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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of October 0610 | EVENT | Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor. |
| 4th of October 0663 | EVENT | The battle of Baekgang begins. (Traditional Chinese date: August 28, 663). |
| 4th of October 1209 | EVENT | Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. |
| 4th of October 1227 | EVENT | Assassination of Caliph al-Adil. |
| 4th of October 1363 | EVENT | End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. |
| 4th of October 1511 | EVENT | Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France. |
| 4th of October 1535 | EVENT | The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. |
| 4th of October 1582 | EVENT | Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. |
| 4th of October 1636 | EVENT | The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock. |
| 4th of October 1693 | EVENT | Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French. |
| 4th of October 1725 | EVENT | Foundation of Rosario in Argentina. |
| 4th of October 1777 | EVENT | Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe. |
| 4th of October 1779 | EVENT | The Fort Wilson Riot takes place. |
| 4th of October 1795 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). |
| 4th of October 1824 | EVENT | Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic. |
| 4th of October 1830 | EVENT | Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands. |
| 4th of October 1853 | EVENT | Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia. |
| 4th of October 1876 | EVENT | Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas. |
| 4th of October 1883 | EVENT | First run of the Orient Express. |
| 4th of October 1883 | EVENT | First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland. |
| 4th of October 1895 | EVENT | The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. |
| 4th of October 1918 | EVENT | An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found in 2007. |
| 4th of October 1927 | EVENT | Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. |
| 4th of October 1940 | EVENT | Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass. |
| 4th of October 1941 | EVENT | Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. |
| 4th of October 1943 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands. |
| 4th of October 1957 | EVENT | Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. |
| 4th of October 1957 | EVENT | Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. |
| 4th of October 1958 | EVENT | Fifth Republic of France is established. |
| 4th of October 1960 | EVENT | Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board. |
| 4th of October 1965 | EVENT | Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York. |
| 4th of October 1966 | EVENT | Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. |
| 4th of October 1967 | EVENT | Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. |
| 4th of October 1976 | EVENT | Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST). |
| 4th of October 1983 | EVENT | Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. |
| 4th of October 1985 | EVENT | Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States. |
| 4th of October 1988 | EVENT | U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. |
| 4th of October 1991 | EVENT | The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature. |
| 4th of October 1992 | EVENT | The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique. |
| 4th of October 1992 | EVENT | El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. |
| 4th of October 1993 | EVENT | Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside. |
| 4th of October 1997 | EVENT | The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken. |
| 4th of October 2001 | EVENT | Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed. |
| 4th of October 2001 | EVENT | NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. |
| 4th of October 2003 | EVENT | Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded. |
| 4th of October 2004 | EVENT | SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space. |
| 4th of October 1160 | BIRTHDAY | Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220) |
| 4th of October 1276 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311) |
| 4th of October 1289 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis X of France (d. 1316) |
| 4th of October 1331 | BIRTHDAY | James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382) |
| 4th of October 1379 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406) |
| 4th of October 1515 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586) |
| 4th of October 1542 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621) |
| 4th of October 1550 | BIRTHDAY | King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611) |
| 4th of October 1562 | BIRTHDAY | Christian S?rensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647) |
| 4th of October 1570 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637) |
| 4th of October 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618) |
| 4th of October 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661) |
| 4th of October 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712) |
| 4th of October 1657 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747) |
| 4th of October 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778) |
| 4th of October 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798) |
| 4th of October 1759 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803) |
| 4th of October 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874) |
| 4th of October 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (d. 1864) |
| 4th of October 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Millet, French painter (d. 1875) |
| 4th of October 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893) |
| 4th of October 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Juliette Adam, French writer (d. 1936) |
| 4th of October 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925) |
| 4th of October 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Prudente Jose de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912) |
| 4th of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935) |
| 4th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909) |
| 4th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918) |
| 4th of October 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930) |
| 4th of October 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo T. de Alvear, Argentine politician |
| 4th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958) |
| 4th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946) |
| 4th of October 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946) |
| 4th of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Walther von Brauchitsch, German statesman (d. 1948) |
| 4th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Subramaniya Siva, Indian revolutionary figure (d. 1925) |
| 4th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962) |
| 4th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954) |
| 4th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Alan L. Hart, American transsexual, radiologist, and novelist (d. 1962) |
| 4th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934) |
| 4th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934) |
| 4th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966) |
| 4th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995) |
| 4th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993) |
| 4th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Garbay, French army general and military governor of Paris (d. 1980) |
| 4th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946) |
| 4th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul |
| 4th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 4th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Michael Hordern, British actor (d. 1995) |
| 4th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997) |
