On This Day — July 4
4072 noted people were born and 1933 died on July 4 in our archive, including Chris Smalls, David Baulcombe and Jürgen Moser.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 4
Chris Smalls
b. 1988
David Baulcombe
b. 1952
Jürgen Moser
1928 – 1999
Robert K. Merton
1910 – 2003
Alastair Goodlad
b. 1943
Alex Younger
1963 – 2026
Andrew Sparkes
b. 1959
Carme Torras
b. 1956
Charles E. Raven
1885 – 1964
David Newman
b. 1956
Edi Rama
b. 1964
Ernst Otto Beckmann
1853 – 1923
Fearon Fallows
1788 – 1831
Frede Castberg
1893 – 1977
Greg Kuperberg
b. 1967
Gustav von Ewers
1781 – 1830
Gérard Debreu
1921 – 2004
James John Edmund Guerin
1856 – 1932
Janet Neel Cohen, Baroness Cohen of Pimlico
b. 1940
Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume
1822 – 1905
Jean-Pierre Farandou
b. 1957
John C. Branner
1850 – 1922
John Pendry
b. 1943
Juan Watterson
b. 1980
Katharine Blodgett Gebbie
1932 – 2016
Laureano Figuerola
1816 – 1903
Laurence D. Marks
b. 1954
Lee Chang-dong
b. 1954
Marta Lucía Ramírez
b. 1954
Michelle T. Friedland
b. 1972
Nadiem Makarim
b. 1984
Natalya Pochinok
b. 1976
Nicole Ameline
b. 1952
Rasmus Nielsen
1809 – 1884
Rube Goldberg
1883 – 1970
Shahin Bayramov
b. 1979
Stefan Meller
1942 – 2008
Stephen Tyng Mather
1867 – 1930
Steven Sasson
b. 1950
Uriel Reichman
b. 1942
Valentyn Symonenko
b. 1940
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
b. 1952
Éric Neuhoff
b. 1956
Abe Saperstein
1902 – 1966
Agathe Luise Lasch
1879 – 1942
Aida Balaeva
b. 1974
Albert Dauzat
1877 – 1955
Alexander Strelyukhin
b. 1958
Alfred Grünfeld
1852 – 1924
Alfred Tozzer
1877 – 1954
Amédée-François Frézier
1682 – 1773
Anthony Theodore Lobo
1937 – 2013
Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr.
b. 1948
Aurelio Peccei
1908 – 1984
Axel Kaiser
b. 1981
Ben Pimlott
1945 – 2004
Beresford Parlett
1932 – 2026
Bernard Stasi
1930 – 2011
Bill Shine
b. 1963
Bogdan Wojtuś
1937 – 2020
Boris Gutnikov
1931 – 1986
Brendan Eich
b. 1961
Bryan Gaensler
b. 1973
Carolus-Duran
1837 – 1917
Chulabhorn, Princess Srisavangavadhana
b. 1957
Corrado Bafile
1903 – 2005
Damon Keith
1922 – 2019
Dan Maffei
b. 1968
Daniel Cornelius Danielssen
1815 – 1894
Darío Castrillón Hoyos
1929 – 2018
David Stras
b. 1974
Devendra Kumar Joshi
b. 1954
Diane Wood
b. 1950
Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev
1917 – 1985
Douglas Leone
b. 1957
Désiré de Haerne
1804 – 1890
Ebbe Gustaf Bring
1814 – 1884
Edmund B. Gregory
1882 – 1961
Elizabeth Peratrovich
1911 – 1958
Emmanuel Ohene Boafo
b. 1993
Eriya Kategaya
1945 – 2013
Ermek Serkebaev
1926 – 2013
Eugene Allen Gilmore
1871 – 1953
Ferenc Baja
b. 1955
Fernando Argenta
1945 – 2013
Filip David
1940 – 2025
François Zimeray
b. 1961
Frederick Seitz
1911 – 2008
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe
1848 – 1933
George Everest
1790 – 1866
George Mostow
1923 – 2017
George Murphy
1902 – 1992
Gertrude Lawrence
1898 – 1952
Giampiero Boniperti
1928 – 2021
Gifty Oware-Mensah
b. 1986
Gulzarilal Nanda
1898 – 1998
Harold Burrough
1889 – 1977
Harold Naughton, Jr.
