On this day: 4 November
Events, births and deaths on 4 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Dominik Duka
- Events · UPS Airlines Flight 2976
- Deaths · Elina Salo
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Mansour Pourheidari
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1933 · Births · Charles K. Kao
- 1924 · Deaths · Gabriel Fauré
- 1916 · Births · Walter Cronkite
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1035 · Deaths · Jaromír
Events · 30
- 1354(Julian date)Battle of Sapienza — 1354 battle
- 1429(Julian date)Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier — 1429 battle of the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War
- 1576(Julian date)Sack of Antwerp — 1576 sack of the city of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
- 1737Teatro di San Carlo — opera house in Naples, Italy
- 1780Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II — uprising of native and mestizo peasants against the Bourbon reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru
- 1791St. Clair's Defeat — 1791 battle of the Northwest Indian War
- 1798Siege of Corfu — 1798–1799 siege
- 1839Newport Rising — Chartist protest in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1839
- 1861
- 1864Battle of Johnsonville — 1864 attack on a Union supply base at Johnsonville during the American Civil War
- 1869Nature — British scientific journal since 1869
- 1884Hong Kong Jockey Club — non-profit sports and entertainment organisation and company limited in Hong Kong
- 1921
- 1931Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge — battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War which occurred in the above town
- 1944Operation Pheasant — 1944 Allied action liberating North Brabant, Netherlands
- 1946Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the United States of America and the Republic of China — 1946 treaty between the United States and China
- 1952National Security Agency — signals intelligence organization of the United States
- 19661966 flood of the Arno — November 1966 flood of the Arno River
- 1967Iberia Airlines Flight 062 — Fatal aviation incident in 1967
- 1979Iran hostage crisis — 1979–1981 diplomatic standoff between the US and Iran
- 19801980 United States presidential election — 49th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1993China Airlines Flight 605 — Crash of a Taiwanese airliner in Hong Kong in 1993
- 1995assassination of Yitzhak Rabin — 1995 murder in Tel Aviv, Israel
- 20082008 United States presidential election — 56th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 2010Qantas Flight 32 — aviation accident
- 2010Aero Caribbean Flight 883 — 2010 aviation accident in Cuba
- 20152015 Juba plane crash — cargo plane crash in South Sudan
- 2015
- 2019death of Chow Tsz-lok — November 2019 fatal incident in Hong Kong
- 2025UPS Airlines Flight 2976 — 2025 aviation accident in Kentucky
Births · 60
- 1265Alfonso III of Aragon — King of Aragon
- 1448(Julian date)Alfonso II of Naples — King of Naples (1448-1495)
- 1575(Julian date)Guido Reni — Bolognese painter (1575–1642)
- 1592Gerard van Honthorst — Dutch Golden Age painter (1592-1656)
- 1631Mary Henrietta, Princess Royal — eldest daughter of Charles I of England and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France; mother of William III of England (1631-1660)
- 1742Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart — German biologist (1742-1795)
- 1787Edmund Kean — English actor (1787–1833)
- 1868La Belle Otero — Spanish dancer, actress and courtesan in France (1868-1965)
- 1879Will Rogers — American humorist and entertainer (1879–1935)
- 1883Nikolaos Plastiras — soldier and Prime Minister of Greece (1883–1953)
- 1896Carlos P. Garcia — President of the Philippines from 1957 to 1961
- 1908Joseph Rotblat — Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
- 1909Bert Patenaude — American soccer player (1909-1974)
- 1913Gig Young — American actor (1913–1978)
- 1914Carlos Castillo Armas — Guatemalan President (1914-1957)
- 1915Wee Kim Wee — 4th President of Singapore (1915–2005)
- 1916Walter Cronkite — American broadcast journalist (1916-2009)
- 1916Ruth Handler — American businesswoman
- 1918Art Carney — American actor and comedian (1918–2003)
- 1918Cameron Mitchell — American actor (1918–1994)
- 1919Martin Balsam — American actor (1919–1996)
- 1925Doris Roberts — American actress (1925–2016)
- 1929Shakuntala Devi — Indian writer and mental calculator (1929-2013)
- 1929Anastasios Giannoulatos — former Primate of Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, Member of Academy of Athens, President of World Council of Churches, Honorary President of Religions for Peace
- 1931Bernard Francis Law — Catholic cardinal (1931–2017)
Deaths · 60
- 1035(Julian date)Jaromír — Duke of Bohemia
- 1203Dirk VII, Count of Holland — Count of Holland from 1190 to 1203
- 1212(Julian date)Felix of Valois — French hermit
- 1411(Julian date)Khalil Sultan — Timurid Sultan
- 1428(Julian date)Sophia of Bavaria — queen of Bohemia
- 1485(Julian date)Françoise d'Amboise — Member of the French nobility and co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France
- 1652Jean-Charles de la Faille — Jesuit mathematician
- 1698Rasmus Bartholin — Danish scientist, physician and grammarian (1625-1698)
- 1702John Benbow — Royal Navy Admiral (1653-1702)
- 1781Johann Nikolaus Götz — German poet (1721–1781)
- 1847Felix Mendelssohn — German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
- 1847Thiệu Trị — third emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty (1807–1847)
- 1856Paul Delaroche — French painter (1797-1856)
- 1893Pierre Tirard — Prime Minister of France (1827-1893)
- 1895Eugene Field — American writer (1850-1895)
- 1918Wilfred Owen — English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
- 1921Hara Takashi — Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- 1924Gabriel Fauré — French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
- 1930Akiyama Yoshifuru — Imperial Japanese Army general (1859-1930)
- 1931Buddy Bolden — American cornetist and jazz pioneer (1877–1931)
- 1931Luigi Galleani — Italian anarchist (1861–1931)
- 1939Ma Xiangbo — Chinese educator, founder of several universities (1840-1939)
- 1940Arthur Rostron — British sailor (1869-1940)
- 1946Rüdiger von der Goltz — German militeary personnel (1865-1946)
- 1950Grover Cleveland Alexander — American baseball player (1887-1950)
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