On this day: 4 February
Events, births and deaths on 4 February. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Aga Khan IV
- Events · 2025 Risbergska school shooting
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Edgar Mitchell
100 years ago1926
- Births · Gyula Grosics
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 30
- 1169(Julian date)1169 Sicily earthquake — 1169 earthquake in Sicily
- 1758Macapá — municipality of Amapá state, Brazil
- 17971797 Riobamba earthquake (Ecuador) — South American natural disaster
- 1820Capture of Valdivia — 1820 battle in the Chilean War of Independence
- 1899Philippine–American War — armed conflict between the First Philippine Republic and the United States
- 1899Battle of Manila — 1899 battle during the Philippine–American War
- 1923February 7th Strike — strike of Peking-Hankow Railway workers in February 1923
- 1932Defense of Harbin — 1932 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
- 1938High Command of the Armed Forces — High Command of the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi Germany during World War II
- 1945Yalta Conference — 1945 WWII Allied discussion of post-war reorganization
- 1945Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations — 1945 battle during the Allied Burma campaign in WWII
- 1948Dominion of Ceylon — predecessor of the modern day country of Sri Lanka
- 1961Angolan War of Independence — conflict in Angola between 1961 and 1975
- 1966All Nippon Airways Flight 60 — 1966 aviation accident
- 1974M62 coach bombing — 1974 IRA attack in northern England
- 19751975 Haicheng earthquake — successfully-predicted 1975 earthquake in Haicheng, Liaoning, China
- 19761976 Guatemala earthquake — February 1976 earthquake in Guatemala
- 19771977 Chicago Loop derailment — deadly crash of a rapid transit train in Chicago, Illinois
- 1992First Venezuelan coup d'etat attempt of 1992 — Venezuelan coup attempt in 1992
- 19971997 Israeli helicopter disaster — Israeli air disaster
- 19971997 Bojnurd earthquake — earthquake in Bojnord County, Iran
- 1998February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake — 1998 earthquake centered in northeastern Afghanistan
- 1999killing of Amadou Diallo — 1999 police killing of a Guinean man in New York City, New York, United States
- 2004Facebook — American online social media and social networking service
- 2005Riyuexing Cup — 2005 Go competition
- 2008One million voices against FARC — demonstration
- 2015TransAsia Airways Flight 235 — 2015 plane crash of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72-600 in Taipei, Taiwan
- 20222022 Winter Olympics — 24th edition of Winter Olympics, in Beijing, China
- 2024Hong Kong v Inter Miami, 4 February 2024 — friendly football match in Hong Kong
- 20252025 Risbergska school shooting — school shooting at a Swedish adult education centre in Örebro
Births · 60
- 1495(Julian date)Francesco II Sforza — Duke of Milan, 1521-24, 1525-35
- 1505Mikołaj Rej — Polish poet and prose writer, politician and musician of the Renaissance (1505-1569)
- 1688Pierre de Marivaux — French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)
- 1740Carl Michael Bellman — Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740–1795)
- 1778Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle — Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
- 1799Almeida Garrett — Portuguese writer and politician (1799–1854)
- 1818Emperor Norton — San Francisco eccentric and self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States
- 1849Jean Richepin — French poet, novelist and dramatist (1849-1926)
- 1868Constance Markievicz — Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe
- 1871Friedrich Ebert — German politician, president of Germany (1871-1925)
- 1872Gotse Delchev — Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1872–1903)
- 1875Ludwig Prandtl — German physicist (1875-1953)
- 1881Fernand Léger — French painter (1881–1955)
- 1893Raymond Dart — Australian anatomist and anthropologist (1893-1988)
- 1895Nigel Bruce — British actor (1895-1953)
- 1896Friedrich Hund — German physicist (1896-1997)
- 1897Ludwig Erhard — Chancellor of West Germany (1963–1966)
- 1900Jacques Prévert — French poet and screenwriter (1900-1977)
- 1902Charles Lindbergh — American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist (1902–1974)
- 1906Dietrich Bonhoeffer — German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident (1906–1945)
- 1906Clyde Tombaugh — American astronomer (1906–1997)
- 1909Koichi Kudo — Japanese association football player and manager
- 1913Rosa Parks — civil rights activist
- 1914Alfred Andersch — prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980)
- 1915Norman Wisdom — English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter
Deaths · 60
- 211(Julian date)Septimius Severus — Roman emperor from 193 to 211
- 708(Julian date)Sisinnius — pope
- 856(Julian date)Rabanus Maurus — archbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)
- 1498(Julian date)Antonio del Pollaiuolo — Italian painter, sculptor and engraver (1429-1498)
- 1505(Julian date)Joan of Valois — French queen who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
- 1508(Julian date)Conrad Celtes — German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet (1459-1508)
- 1590Gioseffo Zarlino — Italian composer (1517–1590)
- 1615Giambattista della Porta — Italian alchemist and dramatist (1535-1615)
- 1713Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury — English politician and Earl (1671-1713)
- 1774Charles Marie de La Condamine — French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (1701-1774)
- 1781Josef Mysliveček — Czech composer
- 1799Étienne-Louis Boullée — French architect (1728–1799)
- 1843Theodoros Kolokotronis — Greek general (1770–1843)
- 1891Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos — Catholic bishop (1816-1891)
- 1905Louis-Ernest Barrias — French sculptor (1841-1905)
- 1912Franz Reichelt — Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer
- 1928Hendrik Lorentz — Dutch physicist (1853–1928)
- 1933Archibald Sayce — British Assyriologist and linguist (1845–1933)
- 1936Wilhelm Gustloff — (1895-1936), German politician, meteorologist and founder of the Swiss branch of the Nazi Party/Foreign Organization (NSDAP/AO) at Davos in 1932 - a wing of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) for German citizens living outside Germany
- 1940Nikolai Yezhov — NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)
- 1943Frank Calder — Canadian ice hockey administrator (1877-1943)
- 1944Arsen Kotsoyev — Russian writer (1872–1944)
- 1956Savielly Tartakower — Polish and French chess player (1887–1956)
- 1958Henry Kuttner — American author (1915–1958)
- 1959Una O'Connor — Irish actress (1880–1959)
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