On This Day — October 4
4210 noted people were born and 1827 died on October 4 in our archive, including Kurt Wüthrich, Makoto Nagao and Martin Vetterli.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 4
Kurt Wüthrich
b. 1938
Makoto Nagao
1936 – 2021
Martin Vetterli
b. 1957
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
1841 – 1924
Alexander Kemurdzhian
1921 – 2003
Alfred Lagerheim
1843 – 1924
Alvard Petrossyan
1946 – 2022
Barton Zwiebach
b. 1954
Bo Ralph
b. 1945
Chuck Hagel
b. 1946
Clifton Davis
b. 1945
Cyril Stanley Smith
1903 – 1992
David Sabiston
1924 – 2009
Denis Jean Achille Luchaire
1846 – 1908
Dimitrie Pompeiu
1873 – 1954
Dines Bjørner
b. 1937
Engelbert Dollfuss
1892 – 1934
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
1903 – 1946
Eugene Kaspersky
b. 1965
Evgeni Bushmin
1958 – 2019
Frane Bulić
1846 – 1934
Franz Jonas
1899 – 1974
Franz Vranitzky
b. 1937
François Guizot
1787 – 1874
Henrik Abrahamyan
1939 – 1999
Igor Slyunyayev
b. 1966
Ilhan Omar
b. 1982
Jan Tombiński
b. 1958
Johan Frederik Vilhelm Schlegel
1765 – 1836
John Friedlander
b. 1941
John Vincent Atanasoff
1903 – 1995
Juan José Laborda Martín
b. 1947
Julia Aglionby
b. 1969
Jérôme Garcin
b. 1956
Jürgen Creutzmann
b. 1945
Karl-Heinz Paqué
b. 1956
Kazuhiko Nishijima
1926 – 2009
Kenichi Fukui
1918 – 1998
Mahar Lagmay
b. 1966
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
b. 1977
Nicolaas van Wijk
1880 – 1942
Oswald Kairamo
1858 – 1938
Pierre Riché
1921 – 2019
Pierre Taittinger
1887 – 1965
Ridwan Kamil
b. 1971
Sankar Adhya
b. 1937
Scott W. Lowe
b. 1963
Sergej Chernyshov
1881 – 1963
Stefan Persson
b. 1947
Stéphane Bredin
b. 1976
Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
b. 1945
Vincas Vitkauskas
1890 – 1965
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
1804 – 1891
Yevgeny Kharitonov
b. 1946
İoanna Kuçuradi
b. 1936
Adolphe Niel
1802 – 1869
Ahmed Hachani
b. 1956
Albrecht Freiherr von Boeselager
b. 1949
Aleksandr Karpov
1917 – 1944
Alexandre Bompard
b. 1972
Alice Stewart
1906 – 2002
Alvin Toffler
1928 – 2016
Ana Botín
b. 1960
Andreas Berg
1861 – 1944
Andreas Frederik Krieger
1817 – 1893
Andrei Grechko
1903 – 1976
Anita DeFrantz
b. 1952
Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1633 – 1714
Ashley Banjo
b. 1988
Auguste-Réal Angers
1837 – 1919
Bel Olid
b. 1977
Bernice Johnson Reagon
1942 – 2024
Bona Arsenault
1903 – 1993
Bruce Kingma
b. 1961
Carsten Peterson
b. 1945
Charles Alan Pownall
1887 – 1975
Charles Lenepveu
1840 – 1910
Charlton Heston
1923 – 2008
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
1562 – 1647
Christopher Alexander
1936 – 2022
Christopher Knudsen
1843 – 1915
Dan Mazer
b. 1971
Daniel J. Kleitman
b. 1934
Daniel S. Hendrickson
b. 1970
David Duvall Orr
b. 1944
David Say
1914 – 2006
Denis Mercier
b. 1959
Dimitrios Giannaros
b. 1949
Dmitri Protopopov
1897 – 1986
Donna Bauer
b. 1970
Eduard Isakov
b. 1973
Edward Adeane
1939 – 2015
Edward Bennett Rosa
1873 – 1921
Edward Murray East
1879 – 1938
Eeva Kuuskoski
b. 1946
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
b. 1959
