Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 4 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 4
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 4
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 530 | Cyrus the Great, king of Persia (b. 600 BC) |
| 749 | John of Damascus, Syrian priest and saint (b. 676) |
| 771 | Carloman I, Frankish king (b. 751) |
| 870 | Suairlech ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin, Irish bishop |
| 1075 | Anno II, German archbishop and saint (b. 1010) |
| 1131 | Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) |
| 1214 | William the Lion, Scottish king (b. 1143) |
| 1260 | Aymer de Valence, Bishop of Winchester (b. 1222) |
| 1270 | Theobald II of Navarre (b. 1238) |
| 1334 | Pope John XXII (b. 1249) |
| 1340 | Henry Burghersh, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1292) |
| 1341 | Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno |
| 1408 | Valentina Visconti, wife of Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans |
| 1456 | Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401) |
| 1459 | Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein (b. 1401) |
| 1576 | Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian-Slovak mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514) |
| 1585 | John Willock, Scottish minister and reformer (b. 1515) |
| 1603 | Maerten de Vos, Flemish painter and draughtsman (b. 1532) |
| 1609 | Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560) |
| 1637 | Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592) |
| 1642 | Cardinal Richelieu, French cardinal and politician, Chief Minister to the French Monarch (b. 1585) |
| 1649 | William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585) |
| 1679 | Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and theorist (b. 1588) |
| 1680 | Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616) |
| 1696 | Empress Meishō of Japan (b. 1624) |
| 1732 | John Gay, English poet and playwright (b. 1685) |
| 1798 | Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737) |
| 1828 | Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) |
| 1839 | John Leamy, Irish–American merchant (b. 1757) |
| 1841 | David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777) |
| 1845 | Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and explorer (b. 1786) |
| 1850 | William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783) |
| 1893 | John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820) |
| 1897 | Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834) |
| 1902 | Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851) |
| 1926 | Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861) |
| 1933 | Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868) |
| 1935 | Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864) |
| 1942 | Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (b. 1885) |
| 1944 | Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879) |
| 1945 | Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) |
| 1948 | Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883) |
| 1950 | Jesse L. Brown, 1st African-American Naval aviator (b. 1926) |
| 1954 | George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (b. 1881) |
| 1955 | József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1881) |
| 1963 | Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b. 1882) |
| 1967 | Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895) |
| 1969 | Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (b. 1948) |
| 1971 | Shunryū Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center (b. 1904) |
| 1975 | Hannah Arendt, German-American historian, theorist, and academic (b. 1906) |
| 1976 | Tommy Bolin, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1951) |
| 1980 | Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934) |
| 1981 | Jeanne Block, American psychologist (b. 1923) |
| 1984 | Jack Mercer, American animator, screenwriter, voice actor, and singer (b. 1910) |
| 1987 | Arnold Lobel, American author and illustrator (b. 1933) |
| 1988 | Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (b. 1899) |
| 1992 | Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author (b. 1905) |
| 1993 | Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903) |
| 1999 | Rose Bird, American academic and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (b. 1936) |
| 2000 | Henck Arron, Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname (b. 1936) |
| 2003 | Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916) |
| 2004 | Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano and actress (b. 1943) |
| 2005 | Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand soldier and author (b. 1924) |
| 2006 | K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and politician, Mayor of Colombo (b. 1938) |
| 2007 | Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973) |
| 2009 | Liam Clancy, Irish singer, actor, and guitarist (b. 1935) |
| 2010 | King Curtis Iaukea, American wrestler (b. 1937) |
| 2011 | Sonia Pierre, Haitian-Dominican activist (b. 1965) |
| 2012 | Vasily Belov, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932) |
| 2013 | Joana Raspall i Juanola, Spanish author and poet (b. 1913) |
| 2014 | Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic (b. 1957) |
| 2015 | Bill Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1932) |
| 2016 | Patricia Robins, British writer and WAAF officer (b. 1921) |
| 2017 | Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1938) |
| 2022 | Bob McGrath, American singer and actor (b. 1932) |
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