Anniversaries 4 May
Birth
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Carnatic musician and composer
1767–1847
![Johann Friedrich Herbart photo]()
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy a…
1776–1841
![William H. Prescott photo]()
American historian and Hispanist
1796–1859
![Horace Mann photo]()
American politician
1796–1859
![John Whiteaker photo]()
American politician
1820–1902
![Thomas Henry Huxley photo]()
English biologist and comparative anatomist
1825–1895
![William Kingdon Clifford photo]()
English mathematician and philosopher
1845–1879
![Émile Gallé photo]()
French glass artist and cabinetmaker
1846–1904
![Richard Hovey photo]()
American writer
1864–1900
![Carl Eckart photo]()
American physicist
1902–1973
![W. Clement Stone photo]()
American New Thought author
1902–2002
![Josef Pieper photo]()
German philosopher
1904–1997
![Jane Jacobs photo]()
American–Canadian journalist, author on urbanism and activi…
1916–2006
![Richard Proenneke photo]()
American hermit
1916–2003
![Nick Joaquín photo]()
Filipino writer
1917–2004
![Eric Sykes photo]()
English actor and director
1923–2012
![Allen Mandelbaum photo]()
American poet and professor of literature, translator from …
1926–2011
![Hosni Mubarak photo]()
4th president of Egypt
1928
![Bill Mollison photo]()
Australian permaculturist
1928–2016
![Audrey Hepburn photo]()
British actress
1929–1993
![Edward Nelson photo]()
American mathematical physicist and logician
1932–2014
![Amos Oz photo]()
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
1939–2018
![George Will photo]()
American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author
1941
![David Guterson photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist, and essayist
1956
![Keith Haring photo]()
American artist and social activist whose work responded to…
1958–1990
![Jill Bolte Taylor photo]()
American neuroscientist
1959
![Rocco Siffredi photo]()
Italian pornographic actor, director, producer and entrepre…
1964
![Roger Hallam photo]()
British social scientist
1966
![Justin D. Fox photo]()
South African author, photojournalist, lecturer and editor
1967
![Montell Owens photo]()
American football player, running back
1984
Death
![Isaac Barrow photo]()
English Christian theologian, and mathematician
1630–1677
![Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf photo]()
German bishop and saint
1700–1760
![Tipu Sultan photo]()
Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore
1750–1799
![Joseph Joubert photo]()
French moralist and essayist
1754–1824
![Alexandre Vinet photo]()
Swiss theologian
1797–1847
![Edwin Manners photo]()
American lawyer
1855–1913
![Kanō Jigorō photo]()
Japanese educator and judoka
1860–1938
![Gotse Delchev photo]()
revolutionary from the Balkans
1872–1903
![Osbert Sitwell photo]()
British baronet
1892–1969
![Josip Broz Tito photo]()
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman
1892–1980
![Maurice Samuel photo]()
novelist, translator and lecturer
1895–1972
![Hendrik Casimir photo]()
Dutch physicist
1909–2000
![Dieter Wisliceny photo]()
SS-Hauptsturmführer
1911–1948
![Christian de Duve photo]()
Belgian biochemist, cytologist
1917–2013
![William J. Baumol photo]()
American economist
1922–2017
![Stanley Rosen photo]()
American philosopher
1929–2014
![R. Lee Wrights photo]()
American gubernatorial candidate
1958–2017
