1554
Andrea Hewitt
b. 1982
Andrew Lau
b. 1960
Anita Tack
b. 1951
Anne Sullivan
1866 – 1936
Anthony C. E. Quainton
1934 – 2023
Anthony Perkins
1932 – 1992
Antony Davies
b. 1965
Antony Tudor
1908 – 1987
Armin Rohde
b. 1955
Artem Bitchaev
b. 1990
Arthur B. Krim
1910 – 1994
Arthur Martin-Leake
1874 – 1953
… and 4,388 more
Died on April 4
Oleg Antonov
1906 – 1984
Simion Stoilow
1887 – 1961
William Crookes
1832 – 1919
Andres Ammas
1962 – 2018
André Michelin
1853 – 1931
Boris Levitan
1914 – 2004
Carl Ludwig Siegel
1896 – 1981
Carolus Clusius
1526 – 1609
David Goss
1952 – 2017
Django Sissoko
1948 – 2022
Edmond Hébert
1812 – 1890
Giovanni Sartori
1924 – 2017
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
1802 – 1870
Ivan Vakarčuk
1947 – 2020
John Venn
1834 – 1923
Jérôme Lalande
1732 – 1807
Karen Spärck Jones
1935 – 2007
Leon Piniński
1857 – 1938
Ottokar Czernin
1872 – 1932
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
1820 – 1890
Sydney Howard Vines
1849 – 1934
W. W. Rouse Ball
1850 – 1925
Adolf Wach
1843 – 1926
Albrecht Fleckenstein
1917 – 1992
Alfred Naujocks
1911 – 1966
Allan Kaprow
1927 – 2006
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle
1806 – 1893
Andrea Mitchell
1956 – 2020
André Lassagne
1911 – 1953
Antonio Corrionero Ruano
1554 – 1633
Archibald Blacklow
1879 – 1965
Bashirul Haq
1942 – 2020
Billy Waugh
1929 – 2023
Björn Bjuggren
1904 – 1968
Bowyer Sparke
1759 – 1836
C. R. Smith
1899 – 1990
Carl Benz
1844 – 1929
Carl Bugge
1881 – 1968
Carmine Infantino
1925 – 2013
Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy
1911 – 1993
Charles Ernest Beulé
1826 – 1874
Charles Henry Smyth, Jr.
1866 – 1937
Cheryl Gillan
1952 – 2021
Clifford M. Hardin
1915 – 2010
Cyrille Schott
1950 – 2026
Eddy van der Maarel
1934 – 2021
Edmund Widdrington Byrne
1844 – 1904
Edward Dowden
1843 – 1913
Ernest Ange Duez
1843 – 1896
Ernst Hadorn
1902 – 1976
Franz Joseph Ruprecht
1814 – 1870
François Goiran
1847 – 1927
Friedrich von Huene
1875 – 1969
George Mostow
1923 – 2017
Georgiy Daneliya
1930 – 2019
Ghazi of Iraq
1912 – 1939
Gösta Knutsson
1908 – 1973
Hannie Singer-Dekker
1917 – 2007
Hedwige Chrétien
1859 – 1944
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
1803 – 1879
Hjalmar Lundbohm
1855 – 1926
Hodding Carter
1907 – 1972
James A. Shanley
1896 – 1965
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
1861 – 1947
Jean Cavaillès
1903 – 1944
Jerry Uelsmann
1934 – 2022
John Gorst
1835 – 1916
John Heinz
1938 – 1991
John McKim
1852 – 1936
John Merewether
1797 – 1850
John Warren
1753 – 1815
João Franco
1855 – 1929
Karine Danielyan
1947 – 2022
Leo Picard
1900 – 1997
Liisi Oterma
1915 – 2001
Luther Cressman
1897 – 1994
Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 – 1968
Miksa Fenyő
1877 – 1972
Miriam Bernstein-Cohen
1895 – 1991
Miron Sycz
1960 – 2024
Mária Pozsonec
1940 – 2017
Nikolai Krasovsky
1924 – 2012
Otway Herbert
1901 – 1984
Pavel Lebedev-Polianskii
1881 – 1948
Pedro Benoit
1836 – 1897
Pertti Paasio
1939 – 2020
Petro Georgiou
1947 – 2025
Philip M. Epstein
1942 – 2021
Pierre de Cossé-Brissac
1900 – 1993
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero
1943 – 2020
Raoul Laparra
1876 – 1943
Ray Lawson
1886 – 1980
Richard Bird
1943 – 2022
Robert Mundell
1932 – 2021
Roger Ebert
1942 – 2013
Scott Forbush
1904 – 1984
Sona Valikhan
1883 – 1982
Stefan Wolpe
1902 – 1972
