On This Day — November 4
3976 noted people were born and 2021 died on November 4 in our archive, including Andrew Gleason, C. B. van Niel and Anastasios Giannoulatos.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on November 4
Andrew Gleason
1921 – 2008
C. B. van Niel
1897 – 1985
Anastasios Giannoulatos
1929 – 2025
Averky Aristov
1903 – 1973
Boris Shumyatsky
1886 – 1938
Brett Giroir
b. 1960
Charles K. Kao
1933 – 2018
Charles de Villers
1765 – 1815
Derek Yalden
1940 – 2013
Fran Bagenal
b. 1954
Frederick Orpen Bower
1855 – 1948
Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
1784 – 1868
Gwyneth Lewis
b. 1959
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
b. 1952
Jean Hubert
1885 – 1927
Joanne Liu
b. 1965
Joseph Fitzmyer
1920 – 2016
Joseph Rotblat
1908 – 2005
Leopold Gratz
1929 – 2006
Leopoldo Elia
1925 – 2008
Martin Scheinin
b. 1954
Micha Brumlik
1947 – 2025
Pierre-Simon Girard
1765 – 1836
Ruth Handler
1916 – 2002
Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet
1845 – 1945
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
1786 – 1880
Thomas H. D. Mahoney
1913 – 1997
Tony Abbott
b. 1957
Yevhen Pyvovarov
b. 1978
Abdulaziz bin Saud Al Saud
b. 1983
Achille Bonito Oliva
b. 1939
Adriana Chechik
b. 1991
Albert Boerger
1881 – 1957
Aleksandra Śląska
1925 – 1989
Alexander Apukhtin
1822 – 1903
Alexander Kolchak
1874 – 1920
Alexandros Lykourgos
1827 – 1875
Ali Alatas
1932 – 2008
Amadou Toumani Touré
1948 – 2020
Anita Newcomb McGee
1864 – 1940
Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga
1810 – 1895
Avi Berkowitz
b. 1988
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
1809 – 1874
Bernhard Günther
1906 – 1981
Bertalan Pór
1880 – 1964
Bess Bolden Walcott
1886 – 1988
Blossom Chukwujekwu
b. 1983
C. B. J. Snyder
1860 – 1945
C. K. Williams
1936 – 2015
Carlo Chiarlo
1881 – 1964
Carlos Castillo Armas
1914 – 1957
Carlos Gutierrez
b. 1953
Carlos Tejedor
1817 – 1903
Cesare Maria De Vecchi
1884 – 1959
Claude Laurgeau
b. 1942
Corneliu Șumuleanu
1869 – 1937
Daniel Williams
1935 – 2024
Daron Hagen
b. 1961
David Julius
b. 1955
Dennis V. Kent
b. 1946
Dmitry Verderevsky
1873 – 1947
Dominique Voynet
b. 1958
Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel
1876 – 1951
Dragutin Tadijanović
1905 – 2007
Dudley Ryder
1691 – 1756
E. S. L. Narasimhan
b. 1945
Eduard Lintner
b. 1944
Edward Luttwak
b. 1942
Eric Karros
b. 1967
Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle
1922 – 1942
François Delapierre
1970 – 2015
François Pouqueville
1770 – 1838
Freddy Heineken
1923 – 2002
Frederick Dobson Middleton
1825 – 1898
Friedrich Stelzner
1921 – 2020
G. E. Moore
1873 – 1958
Gabriel Auphan
1894 – 1982
George Markham Giffard
1813 – 1870
Gheorghe Cipăianu
1878 – 1957
Gig Young
1913 – 1978
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
b. 1960
Hector Authier
1881 – 1971
Helmut Paul
1929 – 2015
Hermann Conring
1894 – 1989
Horace Richard Crane
1907 – 2007
Ilse Thiele
1920 – 2010
Ioannykii Malynovskyi
1868 – 1932
Irene Tsu
b. 1944
Ivan Pyryev
1901 – 1968
James Green
1944 – 2016
Jan Blommaert
1961 – 2021
Jan Hamáček
b. 1978
Janaki Ammal
