Anniversaries 4 July

Birth

Nathaniel Hawthorne128

American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

Giuseppe Garibaldi2

Italian general and politician 1807–1882

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo10

Californian military commander, politician, and rancher 1807–1890

Thomas March Clark2

American bishop 1812–1903

Stephen Foster8

American songwriter 1826–1864

Hermann Cohen10

German philosopher 1842–1918

Edmonia Lewis2

American sculptor 1844–1907

Jessie Ackermann4

Second Woman's Christian Temperance Union round-the-world m… 1857–1951

Henrietta Swan Leavitt8

astronomer 1868–1921

Calvin Coolidge412

American politician, 30th president of the United States (i… 1872–1933

Irving Caesar4

American composer and lyricist 1895–1996

Gulzarilal Nanda21

Prime Minister of India 1898–1998

S. J. Simon4

British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer 1904–1948

Lionel Trilling30

American academic 1905–1975

Robert K. Merton11

American sociologist 1910–2003

Frederick Seitz2

American physicist 1911–2008

Oswald Wynd1

Scottish writer 1913–1998

Ann Landers1

American advice columnist 1918–2002

Leona Helmsley3

American hotel owner 1920–2007

Gérard Debreu3

French economist and mathematician 1921–2004

Alfredo Di Stéfano11

Argentine association football player 1926–2014

Neil Simon13

playwright, writer, academic 1927–2018

Thomas Nagel10

American philosopher 1937

Richard Rhodes1

historian, journalist and writer from the USA 1937

Bill Withers7

American singer-songwriter and musician 1938–2020

John Sterling28

Sports broadcaster 1938

Tomaž Šalamun1

Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia 1941–2014

John Allen Paulos48

American mathematician 1945

Vinod Gupta2

American businessman 1946

Ron Richard2

American politician 1947

Jan Toporowski2

1950

Sharon Gannon7

American yoga teacher 1951

Angelo Galasso2

Italian fashion designer 1959

Richard Garriott3

video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur 1961

Margaret Edson1

American playwright 1961

Edi Rama1

Albanian politician 1964

Rosie Malek-Yonan7

Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human… 1965

Jordan Sonnenblick14

American writer 1969

David Stras2

American judge 1974

Amantle Montsho6

Motswana sprinter 1983

Post Malone1

American rapper 1995

Death

William Byrd5

British composer 1543–1623

Thomas Middleton35

English playwright and poet 1580–1627

Philippe Néricault Destouches3

French playwright 1680–1754

Samuel Richardson21

English writer and printer 1689–1761

Ebenezer Kinnersley1

American scientist 1711–1778

John Adams202

2nd President of the United States 1735–1826

Thomas Jefferson456

3rd President of the United States of America 1743–1826

Fisher Ames12

American politician 1758–1808

James Monroe10

American politician, 5th President of the United States (in… 1758–1831

François-René de Chateaubriand28

French writer, politician, diplomat and historian 1768–1848

Joseph Brackett1

American songwriter 1797–1882

Élisée Reclus1

French geographer and writer 1830–1905

Peter Guthrie Tait3

British mathematician 1831–1901

Giovanni Schiaparelli1

Italian astronomer and science historian 1835–1910

Marcelo H. del Pilar10

Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896) 1850–1896

Swami Vivekananda261

Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher 1863–1902

Marie Curie21

French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867–1934

Wladyslaw Sikorski4

Polish military and political leader 1881–1943

Haj Amin al-Husseini1

Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader 1895–1974

John Bodkin Adams11

general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer 1899–1983

Georgette Heyer39

British historical romance and detective fiction novelist 1902–1974

Gregory Bateson49

English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual … 1904–1980

Barnett Newman25

American artist 1905–1970

Laurent Schwartz4

mathematician 1915–2002

Gersh Budker3

Soviet physicist 1918–1977

Eva Gabor2

Hungarian actress and businesswoman 1919–1995

Jesse Helms11

American politician 1921–2008

Nicolaus Sombart1

German sociologist 1923–2008

Eric Sykes3

English actor and director 1923–2012

Olive Ann Burns2

American novelist, journalist 1924–1990

Janwillem van de Wetering1

Dutch writer 1931–2008

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah26

Lebanese faqih 1935–2010

Abbas Kiarostami6

Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film … 1940–2016

Thomas M. Disch10

Novelist, short story writer, poet 1940–2008

Bob Ross16

American painter, art instructor, and television host 1942–1995

Michel-Rolph Trouillot1

Haitian academic and anthropologist 1949–2012