What happened on March 4 ?

1172 - King Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147).

1193 - Saladin, Turkish sultan (b. 1137)

1238 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of King Alexander II of Scotland (b. 1210)

1238 - Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)

1484 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)

1496 - Archduke Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)

1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)

1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)

1619 - Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I of England (b. 1574)

1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)

1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)

1793 - Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, French admiral (b. 1725)

1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)

1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)

1827 - Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the artificial sweetener saccharin (b. 1762)

1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French classical scholar, philologist, orientalist, and Egyptologist. (b. 1790)

1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)

1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)

1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)

1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)

1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)

1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American reformer, philosopher and teacher (b. 1799)

1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)

1915 - William Willett, Inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)

1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)

1922 - Bert Williams [Egbert Austin Williams], African American entertainer (b. 1874)

1925 - Monte Ward, baseball player (b. 1860)

1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)

1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist, discoverer of the artificial sweetener saccharin (b. 1846)

1940 - Hamlin Garland [Hamlin Hannibal Garland], American novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer (b. 1860)

1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)

1944 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster, head of Murder, Inc. (b. 1897)

1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)

1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and author (b. 1896)

1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)

1954 - Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)

1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete, (b. 1878)

1960 - Leonard Warren, American operatic baritone (b. 1911)

1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)

1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)

1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)

1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)

1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)

1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)

1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)

1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)

1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)

1992 - Art Babbitt, animator (Mister Magoo, Goofy) (b. 1907)

1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)

1995 - Eden Ahbez [Alexander Aberle], composer, unique character of pre-rock American popular music (b. 1908)

1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)

1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American experimental physicist (b. 1916)

1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (b. 1914)

1999 - Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)

1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)

1999 - Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)

2001 - Glenn Hughes (singer), American musician (The Village People)

2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)

2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)

2002 - Claire Davenport, British actress (b. 1933)

2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author of children's novels (b. 1913)

2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor and singer (b. 1939)

2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician and bank robber (b. 1926)

2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees and Public Image Ltd.) (b. 1955)

2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)

2004 - Stephen Sprouse, fashion designer, artist, and photographer (b. 1953)

2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)

2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)

2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)

2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born Belarusian translator and writer (b. 1934)

2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish football player (b. 1952)

2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist (b. 1929)

2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)