On This Day — May 4
4114 noted people were born and 1938 died on May 4 in our archive, including John Morphett, Thomas Henry Huxley and Américo Castro.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 4
John Morphett
1809 – 1892
Thomas Henry Huxley
1825 – 1895
Américo Castro
1885 – 1972
Becca Balint
b. 1968
Bill Mollison
1928 – 2016
Canan Dağdeviren
b. 1985
Carl Eckart
1902 – 1973
David John Gordon
1865 – 1946
Dionizy
1876 – 1960
Edward Maunde Thompson
1840 – 1929
Eitan Tadmor
b. 1954
Elliott Waters Montroll
1916 – 1983
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
1931 – 2018
Hilgard Muller
1914 – 1985
Horace Mann
1796 – 1859
Horikiri Zenbee
1882 – 1946
Ivan Tsvetaev
1847 – 1913
James C. Greenwood
b. 1951
Jean-Charles de Borda
1733 – 1799
Joseph Tydings
1928 – 2018
Kevin Scarce
b. 1952
Kirill Shchelkin
1911 – 1968
Louis Jacques Thénard
1777 – 1857
Mikishi Abe
1883 – 1965
Nancy Flournoy
b. 1947
Pafnuty Chebyshev
1821 – 1894
Robert G. Sachs
1916 – 1999
Sam Pitroda
b. 1942
Sari Hanafi
b. 1962
Theda Skocpol
b. 1947
Thomas Oldham
1816 – 1878
William Kingdon Clifford
1845 – 1879
Yoav Freund
b. 1961
Yulia Shoigu
b. 1977
Édouard Ardaillon
1867 – 1926
Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
1870 – 1933
Afif Safieh
b. 1950
Agustín Yáñez
1904 – 1980
Aleksandr Shishkin
b. 1960
Alexa L. Wesner
b. 1972
Alexander Schrijver
b. 1948
Alfred Galichon
b. 1977
Ali Mohammad Haghshenas
1940 – 2010
Alice Nordin
1871 – 1948
Alison Tierney
b. 1948
Amos Oz
1939 – 2018
Anatoly Vasiliev
b. 1942
Andy Magid
b. 1944
Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen
b. 1983
Archibald McIndoe
1900 – 1960
Audrey Hepburn
1929 – 1993
Barry Wood
1910 – 1971
Bernard A. Clarey
1912 – 1996
Bill Laney
1913 – 1998
Boris Tsirelson
1950 – 2020
Bruno Frey
b. 1941
Bärbel Höhn
b. 1952
Carl Hartzell
b. 1967
Carla Henius
1919 – 2002
Carlos Tomada
b. 1948
Carmen Castillo García
b. 1932
Caroline Spelman
b. 1958
Charles Boucher de Boucherville
1822 – 1915
Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
1786 – 1857
Cinna Lomnitz
1925 – 2016
Cola Debrot
1902 – 1981
César Campinchi
1882 – 1941
Dasari Narayana Rao
1942 – 2017
Dave Aronberg
b. 1971
David A. Bader
b. 1969
David Allan Bromley
1926 – 2005
David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie
1826 – 1881
Dawn Staley
b. 1970
Doug Jones
b. 1954
Dániel Gyurta
b. 1989
Däulet Muqaev
b. 1992
Eddie Farnsworth
b. 1961
Edmund Giambastiani
b. 1948
Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński
1944 – 2015
Edward Soja
1940 – 2015
Ella Stack
1929 – 2023
Emil von Reznicek
1860 – 1945
Eugenie Clark
1922 – 2015
Francis Spellman
1889 – 1967
Franklin Carmichael
1890 – 1945
François Gérard
1770 – 1837
Gabriel P. Weisberg
1942 – 2026
Gary Bauer
b. 1946
George Tupou V of Tonga
1948 – 2012
George Will
b. 1941
Gerard C. Smith
1914 – 1994
Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel
b. 1945
Gillis William Long
1923 – 1985
Guillermo Owen
b. 1938
Gunther Krichbaum
b. 1964
Gábor A. Somorjai
1935 – 2025
Gérard Jugnot