1897 – 1984
Jeff Kaplan
b. 1972
Jim Gregory
1935 – 2019
Joel Broyhill
1919 – 2006
Johan Wilhelm Dalman
1787 – 1828
Johannes Hoornbeek
1617 – 1666
John Foster
1904 – 1982
John Morse
b. 1958
John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon
1901 – 1977
Joseph Ralston
b. 1943
Jørgen Aall
1806 – 1894
Jørn Hurum
b. 1967
Kamal Sarabandi
b. 1956
Karl Bowman
1888 – 1973
Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
b. 1943
Ken Howery
b. 1975
Ken Sorensen
1934 – 2012
Kenneth Pomeranz
b. 1958
Kokui Selormey Hanson
b. 1978
Kuncheng Fu
b. 1951
Laura Bush
b. 1946
Leszek Sykulski
b. 1981
Luciano Pacomio
b. 1941
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
1900 – 1954
Maaja Vadi
b. 1955
Madeleine Scopello
b. 1953
Marcin Kubiak
b. 1969
Marek Tamm
b. 1973
Margaret Goodlander
b. 1986
Margaret Lloyd George
1864 – 1941
Marie-Christine Coisne-Roquette
b. 1956
Mark McInnes
b. 1976
Mark Mellett
b. 1958
Masatoshi Abe
1942 – 2020
Matthew McConaughey
b. 1969
Matti Vanhanen
b. 1955
Max Verworn
1863 – 1921
Michael K. Young
b. 1949
Michael Meacher
1939 – 2015
Michael Wilson
1937 – 2019
Michał Głowiński
1934 – 2023
Mosh Kashi
b. 1966
Moustapha Niasse
b. 1939
Narinder Kumar Mehra
b. 1949
Olav Aarna
b. 1942
Padmavathy Bandopadhyay
b. 1944
Patricia Bath
1942 – 2019
Paul Hayter
b. 1942
Pierre-Yves Le Borgn'
b. 1964
Ralph Hertwig
b. 1963
Raoul Dandurand
1861 – 1942
Raymond Hugh Burke
1881 – 1954
René Roy
b. 1952
Renée Faure
1918 – 2005
Ricardo Ehrlich
b. 1948
Richard Fateman
b. 1946
Richard Gill
1941 – 2018
Richard Hudson
b. 1971
Rick Green
b. 1953
Rosa Lavín
b. 1973
Rudolf Jahn
1906 – 1990
Sarat Chandra Roy
1871 – 1942
Semyon Ginzburg
1897 – 1993
Serafino Raffaele Minich
1808 – 1883
Sergey Paramonov
1894 – 1967
Shizuo Satō
1931 – 2022
Stanisław Sylwester Alfonzy Grodyński
1898 – 1971
Swaminathan Sivaram
b. 1946
Tadeusz Fiszbach
b. 1935
Terao Hisashi
1855 – 1923
Thomas Keefer
1821 – 1915
Thomas Klestil
1932 – 2004
Traian Băsescu
b. 1951
Trevor Blackwell
b. 1969
Uché Blackstock
b. 1977
Vasily Nalimov
1910 – 1997
Venceslas Kruta
1939 – 2026
Viktor Shemchuk
b. 1970
Viktor Shokin
b. 1952
Virginijus Sinkevičius
b. 1990
Vladimer Chachibaia
b. 1971
Wang Shu
b. 1963
Wee Kim Wee
1915 – 2005
Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz
1817 – 1880
William Bernhardt Tegetmeier
1816 – 1912
William Campbell Steere
1907 – 1989
William Hammond Wright
1871 – 1959
Yiyun Li
b. 1972
Yuly Ilyashenko
b. 1943
Zhang Dejiang
b. 1946
Zsuzsanna Borvendég
b. 1974
Zvi Gitelman
b. 1940
Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir
b. 1987
A. Thomas Kraabel
1934 – 2016
Abner Jackson
1811 – 1874
Abraham Fornander
1812 – 1887
Ada Gabrielyan
b. 1941
Adrian Put
b. 1978
Agnes Jongerius
b. 1960
Agneta Marell
b. 1964
Aisha Bowe
b. 1986
Albert Angell
1660 – 1705
Albert de Gondi
1522 – 1602
Alberto Espina
b. 1956
Aleksandr Samoylo
1869 – 1963
Aleksandr Shabalin
1914 – 1982
Aleksey Badayev
1883 – 1951
Alex Shoumatoff
b. 1946
… and 3,776 more
Died on November 4
René Girard
1923 – 2015
Ferenc Szabó
1902 – 1969
Francis Dvornik
1893 – 1975
François-Pierre Blin
1756 – 1834
