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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of July 0836 | EVENT | Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples |
| 4th of July 0993 | EVENT | Saint Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized. |
| 4th of July 1054 | EVENT | A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. |
| 4th of July 1120 | EVENT | Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death. |
| 4th of July 1187 | EVENT | The Crusades: Battle of Hattin : Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. |
| 4th of July 1253 | EVENT | Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre. |
| 4th of July 1359 | EVENT | Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forli surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz. |
| 4th of July 1456 | EVENT | The Siege of Nandorfehervar (Belgrade) begins. (Part of the Ottoman wars in Europe) |
| 4th of July 1534 | EVENT | Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. |
| 4th of July 1569 | EVENT | The King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus finally sign the document of union between Poland and Lithuania, creating new country known as Polish : Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| 4th of July 1610 | EVENT | The Battle of Klushino between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish-Muscovite War. |
| 4th of July 1634 | EVENT | The city of Trois-Rivieres is founded in New France (Quebec, Canada) |
| 4th of July 1636 | EVENT | City of Providence, Rhode Island forms. |
| 4th of July 1744 | EVENT | The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iriquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. |
| 4th of July 1754 | EVENT | French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers. |
| 4th of July 1774 | EVENT | Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts |
| 4th of July 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. |
| 4th of July 1778 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: American forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign. |
| 4th of July 1802 | EVENT | At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens. |
| 4th of July 1803 | EVENT | The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. |
| 4th of July 1810 | EVENT | The French occupy Amsterdam. |
| 4th of July 1817 | EVENT | At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins. |
| 4th of July 1826 | EVENT | Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United States, on the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence. |
| 4th of July 1827 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in New York State. |
| 4th of July 1831 | EVENT | Samuel Francis Smith wrote "America" ("My country 'tis of thee") for the Boston, MA July 4th festivities. |
| 4th of July 1837 | EVENT | Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. |
| 4th of July 1838 | EVENT | The Iowa Territory is organized. |
| 4th of July 1855 | EVENT | In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published. |
| 4th of July 1862 | EVENT | Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. |
| 4th of July 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg : Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas. |
| 4th of July 1863 | EVENT | The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after its loss at the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Southern invasion of the North. |
| 4th of July 1865 | EVENT | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published. |
| 4th of July 1878 | EVENT | Thoroughbred horses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty run a match race, immortalized in the song Molly and Tenbrooks. |
| 4th of July 1879 | EVENT | Anglo-Zulu War: the Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burnt to the ground, thus, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee. |
| 4th of July 1881 | EVENT | In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. |
| 4th of July 1886 | EVENT | The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States. |
| 4th of July 1886 | EVENT | The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia. |
| 4th of July 1887 | EVENT | The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. |
| 4th of July 1892 | EVENT | Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4. |
| 4th of July 1894 | EVENT | The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. |
| 4th of July 1903 | EVENT | Dorothy Levitt is reported as the first woman in the world to compete in a 'motor race'. |
| 4th of July 1910 | EVENT | African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States. |
| 4th of July 1913 | EVENT | President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. |
| 4th of July 1918 | EVENT | Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. |
| 4th of July 1918 | EVENT | Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). |
| 4th of July 1927 | EVENT | First flight of the Lockheed Vega. |
| 4th of July 1934 | EVENT | Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. |
| 4th of July 1939 | EVENT | Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball. |
| 4th of July 1941 | EVENT | Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. |
| 4th of July 1946 | EVENT | After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. |
| 4th of July 1947 | EVENT | The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before British House of Commons, suggesting bifurcation of British India into two sovereign countries : India and Pakistan. |
| 4th of July 1950 | EVENT | The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe. |
| 4th of July 1959 | EVENT | With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| 4th of July 1960 | EVENT | Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Act). |
| 4th of July 1961 | EVENT | Walt Disney is one of the two main speakers on the Independence Day in The Rebuild Hills at Sk?rping in Denmark. |
| 4th of July 1965 | EVENT | Homophile activists picket at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the first in a series of Annual Reminders of the second-class status of LGBT people in the United States. |
| 4th of July 1966 | EVENT | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act goes into effect the next year. |
| 4th of July 1969 | EVENT | The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie. |