| 4th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003) |
| 4th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009) |
| 4th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002) |
| 4th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Murray, American comedian (d. 2006) |
| 4th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (d. 1967) |
| 4th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 4th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987) |
| 4th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman |
| 4th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 4th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Toffler, American writer |
| 4th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Torben Ulrich, Danish musician and filmmaker |
| 4th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Scotty Beckett, American child actor (d. 1968) |
| 4th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Leroy Van Dyke, American singer |
| 4th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer |
| 4th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Basil D'Oliveira CBE, South African born cricketer |
| 4th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Rorty, American academic (d. 2007) |
| 4th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director |
| 4th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist |
| 4th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Huff, American football player |
| 4th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Collins, British author |
| 4th of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Sillars, Scottish politician |
| 4th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Wuthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 4th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist |
| 4th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer |
| 4th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Blount, Jr., American writer |
| 4th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver |
| 4th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Rice, American writer |
| 4th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Wilson, American theatre director |
| 4th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967) |
| 4th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bernice Johnson Reagon, American musician (Sweet Honey in the Rock) |
| 4th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland |
| 4th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 4th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist |
| 4th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dietmar Murdter, German footballer |
| 4th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jimy Williams, American baseball manager |
| 4th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Florian Pittis, Romanian artist (d. 2007) |
| 4th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tony La Russa, American baseball manager |
| 4th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rocio Durcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006) |
| 4th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Clifton Davis, American actor |
| 4th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Hagel, American politician |
| 4th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Mullen, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| 4th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bridget St John, English singer/songwriter and guitarist |
| 4th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist |
| 4th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Clerc, French singer |
| 4th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Widdecombe, British politician |
| 4th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Fielder, American bassist (Blood, Sweat & Tears) |
| 4th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Linda McMahon, CEO of WWE |
| 4th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Assante, American actor |
| 4th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director |
| 4th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Pruett, American spree killer (d. 1999) |
| 4th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Meg Bennett, American writer and actress |
| 4th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet |
| 4th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tcheky Karyo, Turkish-French actor |
| 4th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer |
| 4th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor |
| 4th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Simmons, American entrepreneur |
| 4th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Fagerbakke, American actor |
| 4th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast |
| 4th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kyra Schon, American actress |
| 4th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Meo, English snooker player |
| 4th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys) |
| 4th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Boever, American baseball player |
| 4th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Russo, French singer |
| 4th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author |
| 4th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Carsolio, Mexican alpinist |
| 4th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Secada, Cuban singer and songwriter |
| 4th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | A. C. Green, American basketball player |
| 4th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children's author |
| 4th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Skip Heller, American musician |
| 4th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Olaf Backasch, German footballer |
| 4th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Bentley, British voice actor |
| 4th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer |
| 4th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Liev Schreiber, American actor |
| 4th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hancox, English footballer |
| 4th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Wise, American writer and activist |
| 4th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer |
| 4th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Middleton, Australian guitarist |
| 4th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Thomas, American basketball player |
| 4th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Parks, American wrestler |
| 4th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paco Leon, Spanish actor |
| 4th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daniella Deutscher, American actress |
| 4th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player |
| 4th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer |
| 4th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Silverstone, American actress |
| 4th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer (Arcade Fire) |
| 4th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter |
| 4th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer |
| 4th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor |
| 4th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Lohse, American baseball player |
| 4th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress |
| 4th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Voges, Australian cricketer |
| 4th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Booth, British actor |
| 4th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Phau, German tennis player |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Fisher, American race car driver |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James Jones, American basketball player |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Rosicky, Czech footballer |
| 4th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Peper, American actor |
| 4th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Hammond, American photographer |
| 4th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Juka, Japanese singer |