b. 1951
Hanna Stankówna
1938 – 2020
Hartmut Hoffmann
1930 – 2016
Henri Dorion
1935 – 2026
Henryk Skolimowski
1930 – 2018
Hisaya Morishige
1913 – 2009
Hosni Mubarak
1928 – 2020
Hryhorii Omelchenko
b. 1951
Ignazio Marcello Gallo
1924 – 2023
Igor Morgulov
b. 1961
Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff
1889 – 1972
Ivan Kvitka
b. 1967
J. Heinrich Matthaei
1929 – 2025
Jacob Baden
1735 – 1804
James S. Albus
1935 – 2011
Jane Gallop
b. 1952
Jane Jacobs
1916 – 2006
Jason Kander
b. 1981
Jean-Baptiste Campenon
1819 – 1891
Jean-François Cordet
1950 – 2024
Jean-Paul Viguier
b. 1946
Jerzy Jarniewicz
b. 1958
Jihad Azour
b. 1966
John Alexander Armstrong, Jr
1922 – 2010
John Collier
1884 – 1968
John Collins Warren
1842 – 1927
John Large
1943 – 2018
John Paul Hammerschmidt
1922 – 2015
Josef Pieper
1904 – 1997
Jules Arnous de Rivière
1830 – 1905
Julie Battilana
b. 1977
Kakuei Tanaka
1918 – 1993
Karel Domin
1882 – 1953
Kerope Patkanov
1833 – 1889
Kingsley Barrett
1917 – 2011
Kobi Alexander
b. 1952
Larry R. Squire
b. 1941
Louis Henry Davies
1845 – 1924
Luis Herrera Campins
1925 – 2007
Mahmoud Alavi
b. 1954
Malvin Carl Teich
b. 1939
Manuel Milà i Fontanals
1818 – 1884
Marijke Vos
b. 1957
Mario Bergara
b. 1965
Martin Jay
b. 1944
Maurizio Cheli
b. 1959
Maxwell Ward, 6th Viscount Bangor
1868 – 1950
Melvin Edwards
1937 – 2026
Mikhail Lifshitz
b. 1963
Mikhail Zadornov
b. 1963
Momoko Kikuchi
b. 1968
N. Ram
b. 1945
Nikolai Malko
1883 – 1961
Nikolai Ustryalov
1805 – 1870
Noël Valois
1855 – 1915
Oliver Stanley
1896 – 1950
Patricio Jara
b. 1974
Peer Bork
1963 – 2026
Peter Schreiner
b. 1940
Peter Ungar
b. 1963
René Mayer
1895 – 1972
Reuben Guild
1822 – 1899
Reza Salehi Amiri
b. 1962
Richard Bourke
1777 – 1855
Robert J. Lang
b. 1961
Roberta Karmel
1937 – 2024
Roger Pulvers
b. 1944
Roland Leroy
1926 – 2019
Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi
b. 1973
Ron Carter
b. 1937
Ronny Jackson
b. 1967
Ryszard Zbrzyzny
b. 1955
Ryōichi Sasakawa
1899 – 1995
Samuel Andrew Witherspoon
1855 – 1915
Samuel Evans
1859 – 1918
Sanni Grahn-Laasonen
b. 1983
Seiichi Ōmura
1892 – 1968
Semyon Zubakin
b. 1952
Sir Robert Peel, 3rd Baronet
1822 – 1895
Stephen J. McCormick
1914 – 2011
Sylviane Agacinski
b. 1945
T. V. Raman
b. 1965
Tatiana Nikolayeva
1924 – 1993
Tatiana Samoilova
1934 – 2014
Terry Lyons
b. 1952
Thomas Kinsella
1928 – 2021
Thomas Stuttaford
1931 – 2018
Thorstein Hiortdahl
1839 – 1925
Trivimi Velliste
b. 1947
Vera Lengsfeld
b. 1952
Vilija Aleknaitė-Abramikienė
b. 1957
Vyacheslav Lopatin
b. 1984
Wang Jingwei
1883 – 1944
Werner Faymann
b. 1960
William Fothergill Cooke
1806 – 1879
Wishnutama
b. 1970
Wojciech Weiss
1875 – 1950
Yacouba Konaté
b. 1953
Yatarō Mishima
1867 – 1919
Yevgeny Pervyshov
b. 1976
Émile Gallé
1846 – 1904
A. A. Bublikov
1875 – 1941
A. John Simmons
b. 1950
Adam Koch
b. 1988
… and 3,914 more
Died on May 4
Alfred Cardew Dixon
1865 – 1936
Giovanni Battista Grassi
1854 – 1925
Isaac Barrow
1630 – 1677
André Latarjet
1877 – 1947
Anne Anastasi
1908 – 2001
Boris Petrovsky