Terje Rollem
1915 – 1993
Thomas D. Brock
1926 – 2021
Thomas Gumbleton
1930 – 2024
Vahan Tekeyan
1878 – 1945
Volodymyr Korolyuk
1925 – 2020
Wilhelm Ostwald
1853 – 1932
William Henry Harrison
1773 – 1841
William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton
1840 – 1917
William Michael Crose
1867 – 1929
William Stokoe
1919 – 2000
Władysław Tatarkiewicz
1886 – 1980
Xavier Dor
1929 – 2020
Zsuzsa Ferge
1931 – 2024
Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
1875 – 1937
Abraham Albert Heaps
1885 – 1954
Abraham Coates Fitzgibbon
1823 – 1887
Abraham Kattumana
1944 – 1995
Abubakar Rimi
1940 – 2010
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
1908 – 1972
Adam Egede-Nissen
1868 – 1953
Adolph Saphir
1831 – 1891
Adrián Peña
1976 – 2024
Aegidius Hunnius
1550 – 1603
Albert Atterberg
1846 – 1916
Aleksander Ford
1908 – 1980
Alexander Forbes Irvine
1818 – 1892
Alexander Macbain
1855 – 1907
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon
1221 – 1284
Alfred Mosher Butts
1899 – 1993
Alice Orme Smith
Allen Lawrence Pope
1928 – 2020
Alparslan Türkeş
1917 – 1997
Alwyn Williams
1921 – 2004
Americus V. Rice
1835 – 1904
André Masséna
1758 – 1817
Anna Elizabeth Broomall
1847 – 1931
Antoine Roy
1764 – 1847
Antoni Barnaba Jabłonowski
1732 – 1799
Archduke Ernest of Austria
1824 – 1899
Arnold Heertje
1934 – 2020
Arnold Pick
1851 – 1924
Asa Lyon
1763 – 1841
Ashe Windham
1673 – 1749
August Aleksander Czartoryski
1697 – 1782
August Thyssen
1842 – 1926
Augustin Hacquard
1860 – 1901
Aziz Mekouar
1950 – 2026
Benjamin Gwinn Harris
1805 – 1895
Benjamin H. Brewster
1816 – 1888
Bidhushekhar Shastri
1878 – 1959
Borivoj Lazić
1939 – 2015
Branislav Šoškić
1922 – 2022
Brian Abel-Smith
1926 – 1996
Carl Gustaf Ekeberg
1716 – 1784
Carl L. Sitter
1922 – 2000
Carol II of Romania
1893 – 1953
Charles Brainard Taylor Moore
1853 – 1923
Charles Brantley Aycock
1859 – 1912
Charles Edward Hudson
1892 – 1959
Charles Joseph Alleyn
1817 – 1890
Charles P. Winsor
1895 – 1951
Charles Ray Jordan
1937 – 2014
Charles Soret
1854 – 1904
Charles T. Horner Jr.
1916 – 1992
Charles W. Lippitt
1846 – 1924
Christopher Harrison
1775 – 1862
Christopher Wolcott
1820 – 1863
Chögyam Trungpa
1939 – 1987
Clarence S. Clay, Jr.
1923 – 2011
Claude Miller
1942 – 2012
Clóvis Frainer
1931 – 2017
Constantin Kryjitski
1858 – 1911
Constantin Meunier
1831 – 1905
Craig Breedlove
1937 – 2023
Curtis Bill Pepper
1917 – 2014
Cynthia Wesson
1886 – 1981
Dan Cohen
1936 – 2024
Dmitry Levitzky
1735 – 1822
Dorothy Donahoe
1911 – 1960
E. Herbert Norman
1909 – 1957
Edwin John Butler
1874 – 1943
Elena de la Cruz Martín
1972 – 2017
Elizabeth Throckmorton
1694 – 1760
Evgenije Popović
1842 – 1931
F. Joseph Donohue
1900 – 1978
Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy
1806 – 1857
Francis Bathurst Suttor
1839 – 1915
Francisco Pereira de Moura
1925 – 1998
Fred J. Christensen
1921 – 2006
Frederick Ernest Appleyard
1829 – 1911
Frederick II of Denmark
1534 – 1588
Frederick Noel Ashcroft
1878 – 1949
Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer
1839 – 1902
Fritzi Harmsen van Beek
1927 – 2009
Fyodor Volkov
1729 – 1763
Gabrielle Donnay
1920 – 1987
Gene Shue
1931 – 2022
George Albert Smith
1870 – 1951
George L. Sheldon
1870 – 1960
George Leonard Andrews
1828 – 1899
George W. Atkinson
1845 – 1925
George Whitefield Chadwick
1854 – 1931
… and 1,865 more