What happened on May 4 ?

1471 - Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)

1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)

1506 - Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)

1519 - Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)

1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)

1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)

1626 - Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)

1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)

1684 - John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)

1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)

1734 - James Thornhill, English painter

1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)

1774 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)

1776 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)

1790 - Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)

1799 - Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader

1811 - Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)

1824 - Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)

1849 - Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)

1880 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)

1903 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1872)

1922 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)

1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)

1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)

1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)

1961 - Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)

1969 - Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)

1970 - Kent State victims: Allison Krause (b. 1951)

Jeffrey Miller (b. 1950)

Sandra Scheuer (b. 1949)

William Schroeder (b. 1950)

1972 - Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)

1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)

1980 - Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)

1984 - Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)

1984 - Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)

1985 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)

1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (b. 1956)

1987 - Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (b. 1942)

1992 - Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)

2005 - David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)