Frede Castberg
1893 – 1977
Gabriel Fauré
1845 – 1924
Gilbert Walker
1868 – 1958
Hara Takashi
1856 – 1921
Hugh Sinclair
1873 – 1939
Jean-Louis Alibert
1768 – 1837
Karl Rebane
1926 – 2007
Leopoldo Franchetti
1847 – 1917
Lois Graham
1925 – 2013
Oscar Montelius
1843 – 1921
Rasmus Bartholin
1625 – 1698
Robert von Mohl
1799 – 1875
Yasutomi Nishizuka
1932 – 2004
Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield
1874 – 1948
Alexander Sahinian
1910 – 1982
Andrew Dickson White
1832 – 1918
Anna Diggs Taylor
1932 – 2017
Antoine Duquesne
1941 – 2010
Arnold Green
1920 – 2011
Arturo Maschke
1902 – 2001
Bambang Subianto
1945 – 2022
Bernard Marcus
1929 – 2024
Carmen de Luna
1873 – 1962
Caroline Hewins
1846 – 1926
Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden
1762 – 1832
Charles Tournemire
1870 – 1939
Claude Bébéar
1935 – 2025
Daisy Bates
1914 – 1999
Daniel Amit
1938 – 2007
Dietmar Salamon
1953 – 2025
Dominik Duka
1943 – 2025
Don Beaven
1924 – 2009
Edoardo Perroncito
1847 – 1936
Elías Regules
1861 – 1929
Ernest W. Gibson Jr.
1901 – 1969
Eugene Allen Gilmore
1871 – 1953
Ewald Bucher
1914 – 1991
Fazil Mammadov
1964 – 2022
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847
Frank Arthur Calder
1915 – 2006
Frederick Richard Jordan
1881 – 1949
George Anson
1769 – 1849
George Klein
1904 – 1992
George Willis Ritchey
1864 – 1945
Gerhardus Diephuis
1817 – 1892
Goji Sakamoto
1944 – 2018
Gopichand Hinduja
1940 – 2025
Guillermo León Valencia
1909 – 1971
Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart
1848 – 1934
Haruo Wakō
1948 – 2023
Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, 9th Duke of Newcastle
1907 – 1988
Heorhii Kriuchkov
1929 – 2021
Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt
1816 – 1890
James Cosmo Melvill
1845 – 1929
James Martin
1820 – 1886
Jean Hennessy
1874 – 1944
Jean-Charles de la Faille
1597 – 1652
Jeremy Heywood
1961 – 2018
Jerzy Hoppen
1891 – 1969
John Dill
1881 – 1944
John McManners
1916 – 2006
Josef Fleckenstein
1919 – 2004
José María Oriol
1905 – 1985
Kabun Mutō
1926 – 2009
Karl Rathgen
1856 – 1921
Kazimierz Dziewoński
1910 – 1994
Kosuke Hori
1934 – 2023
Ludwik Benoit
1920 – 1992
Luis Huergo
1837 – 1913
Michael Crichton
1942 – 2008
Mikhail Tsaryov
1903 – 1987
Miloje Vasić
1869 – 1956
Murray Sinclair
1951 – 2024
Måns von Rosenstein
1755 – 1801
Niels Christian Frederiksen
1840 – 1905
Norman Foster Ramsey
1915 – 2011
Paul Delaroche
1797 – 1856
Pierre-Georges Roy
1870 – 1953
Pyotr Shafranov
1901 – 1972
Rayford Logan
1897 – 1982
Richard Hongisto
1936 – 2004
Robert D. Preus
1924 – 1995
Robert Falconer
1867 – 1943
Roland Venables Vernon
1877 – 1942
Ruth Ann Minner
1935 – 2021
Shin Seong-il
1937 – 2018
Ugo Monneret de Villard
1881 – 1954
Vladimir Shcherbakov
1901 – 1981
Walter Coutts
1912 – 1988
William Lee Robinson
1943 – 2015
Wolfgang Capito
1478 – 1541
Yitzhak Rabin
1922 – 1995
19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche
1917 – 2003
A. K. A. Abdul Samad
1926 – 1999
Aaron Harper
1981 – 2023
Abdallah El-Yafi
1901 – 1986
Abraham Jacob Multer
1900 – 1986
Ada Feinberg-Sireni
1930 – 2025
