Anniversaries 4 November

Birth

Augustus Toplady5

British divine 1740–1778

James Montgomery25

British editor, hymn writer, and poet 1771–1854

George Long66

English classical scholar 1800–1879

George Fitzhugh52

American activist 1806–1881

Samuel I. Prime9

American clergyman, traveler, and writer 1812–1885

Stephen Johnson Field3

American politician 1816–1899

Francis J. Grimké5

American activist and minister 1852–1937

Eden Phillpotts2

British author 1862–1960

G. E. Moore3

British philosopher 1873–1958

Leonid Feodorov5

Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church 1879–1935

Will Rogers121

American humorist and entertainer 1879–1935

Karl Bowman1

American psychiatric researcher 1888–1973

Arkady Rosengolts1

Belarusian politician 1889–1938

Watchman Nee10

Chinese church leader 1903–1972

Alistair Cameron Crombie8

Australian zoologist, historian of science 1915–1996

Walter Cronkite50

American broadcast journalist 1916–2009

Ritwik Ghatak4

Bengali filmmaker and script writer 1925–1976

Paul Vance6

American record producer 1929

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu9

Nigerian politician and military leader 1933–2011

Charles K. Kao1

Hong Hong-British-American physicist 1933–2018

Syed Shahabuddin2

Indian politician 1935–2017

C.K. Williams1

American poet and critic 1936–2015

Amit Goswami8

American physicist 1936

Lyndall Gordon1

South African writer and academic 1941

Rafidah Aziz2

Malaysian politician 1943

Laura Bush15

First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 1946

Tamim Ansary1

Afghan-American author/public speaker 1948

Philip Yancey23

American writer 1949

Charles Frazier18

American writer 1950

Tony Abbott71

Australian politician 1957

Kathy Griffin69

American actress and comedian 1960

Jerry Sadowitz6

Scottish comedian 1961

John Battelle1

American writer 1965

Kate Cary2

British writer 1967

Matthew McConaughey2

American actor 1969

Perry Moore3

Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-… 1971–2011

Yiyun Li4

Chinese American writer 1972

Steph Davis8

American rock climber 1973

Cedric Bixler-Zavala1

American singer 1974

Devin Hester2

American football player, wide receiver, kick returner 1982

Kristin Cast33

American writer 1986

Death

Qutb al-Din Aibak12

Turkic peoples king of Northwest India 1150–1210

Charles Churchill (satirist)16

British poet 1731–1764

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden9

British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King… 1762–1832

Felix Mendelssohn4

German composer, pianist and conductor 1809–1847

Andrew Dickson White37

American politician 1832–1918

Eugene Field15

American writer 1850–1895

John Jay Chapman9

American author 1862–1933

Friedrich Kellner21

German Justice inspector 1885–1970

Wilfred Owen23

English poet and soldier (1893-1918) 1893–1918

Raphael Soyer2

American artist 1899–1987

H. Beam Piper11

American science fiction writer 1904–1964

Max Shachtman4

American Marxist theorist 1904–1972

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey1

Author, memoirist 1908–2006

Noel Langley1

South African writer 1911–1980

Morrie Schwartz10

American sociologist 1916–1995

Andy Rooney25

writer, humorist, television personality 1919–2011

Yitzhak Rabin8

Israeli politician, statesman and general 1922–1995

Haim Ginott4

psychologist 1922–1973

Stig Dagerman26

Swedish writer 1923–1954

René Girard9

French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of socia… 1923–2015

Gilles Deleuze35

French philosopher 1925–1995

Michael Crichton121

American author, screenwriter, film producer 1942–2008

Ellen Meloy1

American writer 1946–2004