Famous Deaths on May 4, Who Died on May 4
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1003 | Herman II, duke of Swabia |
| 1038 | Gotthard of Hildesheim, German bishop (b. 960) |
| 1406 | Coluccio Salutati, chancellor of Florence (b. 1331) |
| 1436 | Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish rebel leader |
| 1471 | Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, son and heir of Henry VI of England (b. 1453) |
| 1471 | Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset (b. 1438) |
| 1483 | George Neville, Duke of Bedford (b. 1457) |
| 1506 | Husayn Mirza Bayqara, Timurid ruler of Herat (b. 1438) |
| 1519 | Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino (b. 1492) |
| 1535 | John Houghton, Carthusian monk and saint |
| 1562 | Lelio Sozzini, Italian Protestant theologian (b. 1525) |
| 1566 | Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490) |
| 1571 | Pierre Viret, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1511) |
| 1604 | Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533) |
| 1605 | Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist (b. 1522) |
| 1615 | Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1561) |
| 1626 | Arthur Lake, English bishop and scholar (b. 1569) |
| 1677 | Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630) |
| 1684 | John Nevison, English criminal (b. 1639) |
| 1729 | Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651) |
| 1734 | James Thornhill, English painter and politician (b. 1675) |
| 1737 | Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (b. 1686) |
| 1774 | Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Prussian nobleman (b. 1714) |
| 1776 | Jacques Saly, French painter and sculptor (b. 1717) |
| 1790 | Matthew Tilghman, American politician (b. 1718) |
| 1799 | Tipu, ruler of Mysore (b. 1750) |
| 1811 | Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776) |
| 1816 | Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1761) |
| 1824 | Joseph Joubert, French author (b. 1754) |
| 1839 | Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784) |
| 1858 | Aimé Bonpland, French botanist and explorer (b. 1773) |
| 1859 | Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1771) |
| 1880 | Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815) |
| 1901 | John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831) |
| 1903 | Gotse Delchev, Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary IMRO (b. 1872) |
| 1912 | Nettie Stevens, American geneticist credited with discovering sex chromosomes (b. 1861) |
| 1916 | Ned Daly, Irish rebel commander (Easter Rising) (b. 1891) |
| 1916 | John Murray, Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria (b. 1851) |
| 1916 | Joseph Plunkett, Irish rebel and writer (b. 1887) |
| 1916 | Willie Pearse, Irish rebel (b. 1891) |
| 1919 | Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak general and politician (b. 1880) |
| 1922 | Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (b. 1888) |
| 1923 | Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877) |
| 1924 | E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858) |
| 1938 | Kanō Jigorō, Japanese founder of judo (b. 1860) |
| 1938 | Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) |
| 1941 | Chris McKivat, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1880) |
| 1945 | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880) |
| 1953 | Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876) |
| 1955 | George Enescu, Romanian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1881) |
| 1964 | Karl Robert Pusta, Estonian politician, 4th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883) |
| 1969 | Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian author and poet (b. 1892) |
| 1972 | Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) |
| 1973 | Jane Bowles, American author and playwright (b. 1917) |
| 1975 | Moe Howard, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1897) |
| 1976 | Frank Strahan, Australian public servant (b. 1886) |
| 1980 | Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) |
| 1981 | C. Loganathan, Sri Lankan banker (b. 1913) |
| 1983 | Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1911) |
| 1984 | Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931) |
| 1985 | Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938) |
| 1985 | Clarence Wiseman, English-Canadian 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907) |
| 1987 | Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942) |
| 1987 | Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930) |
| 1988 | Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891) |
| 1990 | Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957) |
| 1991 | Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902) |
| 1992 | Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927) |
| 1993 | France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919) |
| 1995 | Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922) |
| 2000 | Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909) |
| 2001 | Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956) |
| 2004 | David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery (b. 1965) |
| 2005 | David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930) |
| 2008 | Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918) |
| 2009 | Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933) |
| 2011 | Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924) |
| 2012 | Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923) |
| 2012 | Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920) |
| 2012 | Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964) |
| 2012 | Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963) |
| 2013 | Otis R. Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918) |
| 2013 | Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) |
| 2013 | Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (b. 1948) |
| 2013 | Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935) |
| 2013 | Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914) |
| 2013 | César Portillo de la Luz, Cuban guitarist and composer (b. 1922) |
| 2014 | Dick Ayers, American author and illustrator (b. 1924) |
| 2014 | Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (b. 1983) |
| 2014 | Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923) |
| 2014 | Helga Königsdorf, German physicist and author (b. 1938) |
| 2014 | Ross Lonsberry, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1947) |
| 2014 | Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1948) |
| 2015 | William Bast, American screenwriter and author (b. 1931) |
| 2015 | Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913) |
| 2015 | Marv Hubbard, American football player (b. 1946) |
| 2016 | Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, Burundian politician (b. 1946) |
| 408 | Venerius, archbishop of Milan |
| 784 | Arbeo, bishop of Freising |
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