| 4th of July 1969 | EVENT | Two teens (one male, one female) are attacked at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. The male survives. |
| 4th of July 1976 | EVENT | Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists. |
| 4th of July 1982 | EVENT | Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon. |
| 4th of July 1987 | EVENT | In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| 4th of July 1993 | EVENT | Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others. |
| 4th of July 1997 | EVENT | NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. |
| 4th of July 2004 | EVENT | The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. |
| 4th of July 2005 | EVENT | The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. |
| 4th of July 2006 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission : Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC. |
| 4th of July 2006 | EVENT | North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan. |
| 4th of July 2009 | EVENT | The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks. |
| 4th of July 0068 | BIRTHDAY | Salonina Matidia, niece of Emperor Trajan (d. 119) |
| 4th of July 1330 | BIRTHDAY | Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Japanese shogun (d. 1367) |
| 4th of July 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1595) |
| 4th of July 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Claude Daquin, French composer (d. 1772) |
| 4th of July 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German poet (d. 1769) |
| 4th of July 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797) |
| 4th of July 1790 | BIRTHDAY | George Everest, Welsh surveyor (d. 1866) |
| 4th of July 1799 | BIRTHDAY | King Oscar I of Sweden, French general (d. 1859) |
| 4th of July 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writer (d. 1864) |
| 4th of July 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882) |
| 4th of July 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899) |
| 4th of July 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Foster, American songwriter (d. 1864) |
| 4th of July 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian (d. 1905) |
| 4th of July 1847 | BIRTHDAY | James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (d. 1906) |
| 4th of July 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Tilghman, American gunslinger and peace officer (d. 1924) |
| 4th of July 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Babes, Romanian bacteriologist (d. 1926) |
| 4th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (d. 1930) |
| 4th of July 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer (d. 1921) |
| 4th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States (d. 1933) |
| 4th of July 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier (d. 1968) |
| 4th of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (d. 1957) |
| 4th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (d. 1970) |
| 4th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Caesar, American lyricist and composer (d. 1996) |
| 4th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Dun, Chinese writer (d. 1981) |
| 4th of July 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1924) |
| 4th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican historian (d. 1997) |
| 4th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Lawrence, English-born actress (d. 1952) |
| 4th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster (d. 1983) |
| 4th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | George Murphy, American entertainer (d. 1992) |
| 4th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist and teacher (d. 1986) |
| 4th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Baddeley, English actress (d. 1976) |
| 4th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Johnson, American adventurer (d. 1991) |
| 4th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (d. 1996) |
| 4th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Griffith, American director (d. 1958) |
| 4th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 4th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Miller, American entertainer (d. 2010) |
| 4th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Viviane Romance, French actress (d. 1991) |
| 4th of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006) |
| 4th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1947) |
| 4th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Landers, American advice columnist (d. 2002) |
| 4th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Abigail Van Buren, American advice columnist |
| 4th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (d. 2006) |
| 4th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Parsons, American race car driver (d. 1984) |
| 4th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Drucker, American basketball referee |
| 4th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Wilde, German footballer (d. 1977) |
| 4th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (d. 2007) |
| 4th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Debreu, French economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
| 4th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist (d. 2003) |
| 4th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Friedrich, Swiss Federal Councilor |
| 4th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Marie Saint, American actress |
| 4th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentine-Spanish footballer |
| 4th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress |
| 4th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Simon, American playwright |
| 4th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Giampiero Boniperti, Italian footballer |
| 4th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Tanner, American baseball player (d. 2011) |
| 4th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Al Davis, American businessman |
| 4th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Tuttle, American baseball player (d. 1998) |
| 4th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (d. 1993) |
| 4th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | George Steinbrenner, American businessman (d. 2010) |