Agostinho José Freire
1780 – 1836
Agus Salim
1884 – 1954
Akiyama Yoshifuru
1859 – 1930
Alexey Cherkassky
1680 – 1742
Alfred Gilbert
1854 – 1934
Alfred William Bjornstad
1874 – 1934
André Wormser
1851 – 1926
Andy Rooney
1919 – 2011
Archibald Read Richardson
1881 – 1954
Arthur Barratt
1891 – 1966
Arthur Eaglefield Hull
1876 – 1928
Arthur Rostron
1869 – 1940
Arthur Stanley
1869 – 1947
Artur Vallner
1887 – 1937
August Larson
1904 – 1981
August Vollmer
1876 – 1955
Balakh Sher Mazari
1928 – 2022
Barbara-Rose Collins
1939 – 2021
Bastiaan Ort
1854 – 1927
Bernard Loder
1849 – 1935
Bernhard Friedrich Thibaut
1775 – 1832
Bibi Lindström
1904 – 1984
Bill Sheffield
1928 – 2022
Brebis Bleaney
1915 – 2006
Buren R. Sherman
1836 – 1904
C. Clark Cockerham
1921 – 1996
Calvin Thomas
1854 – 1919
Camilo Mouriño
1971 – 2008
Carl Ludwig von Oesfeld
1741 – 1804
Carlos Marighella
1911 – 1969
Carlos Miró-Quesada Laos
1903 – 1969
Charles Monod
1843 – 1911
Charles Western, 1st Baron Western
1767 – 1844
Claude Aveline
1901 – 1992
Claude de Kemoularia
1922 – 2016
Colin Lingwood Mallows
1930 – 2023
Cy Young
1867 – 1955
David Knights-Whittome
1876 – 1943
David Resnick
1924 – 2012
David Stirling
1915 – 1990
Diane Drufenbrock
1929 – 2013
Diego Barros Arana
1830 – 1907
Diego Vergara Correa
1839 – 1891
Diego de los Ríos
1850 – 1911
Dimitrie D. Pătrășcanu
1872 – 1937
Donna Axum
1942 – 2018
Dorothee Poelchau
1902 – 1977
Dow Finsterwald
1929 – 2022
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
1852 – 1937
Edward C. Stokes
1860 – 1942
Edward Oscar McCowen
1877 – 1953
Edward Patrick Boland
1911 – 2001
Edward R. Burke
1880 – 1968
Elijah Adlow
1896 – 1982
Elina Salo
1936 – 2025
Elsie MacGill
1905 – 1980
Emmanuel de Bethune
1930 – 2011
Enrique Olivera
1940 – 2014
Enver Redžić
1915 – 2009
Ernest Prestwich
1889 – 1977
Ernst Ziller
1837 – 1923
Eugene Field
1850 – 1895
Evert Lundquist
1904 – 1994
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
1895 – 1964
Frank G. Clement
1920 – 1969
Frank Herbert Norcross
1869 – 1952
François Dauverné
1799 – 1874
François Michel de Rozière
1775 – 1842
Gale H. Stalker
1889 – 1985
Gay Byrne
1934 – 2019
Geoffrey Bindman
1933 – 2025
George Chambers
1928 – 1997
George F. Elliott
1846 – 1931
George Henry Newhall
1850 – 1923
George M. Grant
1897 – 1982
George W. Rauch
1876 – 1940
Gilles Deleuze
1925 – 1995
Giovan Battista Pigna
1529 – 1575
Grigor Yeghiazaryan
1908 – 1988
Grigore Preoteasa
1915 – 1957
Gunnar B. Stickler
1925 – 2010
Gustav Gärtner
1855 – 1937
Gustav Schwab
1792 – 1850
Hans Graf von Schwerin-Löwitz
1847 – 1918
Harold Daniel Donohue
1901 – 1984
Harris Hines
1943 – 2018
Hawthorne C. Gray
1889 – 1927
Helen Louise Babcock
1867 – 1929
Henri Lichtenberger
1864 – 1941
Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
1832 – 1905
Henry Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
1847 – 1916
Hermann Gutzmann
1865 – 1922
Hermann von Kuhl
1856 – 1958
Hijikata Hisamoto
1833 – 1918
Hikosaburō Okonogi
1928 – 1991
Hines Holt
1805 – 1865
Hiram Y. Smith
1843 – 1894
Howard A. Rusk
1901 – 1989
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