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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of February 0211 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians.He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons. |
| 4th of February 0960 | EVENT | The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. |
| 4th of February 1454 | EVENT | In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. |
| 4th of February 1703 | EVENT | In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death. |
| 4th of February 1789 | EVENT | George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. |
| 4th of February 1794 | EVENT | The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. |
| 4th of February 1797 | EVENT | The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties. |
| 4th of February 1801 | EVENT | John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States. |
| 4th of February 1810 | EVENT | The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe. |
| 4th of February 1820 | EVENT | The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships. |
| 4th of February 1825 | EVENT | The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal. |
| 4th of February 1846 | EVENT | The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory. |
| 4th of February 1859 | EVENT | The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. |
| 4th of February 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America. |
| 4th of February 1899 | EVENT | The Philippine-American War begins. |
| 4th of February 1932 | EVENT | Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan. |
| 4th of February 1936 | EVENT | Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. |
| 4th of February 1941 | EVENT | The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops. |
| 4th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations. |
| 4th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. |
| 4th of February 1948 | EVENT | Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. |
| 4th of February 1966 | EVENT | All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133. |
| 4th of February 1967 | EVENT | Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. |
| 4th of February 1969 | EVENT | Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 4th of February 1974 | EVENT | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. |
| 4th of February 1974 | EVENT | M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed. |
| 4th of February 1975 | EVENT | Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. |
| 4th of February 1976 | EVENT | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. |
| 4th of February 1977 | EVENT | A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history. |
| 4th of February 1980 | EVENT | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran. |
| 4th of February 1992 | EVENT | A Coup d'etat is led by Hugo Chavez Frias, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez. |
| 4th of February 1996 | EVENT | Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26?F (-32.2?C) |
| 4th of February 1997 | EVENT | After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections. |
| 4th of February 1997 | EVENT | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73. |
| 4th of February 1998 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. |
| 4th of February 1999 | EVENT | Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. |
| 4th of February 1999 | EVENT | The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon. |
| 4th of February 2000 | EVENT | German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. |
| 4th of February 2002 | EVENT | Cancer Research UK, the world's largest independent cancer research charity, is founded. |
| 4th of February 2003 | EVENT | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution. |
| 4th of February 2004 | EVENT | Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 4th of February 2006 | EVENT | A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71. |
| 4th of February 2008 | EVENT | The London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) scheme begins to operate in the UK. |
| 4th of February 2010 | EVENT | The Federal Court of Australia's ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them. |
| 4th of February 1505 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolaus Rey, Polish poet (d. 1580) |
| 4th of February 1524 | BIRTHDAY | Luis de Camoes, Portuguese poet (d. 1580) |
| 4th of February 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629) |
| 4th of February 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667) |
| 4th of February 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Erasmus Assmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699) |
| 4th of February 1677 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731) |
| 4th of February 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (d. 1763) |
| 4th of February 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804) |
| 4th of February 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795) |
| 4th of February 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian, and American national hero (d. 1817) |
| 4th of February 1778 | BIRTHDAY | A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (d. 1841) |
| 4th of February 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854) |
| 4th of February 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Kajetan Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem (d. 1856) |
| 4th of February 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895) |
| 4th of February 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915) |
| 4th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Aicard, French poet (d. 1921) |
| 4th of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926) |
| 4th of February 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881) |
| 4th of February 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichsprasident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925) |
| 4th of February 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Gotse Delchev, a great Bulgarian revolutionary, (d. 1903) |
| 4th of February 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905) |
| 4th of February 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (d. 1953) |
| 4th of February 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953) |
| 4th of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Leger, French painter (d. 1955) |
| 4th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978) |
| 4th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937) |
| 4th of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964) |
| 4th of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953) |
| 4th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938) |
| 4th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997) |
| 4th of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (d. 1977) |
| 4th of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Prevert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977) |
| 4th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Lindbergh, American pilot and social activist (d. 1974) |
| 4th of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003) |
| 4th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (d. 1977) |
| 4th of February 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986) |
| 4th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (d. 1945) |
| 4th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (d. 1997) |
| 4th of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937) |
