Anniversaries 4 October

Birth

Harriet Auber2

British poet, hymnwriter 1773–1862

Jean-François Millet12

French painter 1814–1875

Eugène Edine Pottier8

French politician 1816–1887

Rutherford B. Hayes70

American politician, 19th President of the United States (i… 1822–1893

Mary Elizabeth Braddon2

English author 1835–1915

Fred Weatherly7

English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster 1848–1929

Dorothy Frances Gurney1

English hymnwriter, poet 1858–1932

Walter Rauschenbusch83

United States Baptist theologian 1861–1918

Gerald Stanley Lee12

Americna minister 1862–1944

Damon Runyon5

writer 1880–1946

Walther von Brauchitsch5

German field marshal 1881–1948

Yehuda Ashlag35

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist 1886–1954

Benjamin H. Freedman6

American businessman 1890–1984

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska5

French painter and sculptor 1891–1915

Buster Keaton8

American actor and filmmaker 1895–1966

Ernst Kaltenbrunner25

Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for … 1903–1946

Andrei Grechko6

Soviet military commander 1903–1976

Alain Daniélou7

French historian, musicologist, Indologist and expert on Sh… 1907–1994

Brendan Gill1

American journalist 1914–1997

Charlton Heston29

American actor 1923–2008

Alvin Toffler16

American writer 1928–2016

James Forman7

American civil rights leader 1928–2005

John E. Mack1

American psychiatrist 1929–2004

Alec Panchen1

British paleontologist 1930–2013

Richard Rorty21

American philosopher 1931–2007

Jiang Yanyong1

Chinese physician 1931–2023

Basil D'Oliveira2

Cricket player of England. 1931–2011

Hannu Salama3

Finnish writer 1936

Christopher Alexander6

architect 1936

Jackie Collins2

British-American novelist and writer 1937–2015

Karen Cushman2

American writer 1941

Roy Blount Jr.13

American writer 1941

Anne Rice160

American writer 1941

Mick Jackson (director)5

film director 1943

Michael Mullen7

U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of … 1946

Dov Weisglass1

Israeli lawyer 1946

Chuck Hagel8

United States Secretary of Defense 1946

Susan Sarandon4

American actress 1946

Barbara Johnson5

American literary critic 1947–2009

Linda McMahon1

25th Administrator of the Small Business Administration and… 1948

Shripad Yasso Naik3

Indian politician 1952

Michael Hogg1

Australian psychologist 1954

Russell Simmons2

American entrepreneur, producer and author 1957

Gabriel Malzaire1

catholic bishop 1957

Bill Fagerbakke3

American actor 1957

James MacDonald34

American pastor 1960

Mohamad Shukri Abdull1

about Mohamad Shukri Abdull 1960

Lucy Peacock (actress)1

Canadian actress 1960

Eugene Kaspersky2

Russian specialist in the information security field 1965

M. Ward4

singer-songwriter and guitarist 1973

Alicia Silverstone3

American actress 1976

Rupi Kaur4

Canadian poet 1992

Death

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan2

5th Umayyad caliph 646–705

Teresa of Ávila55

Roman Catholic saint 1515–1582

Rembrandt van Rijn23

Dutch 17th century painter and etcher 1606–1669

Quirinus Kuhlmann4

German poet and mystic 1651–1689

John Chivington2

former Methodist pastor and colonel in the United States Vo… 1821–1894

Richard T. Ely2

United States economist and author 1854–1943

Max Planck30

German theoretical physicist 1858–1947

Laurence Hope4

English poet 1865–1904

Lionel Johnson20

English poet 1867–1902

Otto Weininger41

austrian philosopher and writer 1880–1903

Léon Brillouin4

French physicist 1889–1969

Norman Cota1

U.S. Army Major General 1893–1971

Võ Nguyên Giáp1

North Vietnamese commander 1911–2013

Norman Wisdom1

English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter 1915–2010

Anne Sexton120

poet from the United States 1928–1974

Glenn Gould8

Canadian pianist 1932–1982

Telesphore Toppo1

Catholic cardinal 1939–2023

Graham Chapman26

English comedian, writer and actor 1941–1989

Janis Joplin16

American singer and songwriter 1943–1970