b. 1960
Heide Simonis
1943 – 2023
Heitarō Inagaki
1888 – 1976
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868 – 1921
Henry King
1776 – 1839
Herman Fredrik Zeiner-Gundersen
1915 – 2002
Horst Seehofer
b. 1949
Hugo Winckler
1863 – 1913
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
1916 – 2006
Jack Minker
1927 – 2021
Jacques Bacot
1877 – 1965
Jaimy Gordon
b. 1944
James George Lee Steere
1830 – 1903
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn
b. 1934
Jean Paelinck
1930 – 2025
Jean-Pierre Leguay
b. 1939
Jehangir Khan Tareen
b. 1953
Jiří Pernes
1948 – 2025
John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg
1873 – 1961
John Allen Paulos
b. 1945
John Henry Gurney Sr.
1819 – 1890
John Motley Morehead
1796 – 1866
John Webster
b. 1937
Joseph Partsch
1851 – 1925
Jürg Fröhlich
b. 1946
Karl Woermann
1844 – 1933
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
b. 1951
Lars Barfoed
b. 1957
Laureano Calderón y Arana
1847 – 1894
Lawrence Tyson
1861 – 1929
Leonid Potapov
1935 – 2020
Linton Smith
1869 – 1950
Lionel Trilling
1905 – 1975
Madeleine Barot
1909 – 1995
Marcus Banks
1960 – 2020
Mark Wightman
b. 1947
Marti Kuusik
b. 1970
Masatoshi Wakabayashi
1934 – 2023
Maximilian Steinberg
1883 – 1946
Michael Milken
b. 1946
Michael Stoker
1918 – 2013
Micheal Rouleau
b. 1967
Michelle Stilwell
b. 1974
Mitch Miller
1911 – 2010
Moshe Vardi
b. 1954
Nahema Hanafi
b. 1983
Njabulo Ndebele
b. 1948
Norman Manley
1893 – 1969
Oleksandra Kuzhel
b. 1953
Olive Mary Hilliard
1925 – 2022
Oscar I of Sweden
1799 – 1859
Patrice Vergriete
b. 1968
Paul Coates
b. 1946
Paul Scoon
1935 – 2013
Paul de Wispelaere
1928 – 2016
Paula S. Apsell
b. 1947
Pauline Irène Nguene
b. 1958
Pavel Shperov
b. 1971
Penelope Maddy
b. 1950
Queen Sonja of Norway
b. 1937
Raivo Aeg
b. 1962
Ralph Abraham
1936 – 2024
Ramaiyengar Sridharan
b. 1935
Rein Lang
b. 1957
Richard Stika
1957 – 2026
Roxane Turcotte
b. 1952
Roy Cimatu
b. 1946
Ryszard Reiff
1923 – 2007
Sally Clausen
b. 1945
Sam Hunt
b. 1946
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
1744 – 1774
Simona Miculescu
b. 1959
Sophus Mads Jørgensen
1837 – 1914
Stanisław Ryłko
b. 1945
Stuart Thomas Butler
1926 – 1982
Surjo R. Soekadar
b. 1977
Susumu Kitagawa
b. 1951
Sylvia Iparraguirre
b. 1947
Theodore Welton
1918 – 2010
Thomas Nagel
b. 1937
Tibor Varga
1921 – 2003
Tomaž Šalamun
1941 – 2014
Tsutomu Tomioka
b. 1948
Tõnu Tepandi
b. 1948
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga
1918 – 2006
Ukichiro Nakaya
1900 – 1962
V. C. Wynne-Edwards
1906 – 1997
Van Deren Coke
1921 – 2004
Vojtech Tuka
1880 – 1946
Volodymyr Salskyi
1885 – 1940
William Ball Gilbert
1847 – 1931
William Porcher Miles
1822 – 1899
William Thierry Preyer
1841 – 1897
Wolferdus Senguerdius
1646 – 1724
Ye Xiushan
1935 – 2016
Élie Wollman
1917 – 2008
Émile José Fettweis
1927 – 2021
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
1939 – 2011
Adam Curle
1916 – 2006
Adam Hart-Davis
b. 1943
Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer
1768 – 1852
Adolf Shapiro
b. 1939
Adrian Griffin
b. 1974
… and 3,872 more
Died on July 4
Alston Scott Householder
1904 – 1993
Bengt Strömgren
1908 – 1987
Oscar Zariski
1899 – 1986
Robert S. Woodworth
1869 – 1962
Abner Mikva
1926 – 2016
Bengt Danielsson
1921 – 1997
Béla Király
1912 – 2009
Francis Perrin
1901 – 1992
Georges Ripert
1880 – 1958
Giovanni Schiaparelli
1835 – 1910
Gregory Bateson
1904 – 1980
Jacques Bertillon
1851 – 1922
Jan Eduard de Quay
1901 – 1985
Jean Becquerel
1878 – 1953
Jesse Helms
1921 – 2008
Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern
1833 – 1917
Johan Vilhelm Snellman
1806 – 1881
José García Belaúnde
1948 – 2025
Juichi Soyeda
1864 – 1929
Kazimierz Vetulani
1889 – 1941
Laurent Schwartz
1915 – 2002
Marcellin Boule
1861 – 1942
Marshall Hall
1910 – 1990
Maurice Bowra
1898 – 1971
Niels Erik Nørlund
1885 – 1981
Otto Bauer
1881 – 1938
Richard Lewontin
1929 – 2021
Richard Watson
1737 – 1816
Roman Longchamps de Bérier
1883 – 1941
Sylwester Zawadzki
1921 – 1999
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński
1874 – 1941
Warren Brandt
1923 – 2017
Włodzimierz Sieradzki
1870 – 1941
Adolfo Gilly
1928 – 2023
Alan Walton
1936 – 2015
Albert Hazen Wright
1879 – 1970
Alonzo Potter
1800 – 1865
Amor De Cosmos
1825 – 1897
Antoni Cieszyński
1882 – 1941
Ayna Sultanova
1895 – 1938
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
1912 – 2002
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
1889 – 1963
Bona Arsenault
1903 – 1993
Borys Kachura
1930 – 2007
Bukichi Miki
1884 – 1956
Carl Friedrich von Ledebour
1786 – 1851
Charles Kuralt
1934 – 1997
Charles Wolf
1827 – 1918
Christean Wagner
1943 – 2025
Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home
1799 – 1881
Denise Bombardier
1941 – 2023
Edward Lucas
1857 – 1950
Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville
1901 – 1965
Ernst W. Hamburger
1933 – 2018
Eugène Penancier
1873 – 1955
Fisher Ames
1758 – 1808
Francis Bull
1887 – 1974
Friedrich Arnold
1803 – 1890
Félix de Lapersonne
1853 – 1937
George C. McGhee
1912 – 2005
George Samuel Hurst
1927 – 2010
George Scott Graham
1850 – 1931
Gerard C. Smith
1914 – 1994
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
1919 – 2000
Harlow S. Orton
1817 – 1895
Henry Augustus Ward
1834 – 1906
Hervé Faye
1814 – 1902
Jake Saunders
1917 – 2002
Janusz Przymanowski
1922 – 1998
Johannes Magirus
1537 – 1614
Johannes Schmidt
1843 – 1901
John Adams
1735 – 1826
John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
1822 – 1883
John Zachary Young
1907 – 1997
Josef Herzig
1853 – 1924
Karim Sanjabi
1905 – 1995
Karl Friedrich Eichhorn
1781 – 1854
Lorenzo Thomas
1944 – 2005
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
1840 – 1910
Ludvig Hammarskiöld
1869 – 1958
Luigi Guido Grandi
1671 – 1742
Luis Recasens
1903 – 1977
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
1919 – 1992
Marcantonio Barbaro
1518 – 1595
Marju Lepajõe
1962 – 2019
Nathan Mendelsohn
1917 – 2006
Othenio Abel
1875 – 1946
Otto von Habsburg
1912 – 2011
Paolo Grossi
1933 – 2022
Peter Guthrie Tait
1831 – 1901
Pietro Maestri
1816 – 1871
Reiner Pommerin
1943 – 2024
Robert Louis-Dreyfus
1946 – 2009
Romesh Chandra
1919 – 2016
Seizō Kobayashi
1877 – 1962
Thomas C. Hart
1877 – 1971
Thomas Jefferson
1743 – 1826
Thomas M. Disch
1940 – 2008
Vasyl Chervoniy
1958 – 2009
Victor Cazalet
1896 – 1943
Willem Visser 't Hooft
1900 – 1985
William Fechteler
1896 – 1967
William Kirby
1759 – 1850
William Lutley Sclater
1863 – 1944
William Reynolds Archer
1928 – 2026
Win Maung
1916 – 1989
Władysław Sikorski
1881 – 1943
Yakov Cherevichenko
1894 – 1976
Élisée Reclus
1830 – 1905
Abbas Kiarostami
1940 – 2016
Abdul Rahman Saleh
1941 – 2025
Abdullah Hussain
1931 – 2015
Adang Sudrajat
1962 – 2021
Alaksiej Awramienka
1977 – 2023
Alan Seeger
1888 – 1916
Alexander Armstrong
1818 – 1899
Alexander J. Resa
1887 – 1964
Alfred de Curzon
1820 – 1895
Alfredo Falcioni
1868 – 1936
Ali Qanso
1948 – 2018
Alvey A. Adee
1842 – 1924
André Claveau
1911 – 2003
Anne Shirley
1918 – 1993
Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr.