Elmar Leppik
1898 – 1978
Ernest Fourneau
1872 – 1949
Eugene G. Rochow
1909 – 2002
Francesco Crispi
1818 – 1901
Francis Bull
1887 – 1974
Francis Ernest Lloyd
1868 – 1947
Francisco Morales Bermúdez
1921 – 2022
Francisco de Saavedra
1746 – 1819
Francisco de Toledo
1532 – 1596
François de Vial
1904 – 1984
Félix Gouin
1884 – 1977
Gabriel Malzaire
b. 1957
Gabriele Paleotti
1522 – 1597
Gawril Katsarov
1874 – 1958
Genji Matsuda
1876 – 1936
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
b. 1970
Georgi Bliznashki
b. 1956
Gerhard Schindler
b. 1952
Gheorghe Țițeica
1873 – 1939
Gino Claudio Segre
b. 1938
Gustav Kunze
1793 – 1851
György Gilyán
b. 1951
György Kepes
1906 – 2001
Haluk Bayraktar
b. 1978
Helen Lemmens-Sherrington
1834 – 1906
Henri Dor
1835 – 1912
Hidehiko Yuzaki
b. 1965
Ian Kiernan
1940 – 2018
James Forman
1928 – 2005
James Lind
1716 – 1794
Jianping Wu
b. 1953
Jim Keady
b. 1971
Joe Williams
1934 – 2020
John J. Chanche
1795 – 1852
John Noble Wilford
1933 – 2025
Jorge Jardim Gonçalves
b. 1935
Joseph Werth
b. 1952
José Nicolás Matienzo
1860 – 1936
Julien Clerc
b. 1947
Józef Beck
1894 – 1944
Jürgen Stock
b. 1959
Kaneshichi Masuda
1898 – 1985
Kyrylo Studynskyi
1868 – 1941
Larysa Skoryk
b. 1939
Lee Patrick Brown
b. 1937
Linda McMahon
b. 1948
Lord Augustus Loftus
1817 – 1904
Luis Herrero
b. 1955
Maarten Jansen
b. 1952
Malcolm Baldrige, Jr.
1922 – 1987
Manuel Cornejo
b. 1971
Mao Chi-kuo
b. 1948
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
1868 – 1942
Mariano Lagasca
1776 – 1839
Marie Silin
b. 1978
Mark Alford
b. 1963
Marlen Khutsiev
1925 – 2019
Mary Kennedy
b. 1956
Mathias Bonsach Krogh
1754 – 1828
Matthias Fekl
b. 1977
Meri Disoski
b. 1982
Michael Mullen
b. 1946
Michel Levie
1851 – 1939
Milena Harito
b. 1966
Milovan Drecun
b. 1957
Oleg Bogomolov
b. 1950
Olivier François
b. 1961
Olle Häggström
b. 1967
Otto Wille Kuusinen
1881 – 1964
Parvez Butt
1942 – 2026
Patrícia Abravanel
b. 1977
Peter Florence
b. 1964
Philip Lowe
b. 1961
Pierre Braunstein
b. 1947
Pontus Reuterswärd
1871 – 1949
Péter Pázmány
1570 – 1637
Ray Whittorn
1911 – 1995
Rehman Chishti
b. 1978
Ricardo Boizard
1903 – 1983
Richard Rorty
1931 – 2007
Richard Sorge
1895 – 1944
Robert Bellarmine
1542 – 1621
Roger N. Beachy
b. 1944
Roy M. Huffington
1917 – 2008
Sacvan Bercovitch
1933 – 2014
Sandeep Pathak
b. 1979
Sebastian Finsterwalder
1862 – 1951
Shigeaki Hinohara
1911 – 2017
Shinmura Izuru
1876 – 1967
Shrinivas Kulkarni
b. 1956
Stanley Krippner
b. 1932
Steve Capus
b. 1963
Steven M. Block
b. 1952
Steven Rudich
1961 – 2024
Susan Sarandon
b. 1946
Syed Muhammad Ibrahim
b. 1949
Tom Schieffer
b. 1947
Tomás Romero Pereira
1886 – 1982
Viktor Knorre
1840 – 1919
Vladimir Beklemishev
1890 – 1962
Walther von Brauchitsch
1881 – 1948
Wayne Flynt
b. 1940
William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian
1763 – 1824
Wincenty (Morari)
b. 1953
… and 4,010 more
Died on October 4
Gérard Laumon
1952 – 2025
Dumitru Stăniloae
1903 – 1993
Frederick Klaeber
1863 – 1954
Georg Hamel
1877 – 1954
Gifford Pinchot
1865 – 1946
Gino Giugni
1927 – 2009
Ivan Nikitchuk
