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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of December 0306 | EVENT | Martyrdom of Saint Barbara. |
| 4th of December 0771 | EVENT | Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. |
| 4th of December 1110 | EVENT | First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon. |
| 4th of December 1259 | EVENT | Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels. |
| 4th of December 1563 | EVENT | The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545). |
| 4th of December 1619 | EVENT | 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas). |
| 4th of December 1674 | EVENT | Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois). |
| 4th of December 1676 | EVENT | Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt. |
| 4th of December 1745 | EVENT | Charles Edward Stewart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising. |
| 4th of December 1783 | EVENT | At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell. |
| 4th of December 1791 | EVENT | The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. |
| 4th of December 1829 | EVENT | In the face of fierce local opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that all who abet suttee in India are guilty of culpable homicide. |
| 4th of December 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea : At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 4th of December 1867 | EVENT | Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). |
| 4th of December 1872 | EVENT | The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship had been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged). |
| 4th of December 1875 | EVENT | Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain. |
| 4th of December 1881 | EVENT | The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. |
| 4th of December 1906 | EVENT | Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc The first intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization is founded at Cornell University. |
| 4th of December 1909 | EVENT | 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26 : 6. |
| 4th of December 1909 | EVENT | The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association. |
| 4th of December 1918 | EVENT | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. |
| 4th of December 1921 | EVENT | The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. |
| 4th of December 1939 | EVENT | World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940. |
| 4th of December 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. |
| 4th of December 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization. |
| 4th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. |
| 4th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. |
| 4th of December 1945 | EVENT | By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN is established on October 24, 1945). |
| 4th of December 1954 | EVENT | The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States |
| 4th of December 1958 | EVENT | Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community. |
| 4th of December 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta. |
| 4th of December 1969 | EVENT | Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. |
| 4th of December 1971 | EVENT | The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water". |
| 4th of December 1971 | EVENT | The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. |
| 4th of December 1971 | EVENT | The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan. |
| 4th of December 1971 | EVENT | McGurk's Bar bombing: An Ulster Volunteer Force bomb kills 15 civilians and wounds 17 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| 4th of December 1975 | EVENT | Suriname joins the United Nations. |
| 4th of December 1977 | EVENT | Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100. |
| 4th of December 1977 | EVENT | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. |
| 4th of December 1978 | EVENT | Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988). |
| 4th of December 1979 | EVENT | The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee. |
| 4th of December 1980 | EVENT | English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th. |
| 4th of December 1981 | EVENT | South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa). |
| 4th of December 1982 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. |
| 4th of December 1984 | EVENT | Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers. |
| 4th of December 1991 | EVENT | Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon. |
| 4th of December 1991 | EVENT | Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations. |
| 4th of December 1992 | EVENT | Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. |
| 4th of December 1993 | EVENT | A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels. |
| 4th of December 1998 | EVENT | The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. |
| 4th of December 2005 | EVENT | Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage. |
| 4th of December 2006 | EVENT | An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo. |
| 4th of December 1555 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) |
| 4th of December 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) |
| 4th of December 1585 | BIRTHDAY | John Cotton, American Puritan leader (d. 1652) |
| 4th of December 1595 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) |
| 4th of December 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Emmanuel de Coetlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) |
| 4th of December 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Campra, French composer (d. 1744) |
| 4th of December 1670 | BIRTHDAY | John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742) |
| 4th of December 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758) |
| 4th of December 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786) |
| 4th of December 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Juliette Recamier, French socialite (d. 1849) |
| 4th of December 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881) |
| 4th of December 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881) |
| 4th of December 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902) |
| 4th of December 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914) |
| 4th of December 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934) |
| 4th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (d. 1922) |
| 4th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922) |
| 4th of December 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953) |
| 4th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Corbett, American baseball player (d. 1945) |
| 4th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926) |
| 4th of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944) |
| 4th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969) |
| 4th of December 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Bacon, American actor and film director (d. 1955) |
| 4th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Bocheng, Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army (d. 1986) |
| 4th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975) |
| 4th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990) |
