Deaths on 4 August
2000s
Charles Cyphers
2024
American actor (1939–2024)
Tsung-Dao Lee
2024
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Duane Thomas
2024
American football player (1947–2024)
Dalia Fadila
2023
Israeli educator (1971/1972–2023)
Nuon Chea
2019
Cambodian politician and war criminal (1926–2019)
Elsie Hillman
2015
American politician & philanthropist (1925-2015)
Les Munro
2015
New Zealand air force squadron leader
John Rudometkin
2015
American basketball player (1940–2015)
Billy Sherrill
2015
American record producer and arranger (1936–2015)
James Brady
2014
White House Press Secretary under Ronald Reagan (1940–2014)
Chester Crandell
2014
American politician (1946–2014)
Jake Hooker (musician)
2014
Musical artist
Keith H. Basso
2013
American cultural and linguistic anthropologist (1940-2013)
Art Donovan
2013
American football player (1924–2013)
Olavi J. Mattila
2013
Finnish politician (1918–2013)
Renato Ruggiero
2013
Italian politician (1930–2013)
Tony Snell (RAF officer)
2013
British RAF pilot (1922–2013)
Sandy Woodward
2013
Royal Navy Admiral (1932–2013)
Johnnie Bassett
2012
American songwriter and musician (1935–2012)
Brian Crozier
2012
British journalist and intelligence expert
Bud Riley
2012
American football coach
Naoki Matsuda
2011
Japanese footballer
Blake Snyder
2009
American screenwriter and author
Craig Jones (motorcyclist)
2008
British motorcycle racer
Lee Hazlewood
2007
American country and pop songwriter (1929–2007)
Raul Hilberg
2007
Austrian-born American Holocaust researcher (1926–2007)
Anatoly Larkin
2005
Russian physicist (1932–2005)
Iván Szabó
2005
Hungarian politician (1934–2005)
Mary Sherman Morgan
2004
American rocket fuel scientist (1921–2004)
Hossein Panahi
2004
Iranian actor and poet (1956–2004)
Frederick Chapman Robbins
2003
American Nobel Prize recipient
1900s
Victor Mature
1999
American actor (1913–1999)
Yuri Artyukhin
1998
Soviet cosmonaut (1930–1998)
Jeanne Calment
1997
Verified oldest person in history (1875–1997)
Geoff Hamilton
1996
English gardener (1936–1996)
Seichō Matsumoto
1992
Japanese detective fiction writer (1909–1992)
Ettore Maserati
1990
Italian automotive engineer (1894–1990)
Don Whillans
1985
English rock climber and mountaineer (1933-1985)
Bruce Goff
1982
American architect (1904–1982)
Melvyn Douglas
1981
American actor (1901–1981)
Edgar Adrian
1977
English electrophysiologist (1889–1977)
Enrique Angelelli
1976
Catholic bishop (1923–1976)
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
1976
Canadian newspaper proprietor & media entrepreneur (1894–1976)
Peter Smith (English cricketer, born 1908)
1967
English cricketer
Nätti-Jussi
1964
Finnish forest laborer
Marilyn Monroe
1962
American actress and model (1926–1962)
Margarito Bautista
1961
Mexican Mormon leader (1878–1961)
József Révai
1959
Hungarian politician
Ethel Anderson
1958
Australian poet (1883–1958)
John Cain (34th Premier of Victoria)
1957
Australian politician (1882–1957)
Washington Luís
1957
President of Brazil from 1926 to 1930
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
1944
Polish poet and Home Army soldier
Alberto Franchetti
1942
Italian composer (1860–1942)
Mihály Babits
1941
Hungarian poet, writer and translator
Ze'ev Jabotinsky
1940
Russian Revisionist Zionist leader (1880–1940)
Pearl White
1938
American actress (1889–1938)
Alfred Henry Maurer
1932
American painter
Enver Pasha
1922
Turkish general and politician (1881–1922)
Dave Gregory (cricketer)
1919
Australian cricketer (1845–1919)
Jules Lemaître
1914
French critic and dramatist (1853–1914)
Isaac Levitan
1900
Russian painter (1860–1900)
1800s
Samuel J. Tilden
1886
Governor of New York from 1875 to 1876
Hans Christian Andersen
1875
Danish writer (1805–1875)
Viktor Hartmann
1873
Russian architect and painter (1834–1873)
John Vianney
1859
French Catholic priest and saint (1786–1859)
Jacob Aall
1844
Norwegian politician (1773–1844)
Kristjan Jaak Peterson
1822
Estonian writer
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
1804
Royal Navy Admiral (1731–1804)
Before 1800
Timothy Ruggles
1795
American politician (1711–1795)
John Burgoyne
1792
British Army officer, playwright and politician (1722–1792)
Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial
1778
French military officer and colonial administrator
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)
1741
American lawyer (1676–1741)
Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie
1727
Marshal of France
René Lepage de Sainte-Claire
1718
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
1639
16th-century Spanish writer (died 1639)
Hugh Broughton
1612
English scholar and theologian
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
1598
English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520–1598)
Sebastian, King of Portugal
1578
King of Portugal from 1557 to 1578
Juan Sebastián Elcano
1526
Spanish seafarer and circumnavigator
Philip I, Duke of Brabant
1430
Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
Galeazzo II Visconti
1378
Ruler of Milan (1320–1378)
Al-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt
1345
Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1342–1345)
Wenceslaus III of Bohemia
1306
King of Bohemia and Poland from 1305 to 1306
Odo, Count of Nevers
1266
French noble (1230–1266)
Peter de Montfort
1265
English magnate, soldier and diplomat
Henry de Montfort
1265
English noble (1238–1265)
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
1265
English nobleman and rebel (c.1208 – 1265)
Hugh Despenser (justiciar)
1265
English judge and baron (1223–1265)
Gertrude of Saxony
1113
Countess of Holland and Countess of Flanders (1030–1113)
Henry I of France
1060
King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060
Berengar II of Italy
966
King of Italy from 950 to 961
Lady Zhen
221
Wife of Cao Pi, ruler of Cao Wei (183–221)