| 4th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006) |
| 4th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ola Skjak Braek, Norwegian politician (d. 1999) |
| 4th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Albert Vachon, cardinal archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006) |
| 4th of February 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993) |
| 4th of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (d. 2005) |
| 4th of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980) |
| 4th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007) |
| 4th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | William Talman, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 4th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian (d. 2010) |
| 4th of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980) |
| 4th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991) |
| 4th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Waldo, American actress |
| 4th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (d. 1995) |
| 4th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Porky Chedwick, American radio personality |
| 4th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006) |
| 4th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Lotfi Asker Zadeh, American-Iranian/Russian mathematician and computer scientist |
| 4th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical singer (d. 2011) |
| 4th of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor |
| 4th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Hoban, American writer |
| 4th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Sim, English actor |
| 4th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer (d. 1999) |
| 4th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist, TV presenter and security expert (d. 2009) |
| 4th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Adler, American actor |
| 4th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Isabel Martinez de Peron, President of Argentina (1974 : 1976), widow of Argentine President Juan Peron |
| 4th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989) |
| 4th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Brenner, American comedian |
| 4th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Conway, American actor |
| 4th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003) |
| 4th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Donald W. Riegle, Jr., American Senator |
| 4th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | George A. Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer |
| 4th of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Schuck, American actor |
| 4th of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Steel, British musician (The Animals) |
| 4th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (d. 1992) |
| 4th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Joao Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira |
| 4th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Thompson, American computer scientist |
| 4th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States |
| 4th of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis C. Blair, American admiral and Director of National Intelligence |
| 4th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mienoumi Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 57th Yokozuna |
| 4th of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Cooper, American musician |
| 4th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Beck, American actor |
| 4th of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (d. 2010) |
| 4th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Franklin, British actress |
| 4th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Bergin, Irish actor |
| 4th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas) |
| 4th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Papi, American baseball player |
| 4th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician |
| 4th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Eichhorn, American actress |
| 4th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Shirley, Drummer (Humble Pie) |
| 4th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist |
| 4th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kitaro, Japanese composer |
| 4th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovak Prime Minister |
| 4th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Don Davis, American composer |
| 4th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist |
| 4th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer |
| 4th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress |
| 4th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Taylor, American football player |
| 4th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Booth, British singer (James) |
| 4th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dawson, British-born American entertainment manager (The Iron Maidens) |
| 4th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007) |
| 4th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996) |
| 4th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jenette Goldstein, American actress |
| 4th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart O'Nan, American author |
| 4th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Black, American musician |
| 4th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Riley, Canadian actor |
| 4th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian |
| 4th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier |
| 4th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring) |
| 4th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992) |
| 4th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer |
| 4th of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist |
| 4th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (d. 1995) |
| 4th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marko Matvere, Estonian actor |
| 4th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace) |
| 4th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dallas Drake, ice hockey player |
| 4th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brandy Ledford, American actress and model |
| 4th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gabrielle Anwar, English actress |
| 4th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael A. Goorjian, American actor |
| 4th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian |
| 4th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dara O Briain, Irish comedian |
| 4th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer |
| 4th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Legace, Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 4th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer |
| 4th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress |
| 4th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international |
| 4th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress |
| 4th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Tebbich, Austrian decathlete |
| 4th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cam'ron, American rapper |
| 4th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gavin DeGraw, American musician |
| 4th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress |
| 4th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Danna Garcia, Colombian actress |
| 4th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Omer Onan, Turkish basketball player |
