Anniversaries 4 November
Birth
![James Montgomery photo]()
British editor, hymn writer, and poet
1771–1854
![George Long photo]()
English classical scholar
1800–1879
![George Fitzhugh photo]()
American activist
1806–1881
![Samuel I. Prime photo]()
American clergyman, traveler, and writer
1812–1885
![Stephen Johnson Field photo]()
American politician
1816–1899
![Francis J. Grimké photo]()
American activist and minister
1852–1937
![G. E. Moore photo]()
British philosopher
1873–1958
![Leonid Feodorov photo]()
Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church
1879–1935
![Will Rogers photo]()
American humorist and entertainer
1879–1935
![Karl Bowman photo]()
American psychiatric researcher
1888–1973
![Arkady Rosengolts photo]()
Belarusian politician
1889–1938
![Watchman Nee photo]()
Chinese church leader
1903–1972
![Alistair Cameron Crombie photo]()
Australian zoologist, historian of science
1915–1996
![Walter Cronkite photo]()
American broadcast journalist
1916–2009
![Ritwik Ghatak photo]()
Bengali filmmaker and script writer
1925–1976
![Paul Vance photo]()
American record producer
1929
![Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu photo]()
Nigerian politician and military leader
1933–2011
![Charles K. Kao photo]()
Hong Hong-British-American physicist
1933–2018
![Syed Shahabuddin photo]()
Indian politician
1935–2017
![C.K. Williams photo]()
American poet and critic
1936–2015
![Lyndall Gordon photo]()
South African writer and academic
1941
![Rafidah Aziz photo]()
Malaysian politician
1943
![Laura Bush photo]()
First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
1946
![Tamim Ansary photo]()
Afghan-American author/public speaker
1948
![Tony Abbott photo]()
Australian politician
1957
![Kathy Griffin photo]()
American actress and comedian
1960
![Perry Moore photo]()
Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-…
1971–2011
![Yiyun Li photo]()
Chinese American writer
1972
![Steph Davis photo]()
American rock climber
1973
![Devin Hester photo]()
American football player, wide receiver, kick returner
1982
Death
![Qutb al-Din Aibak photo]()
Turkic peoples king of Northwest India
1150–1210
![Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden photo]()
British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King…
1762–1832
![Felix Mendelssohn photo]()
German composer, pianist and conductor
1809–1847
![Andrew Dickson White photo]()
American politician
1832–1918
![Eugene Field photo]()
American writer
1850–1895
![John Jay Chapman photo]()
American author
1862–1933
![Friedrich Kellner photo]()
German Justice inspector
1885–1970
![Wilfred Owen photo]()
English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
1893–1918
![Raphael Soyer photo]()
American artist
1899–1987
![H. Beam Piper photo]()
American science fiction writer
1904–1964
![Max Shachtman photo]()
American Marxist theorist
1904–1972
![Ernestine Gilbreth Carey photo]()
Author, memoirist
1908–2006
![Noel Langley photo]()
South African writer
1911–1980
![Morrie Schwartz photo]()
American sociologist
1916–1995
![Andy Rooney photo]()
writer, humorist, television personality
1919–2011
![Yitzhak Rabin photo]()
Israeli politician, statesman and general
1922–1995
![René Girard photo]()
French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of socia…
1923–2015
![Gilles Deleuze photo]()
French philosopher
1925–1995
![Michael Crichton photo]()
American author, screenwriter, film producer
1942–2008
![Ellen Meloy photo]()
American writer
1946–2004