| 4th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player |
| 4th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jered Weaver, American baseball player |
| 4th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Clarke, British racing driver |
| 4th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol |
| 4th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player |
| 4th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese boy band singer (KAT-TUN) |
| 4th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chansi Stuckey, American football player |
| 4th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.) |
| 4th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver |
| 4th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Shontelle Layne, Barbados born singer |
| 4th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player |
| 4th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yuridia, Mexican singer |
| 4th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer |
| 4th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Rose, American basketball player |
| 4th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dakota Johnson, American actress |
| 4th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Lil Mama, American rapper |
| 4th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater |
| 4th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey Solomon, English singer |
| 4th of October 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Emmanuel of Belgium |
| 4th of October 1052 | DEATH | Vladimir of Novgorod (Born 1020) |
| 4th of October 1221 | DEATH | William III Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (Born 1179) |
| 4th of October 1250 | DEATH | Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (Born 1226) |
| 4th of October 1305 | DEATH | Emperor Kameyama of Japan (Born 1249) |
| 4th of October 1582 | DEATH | Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (Born 1515) |
| 4th of October 1597 | DEATH | Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (Born 1550) |
| 4th of October 1646 | DEATH | Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (Born 1586) |
| 4th of October 1660 | DEATH | Francesco Albani, Italian painter (Born 1578) |
| 4th of October 1661 | DEATH | Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (Born 1625) |
| 4th of October 1669 | DEATH | Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (Born 1606) |
| 4th of October 1680 | DEATH | Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer |
| 4th of October 1743 | DEATH | John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (Born 1678) |
| 4th of October 1749 | DEATH | Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (Born 1711) |
| 4th of October 1754 | DEATH | Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief |
| 4th of October 1785 | DEATH | David Brearly, American statesman (Born 1703) |
| 4th of October 1821 | DEATH | John Rennie, Scottish engineer (Born 1761) |
| 4th of October 1851 | DEATH | Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (Born 1767) |
| 4th of October 1852 | DEATH | James Whitcomb, American politician (Born 1795) |
| 4th of October 1859 | DEATH | Karl Baedeker, German publisher (Born 1801) |
| 4th of October 1864 | DEATH | Joseph Montferrand, French Canadian logger and strong man (Born 1802) |
| 4th of October 1867 | DEATH | Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (Born 1819) |
| 4th of October 1871 | DEATH | Sarel Cilliers Voortrekker leader and preacher (Born 1801) |
| 4th of October 1890 | DEATH | Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army (Born 1829) |
| 4th of October 1903 | DEATH | Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (Born 1880) |
| 4th of October 1904 | DEATH | Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (Born 1847) |
| 4th of October 1904 | DEATH | Frederic Bartholdi, French sculptor (Born 1834) |
| 4th of October 1910 | DEATH | Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (Born 1850) |
| 4th of October 1935 | DEATH | Jean Beraud, French painter (Born 1849) |
| 4th of October 1935 | DEATH | Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (Born 1874) |
| 4th of October 1943 | DEATH | Irena I??akowicz, Polish intelligence agent (Born 1906) |
| 4th of October 1944 | DEATH | Al Smith, American politician (Born 1873) |
| 4th of October 1946 | DEATH | Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (Born 1878) |
| 4th of October 1947 | DEATH | Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1858) |
| 4th of October 1951 | DEATH | Willie Moretti, American gangster (Born 1894) |
| 4th of October 1951 | DEATH | Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (Born 1920) |
| 4th of October 1955 | DEATH | Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (Born 1883) |
| 4th of October 1958 | DEATH | Ida Wust, German actress, (Born 1884) |
| 4th of October 1961 | DEATH | Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (Born 1880) |
| 4th of October 1969 | DEATH | Natalino Otto, Italian singer (Born 1912) |
| 4th of October 1970 | DEATH | Janis Joplin, American singer (Born 1943) |
| 4th of October 1974 | DEATH | Anne Sexton, American poet (Born 1928) |
| 4th of October 1975 | DEATH | Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (Born 1903) |
| 4th of October 1977 | DEATH | Jose Ber Gelbard, activist and politician, dies in Washington DC of a heart attack (Born 1917). |
| 4th of October 1981 | DEATH | Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (Born 1905) |
| 4th of October 1982 | DEATH | Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (Born 1932) |
| 4th of October 1989 | DEATH | Graham Chapman, British comedian (Born 1941) |
| 4th of October 1989 | DEATH | Secretariat, American race horse (Born 1970) |
| 4th of October 1990 | DEATH | Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader (Born 1924) |
| 4th of October 1990 | DEATH | Avis Bunnage, English actress (Born 1923) |
| 4th of October 1991 | DEATH | J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (Born 1941) |
| 4th of October 1992 | DEATH | Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and 1967 Formula One world champion (Born 1936) |
| 4th of October 1994 | DEATH | Danny Gatton, American guitar virtuoso (Born 1945) |
| 4th of October 1996 | DEATH | Larry Gene Bell, American child murderer (executed by electric chair) (Born 1949) |
| 4th of October 1997 | DEATH | Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (Born 1941) |
| 4th of October 1999 | DEATH | Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1928) |
| 4th of October 1999 | DEATH | Bernard Buffet, French painter (Born 1928) |
| 4th of October 1999 | DEATH | Erik Br?dreskift (aka Grim), Norwegian black metal musician (Born 1969) |
| 4th of October 2000 | DEATH | Michael Smith, biochemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1932) |
| 4th of October 2000 | DEATH | Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (Born 1914) |
| 4th of October 2001 | DEATH | Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (Born 1976) |
| 4th of October 2001 | DEATH | Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Born 1917) |
| 4th of October 2002 | DEATH | Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (Born 1917) |
| 4th of October 2002 | DEATH | Andre Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (Born 1926) |
| 4th of October 2003 | DEATH | Sid McMath, American politician (Born 1912) |
| 4th of October 2004 | DEATH | Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (Born 1927) |
| 4th of October 2004 | DEATH | Rio Diaz, Filipino actress & TV hosts (Born 1959) |
| 4th of October 2005 | DEATH | Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (Born 1924) |
| 4th of October 2006 | DEATH | Tom Bell, English actor on stage, television and film (Born 1933) |
| 4th of October 2007 | DEATH | Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian General (Born 1925) |
| 4th of October 2009 | DEATH | Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (Born 1935) |
| 4th of October 2009 | DEATH | Gunther Rall, German fighter ace (Born 1918) |
| 4th of October 2010 | DEATH | Sir Norman Wisdom, English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor (Born 1915) |