1944 – 2023
Job de Ruiter
1930 – 2015
Kenzō Takada
1939 – 2020
Léon Brillouin
1889 – 1969
Maurice Prou
1861 – 1930
Max Planck
1858 – 1947
Michael Smith
1932 – 2000
Pascual de Gayangos y Arce
1809 – 1897
Paul Janet
1823 – 1899
Samuel von Cocceji
1679 – 1755
Viktor Vinogradov
1894 – 1969
Võ Nguyên Giáp
1911 – 2013
Yukio Hattori
1945 – 2024
Zoltán Lajos Bay
1900 – 1992
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
1914 – 1982
Alberto Fermín Zubiría
1901 – 1971
Alexandros Papagos
1883 – 1955
Ambrosius Capello
1597 – 1676
Anna Hyatt Huntington
1876 – 1973
Anne Sexton
1928 – 1974
Arthur Moseley Channell
1838 – 1928
Augustin Ehrensvärd
1710 – 1772
Benjamin
1880 – 1961
Bob Whan
1933 – 2015
Brigitte Hamann
1940 – 2016
Bronisław Chromy
1925 – 2017
Carl Thomsen
1847 – 1912
Cesare Correnti
1815 – 1888
Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
1786 – 1857
Clemence B. Horrall
1895 – 1960
Clement Robertson
1890 – 1917
Daniel Wafena Bell
1891 – 1971
Edmund Osmańczyk
1913 – 1989
Elmer Gethin Rees
1941 – 2019
Fabian Tamm
1879 – 1955
Francis Biddle
1886 – 1968
Frederic de Hoffmann
1924 – 1989
Georg Sibbern
1816 – 1901
George Burwell Utley
1876 – 1946
George Troup
1863 – 1941
Georgi Yumatov
1926 – 1997
Gordon Cooper
1927 – 2004
Graham Chapman
1941 – 1989
Günther Rall
1918 – 2009
Heinrich Hellwege
1908 – 1991
Heinrich Scherk
1798 – 1885
Holger Hammerich
1845 – 1915
Ivan Klíma
1931 – 2025
Jan des Bouvrie
1942 – 2020
Janusz Radziwiłł
1880 – 1967
Jean Béraud
1849 – 1935
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
1936 – 1998
John Falloon
1942 – 2005
John Miller
1938 – 2017
John Paul Harney
1931 – 2021
Joseph Bell
1837 – 1911
José Eduardo Dutra
1957 – 2015
Kanai Masao
1892 – 1979
Kenneth H. Dahlberg
1917 – 2011
Kim Dong-gil
1928 – 2022
Luis Giampietri
1940 – 2023
Max Margules
1856 – 1920
Mercer Cook
1903 – 1987
Murphy J. Foster
1930 – 2020
Nilamani Routray
1920 – 2004
Noel Birch
1865 – 1939
Pamfil Yurkevich
1826 – 1874
Peregrine Worsthorne
1923 – 2020
Petre Andrei
1891 – 1940
Pierre Sebileau
1860 – 1953
Piotar Mašeraw
1918 – 1980
Rae Weston
1941 – 2014
Rafael Spínola
1866 – 1901
Ragnar Hyne
1893 – 1966
Raphael Mahler
1899 – 1977
Richard E. McArdle
1899 – 1983
Richard T. Ely
1854 – 1943
Roger Curtis Green
1932 – 2009
Samuel Horsley
1733 – 1806
Sergey Lapin
1912 – 1990
Sergey Muromtsev
1850 – 1910
Sergey Solovyov
1820 – 1879
Shōichi Nakagawa
1953 – 2009
Sid McMath
1912 – 2003
Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet
1676 – 1755
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
1585 – 1646
Thomas Townsend Bucknill
1845 – 1915
Toivo Antikainen
1898 – 1941
Valentina Petrovna Telegina
1915 – 1979
Viktor Radus-Zenkovich
1877 – 1967
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch
1894 – 1973
Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke
1861 – 1936
William Linn Westermann
1873 – 1954
Woody Bledsoe
1921 – 1995
Zbigniew Pacelt
1951 – 2021
Abraham Lansing
1835 – 1899
Abraham Reynardson
1590 – 1661
Al Smith
1873 – 1944
Albert Dutton MacDade
1871 – 1954
Albert Peter
1853 – 1937
