Anniversaries 4 May

Birth

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari2

Persian writer 1006–1089

Tyagaraja6

Carnatic musician and composer 1767–1847

Johann Friedrich Herbart2

German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy a… 1776–1841

William H. Prescott3

American historian and Hispanist 1796–1859

Horace Mann67

American politician 1796–1859

John Whiteaker1

American politician 1820–1902

Томас Генри Хаксли (Гексли)1

1825–1895

Thomas Henry Huxley127

English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825–1895

William Kingdon Clifford48

English mathematician and philosopher 1845–1879

Émile Gallé2

French glass artist and cabinetmaker 1846–1904

Richard Hovey16

American writer 1864–1900

Carl Eckart9

American physicist 1902–1973

W. Clement Stone21

American New Thought author 1902–2002

Андреас Адамович Закс1

1903–1983

Josef Pieper45

German philosopher 1904–1997

Jane Jacobs26

American–Canadian journalist, author on urbanism and activi… 1916–2006

Richard Proenneke3

American hermit 1916–2003

Nick Joaquín2

Filipino writer 1917–2004

Eric Sykes3

English actor and director 1923–2012

Allen Mandelbaum3

American poet and professor of literature, translator from … 1926–2011

Hosni Mubarak2

4th president of Egypt 1928

Bill Mollison32

Australian permaculturist 1928–2016

Audrey Hepburn21

British actress 1929–1993

Edward Nelson2

American mathematical physicist and logician 1932–2014

Amos Oz12

Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual 1939–2018

George Will28

American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author 1941

Sam Pitroda1

Indian businessman 1942

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel2

Iranian politician 1945

Graham Swift1

English writer 1949

David Guterson9

Novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist 1956

Keith Haring3

American artist and social activist whose work responded to… 1958–1990

Kim Edwards20

Author, educator 1958

Jill Bolte Taylor8

American neuroscientist 1959

Rocco Siffredi9

Italian pornographic actor, director, producer and entrepre… 1964

Muharrem İnce4

Turkish politician 1964

Roger Hallam1

British social scientist 1966

Justin D. Fox9

South African author, photojournalist, lecturer and editor 1967

Will Arnett12

Canadian actor 1970

Kristin Harmel1

American journalist 1979

Montell Owens2

American football player, running back 1984

Death

Isaac Barrow20

English Christian theologian, and mathematician 1630–1677

Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf1

German bishop and saint 1700–1760

Tipu Sultan12

Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore 1750–1799

Joseph Joubert253

French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Alexandre Vinet7

Swiss theologian 1797–1847

Edwin Manners1

American lawyer 1855–1913

Kanō Jigorō19

Japanese educator and judoka 1860–1938

Gotse Delchev4

revolutionary from the Balkans 1872–1903

Osbert Sitwell11

British baronet 1892–1969

Josip Broz Tito17

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman 1892–1980

Maurice Samuel1

novelist, translator and lecturer 1895–1972

Hendrik Casimir1

Dutch physicist 1909–2000

Dieter Wisliceny3

SS-Hauptsturmführer 1911–1948

Christian de Duve1

Belgian biochemist, cytologist 1917–2013

William J. Baumol9

American economist 1922–2017

Stanley Rosen1

American philosopher 1929–2014

R. Lee Wrights13

American gubernatorial candidate 1958–2017