Deaths on 4 October
2000s
Christopher Ciccone
2024
American artist (1960–2024)
Billy Shaw
2024
American football player (1938–2024)
Loretta Lynn
2022
American country singer (1932–2022)
Clark Middleton
2020
American actor (1957–2020)
Kenzō Takada
2020
Japanese-French fashion designer (1939-2020)
Dave Pike
2015
American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (1938–2015)
Edida Nageswara Rao
2015
Indian film producer
Neal Walk
2015
American basketball player
Konrad Boehmer
2014
German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer
Hugo Carvana
2014
Brazilian actor (1937–2014)
Fyodor Cherenkov
2014
Russian footballer (1959–2014)
Jean-Claude Duvalier
2014
President of Haiti from 1971 to 1986
John Cloudsley-Thompson
2013
British naturalist and soldier (1921–2013)
Ulric Cross
2013
Trinidadian lawyer and diplomat (1917–2013)
Akira Miyoshi
2013
Japanese composer
Diana Nasution
2013
Indonesian singer
Võ Nguyên Giáp
2013
Vietnamese general and communist politician (1911–2013)
Nicholas Oresko
2013
American soldier awarded Medal of Honor
David Atkinson (baritone)
2012
Canadian opera singer
Stan Mudenge
2012
Zimbabwean politician
Tom Stannage
2012
Western Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player
Doris Belack
2011
American actress (1926–2011)
Norman Wisdom
2010
English actor, comedian and singer (1915–2010)
Gerhard Kaufhold
2009
German footballer
Günther Rall
2009
German general and fighter pilot during World War II
Qassem Al-Nasser
2007
Stanley K. Hathaway
2005
27th Governor of Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior
Gordon Cooper
2004
American astronaut (1927–2004)
Sid McMath
2003
34th governor of Arkansas (1912–2003)
André Delvaux
2002
Belgian film director
Blaise Alexander
2001
American racing driver (1976–2001)
John Collins (jazz guitarist)
2001
American jazz guitarist
Ahron Soloveichik
2001
American rabbi (1917–2001)
Yu Kuo-hwa
2000
Taiwanese politician and economist (1914–2000)
Michael Smith (chemist)
2000
Canadian biochemist, businessman and Nobel Prize laureate (1932–2000)
1900s
Bernard Buffet
1999
French painter (1928–1999)
Art Farmer
1999
American jazz trumpeter (1928–1999)
S. Arasaratnam
1998
Academic, historian and author
Otto Ernst Remer
1997
German Wehrmacht Army officer and Neo-Nazi Leader (1912–1997)
Gunpei Yokoi
1997
Japanese video game designer (1941–1997)
Danny Gatton
1994
American guitarist (1945–1994)
Denny Hulme
1992
New Zealand racing driver (1936–1992)
Mārtiņš Zīverts
1990
Latvian playwright
Graham Chapman
1989
English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)
Zlatko Grgić
1988
Glenn Gould
1982
Canadian pianist (1932–1982)
Stefanos Stefanopoulos
1982
Greek politician (1898–1982)
Freddie Lindstrom
1981
American baseball player (1905–1981)
Pyotr Masherov
1980
Soviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician (1919-1980)
José Ber Gelbard
1977
Polish-Argentine activist, politician and economic adviser
Friedrich Lutz (economist)
1975
German economist (1901–1975)
Joan Whitney Payson
1975
American businesswoman (1903–1975)
Anne Sexton
1974
American poet (1928–1974)
Janis Joplin
1970
American singer (1943–1970)
Alar Kotli
1963
Estonian architect
Benjamin Fedchenkov
1961
Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church
Ida Wüst
1958
German actress (1884–1958)
Alexandros Papagos
1955
Greek military leader and politician (1883–1955)
Henrietta Lacks
1951
African-American woman (1920–1951), source of HeLa immortal cell line
Max Planck
1947
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Barney Oldfield
1946
American racing driver (1878–1946)
Al Smith
1944
American politician (1873–1944)
Irena Iłłakowicz
1943
Polish second Lieutenant of the National Armed Forces and intelligence agent
Jean Béraud
1935
French painter (1849–1935)
Marie Gutheil-Schoder
1935
German soprano
Sergey Muromtsev
1910
Russian lawyer and politician (1850-1910)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1904
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
Carl Josef Bayer
1904
Austrian chemist (1847–1904)
Otto Weininger
1903
Austrian philosopher (1880–1903)
1800s
Catherine Booth
1890
Englishwoman who co-founded The Salvation Army
Sarel Cilliers
1871
Voortrekker leader and preacher
Francis Xavier Seelos
1867
German-American Catholic priest and missionary
Joseph Montferrand
1864
Canadian logger and strongman (1802–1864)
Karl Baedeker
1859
German publisher (1801–1859)
James Whitcomb
1852
American politician
Manuel Godoy
1851
First Secretary of State of Spain
Grigorios Zalykis
1827
John Rennie the Elder
1821
Scottish civil engineer (1761–1821)
Before 1800
Samuel von Cocceji
1755
Prussian jurist and statesman (1679–1755)
Baron Franz von der Trenck
1749
Austrian soldier (1711–1749)
Amaro Pargo
1747
Spanish privateer and slave trader (1678–1747)
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
1743
British army officer and politician (1680–1743)
Pierre-Paul Riquet
1680
Rembrandt
1669
Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Jacqueline Pascal
1661
French poet (1625–1661)
Francesco Albani
1660
Italian Baroque painter (1578–1660)
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel
1646
English magistrate, diplomat and courtier (1585–1646)
Sarsa Dengel
1597
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1563 to 1597
Teresa of Ávila
1582
Spanish mystic and saint (1515–1582)
John, Prince of Asturias
1497
Only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (1478–1497)
John Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray
1361
English peer (1310–1361)
Emperor Kameyama
1305
Emperor of Japan from 1260 to 1274
Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1250
Margrave of Baden
Abdallah al-Adil
1227
Almohad Caliph from 1224 to 1227
William IV, Count of Ponthieu
1221
Count of Ponthieu
Gerard of Ridefort
1189
Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1184 to 1189
Constance of Castile
1160
Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160
Vladimir of Novgorod
1052
Prince of Novgorod from 1036 to 1052
Turpio
863
Count of Angoulême
Yazid III
744
Umayyad caliph in 744