1908 – 2004
Christian de Duve
1917 – 2013
Doina Cornea
1929 – 2018
Edward Calvin Kendall
1886 – 1972
Eugène Renevier
1831 – 1906
George Enesco
1881 – 1955
Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg
1836 – 1927
Heinrich Ewald
1803 – 1875
Hendrik Casimir
1909 – 2000
Henry Howard
1843 – 1921
Henry John Carter
1813 – 1895
Herbert Westren Turnbull
1885 – 1961
Herluf Zahle
1873 – 1941
Ignacio Bayón
1944 – 2024
Johan Thyrén
1861 – 1933
John Collins Warren
1778 – 1856
Kanō Jigorō
1860 – 1938
Karl Schlögl
1924 – 2007
Nikolai Cholodny
1882 – 1953
Samuel Dexter
1761 – 1816
Theodor Oberländer
1905 – 1998
William Holmes McGuffey
1800 – 1873
Aisha Rateb
1928 – 2013
Alan Garrett Anderson
1877 – 1952
André Gounelle
1933 – 2025
Anton Ackermann
1905 – 1973
Arthur Oldham
1926 – 2003
Augustus Pitt Rivers
1827 – 1900
Barnett Janner
1892 – 1982
Bernard Stasi
1930 – 2011
Bernard Ziegler
1933 – 2021
Bob Bennett
1933 – 2016
Carlos Garaikoetxea Urriza
1938 – 2026
Carola Miró
1965 – 2024
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
1807 – 1873
Cécile Vogt
1875 – 1962
Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton
1791 – 1863
Enno Littmann
1875 – 1958
Frank Stella
1936 – 2024
Franz Joseph von Stein
1832 – 1909
Fred Baur
1918 – 2008
George Edwin MacLean
1850 – 1938
Guillaume Mollat
1877 – 1968
Gustaf Murray
1747 – 1825
Guy Deutscher
1936 – 2024
Hans Martin Sutermeister
1907 – 1977
Heinrich Homann
1911 – 1994
Henry Howe Bemrose
1827 – 1911
Henryk Magnuski
1909 – 1978
Hermenegildo Capelo
1839 – 1917
Hugues Doneau
1527 – 1591
James W. Patterson
1823 – 1893
Javier Diez Canseco
1948 – 2013
Jean Erdman
1916 – 2020
Johann Georg Fischer
1816 – 1897
Johannes Musaeus
1613 – 1681
Johannes Walther
1860 – 1937
John Headlam
1770 – 1854
John Wood
1947 – 2022
Joseph Barrell
1869 – 1919
Josip Broz Tito
1892 – 1980
Józef Leśniak
1968 – 2022
Jūrō Kara
1940 – 2024
Karel Höger
1909 – 1977
Karl W. Butzer
1934 – 2016
Konstantin Tolkachyov
1953 – 2026
Kuzma Kiselyov
1903 – 1977
Leslie Frost
1895 – 1973
Lojzka Bratuž
1934 – 2019
Louis Antoine de Noailles
1651 – 1729
Louis Charles Breguet
1880 – 1955
Luciano Modica
1950 – 2021
Luigi Poggi
1917 – 2010
Ma Xulun
1885 – 1970
Majda Vrhovnik
1922 – 1945
Masauji Hachisuka
1903 – 1953
Matsumura Jinzō
1856 – 1928
Maurice Ewing
1906 – 1974
Michael McClure
1932 – 2020
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
1880 – 1919
Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite
1927 – 2020
Nettie Stevens
1861 – 1912
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1700 – 1760
Otto M. Nikodym
1887 – 1974
Paul Green
1894 – 1981
Petros Molyviatis
1928 – 2025
Robert Ferdinand Wagner
1877 – 1953
Robert M. Shuter
1946 – 2021
Rosie Scott
1948 – 2017
Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
1812 – 1895
Sadie Peterson Delaney
1889 – 1958
Saliamonas Banaitis
1866 – 1933
Shianghao Wang
1915 – 1993
Siegfried Böhm
1928 – 1980
Spiridon Melikyan
1880 – 1933
Stephen Born
1824 – 1898
Tatiana Samoilova
1934 – 2014
Tezer Taşkıran