Aldridge Bousfield
1941 – 2020
Alexander Gutbier
1876 – 1926
Alexander Leitch, Baron Leitch
1947 – 2024
Alfred B. Greenwood
1811 – 1889
Alyn Ainsworth
1924 – 1990
André Waterkeyn
1917 – 2005
Anne Chrétien Louis de Hell
1783 – 1864
Annie Elizabeth Kelly
1877 – 1946
Annie Trumbull Slosson
1838 – 1926
Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton
1812 – 1861
Arno von Lenski
1893 – 1986
Art Farmer
1928 – 1999
Arthur J. Bidwill
1903 – 1985
Arthur Rodgers
1876 – 1936
Arthur Whitten Brown
1886 – 1948
Ashbel P. Willard
1820 – 1860
Athar Ali
1963 – 2003
August Dresbach
1894 – 1968
Augustin Mouchot
1825 – 1912
Augustus Dickens
1827 – 1866
Augustus Post
1873 – 1952
Barnett Gibbs
1851 – 1904
Barney Oldfield
1878 – 1946
Belfor Fernández Rodríguez
1859 – 1936
Bernard Buffet
1928 – 1999
Berndt Grönblom
1885 – 1970
Bernhard Gröschel
1939 – 2009
Bhagwat Jha Azad
1922 – 2011
Bill McKnight
1940 – 2019
Billy Wasmund
1887 – 1911
Bing Thom
1940 – 2016
Boris M. Schein
1938 – 2023
Britta Holmström
1911 – 1992
Camille Bellaigue
1858 – 1930
Carla Federica Nespolo
1943 – 2020
Carlton Mobley
1906 – 1981
Cathal O'Shannon
1893 – 1969
Ceslaus Sipovich
1914 – 1981
Charles Fleetwood
1618 – 1692
Charles Lennox Wyke
1815 – 1897
Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier
1832 – 1913
Chester C. Cole
1824 – 1913
Clarence Manning
1893 – 1972
Claude C. Bloch
1878 – 1967
David Scott
1746 – 1805
Dean Roden Chapman
1922 – 1995
Diahann Carroll
1935 – 2019
Douglas Fisher
1890 – 1963
Earnest Elmo Calkins
1868 – 1964
Edmund Eysler
1874 – 1949
Egano Righi-Lambertini
1906 – 2000
Elaine Lustig Cohen
1927 – 2016
Elmer A. Morse
1870 – 1945
Emil Schumacher
1912 – 1999
Erin Pizzey
1939 – 2025
Erwin Bünning
1906 – 1990
Estanislao Zeballos
1854 – 1923
Eugène Disdéri
1819 – 1889
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidi
1864 – 1913
Federico Beltrán Masses
1885 – 1949
Felipe Benicio Alfau
1818 – 1878
Francesco Borgongini Duca
1884 – 1954
Francis Hyacinth of Savoy
1632 – 1638
Frank John Lonergan
1882 – 1961
Franklin Simon
1865 – 1934
František Fajtl
1912 – 2006
Franz Amrehn
1912 – 1981
François-Guillaume Ménageot
1744 – 1816
Fred Ohene-Kena
1936 – 2019
Freddie Lindstrom
1905 – 1981
Frederick E. Bakutis
1912 – 2009
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1834 – 1904
Fyodor Cherenkov
1959 – 2014
Georg Kulenkampff
1898 – 1948
George Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz
1686 – 1755
George French Angas
1822 – 1886
Germain Martin
1872 – 1948
Gerrit Schimmelpenninck
1794 – 1863
Gideon Toury
1942 – 2016
Glenn Gould
1932 – 1982
Gordon E. Cole
1833 – 1890
Gordon King
1900 – 1991
Grigory Aleksinsky
1879 – 1967
Günter Lamprecht
1930 – 2022
Hanan Porat
1943 – 2011
Harold Huntley Bassett
1907 – 2007
Helius Eobanus Hessus
1488 – 1540
Henry L. Hulbert
1867 – 1918
Herbert Haddock
1861 – 1946
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
1848 – 1895
Horatio Townshend
1682 – 1751
Imre Madách
1820 – 1864
James Whitcomb
1795 – 1852
Janis Joplin
1943 – 1970
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