What happened on October 4 ?
Deaths
1052 - Prince Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
1221 - William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (b. 1179)
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
1582 - Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint and poet (b. 1515)
1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1550)
1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
1660 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
1669 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer and canal builder
1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
1749 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
1754 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
1785 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (b. 1703)
1821 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (b. 1801)
1880 - Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819)
1890 - Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
1904 - Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (b. 1834)
1904 - Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
1944 - Al Smith, Presidential candidate and Governor of New York (b. 1873)
1946 - Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
1947 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1969 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
1974 - Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
1989 - Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1992 - Denny Hulme, 1967 Formula One World Champion (b. 1936)
1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (b. 1941)
2000 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics
2003 - Sid McMath, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
2004 - Gordon Cooper, astronaut (b. 1927)
2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, U.S. politician (b. 1924)
Roman festivals - Ieiunium Cereris (Fast of Ceres) (since 191 BC; that calendar date fell in late spring at that time).
RC Saints - Feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi; also of Saint Amun, Saint Petronius of Bologna.
Also see October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Islam - tonight in 2005 Ramadan began in some parts of the world.
Australia - Labour Day of 2005 (ACT, NSW, & SA, 2004: first Monday of October).
Lesotho - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966).
World Animal Day
French Republican Calendar - Potiron (Pumpkin) Day, thirteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
BBC: On This Day
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