1907 – 1979
Thomas Bury
1652 – 1722
Thomas Musgrave
1788 – 1860
Thomas O. Paine
1921 – 1992
Thomas Postlethwaite
1731 – 1798
Ulisse Aldrovandi
1522 – 1605
William Morgan
1750 – 1833
William Richard Gowers
1845 – 1915
Yuri Bilibin
1901 – 1952
Adnan Khairallah
1941 – 1989
Adolph Medlycott
1838 – 1918
Adolph Woermann
1847 – 1911
Alan William Greenwood
1897 – 1981
Aleksander Reza Qoli Mirza Qajar
1869 – 1941
Alexandre Vinet
1797 – 1847
Alfons Oscar Saligny
1853 – 1903
Alfred Agache
1875 – 1959
Alfred B. Kittredge
1861 – 1911
Alfred Eriksen
1864 – 1934
André Lefèbvre
1894 – 1964
Angelo D. Roncallo
1927 – 2010
Anita Stewart
1895 – 1961
Antony Anandarayar
1945 – 2021
Arne Austeen
1911 – 1945
Arthur Lake
1569 – 1626
Ashbel P. Fitch
1848 – 1904
Badr bin Abdul Muhsin bin Abdulaziz
1949 – 2024
Bob Dro
1918 – 2006
Boris Galitzine
1862 – 1916
Bruce Childs
1934 – 2023
Béla Grünwald
1839 – 1891
Carey A. Trimble
1813 – 1887
Carl Ludvig Engel
1778 – 1840
Cathryn Damon
1930 – 1987
Charles F. Mercer
1778 – 1858
Charles McIlveen
1919 – 2007
Charles Pratt
1830 – 1891
Charles Stubbs
1845 – 1912
Charles Wilson
1808 – 1877
Christian Heinrich Grosch
1801 – 1865
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr.
1937 – 2012
Cvetko Rajović
1793 – 1873
D.G.H. Latzko
1924 – 2017
Dana Seetahal
1955 – 2014
David Hackworth
1930 – 2005
Derick Ashe
1919 – 2000
Dom DeLuise
1933 – 2009
Don Shula
1930 – 2020
Donald R. Dwight
1931 – 2025
Donald Van Slyke
1883 – 1971
Douglas B. Fournet
1943 – 1968
Dov Milman
1919 – 2007
E. Henry Powell
1839 – 1911
Earl W. McDaniel
1926 – 1997
Edmond Locard
1877 – 1966
Edward Grimston
1812 – 1881
Edward Shanks
1892 – 1953
Edward Williams
1843 – 1903
Edwin W. Keightley
1843 – 1926
Elena Martínez Fontes
1915 – 1989
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
1881 – 1931
Empress Maria Anna of Austria
1803 – 1884
Eugen Mogk
1854 – 1939
Evelle J. Younger
1918 – 1989
F. C. D. Wyneken
1810 – 1876
Fielding L. Wright
1895 – 1956
France Štiglic
1919 – 1993
Franjo Herljević
1915 – 1998
Frank Shrontz
1931 – 2024
Frans Sammut
1945 – 2011
François-Joseph de Champagny
1804 – 1882
Fred L. Woodworth
1877 – 1944
Frederick A. Britten
1871 – 1946
Frederick Ridgeway
1848 – 1921
Frederick Stopford
1854 – 1929
Friedrich Goltz
1834 – 1902
Froilan Tenorio
1939 – 2020
George Braund
1866 – 1915
George of Austria
1504 – 1557
Gilles-François de Graimberg de Belleau
1748 – 1823
Giorgio Marincola
1923 – 1945
Grace Lee Nute
1895 – 1990
Helga Königsdorf
1938 – 2014
Hem Chandra Raychaudhuri
1892 – 1957
Henri Bosco
1888 – 1976
Henry Christy
1810 – 1865
Henry Smith Munroe
1850 – 1933
Herman P. Goebel
1853 – 1930
Herschel C. Loveless
1911 – 1989
Hugh Delargy
1908 – 1976
Humphrey de Trafford, 2nd Baronet de Trafford
1808 – 1886
I Gusti Ketut Pudja
1908 – 1977
Israel Bar-Yehuda
1895 – 1965
Jackson B. Chase
1890 – 1974
Jacques Freymond
1911 – 1998
Jacques Saly
1717 – 1776
James Hanna McCormick
1875 – 1955
James Patton Preston
1774 – 1843
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