Deaths on 4 May
2000s
Ron Kavana
2024
Musical artist
Frank Stella
2024
American artist (1936–2024)
Nick Kamen
2021
British singer-songwriter and model (1962–2021)
Don Shula
2020
American football player and coach (1930–2020)
Greg Zanis
2020
American carpenter (1950–2020)
Alia Abdulnoor
2019
Emirati convict (1977–2019)
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza
2016
President of Burundi from 1976 to 1987
William Bast
2015
American screenwriter and author (1931–2015)
Ellen Albertini Dow
2015
American actress (1913–2015)
Marv Hubbard
2015
American football player (1946–2015)
Dick Ayers
2014
American cartoonist
Elena Baltacha
2014
British tennis player (1983–2014)
Edgar Cortright
2014
Senior NASA official-administrator (1923–2014)
Helga Königsdorf
2014
East German author and physicist
Ross Lonsberry
2014
Canadian ice hockey player (1947–2014)
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
2014
Central African politician
Otis Bowen
2013
American politician (1918–2013)
Christian de Duve
2013
Belgian biochemist and cytologist (1917–2013)
Javier Diez Canseco
2013
Peruvian politician (1948–2013)
Mario Machado
2013
American journalist (1935–2013)
Morgan Morgan-Giles
2013
Royal Navy Rear-Admiral (1914–2013)
César Portillo de la Luz
2013
Musical artist
Mort Lindsey
2012
American film composer
Bob Stewart (television producer)
2012
American television producer (1920–2012)
Adam Yauch
2012
American musician (1964–2012)
Rashidi Yekini
2012
Nigerian footballer (1963–2012)
Sammy McCrory
2011
Northern Irish footballer
Dom DeLuise
2009
American actor (1933–2009)
Fred Baur
2008
American organic chemist and food storage scientist (1918–2008)
David Hackworth
2005
American soldier and journalist (1930–2005)
David Reimer
2004
Canadian man raised as a girl (1965–2004)
Bonny Lee Bakley
2001
American fraudster (1956–2001)
Hendrik Casimir
2000
Dutch physicist (1909–2000)
1900s
Christine Kurzhals
1998
German politician (1950–1998)
Connie Wisniewski
1995
Baseball player
France Štiglic
1993
Slovenian film director (1919-1993)
Gregor Mackenzie
1992
British politician (1927–1992)
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
1991
Egyptian singer, actor and composer (1902–1991)
Emily Remler
1990
American jazz guitarist (1957–1990)
Lillian Estelle Fisher
1988
20th-century American historian and author
Paul Butterfield
1987
American blues harmonica player (1942–1987)
Cathryn Damon
1987
American actress (1930–1987)
Fikri Sönmez
1985
Turkish politician (1938–1985)
Clarence Wiseman
1985
Canadian general (1907–1985)
Diana Dors
1984
English actress and singer (1931–1984)
Nino Sanzogno
1983
C. Loganathan
1981
Ceylon Tamil banker and general manager of the Bank of Ceylon
Josip Broz Tito
1980
Leader of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980
Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson
1980
Scottish pianist (1920–1980)
Frank Strahan
1976
Australian public servant
Moe Howard
1975
American comedian and actor (1897–1975)
Jane Bowles
1973
American writer and playwright
Father Chrysanthus
1972
Dutch arachnologist (1905–1972)
Edward Calvin Kendall
1972
American biochemist (1886–1972)
William Brown Meloney (1902–1971)
1971
American writer (1902–1971)
Osbert Sitwell
1969
English writer (1892–1969)
Kaarel Robert Pusta
1964
Estonian politician (1883–1964)
George Enescu
1955
Romanian composer and violinist (1881–1955)
Alexandre Pharamond
1953
French rugby union player
Fedor von Bock
1945
German Army field marshal (1880–1945)
Chris McKivat
1941
Australian rugby player
Kanō Jigorō
1938
Japanese judoka, educator and politician (1860–1938)
Carl von Ossietzky
1938
German journalist and pacifist (1889–1938)
Gina Oselio
1937
Norwegian opera singer (1858–1937)
E. Nesbit
1924
English author and poet (1858–1924)
Ralph McKittrick
1923
American golfer and tennis player
Viktor Kingissepp
1922
Estonian politician (1888–1922)
Milan Rastislav Štefánik
1919
Slovak politician, aviator, and astronomer (1880–1919)
Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary)
1916
Irish revolutionary (1891–1916)
John Murray (Victorian politician)
1916
Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Victoria
Willie Pearse
1916
Irish revolutionary (1881–1916)
Joseph Plunkett
1916
Irish republican, poet and journalist (1887-1916)
Nettie Stevens
1912
American geneticist (1861–1912)
Gotse Delchev
1903
Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1872–1903)
John Jones Ross
1901
Premier of Quebec from 1884 to 1887
1800s
Edward Clark (governor)
1880
Governor of Texas in 1861
Joseph Diez Gergonne
1859
French mathematician and logician
Denis Davydov
1839
Russian soldier-poet
Sebastián Kindelán
1826
Spanish army officer and governor (1757–1826)
Joseph Joubert
1824
French essayist
Samuel Dexter
1816
American politician (1761–1816)
Nikolay Kamensky
1811
Russian military commander (1776–1811)
Before 1800
Tipu Sultan
1799
Sultan of Mysore from 1782 to 1799
Matthew Tilghman
1790
American politician (1718–1790)
Jacques Saly
1776
French sculptor (1717–1776)
Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick
1774
German prince and military officer
Eustace Budgell
1737
English-born Irish politician
James Thornhill
1734
British painter (1675–1734)
Louis Antoine de Noailles
1729
17th and 18th-century French Catholic cardinal
John Nevison
1684
English highwayman (1639–1684)
Isaac Barrow
1677
English Christian theologian, and mathematician
Arthur Lake (bishop)
1626
Bishop of Bath and Wells
Adriaan van Roomen
1615
Belgian mathematician (1561–1615)
Ulisse Aldrovandi
1605
Italian naturalist (1522–1605)
Claudio Merulo
1604
Italian composer (1533–1604)
Pierre Viret
1571
Swiss theologian
Luca Ghini
1566
Italian physician and botanist (1490–1556)
Lelio Sozzini
1562
Italian theologian and co-founder of Socinianism (1525–1562)
John Houghton (martyr)
1535
English Carthusian hermit and Catholic martyr
Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
1519
Italian nobleman (1492–1519)
Sultan Husayn Bayqara
1506
Timurid ruler of Herat (c.1469–1506)
George Neville, Duke of Bedford
1483
English noble
Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales
1471
Heir apparent of Henry VI of England (1453–1471)
Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson
1436
Swedish nobleman and nationalist rebel leader (1390s – 1436)
Coluccio Salutati
1406
Italian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist (1331–1406)
Gotthard of Hildesheim
1038
Herman II, Duke of Swabia
1003
German noble (died 1003)
Arbeo of Freising
784
Bishop of the Diocese of Freising from 764 to 784)
Venerius (bishop of Milan)
408
Roman Catholic Saint; Archbishop of Milan from 400 (or 401) to 408