On this day: 4 July
Events, births and deaths on 4 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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- Deaths · Mark Snow
- Deaths · Bobby Jenks
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Abbas Kiarostami
100 years ago1926
- Births · Alfredo Di Stéfano
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 965 · Deaths · Benedict V
- 943 · Deaths · Taejo of Goryeo
- 975 · Deaths · Gwangjong of Goryeo
Events · 27
- 362 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Mantinea — battle in 362 BCE
- 836(Julian date)Pactum Sicardi — 836 treaty between Naples and Benevento
- 1333(Julian date)Siege of Tōshō-ji — 1333 siege
- 1456(Julian date)Siege of Belgrade — 1456 military blockade halting Ottoman advance
- 1610Battle of Klushino — 1610 battle
- 1634Trois-Rivières — city in Quebec, Canada
- 1776United States — country located primarily in North America
- 1776United States Declaration of Independence — 1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain
- 1863Battle of Helena — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1879Battle of Ulundi — 1879 last major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War
- 19111911 Eastern North America heat wave — Canadian and U.S. weather disaster
- 1918Battle of Hamel — 1918 battle of World War I
- 19431943 Gibraltar B-24 crash — aviation accident
- 1946Philippines — archipelagic country in Southeast Asia
- 1946Kielce pogrom — massacre of Jews in the southeastern Polish town of Kielce on July 4, 1946.
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup Final — 1954 FIFA World Cup final
- 1966Freedom of Information Act — 1967 US statute regarding access to information produced by the US government; gave individuals, including non-US citizens, rights to apply for looking into government files including those - with restrictions - of the US intelligence agencies
- 1973Caribbean Community — International organization with 15 member states and 5 associate members in the Caribbean region
- 1976Entebbe raid — 1976 counter-terrorist hostage rescue mission by the Israel Defense Forces
- 19821982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats — 1982 unsolved kidnapping incident during the Lebanese Civil War
- 2001Vladivostok Air Flight 352 — 2001 aviation incident in Russia
- 20022002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash — Airplane Accident
- 2004UEFA Euro 2004 finals — final game of the UEFA Euro 2004
- 20082008 Minsk bombing — terrorist attack occurred in 2008
- 20242024 United Kingdom general election — election to the 59th United Kingdom House of Commons
- 2025July 2025 Central Texas floods — flood in Texas, United States
- 2025Live '25 Tour — 2025 upcoming concert tour by Oasis
Births · 60
- 1546(Julian date)Murad III — 12th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574–1595)
- 1694Louis-Claude Daquin — French composer
- 1715Christian Fürchtegott Gellert — German poet
- 1753Jean-Pierre Blanchard — French inventor and aviation pioneer
- 1790George Everest — Welsh surveyor and geographer (1790–1866)
- 1799Oscar I of Sweden — King of Sweden and Norway between 1844–1859 (1799–1859)
- 1804Nathaniel Hawthorne — American author (1804–1864)
- 1807Giuseppe Garibaldi — Italian general, patriot and republican (1807–1882)
- 1826Stephen Foster — American songwriter (1826-1864)
- 1842Hermann Cohen — German philosopher (1842–1918)
- 1868Henrietta Swan Leavitt — American astronomer and human calculator (1868–1921)
- 1871Hubert Cecil Booth — British engineer (1871–1955)
- 1872Calvin Coolidge — president of the United States from 1923 to 1929
- 1883Rube Goldberg — American cartoonist (1883–1970)
- 1896Mao Dun — Chinese writer (1896-1981)
- 1898Gulzarilal Nanda — Indian politician (1898-1998)
- 1902Meyer Lansky — American gangster
- 1910Gloria Stuart — American actress (1910–2010)
- 1910Robert K. Merton — American sociologist (1910–2003)
- 1918Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga — King of Tonga (1918–2006)
- 1921Gérard Debreu — French economist and mathematician (1921–2004)
- 1924Eva Marie Saint — American actress (born 1924)
- 1926Alfredo Di Stéfano — Argentine-Spanish association football player (1926–2014)
- 1927Gina Lollobrigida — Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician (1927–2023)
- 1927Neil Simon — American playwright, writer, and academic (1927–2018)
Deaths · 60
- 943(Julian date)Taejo of Goryeo — founder of the Goryeo Dynasty (877-943)
- 965(Julian date)Benedict V — pope
- 973(Julian date)Ulrich of Augsburg — German bishop and saint (890–973)
- 975Gwangjong of Goryeo — Goryeo ruler (925-975)
- 1187(Julian date)Raynald of Châtillon — French crusader
- 1307Rudolf I of Bohemia — Bohemian king
- 1336(Julian date)Elizabeth of Aragon — Queen of Portugal (1271-1336)
- 1336(Julian date)Kusunoki Masashige — samurai
- 1541Pedro de Alvarado — Spanish conquistador, explorer and condottiero
- 1546(Julian date)Hayreddin Barbarossa — Turkish admiral (1478–1546)
- 1623William Byrd — English composer (ca. 1540-1623)
- 1742Luigi Guido Grandi — mathematician and philosopher from Italy
- 1754Philippe Néricault Destouches — French playwright (1680-1754)
- 1761Samuel Richardson — English writer and printer (1689–1761)
- 1780Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine — Austrian general (1712-1780)
- 1815Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann — German scientist and zoologist
- 1826Thomas Jefferson — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
- 1826John Adams — Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801 (1735–1826)
- 1831James Monroe — president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
- 1848François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand — French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
- 1850William Kirby — British entomologist (1759-1850)
- 1857William L. Marcy — American politician (1786-1857)
- 1869Jean René Constant Quoy — French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist (1790-1869)
- 1881Johan Vilhelm Snellman — Finnish politician and author (1806-1881)
- 1891Hannibal Hamlin — Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809–1891)
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