4 November Deaths

November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56)

604 – Yohl Ik'nal, Mayan queen
1411 – Khalil Sultan of Timurid (b. 1384)
1428 – Sophia of Bavaria (b. 1376)
1652 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 – Antoine Le Maistre, French lawyer and author (b. 1608)
1669 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1603)
1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 – John Benbow, English admiral (b. 1653)
1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist and scholar (b. 1654)
1781 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and songwriter (b. 1721)
1801 – William Shippen, American physician and anatomist (b. 1712)
1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1809)
1847 – Thiệu Trị, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1807)
1856 – Paul Delaroche, French painter and educator (b. 1797)
1893 – Pierre Tirard, Swiss-French engineer and politician, 54th Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
1895 – Eugene Field, American journalist, author, and poet (b. 1850)
1906 – John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
1918 – Wilfred Owen, English lieutenant and poet (b. 1893)
1921 – Hara Takashi, Japanese politician, 10th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1856)
1924 – Richard Conner, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
1924 – Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1845)
1930 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (b. 1859)
1930 – Buddy Bolden, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1877)
1931 – Luigi Galleani, Italian theorist and activist (b. 1861)
1940 – Arthur Rostron, English captain (b. 1869)
1946 – Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (b. 1865)
1948 – Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1874)
1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
1955 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (b. 1867)
1956 – Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1892)
1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
1959 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1896)
1968 – Horace Gould, English race car driver (b. 1918)
1968 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter and soldier (b. 1892)
1969 – Carlos Marighella, Brazilian author and activist (b. 1911)
1974 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
1975 – Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
1975 – Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)
1976 – Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
1977 – Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (b. 1935)
1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (b. 1905)
1982 – Burhan Felek, Turkish lawyer and journalist (b. 1889)
1982 – Gil Whitney, American journalist (b. 1940)
1984 – Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (b. 1926)
1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
1988 – Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1916)
1992 – George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (b. 1904)
1994 – Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (b. 1923)
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1925)
1995 – Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
1995 – Eddie Egan, American police officer and actor (b. 1930)
1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
1995 – Morrie Schwartz, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1916)
1997 – Richard Hooker, American novelist (b. 1924)
1998 – Nagarjun, Indian poet and author (b. 1911)
1999 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (b. 1958)
2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish author and poet (b. 1917)
2003 – Richard Wollheim, English philosopher, author, and academic (b. 1923)
2005 – Nadia Anjuman, Afghan journalist and poet (b. 1980)
2005 – Sheree North, American actress and dancer (b. 1932)
2005 – Graham Payn, South African-born English actor and singer (b. 1918)
2005 – Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1964)
2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1915)
2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (b. 1908)
2007 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1926)
2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
2008 – Rosella Hightower, American ballerina (b. 1920)
2008 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, French-Mexican economist and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, German bishop (b. 1923)
2010 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1934)
2011 – Arnold Green, Latvian-Estonian soldier and politician (b. 1920)
2011 – Andy Rooney, American author, critic, journalist, and television personality (b. 1919)
2012 – David Resnick, Brazilian-Israeli architect, designed Yad Kennedy (b. 1924)
2013 – Viktor Dolnik, Russian ornithologist and author (b. 1938)
2013 – John D. Hawk, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
2013 – Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (b. 1929)
2013 – Ray Willsey, Canadian-American football player and coach (b. 1928)
2014 – Enrique Olivera, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires (b. 1940)
2014 – Richard Schaal, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2014 – George Edgar Slusser, American author and academic (b. 1939)
2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915)
2014 – Eddie Stuart, South African-Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
2015 – Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American historian and journalist (b. 1946)
2015 – René Girard, French-American historian, philosopher, and critic (b. 1923)
2015 – Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (b. 1950)
2015 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
2015 – Lee Robinson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1943)

Source: Wikipedia