April 4th
April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). There are 271 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 186 - Caracalla, Roman emperor († 217)
- 1648 - Grinling Gibbons master wood-worker
- 1785 - Bettina von Arnim, lyricist († 1859)
- 1843 - William Jackson, photographer
- 1875 - Pierre Monteux, conductor († 1964)
- 1876 - Maurice de Vlaminck, painter († 1958)
- 1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, naval commander († 1943)
- 1885 - Arthur Murray, dancer
- 1888 - Tris Speaker, Baseball Hall of Famer († 1958)
- 1902 - Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, actress († 1969)
- 1906 - John Cameron Swayze, journalist, television host († 1995)
- 1906 - Bea Benaderet, actress († 1968)
- 1910 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer († 1967)
- 1914 - Marguerite Duras, writer († 1996)
- 1915 - Muddy Waters, blues musician († 1983)
- 1922 - Elmer Bernstein, composer
- 1928 - Maya Angelou, poet, novelist
- 1932 - Andrei Tarkovsky, film director († 1986)
- 1932 - Anthony Perkins, actor († 1992)
- 1938 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale Univ. and baseball commissioner who banned Pete Rose. († 1989).
- 1939 - Hugh Masakela, musician
- 1945 - Daniel Cohn-Bendit, political activist
- 1945 - Craig T. Nelson, actor "Coach" "The District"
- 1948 - Dan Simmons, writer
- 1950 - Christine Lahti, actress
- 1956 - David E. Kelley, writer, television producer
- 1957 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film-director
- 1960 - Hugo Weaving, actor
- 1963 - Graham Norton, talk show host
- 1965 - Robert Downey Jr., actor
- 1970 - Barry Pepper, actor
- 1973 - David Blaine, illusionist
- 1974 - Dave Mirra, extreme sports champion
- 1979 - Heath Ledger, actor
- 1991 - Jamie Spears, television show host
Deaths
- 397 - St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan
- 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright
- 1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States
- 1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, artist
- 1919 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist
- 1951 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer
- 1968 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist, minister
- 1972 - Stefan Wolpe, composer
- 1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician
- 1979 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan
- 1980 - Red Sovine, country music entertainer
- 1983 - Gloria Swanson, actress
- 1987 - C.L. Moore, science fiction writer
- 1991 - H. John Heinz III, Member of the U.S. Senate in a plane crash
- 1991 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler
- 1999 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer
Holidays and observances
See Also:
April 3 - April 5 - March 4 - May 4 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
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