Died on
Who died on October 4
100 figures who shaped history died on October 4.
- 100deaths
- 50events
Best known
Best known
Yazid III
Umayyad caliph in 744
Vladimir of Novgorod
Prince of Novgorod from 1036 to 1052
Constance of Castile, Queen of France
Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160
Gerard of Ridefort
Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1184 to 1189
Abdallah al-Adil
Almohad Caliph from 1224 to 1227
Emperor Kameyama
Emperor of Japan from 1260 to 1274
Yazid III — Umayyad caliph in 744, who died on October 4 744.
Vladimir of Novgorod — Prince of Novgorod from 1036 to 1052, who died on October 4 1052.
Constance of Castile, Queen of France — Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160, who died on October 4 1160.
Gerard of Ridefort — Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1184 to 1189, who died on October 4 1189.
Abdallah al-Adil — Almohad Caliph from 1224 to 1227, who died on October 4 1227.
Emperor Kameyama — Emperor of Japan from 1260 to 1274, who died on October 4 1305.
All entries
- 863TTurpioCount of Angoulême
- 1221WWilliam IV of PonthieuCount of Ponthieu
- 1250
Herman VI of BadenMargrave of Baden - 1361JJohn Mowbray, 3rd Baron MowbrayEnglish peer
- 1497
John, Prince of AsturiasOnly son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile - 1582
Teresa of ÁvilaSpanish Carmelite mystic and saint - 1597
Sarsa DengelEmperor of Ethiopia from 1563 to 1597 - 1646
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of ArundelEnglish magistrate, diplomat and courtier - 1660
Francesco AlbaniItalian Baroque painter - 1661
Jacqueline PascalFrench poet and nun - 1669
RembrandtDutch painter and printmaker - 1680
Pierre-Paul RiquetFrench engineer - 1743
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of ArgyllBritish army officer and politician - 1747
Amaro PargoSpanish privateer and slave trader - 1749
Baron Franz von der TrenckAustrian soldier - 1755
Samuel von CoccejiPrussian jurist and statesman
- 1821
John Rennie the ElderScottish civil engineer - 1827GGrigorios Zalykis
- 1851
Manuel GodoyFirst Secretary of State of Spain - 1852
James WhitcombAmerican politician - 1859
Karl BaedekerGerman publisher - 1864JJoseph MontferrandCanadian logger and strongman
- 1867
Francis Xavier SeelosGerman-American Catholic priest and missionary - 1871
Sarel CilliersVoortrekker leader and preacher - 1890
Catherine BoothEnglishwoman who co-founded The Salvation Army - 1903
Otto WeiningerAustrian philosopher - 1904
Frédéric Auguste BartholdiFrench sculptor and painter - 1904CCarl Josef BayerAustrian chemist
- 1910
Sergey MuromtsevRussian lawyer and politician - 1935
Jean BéraudFrench painter - 1935
Marie Gutheil-SchoderGerman soprano - 1943IIrena IłłakowiczPolish second Lieutenant of the National Armed Forces and intelligence agent
- 1944
Al SmithAmerican politician - 1946
Barney OldfieldAmerican racing driver - 1947
Max PlanckGerman physicist - 1951
Henrietta LacksAfrican-American woman (1920–1951), source of HeLa immortal cell line - 1955
Alexandros PapagosGreek military leader and politician - 1958
Ida WüstGerman actress - 1961
Benjamin FedchenkovBishop of the Russian Orthodox Church - 1963
Alar KotliEstonian architect - 1970
Janis JoplinAmerican singer
- 1974
Anne SextonAmerican poet - 1975FFriedrich Lutz (economist)German economist
- 1975
Joan Whitney PaysonAmerican businesswoman - 1977
José Ber GelbardPolish-Argentine activist, politician and economic adviser
- 1980
Pyotr MasherovSoviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician - 1981
Freddie LindstromAmerican baseball player - 1982
Glenn GouldCanadian pianist - 1982
Stefanos StefanopoulosGreek politician - 1988ZZlatko Grgić
- 1989
Graham ChapmanEnglish actor, comedian and writer - 1990MMārtiņš ZīvertsLatvian playwright
- 1992
Denny HulmeNew Zealand racing driver - 1994DDanny GattonAmerican guitarist
- 1997
Otto Ernst RemerGerman Wehrmacht Army officer and Neo-Nazi Leader
- 1997
Gunpei YokoiJapanese video game designer - 1998
S. ArasaratnamAcademic, historian and author - 1999
Bernard BuffetFrench painter - 1999
Art FarmerAmerican jazz trumpeter - 2000
Yu Kuo-hwaTaiwanese politician and economist - 2000
Michael Smith (chemist)Canadian biochemist, businessman and Nobel Prize laureate - 2001BBlaise AlexanderAmerican racing driver
- 2001JJohn Collins (jazz guitarist)American jazz guitarist
- 2001
Ahron SoloveichikAmerican rabbi - 2002
André DelvauxBelgian film director - 2003
Sid McMath34th governor of Arkansas
- 2004
Gordon CooperAmerican astronaut - 2005
Stanley K. Hathaway27th Governor of Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior - 2007
Qassem Al-Nasser - 2009GGerhard KaufholdGerman footballer
- 2009
Günther RallGerman general and fighter pilot during World War II - 2010
Norman WisdomEnglish actor, comedian and singer - 2011
Doris BelackAmerican actress - 2012DDavid Atkinson (baritone)Canadian opera singer
- 2012SStan MudengeZimbabwean politician
- 2012TTom StannageWestern Australian historian, academic, and Australian rules football player
- 2013
John Cloudsley-ThompsonBritish naturalist and soldier - 2013
Ulric CrossTrinidadian lawyer and diplomat - 2013AAkira MiyoshiJapanese composer
- 2013DDiana NasutionIndonesian singer
- 2013
Võ Nguyên GiápVietnamese general and communist politician - 2013
Nicholas OreskoAmerican soldier awarded Medal of Honor - 2014KKonrad BoehmerGerman-Dutch composer, educator, and writer
- 2014
Hugo CarvanaBrazilian actor - 2014
Fyodor CherenkovRussian footballer
- 2014
Jean-Claude DuvalierPresident of Haiti from 1971 to 1986 - 2015
Dave PikeAmerican jazz vibraphone and marimba player - 2015EEdida Nageswara RaoIndian film producer
- 2015
Neal WalkAmerican basketball player - 2020
Clark MiddletonAmerican actor - 2020
Kenzō TakadaJapanese-French fashion designer - 2022
Loretta LynnAmerican country singer - 2024CChristopher CicconeAmerican artist
- 2024
Billy ShawAmerican football player
Frequently asked questions
Who died on October 4?
100 people with a Wikipedia article died on October 4, including Yazid III, Vladimir of Novgorod, Constance of Castile, Queen of France. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What happened on October 4?
50 documented historical events happened on October 4, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Red Turban Rebellions: The rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang won the Battle of Lake Poyang by deploying ships intentionally set aflame when the emperor tried to escape. On the same day, in another year: Skanderbeg and Gjergj Arianiti signed a peace treaty to end the Albanian–Venetian War. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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