| 4th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Tyukalov, Soviet Olympic rower |
| 4th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (d. 1977) |
| 4th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Japrisot, French author, film director and screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 4th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Aurele Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete |
| 4th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Welland, English actor |
| 4th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada |
| 4th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Zdzis?awa Donat, Polish coloratura soprano |
| 4th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sonja Haraldsen, Queen of Norway (spouse of King Harald V of Norway) |
| 4th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Nagel, American philosopher |
| 4th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Oliva, Cuban born American bodybuilder |
| 4th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter |
| 4th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Karolyn Grimes, American actress |
| 4th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Willson, American peace activist |
| 4th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Farr, American politician |
| 4th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Little, American football player |
| 4th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Lanier, American baseball player |
| 4th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (d. 2008) |
| 4th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician |
| 4th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Geraldo Rivera, American reporter |
| 4th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, American musician (d. 1970) |
| 4th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Emerson Boozer, American football player |
| 4th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Macala, Czech football coach |
| 4th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Meagher, Australian actor |
| 4th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Berardo, Portuguese millionaire |
| 4th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce French, American actor |
| 4th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Kovic, American peace activist |
| 4th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tish Howard, American model |
| 4th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Milken, American financier |
| 4th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ed O'Ross, American actor |
| 4th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Armbrister, baseball player |
| 4th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Arnoux, French race car driver |
| 4th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Spencer, English musician |
| 4th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Korberg, Swedish singer and actor |
| 4th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Wheatley, Director-General of the National Offender Management Service |
| 4th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Craven, British International Paralympic Committee president |
| 4th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Jensen, Canadian-born British radio DJ |
| 4th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, American politician |
| 4th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Uribe, President of Colombia |
| 4th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Beattie, American baseball player |
| 4th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Morganna Roberts, American entertainer |
| 4th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John Waite, English singer |
| 4th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Belling, American radio talkshow host |
| 4th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand |
| 4th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rein Lang, Estonian politician and diplomat |
| 4th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Pengilly, Australian musician |
| 4th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Hartman, American sports radio host |
| 4th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Valentine, English-born Canadian former footballer |
| 4th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Abril, Spanish actress |
| 4th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Eudy, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1994) |
| 4th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Windham, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Garriott, English video game designer |
| 4th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Morrissey, English actor |
| 4th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Pam Shriver, American former tennis player |
| 4th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Leconte, French former tennis player |
| 4th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | William Ramallo, former Bolivian footballer |
| 4th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Malley, American musician |
| 4th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Oquendo, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 4th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Slaughter, American singer |
| 4th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Cle Kooiman, American soccer player |
| 4th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Whiting, American filmmaker and actor |
| 4th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Grant, American basketball player |
| 4th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Grant, American basketball player |
| 4th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Whiley, English radio DJ |
| 4th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Minas Hantzidis, Greek footballer |
| 4th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Reherman, American actor |
| 4th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Vinny Castilla, Mexican baseball player |
| 4th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Wilkins, American baseball player |
| 4th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Walker (journalist), Canadian television personality |