| 4th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver |
| 4th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Arlovski, Belarussian mixed martial artist |
| 4th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player |
| 4th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player |
| 4th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player |
| 4th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist |
| 4th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist |
| 4th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls) |
| 4th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer |
| 4th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player |
| 4th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer |
| 4th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bug Hall, American actor |
| 4th of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 4th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lucie Safarova, Czech tennis player |
| 4th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player |
| 4th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Carly Patterson, American gymnast |
| 4th of February 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Tim McGrath, American musician |
| 4th of February 0211 | DEATH | Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (Born 145) |
| 4th of February 0708 | DEATH | Pope Sisinnius |
| 4th of February 0856 | DEATH | Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (Born c. 780) |
| 4th of February 0869 | DEATH | Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (Born 827) |
| 4th of February 1508 | DEATH | Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (Born 1459) |
| 4th of February 1590 | DEATH | Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (Born 1517) |
| 4th of February 1615 | DEATH | Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (Born 1552) |
| 4th of February 1615 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodigy (Born 1535) |
| 4th of February 1617 | DEATH | Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (Born 1546) |
| 4th of February 1694 | DEATH | Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (Born 1651) |
| 4th of February 1713 | DEATH | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (Born 1671) |
| 4th of February 1774 | DEATH | Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (Born 1701) |
| 4th of February 1781 | DEATH | Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (Born 1737) |
| 4th of February 1799 | DEATH | Etienne-Louis Boullee, French architect (Born 1728) |
| 4th of February 1843 | DEATH | Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general in the Greek War of Independence (Born 1770) |
| 4th of February 1894 | DEATH | Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (Born 1814) |
| 4th of February 1905 | DEATH | Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (Born 1841) |
| 4th of February 1912 | DEATH | Franz Reichelt, Austrian tailor/Inventor (Born 1800's) |
| 4th of February 1928 | DEATH | Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1853) |
| 4th of February 1933 | DEATH | Archibald Sayce, English educator (Born 1846) |
| 4th of February 1936 | DEATH | Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (Born 1895) |
| 4th of February 1940 | DEATH | Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (Born 1895) |
| 4th of February 1943 | DEATH | Frank Calder, the first NHL President (Born 1877) |
| 4th of February 1944 | DEATH | Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (Born 1867) |
| 4th of February 1944 | DEATH | Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (Born 1872) |
| 4th of February 1958 | DEATH | Henry Kuttner, American author (Born 1915) |
| 4th of February 1959 | DEATH | Una O'Connor, Irish actress (Born 1880) |
| 4th of February 1966 | DEATH | Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (Born 1875) |
| 4th of February 1967 | DEATH | Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (Born 1886) |
| 4th of February 1968 | DEATH | Neal Cassady, American writer (Born 1926) |
| 4th of February 1974 | DEATH | Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Born 1894) |
| 4th of February 1975 | DEATH | Louis Jordan, American musician (Born 1908) |
| 4th of February 1975 | DEATH | Howard Hill, American archer (Born 1899) |
| 4th of February 1977 | DEATH | Brett Halliday, American writer (Born 1904) |
| 4th of February 1982 | DEATH | Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (Born 1935) |
| 4th of February 1982 | DEATH | Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (Born 1909) |
| 4th of February 1983 | DEATH | Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (Born 1950) |
| 4th of February 1987 | DEATH | Liberace, American musician (Born 1919) |
| 4th of February 1987 | DEATH | Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA (Born 1956) |
| 4th of February 1987 | DEATH | Carl Rogers, American psychologist (Born 1902) |
| 4th of February 1990 | DEATH | Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1917) |
| 4th of February 1992 | DEATH | Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (Born 1911) |
| 4th of February 1993 | DEATH | Connie Saylor, American NASCAR racecar driver (Born 1940) |
| 4th of February 1994 | DEATH | Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (Born 1930) |
| 4th of February 1995 | DEATH | Patricia Highsmith, American author (Born 1921) |
| 4th of February 1995 | DEATH | Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (Born 1915) |
| 4th of February 2000 | DEATH | Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (Born 1941) |
| 4th of February 2000 | DEATH | Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (Born 1919) |
| 4th of February 2000 | DEATH | Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Born 1908) |
| 4th of February 2001 | DEATH | J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (Born 1924) |
| 4th of February 2001 | DEATH | Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (Born 1928) |
| 4th of February 2001 | DEATH | Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (Born 1922) |
| 4th of February 2002 | DEATH | Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (Born 1907) |
| 4th of February 2002 | DEATH | George Nader, American film and television actor (Born 1921) |
| 4th of February 2003 | DEATH | Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (Born 1926) |
| 4th of February 2003 | DEATH | Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (Born 1920) |
| 4th of February 2003 | DEATH | Andre Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (Born 1931) |
| 4th of February 2005 | DEATH | Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (Born 1917) |
| 4th of February 2006 | DEATH | Myron Waldman, American animator (Born 1908) |
| 4th of February 2006 | DEATH | Betty Friedan, American feminist (Born 1921) |
| 4th of February 2007 | DEATH | Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (Born 1938) |
| 4th of February 2007 | DEATH | Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (Born 1959) |
| 4th of February 2007 | DEATH | Jose Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer (Born 1925) |
| 4th of February 2007 | DEATH | Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (Born 1934) |
| 4th of February 2007 | DEATH | Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (Born 1922) |
| 4th of February 2008 | DEATH | Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (Born 1942) |
| 4th of February 2009 | DEATH | Lux Interior, American musician (The Cramps) (Born 1946) |
| 4th of February 2010 | DEATH | Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-born American composer (Born 1919) |