1941 – 2003
Antoni Słonimski
1895 – 1976
Antoni Łomnicki
1881 – 1941
Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams
1837 – 1885
August Derleth
1909 – 1971
Avelin P. Tacon, Jr.
1914 – 2014
Avraham Kalfon
1900 – 1983
Barry White
1944 – 2003
Benjamin Chew Tilghman
1821 – 1901
Benjamin James
1912 – 2015
Beverley Dandridge Tucker
1882 – 1969
Bhupal Singh I of Mewar
1884 – 1955
Bobby Joe Mason
1936 – 2006
Bryan Avery
1944 – 2017
Cevat Abbas Gürer
1887 – 1943
Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane
1676 – 1744
Charles Perrat
1899 – 1976
Chen Xuejun
1919 – 2017
Chen Yannian
1898 – 1927
Clifford Glossop
1901 – 1975
Daniil Granin
1919 – 2017
De Scott Evans
1847 – 1898
Del Webb
1899 – 1974
Dennis Gorski
1944 – 2021
Dmitry Pisarev
1840 – 1868
Duke Alexander of Württemberg
1771 – 1833
Earl Cory Michener
1876 – 1957
Eberhard Schrader
1836 – 1908
Edward Addison
1898 – 1987
Edward Gent
1895 – 1948
Edwin Baruch Winans
1826 – 1894
Edwin R. Reynolds
1816 – 1908
Eleanor Raymond
1887 – 1989
Eli K. Cole
1867 – 1929
Ellen Kaarma
1928 – 1973
Elsie Fogerty
1865 – 1945
Emil Stang, Sr.
1834 – 1912
Emily C. Gorman
1909 – 2005
Eustachy Żyliński
1889 – 1954
Eva Gabor
1919 – 1995
Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
1817 – 1861
Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand
1811 – 1894
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
1768 – 1848
Frederik Moltke
1754 – 1836
Félix Le Couppey
1811 – 1887
George Davenport
1783 – 1845
George Juskalian
1914 – 2010
Georges-Emmanuel Clancier
1914 – 2018
Gersh Budker
1918 – 1977
Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
1892 – 1995
Gordon Sidney Harrington
1883 – 1943
Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
1520 – 1551
Gustaf Larson
1887 – 1968
Guy T. Helvering
1878 – 1946
Haakon Chevalier
1901 – 1985
Hank Stram
1923 – 2005
Hannibal Hamlin
1809 – 1891
Hans Hübner
1837 – 1884
Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
1884 – 1970
Harry W. Griswold
1886 – 1939
Helge Gjessing
1886 – 1924
Henry Ellenbogen
1900 – 1985
Henry Montgomery Lawrence
1806 – 1857
Henry Payne
1868 – 1940
Henry Wells
1891 – 1967
Henryk Hilarowicz
1890 – 1941
Hiren Bhattacharyya
1932 – 2012
Horace Eaton
1804 – 1855
Igino Benvenuto Supino
1858 – 1940
Ivan Levynskyi
1851 – 1919
James Monroe
1758 – 1831
James Tait
1863 – 1944
Jan Harte van Tecklenburg
1853 – 1937
Jan Kucharzewski
1876 – 1952
Jan Paweł Łuszczewski
1764 – 1812
Janwillem van de Wetering
1931 – 2008
Jean René Constant Quoy
1790 – 1869
… and 1,733 more