| 4th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Frost, American musician |
| 4th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Marinovich, American football player |
| 4th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Mugeyi, Zimbabwean soccer player |
| 4th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Giesler, American bassist (Kreator) |
| 4th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Vidmar, Australian former footballer |
| 4th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Creeggan, Canadian musician |
| 4th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Donnelly, American baseball player |
| 4th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Koko, sign-language gorilla |
| 4th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Zelic, Australian soccer player |
| 4th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Giles, Canadian canoer |
| 4th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Knuble, Canadian hockey player |
| 4th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Badric, Croatian singer |
| 4th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Prudius, Ukrainian professional wrestler |
| 4th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | William Goldsmith, American drummer (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters) |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gackt, Japanese musician |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Elton Williams, Montserratian footballer |
| 4th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver |
| 4th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | La'Roi Glover, American football player |
| 4th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Griffin, American basketball player |
| 4th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Spadea, American tennis player |
| 4th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tania Davis, Australian violist |
| 4th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003) |
| 4th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova, Russian cross-country skier |
| 4th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Kjellgren, Swedish musician (Scar Symmetry) |
| 4th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Mpenza, Belgian footballer |
| 4th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vicky Kaya, Greek model and actress |
| 4th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Becki Newton, American actress |
| 4th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen McNally, British singer and songwriter (BBMak) |
| 4th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Katia Zygouli, Greek model |
| 4th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Max Elliott Slade, American film actor |
| 4th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Cruceta, Dominican baseball player |
| 4th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dede, Angolan soccer player |
| 4th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Harper, English porn star |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian model |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Jorgensen, American musician |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Pinto, Chilean footballer |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Mrotek, American musician |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mattia Serafini, Italian footballer |
| 4th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Angel Munoz, Spanish actor and singer |
| 4th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Akanishi Jin, Japanese singer |
| 4th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Glocksen, American singer |
| 4th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kane Tenace, Australian rules footballer |
| 4th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Takahisa Masuda, Japanese singer |
| 4th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Backer Aloenouvo, Togolese football player |
| 4th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | David Kross, German actor |
| 4th of July 0907 | DEATH | Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria |
| 4th of July 0943 | DEATH | Taejo of Goryeo, of Korea (Born 877) |
| 4th of July 0965 | DEATH | Pope Benedict V (Born unknown) |
| 4th of July 0973 | DEATH | Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (Born 890) |
| 4th of July 1187 | DEATH | Raynald of Chatillon, French Second Crusade figure (Bornc. 1125) |
| 4th of July 1541 | DEATH | Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer (Born 1495) |
| 4th of July 1546 | DEATH | Hayreddin Barbarossa, Greek-born Turkish naval officer (Born 1478) |
| 4th of July 1551 | DEATH | Gregory Cromwell, English nobleman (Born 1514) |
| 4th of July 1603 | DEATH | Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (Born 1521) |
| 4th of July 1623 | DEATH | William Byrd, English composer |
| 4th of July 1648 | DEATH | Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1601) |
| 4th of July 1742 | DEATH | Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (Born 1671) |
| 4th of July 1754 | DEATH | Philippe Nericault Destouches, French dramatist and author (Born 1680) |
| 4th of July 1761 | DEATH | Samuel Richardson, English writer (Born 1689) |
| 4th of July 1780 | DEATH | Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (Born 1712) |
| 4th of July 1787 | DEATH | Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France (Born 1715) |
| 4th of July 1821 | DEATH | Richard Cosway, English artist (Born 1742) |
| 4th of July 1826 | DEATH | Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States (Born 1743) |
| 4th of July 1826 | DEATH | John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (Born 1735) |
| 4th of July 1831 | DEATH | James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (Born 1758) |
| 4th of July 1848 | DEATH | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, French writer (Born 1768) |
| 4th of July 1850 | DEATH | William Kirby, English entomologist (Born 1759) |
| 4th of July 1854 | DEATH | Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (Born 1781) |
| 4th of July 1857 | DEATH | William L. Marcy, American statesman (Born 1786) |
| 4th of July 1881 | DEATH | Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (Born 1806) |