| 4th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953) |
| 4th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968) |
| 4th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997) |
| 4th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995) |
| 4th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Alex North, American film music composer (d. 1991) |
| 4th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009) |
| 4th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988) |
| 4th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Robson, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1978) |
| 4th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995) |
| 4th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993) |
| 4th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Heywood, American jazz musician (d. 1989) |
| 4th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994) |
| 4th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Movita Castaneda, American actress |
| 4th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Francis Capone, son of Al Capone (d. 2004) |
| 4th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress |
| 4th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959) |
| 4th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Keating, American attorney and businessman |
| 4th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | John Portman, American architect |
| 4th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer who made the first ascent of K2 (d. 2009) |
| 4th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dena Dietrich, American actress |
| 4th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor |
| 4th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist |
| 4th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003) |
| 4th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Roh Tae-woo, former (13th) President of South Korea |
| 4th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Buchholz, German-born actor (d. 2003) |
| 4th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Victor French, American actor (d. 1989) |
| 4th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Wink Martindale, American game show host |
| 4th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Paul O'Neill, 72nd Secretary of the Treasury |
| 4th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive (d. 2007) |
| 4th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Nally, Irish Politician |
| 4th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Max Baer, Jr., American actor |
| 4th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Marrou, American politician, presidential candidate |
| 4th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano |
| 4th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Cannon, American musician |
| 4th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gerd Achterberg, German football manager |
| 4th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977) |
| 4th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Jones, English actress |
| 4th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hillman, American singer (The Byrds) |
| 4th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter |
| 4th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983) |
| 4th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Migault, French racing driver |
| 4th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut |
| 4th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span) |
| 4th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Southside Johnny, American singer |
| 4th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Bridges, American actor |
| 4th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress |
| 4th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Wettig, American actress |
| 4th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
| 4th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Todd, American actor and producer |
| 4th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard King, American basketball player |
| 4th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Boesel, Brazilian racing driver |
| 4th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate |
| 4th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Susan W Krebs, American politician |
| 4th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul McGrath, Irish footballer |
| 4th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Christa Rothenburger, German speed skater and cyclist |
| 4th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete |
| 4th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | David Green, American baseball player |
| 4th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Robson, American-born Australian journalist |
| 4th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Reich, American football player |
| 4th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Lemieux, Canadian voice actress |
| 4th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Richardson, English footballer |
| 4th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter |
| 4th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sertab Erener, Turkish singer |
| 4th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Goldstein, American actor |
| 4th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Hastings, Scottish Rugby Union international |
| 4th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Chelsea Noble, American actress |
| 4th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marisa Tomei, American actress |
| 4th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alex de la Iglesia, Spanish film director |
| 4th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Masta Ace, American rapper |
| 4th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter |
| 4th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Shepherd, English film director |
| 4th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Armisen, American actor and musician |
| 4th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Barrowman, American swimmer |
| 4th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jay-Z, American rapper |
| 4th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Sussman, American actor |
| 4th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvester Terkay, American wrestler |
| 4th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John L. Adams, American actor |
| 4th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Briggs, American boxer |
| 4th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nikki Tyler, American actress |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Racci Shay, American Musician |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Boeijen, Dutch musician (The Gathering) |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Caputo, American singer (Life Of Agony) |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tyra Banks, American supermodel |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Rusby, English folk singer |
| 4th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Atsushi Tamura, Japanese comedian, musician (jealkb) |
| 4th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player |
| 4th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997) |
| 4th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater |
