On this day: 4 October
Events, births and deaths on 4 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1923 · Births · Charlton Heston
- 1916 · Births · Vitaly Ginzburg
- 1918 · Births · Kenichi Fukui
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1052 · Deaths · Vladimir of Novgorod
Events · 20
- 1636Battle of Wittstock — battle (1636) during the Thirty Years' War in which a Swedish-allied army decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army
- 1693Battle of Marsaglia — 1693 battle of the Nine Years' War
- 1777Battle of Germantown — October 1777 battle during the American Revolutionary War
- 1862Battle of Galveston Harbor — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1883Boys' Brigade — international interdenominational Christian youth organization
- 1917Battle of Broodseinde — battle fought on 4 October 1917 near Ypres in Flanders
- 1920Mannerheim League for Child Welfare — Finnish child welfare organization
- 1936Battle of Cable Street — anti-fascist confrontation in the East End of London in 1936
- 1958French Fifth Republic — current system of government of France (1958–present)
- 1958Constitution of France — fifth and current republican constitution of the French Republic
- 1960Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 — aviation accident
- 1985Free Software Foundation — organization supporting the free software movement
- 1991Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty — 1991 international treaty on environmental regulation in Antartica
- 1992El Al Flight 1862 — plane crash in the Netherlands in 1992
- 1992Rome General Peace Accords — peace treaty
- 2001Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 — aircraft shot down by the Ukrainian military on 4 October 2001
- 2003Maxim restaurant suicide bombing — 2003 terrorist attack
- 2006WikiLeaks — organization that publishes leaks provided by anonymous sources
- 2010Ajka alumina plant accident — 2010 industrial accident in Hungary
- 2017Tongo Tongo ambush — 2017 attack on Nigerien and US soldiers by Islamist militants in Tongo Tongo, Niger
Births · 60
- 1289(Julian date)Louis X of France — King of France from 1314 to 1316
- 1379(Julian date)Enrique III of Castile — king of Castille (1379-1407)
- 1515(Julian date)Lucas Cranach the Younger — German Renaissance artist (1515–1586)
- 1542(Julian date)Robert Bellarmine — Catholic cardinal, saint, and Doctor of the Church
- 1550Charles IX of Sweden — King of Sweden in 1604–1611
- 1585Anna of Tyrol — Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire
- 1626Richard Cromwell — English politician and Lord Protector (1626–1712)
- 1720Giovanni Battista Piranesi — Italian painter (1720-1778)
- 1787François Guizot — French historian, orator and statesman (1787–1874)
- 1810Eliza McCardle Johnson — First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- 1814Jean-François Millet — French painter (1814–1875)
- 1822Rutherford B. Hayes — president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (1822-1893)
- 1836Juliette Adam — French writer and salonnière (1836–1936)
- 1841Prudente de Morais — President of Brazil (1841-1902)
- 1841Duchess Marie Sophie in Bavaria — Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
- 1868Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear — Argentine politician, former president of Argentina (1868-1942)
- 1881Walther von Brauchitsch — German field marshal (1881-1948)
- 1892Engelbert Dollfuss — Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman (1892-1934)
- 1895Buster Keaton — American motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor
- 1895Richard Sorge — Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)
- 1903Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)
- 1903John Vincent Atanasoff — American computer pioneer (1903-1995)
- 1916Vitaly Ginzburg — Russian physicist (1916–2009)
- 1917Violeta Parra — Chilean musician and folklorist
- 1918Kenichi Fukui — Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
Deaths · 60
- 1052(Julian date)Vladimir of Novgorod — eldest son of Yaroslav I the Wise of Kiev by Ingigerd, daughter of king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden (1020-1052)
- 1160(Julian date)Constance of León — Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160
- 1189(Julian date)Gerard de Ridefort — Knight Templar
- 1221(Julian date)William IV, Count of Ponthieu — Count of Ponthieu
- 1227Abdallah al-Adil — Almohad Caliph from 1224 to 1227
- 1250(Julian date)Herman VI, Margrave of Baden — Austrian duke
- 1305(Julian date)Emperor Kameyama — Emperor of Japan
- 1497(Julian date)John, Prince of Asturias — Prince of Asturia
- 1597Sarsa Dengel — Ethiopian Emperor
- 1646Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel — English diplomat (1585-1646)
- 1660Francesco Albani — Baroque painter (1578–1660)
- 1661Jacqueline Pascal — French poet (1625-1661)
- 1669Rembrandt — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
- 1743John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll — led government army against Jacobites in 1715
- 1747Amaro Rodríguez Felipe — Spanish corsair (1678–1747)
- 1749Baron Franz von der Trenck — Austrian soldier (1711-1749)
- 1755Samuel von Cocceji — Prussian politician (1679-1755)
- 1821John Rennie — engineer from Scotland (1761-1821)
- 1851Manuel Godoy — Prime Minister of Spain (1767-1851)
- 1859Karl Baedeker — German publisher, bookseller and traveller (1801-1859)
- 1867Francis Xavier Seelos — German-American Roman Catholic priest (1819–1867)
- 1885Heinrich Scherk — German mathematician (1798–1885)
- 1890Catherine Booth — Mother of The Salvation Army (1829–1890)
- 1903Otto Weininger — Austrian philosopher and writer (1880-1903)
- 1904Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi — French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
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