| 4th of July 1882 | DEATH | Joseph Brackett, American composer (Born 1797) |
| 4th of July 1891 | DEATH | Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President (Born 1809) |
| 4th of July 1901 | DEATH | Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (Born 1843) |
| 4th of July 1902 | DEATH | Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader (Born 1863) |
| 4th of July 1905 | DEATH | Elisee Reclus, French anarchist (Born 1830) |
| 4th of July 1910 | DEATH | Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist (Born 1833) |
| 4th of July 1910 | DEATH | Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Born 1835) |
| 4th of July 1916 | DEATH | Alan Seeger, American war poet (Born 1888) |
| 4th of July 1922 | DEATH | Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot (Born 1894) |
| 4th of July 1926 | DEATH | Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Saint (Born 1901) |
| 4th of July 1931 | DEATH | Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (Born 1869) |
| 4th of July 1931 | DEATH | Buddie Petit, American jazz musician (Born 1895) |
| 4th of July 1934 | DEATH | Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics (Born 1867) |
| 4th of July 1938 | DEATH | Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician (Born 1881) |
| 4th of July 1938 | DEATH | Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (Born 1899) |
| 4th of July 1941 | DEATH | Antoni ?omnicki, Polish mathematician (Born 1881) |
| 4th of July 1946 | DEATH | Gerda Steinhoff, Polish-born German concentration camp overseer (Born 1922) |
| 4th of July 1948 | DEATH | Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer (Born 1882) |
| 4th of July 1963 | DEATH | Bernard Freyberg, New Zealander statesman (Born 1889) |
| 4th of July 1964 | DEATH | Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American radio personality (Born 1908) |
| 4th of July 1970 | DEATH | Barnett Newman, American artist (Born 1905) |
| 4th of July 1970 | DEATH | Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American industrialist (Born 1884) |
| 4th of July 1971 | DEATH | August Derleth, American writer and editor (Born 1909) |
| 4th of July 1974 | DEATH | Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, Palestinian Muslim nationalist (Born 1895 or 1897) |
| 4th of July 1975 | DEATH | Georgette Heyer, English author (Born 1902) |
| 4th of July 1976 | DEATH | Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier and Entebbe rescue commander (Born 1946) |
| 4th of July 1976 | DEATH | Antoni S?onimski, Polish poet (Born 1895) |
| 4th of July 1977 | DEATH | Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (Born 1918) |
| 4th of July 1979 | DEATH | Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer (Born 1905) |
| 4th of July 1980 | DEATH | Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (Born 1895) |
| 4th of July 1982 | DEATH | Terry Higgins, British AIDS victim (Born 1945) |
| 4th of July 1984 | DEATH | Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (Born 1949) |
| 4th of July 1986 | DEATH | Flor Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (Born 1903) |
| 4th of July 1986 | DEATH | Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (Born 1899) |
| 4th of July 1988 | DEATH | Adrian Adonis, American professional wrestler (Born 1954) |
| 4th of July 1989 | DEATH | Jack Haig, British actor (Born 1913) |
| 4th of July 1991 | DEATH | Victor Chang, Australian physician (Born 1936) |
| 4th of July 1992 | DEATH | Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer (Born 1921) |
| 4th of July 1993 | DEATH | Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian (Born 1903) |
| 4th of July 1994 | DEATH | Joey Marella, American professional wrestling referee (Born 1964) |
| 4th of July 1995 | DEATH | Bob Ross, American artist and television host (Born 1942) |
| 4th of July 1995 | DEATH | Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (Born 1919) |
| 4th of July 1997 | DEATH | Charles Kuralt, American television presenter (Born 1934) |
| 4th of July 1997 | DEATH | John Zachary Young, English zoologist (Born 1907) |
| 4th of July 1999 | DEATH | Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (Born 1917) |
| 4th of July 2000 | DEATH | Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (Born 1919) |
| 4th of July 2001 | DEATH | Keenan Milton, American skateboarder (Born 1974) |
| 4th of July 2002 | DEATH | Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American Air Force general (Born 1912) |
| 4th of July 2002 | DEATH | Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician (Born 1951) |
| 4th of July 2002 | DEATH | Winnifred Quick, American Titanic survivor (Born 1904) |
| 4th of July 2003 | DEATH | Andre Claveau, French singer (Born 1915) |
| 4th of July 2003 | DEATH | Barry White, American singer (Born 1944) |
| 4th of July 2004 | DEATH | Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (Born 1920) |
| 4th of July 2004 | DEATH | Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), British street entertainer (Born 1932) |
| 4th of July 2005 | DEATH | Hank Stram, American football coach (Born 1923) |
| 4th of July 2007 | DEATH | Bar?s Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (Born 1979) |
| 4th of July 2007 | DEATH | Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer (Born 1925) |
| 4th of July 2008 | DEATH | Jesse Helms, American politician (Born 1921) |
| 4th of July 2008 | DEATH | Evelyn Keyes, American actress (Born 1916) |
| 4th of July 2008 | DEATH | Charles Wheeler, British journalist (Born 1923) |
| 4th of July 2008 | DEATH | Terrence Kiel, American football player (Born 1980) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Drake Levin, American rock musician (Born 1946) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Brenda Joyce, American actress (Born 1917) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Allen Klein, American music executive (Born 1931) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Steve McNair, American football player (Born 1973) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Lasse Stromstedt, Swedish writer (Born 1935) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, Congolese politician (Born 1938) |
| 4th of July 2009 | DEATH | Jim Chapin, American drummer (Born 1919) |
| 4th of July 2010 | DEATH | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (Born 1935) |