| 4th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Big Pokey, American rapper |
| 4th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Morten Veland, Norwegian musician (Sirenia) |
| 4th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer |
| 4th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer |
| 4th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jay DeMerit, American soccer player |
| 4th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ysabella Brave, American singer |
| 4th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Taylor, Canadian computer scientist |
| 4th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lila McCann, American country singer |
| 4th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Cummz, American pornographic actress |
| 4th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer |
| 4th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese racing driver |
| 4th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Adams, American model |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Genta Ismajli, a Kosovan-Albanian singer |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lindsay Felton, American actress |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren London, American actress |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Giambruno, Italian footballer |
| 4th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Thomas, American football player |
| 4th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Gomez, Dominican baseball player |
| 4th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Brackman, American baseball player |
| 4th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Martell Webster, American basketball player |
| 4th of December 0749 | DEATH | Saint John of Damascus |
| 4th of December 0765 | DEATH | Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (Born 702) |
| 4th of December 0771 | DEATH | Carloman, King of the Franks (Born 751) |
| 4th of December 1075 | DEATH | Archbishop Anno II of Cologne |
| 4th of December 1123 | DEATH | Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (Born 1048) |
| 4th of December 1214 | DEATH | William I of Scotland |
| 4th of December 1270 | DEATH | Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre |
| 4th of December 1334 | DEATH | Pope John XXII (Born 1249) |
| 4th of December 1340 | DEATH | Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (Born 1292) |
| 4th of December 1459 | DEATH | Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (Born 1401) |
| 4th of December 1576 | DEATH | Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (Born 1514) |
| 4th of December 1585 | DEATH | John Willock, Scottish reformer |
| 4th of December 1609 | DEATH | Alexander Hume, Scottish poet |
| 4th of December 1642 | DEATH | Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (Born 1585) |
| 4th of December 1649 | DEATH | William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (Born 1585) |
| 4th of December 1679 | DEATH | Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (Born 1588) |
| 4th of December 1680 | DEATH | Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (Born 1616) |
| 4th of December 1696 | DEATH | Empress Meisho, Japan (Born 1624) |
| 4th of December 1732 | DEATH | John Gay, English poet and dramatist (Born 1685) |
| 4th of December 1798 | DEATH | Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (Born 1737) |
| 4th of December 1828 | DEATH | Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1770) |
| 4th of December 1841 | DEATH | David Daniel Davis, British politician (Born 1777) |
| 4th of December 1850 | DEATH | William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (Born 1783) |
| 4th of December 1893 | DEATH | John Tyndall, Irish physicist (Born 1820) |
| 4th of December 1897 | DEATH | Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (Born 1834) |
| 4th of December 1902 | DEATH | Charles Dow, American journalist (Born 1851) |
| 4th of December 1926 | DEATH | Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian-born painter (Born 1861) |
| 4th of December 1933 | DEATH | Stefan George, German poet (Born 1868) |
| 4th of December 1935 | DEATH | Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1850) |
| 4th of December 1935 | DEATH | Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (Born 1864) |
| 4th of December 1938 | DEATH | Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (Born 1903) |
| 4th of December 1944 | DEATH | Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player (Born 1879) |
| 4th of December 1945 | DEATH | Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1866) |
| 4th of December 1948 | DEATH | Frank Benford, American electrical engineer and physicist (Born 1883) |
| 4th of December 1955 | DEATH | Jozsef Galamb, Hungarian mechanical engineer (Born 1881) |
| 4th of December 1956 | DEATH | Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (Born 1891) |
| 4th of December 1967 | DEATH | Bert Lahr, American actor (Born 1895) |
| 4th of December 1969 | DEATH | Fred Hampton, American activist (Born 1948) |
| 4th of December 1975 | DEATH | Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (Born 1906) |
| 4th of December 1976 | DEATH | Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (Born 1951) |
| 4th of December 1976 | DEATH | Benjamin Britten, English composer (Born 1913) |
| 4th of December 1976 | DEATH | W. F. McCoy, Northern Irish politician (Born 1886) |
| 4th of December 1980 | DEATH | Francisco Sa Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (Born 1934) |
| 4th of December 1980 | DEATH | Stanis?awa Walasiewicz, Polish-born athlete (Born 1911) |
| 4th of December 1987 | DEATH | Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (Born 1897) |
| 4th of December 1988 | DEATH | Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (Born 1899) |
| 4th of December 1993 | DEATH | Frank Zappa, American musician and composer (Born 1940) |
| 4th of December 1993 | DEATH | Margaret Landon, American writer (Born 1903) |
| 4th of December 1995 | DEATH | Lionel Giroux, Canadian midget wrestler (Born 1935) |
| 4th of December 1997 | DEATH | Richard Vernon, English actor (Born 1925) |
| 4th of December 1999 | DEATH | Rose Bird, American judge (Born 1936) |
| 4th of December 2003 | DEATH | Iggy Katona, American race car driver (Born 1916) |
| 4th of December 2004 | DEATH | Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (Born 1943) |
| 4th of December 2005 | DEATH | Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (Born 1963) |
| 4th of December 2005 | DEATH | Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (Born 1924) |
| 4th of December 2005 | DEATH | Gloria Lasso, French-Spanish singer (Born 1922) |
| 4th of December 2006 | DEATH | Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier (Born 1987) |
| 4th of December 2006 | DEATH | James Kim, American television personality (Born 1971) |
| 4th of December 2007 | DEATH | Norval Morrisseau, Canadian artist (Born 1932) |
| 4th of December 2007 | DEATH | Chip Reese, American professional poker player (Born 1951) |
| 4th of December 2007 | DEATH | Pimp C, American rapper (Born 1973) |
| 4th of December 2009 | DEATH | Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler (Born 1973) |
| 4th of December 2009 | DEATH | Richard Todd Irish-born British actor (Born 1919) |
| 4th of December 2009 | DEATH | Liam Clancy, Irish singer (Born 1935) |