Deaths on 4 September
2000s
Giorgio Armani
2025
Italian fashion designer (1934–2025)
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
2025
Member of the British royal family (1933–2025)
Bora Đorđević
2024
Serbian singer-songwriter and frontman of Riblja Čorba (1952–2024)
Steve Harwell
2023
American musician (1967–2023)
Cyrus Mistry
2022
Irish businessman (1968–2022)
Peter Straub
2022
American novelist and poet (1943–2022)
Tunch Ilkin
2021
Turkish-American gridiron football player and sports broadcaster (1957–2021)
Willard Scott
2021
American weather presenter and television personality (1934–2021)
Lloyd Cadena
2020
Filipino YouTuber (1993–2020)
Bill Daily
2018
American actor and comedian (1927–2018)
Krzysztof Sitko
2018
Polish footballer (1967–2018)
Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr.
2016
American politician
Graham Brazier
2015
New Zealand musician and songwriter
Jean Darling
2015
American child actress and writer (1922–2015)
Wilfred de Souza
2015
Indian politician (1927–2015)
Warren Murphy
2015
American author
Ron Mulock
2014
Australian politician
Gustavo Cerati
2014
Argentine musician (1959–2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
2014
German Lutheran theologian (1928–2014)
Joan Rivers
2014
American entertainer (1933–2014)
Michel Pagé
2013
Canadian businessman and politician (1949-2013)
Dick Raaijmakers
2013
Dutch composer
Daniele Seccarecci
2013
Italian bodybuilder
Stanislav Stepashkin
2013
Russian boxer
Casey Viator
2013
American bodybuilder and journalist
Avraham Avigdorov
2012
Israeli soldier
Albert Marre
2012
American stage director, choreographer and theatrical producer
George Savitsky
2012
American football player (1924–2012)
Syed Mustafa Siraj
2012
Indian writer (1930–2012)
Hakam Sufi
2012
Musical artist
Lee Roy Selmon
2011
American football player (1954–2011)
Bonnie Leman
2010
American magazine publisher (1926–2010)
John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch
2007
Scottish politician
Giacinto Facchetti
2006
Italian footballer (1942–2006)
Steve Irwin
2006
Australian conservationist (1962–2006)
Colin Thiele
2006
Australian author (1920–2006)
Astrid Varnay
2006
American operatic soprano (1918–2006)
Alphonso Ford
2004
American basketball player
Moe Norman
2004
Canadian professional golfer
Lola Bobesco
2003
Romanian violinist (1921–2003)
Tibor Varga (violinist)
2003
Hungarian violinist (1921–2003)
Vlado Perlemuter
2002
Lithuanian-born French pianist and teacher (1904 - 2002)
1900s
Georg Gawliczek
1999
German footballer and manager
Ernst Jaakson
1998
Estonian ambassador (1905–1998)
Elizabeth Kata
1998
Australian writer (1912–1998)
Dharamvir Bharati
1997
Indian Hindi poet and author (1926–1997)
Aldo Rossi
1997
Italian architect (1931–1997)
Joan Clarke
1996
English cryptanalyst (1917–1996)
Rose Ouellette
1996
Canadian actress and comedian
Chuck Greenberg (musician)
1995
American musician
William Kunstler
1995
American attorney and civil rights activist (1919–1995)
Hervé Villechaize
1993
French actor (1943–1993)
Charlie Barnet
1991
American jazz saxophonist, composer & bandleader (1913–1991)
Tom Tryon
1991
American actor and novelist (1926–1991)
Dottie West
1991
American country music singer and songwriter (1932–1991)
Lawrence A. Cremin
1990
American historian
Irene Dunne
1990
American actress (1898–1990)
Turan Dursun
1990
Former mufti, critic of Islam
Georges Simenon
1989
Belgian writer (1903–1989)
Ronald Syme
1989
New Zealand born British historian and classicist (1903–1989)
Bill Bowes
1987
English cricketer
Otto Glória
1986
Brazilian football coach
Hank Greenberg
1986
American baseball player (1911–1986)
Vasyl Stus
1985
Ukrainian poet and dissident
George O'Brien (actor)
1985
American actor (1899–1985)
Jon Brower Minnoch
1983
Heaviest ever recorded human (1941–1983)
Jack Tworkov
1982
American abstract expressionist painter
Stelios Perpiniadis
1977
Jean Rostand
1977
French biologist and philosopher (1894-1977)
E. F. Schumacher
1977
British statistician and economist (1911–1977)
Creighton Abrams
1974
United States Army general (1914–1974)
Marcel Achard
1974
French writer (1899–1974)
Charles Arnison
1974
British World War I flying ace
Lewi Pethrus
1974
Swedish minister and hymnwriter (1884–1974)
Albert Schweitzer
1965
German polymath (1875–1965)
Robert Schuman
1963
Luxembourg-born French statesman (1886–1963)
Erich Fellgiebel
1944
German general (1886–1944)
George William de Carteret
1940
Norman language journalist and writer from Jersey
Howdy Wilcox
1923
American racing driver (1889–1923)
Charles Péguy
1914
French poet, essayist, and editor (1873–1914)
John Francon Williams
1911
British writer, geographer, historian, journalist, cartographer and inventor
Clyde Fitch
1909
American playwright (1865–1909)
Edvard Grieg
1907
Norwegian composer and pianist (1843–1907)
1800s
John Hunt Morgan
1864
Confederate Army general of the American Civil War (1825–1864)
William MacGillivray
1852
Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (1796–1852)
Friedrich Laun
1849
German novelist
José Miguel Carrera
1821
Chilean military officer; independence leader (1785–1821)
Timothy Brown (radical)
1820
English banker, merchant and radical (1743/1744 – 1820)
Richard Somers
1804
Fire Ship 'Intrepid'
Before 1800
John Hely-Hutchinson (secretary of state)
1794
Irish politician (1724–1794)
César-François Cassini de Thury
1784
French cartographer and astronomer (1714–1784)
John Fielding
1780
English magistrate and reformer (1721–1780)
Charles Townshend
1767
British politician (1725–1767)
John Ogilby
1676
Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer (1600–1676)
Thomas Smythe
1625
English merchant and colonial administrator
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
1588
English statesman (1532–1588)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
1571
Scottish nobleman and politician (1516–1571)
Johann Dietenberger
1537
German theologian
Robert Hallam
1417
English clergyman, Archbishop of York-elect in 1406
John I, Count of Nassau-Siegen
1416
German count (c. 1339–1416)
García de Ayerbe
1332
Aragonese nobleman and cleric
Gegeen Khan
1323
Emperor of Yuan Dynasty from 1320 to 1323
Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of Sicily
1308
Queen of Sicily
Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
1199
Queen of Sicily from 1177 to 1189
Tughril I
1063
Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1037 to 1063
Bermudo III of León
1037
King of León from 1028 to 1037
Musa al-Kazim
799
Seventh of the Twelve Shia Imams (745–799)
Pope Boniface I
422
Head of the Catholic Church from 418 to 422