4 October Deaths
Published : 04 Oct 2017, 11:04
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October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
Deaths
744 – Yazid III, Umayyad caliph (b. 701)
863 – Turpio, Frankish nobleman
1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1160 – Constance of Castile, Queen of France (b. 1141)
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
1221 – William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1226 – Francis of Assisi (b. 1182)
1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1361 – John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron (b. 1310)
1497 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1586)
1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer (b. 1625)
1669 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1606)
1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey (b. 1678)
1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge (b. 1761)
1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar (b. 1785)
1851 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
1852 – James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
1871 – Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
1890 – Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author (b. 1880)
1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic (b. 1847)
1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
1944 – Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
1947 – Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter (b. 1884)
1961 – Benjamin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1880)
1963 – Alar Kotli, Estonian architect (b. 1904)
1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
1980 – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
1990 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)
1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930)
1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (b. 1969)
1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1928)
2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924)
2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
2009 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918)
2010 – Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
2011 – Doris Belack, American actress (b. 1926)
2012 – David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1921)
2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1941)
2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic (b. 1944)
2013 – John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander (b. 1921)
2013 – Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat (b. 1917)
2013 – Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer (b. 1933)
2013 – Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer (b. 1958)
2013 – Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam (b. 1911)
2013 – Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1917)
2014 – Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator (b. 1941)
2014 – Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2014 – Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959)
2014 – Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (b. 1951)
2014 – Jewel Joseph Newman, American sergeant and politician (b. 1921)
2015 – William A. Culpepper, American general, lawyer, and judge (b. 1916)
2015 – Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer (b. 1934)
2015 – Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter (b. 1938)
2015 – Neal Walk, American basketball player (b. 1948)
Source: wikipedia