October 4

October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 610 – Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
• 1227 – Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
• 1363 – 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.
• 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
• 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
• 1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
• 1636 – The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1693 – Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
• 1777 – Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
• 1779 – The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
• 1795 – 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).
• 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
• 1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.
• 1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
• 1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
• 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
• 1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1895 – 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.
• 1917 – The Battle of Broodseinde fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• 1918 – 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 as of 2007.
• 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• 1940 – Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
• 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
• 1943 – World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
• 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
• 1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
• 1958 – Fifth Republic of France is established.
• 1960 – 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.
• 1963 – Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• 1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
• 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
• 1974 – Founding of the New Democracy party in Greece.
• 1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
• 1983 – 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.
• 1985 – Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
• 1988 – U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
• 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
• 1992 – El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 1993 – 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.
• 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
• 2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
• 2001 – 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.
• 2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
• 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

Births

• 1160 – Alys, Countess of the Vexin (d. 1220)
• 1276 – Margaret of Brabant (d. 1311)
• 1289 – Louis X of France (d. 1316)
• 1331 – James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician (d. 1382)
• 1379 – Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
• 1515 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
• 1542 – Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal (d. 1621)
• 1550 – Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
• 1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
• 1570 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
• 1585 – Anna of Tyrol (d. 1618)
• 1625 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun (d. 1661)
• 1626 – Richard Cromwell, English politician (d. 1712)
• 1657 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
• 1720 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian illustrator (d. 1778)
• 1723 – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
• 1759 – Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
• 1787 – François Guizot, French politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1874)
• 1793 – Charles Pearson, British social reformer (d. 1862)
• 1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian politician (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
• 1822 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American politician, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
• 1836 – Juliette Adam, French author (d. 1936)
• 1841 – Prudente de Morais, Brazilian politician, 3rd President of Brazil (d. 1912)
• 1841 – Maria Sophie of Bavaria (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Walter Rauschenbusch, American theologian and pastor (d. 1918)
• 1861 – Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
• 1862 – Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
• 1868 – Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentine politician, 20th President of Argentina (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Bob McKinney, American baseball player (d. 1946)
• 1876 – Hugh McCrae, Australian author (d. 1958)
• 1877 – Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
• 1880 – Damon Runyon, American author (d. 1946)
• 1881 – Henry Potter, American golfer (d. 1955)
• 1881 – Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (d. 1948)
• 1883 – Charles Healy, American water polo player
• 1884 – Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925)
• 1886 – Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962)
• 1888 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
• 1890 – Alan L. Hart, American physician and author (d. 1962)
• 1892 – Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1934)
• 1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
• 1895 – Buster Keaton, American actor, director, and producer (d. 1966)
• 1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
• 1903 – Bona Arsenault, Canadian politician and historian (d. 1993)
• 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist, invented the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Pierre Garbay, French army general (d. 1980)
• 1903 – Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German military officer (d. 1946)
• 1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
• 1913 – Martial Célestin, Haitian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2011)
• 1914 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
• 1914 – Brendan Gill, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 2006)
• 1916 – George Sidney, American director (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
• 1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group
• 1923 – Charlton Heston, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Donald J. Sobol, American author (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Alvin Toffler, American journalist and author
• 1928 – Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
• 1929 – Scotty Beckett, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1929 – Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
• 1931 – Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
• 1931 – Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Milan Chvostek, Canadian director and producer
• 1934 – Sam Huff, American football player
• 1934 – Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist
• 1936 – Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer
• 1937 – Jackie Collins, English author and actress
• 1937 – Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
• 1938 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand Speedway Rider, Six times world Champion Three times Longtrack Champion
• 1940 – Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
• 1940 – Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
• 1940 – Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
• 1941 – Roy Blount, Jr., American author
• 1941 – Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
• 1941 – Anne Rice, American author
• 1941 – Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
• 1942 – Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
• 1942 – Karl W. Richter, American pilot (d. 1967)
• 1942 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1942 – Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
• 1943 – H. Rap Brown, American activist
• 1943 – Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey referee (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1943 – Florian Pittiș, Romanian actor, singer, director, and producer (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 – Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1946 – Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1946 – Chuck Hagel, American politician
• 1946 – Michael Mullen, American admiral
• 1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress
• 1946 – Bridget St John, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1947 – Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 – Jim Fielder, American bass player (Blood, Sweat & Tears and The Mothers of Invention)
• 1947 – Ann Widdecombe, English politician
• 1948 – Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
• 1948 – Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Armand Assante, American actor
• 1949 – Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
• 1949 – Marion Pruett, American murderer (d. 1999)
• 1950 – Meg Bennett, American actress and scriptwriter
• 1951 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
• 1951 – Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter and drummer (Triumph)
• 1953 – Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
• 1953 – Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
• 1955 – Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
• 1956 – Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor
• 1957 – Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
• 1957 – Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (Dance with a Stranger) (d. 2013)
• 1957 – Kyra Schon, American actress
• 1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
• 1958 – Anneka Rice, Welsh television host
• 1959 – Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player (Pet Shop Boys)
• 1959 – Tony Meo, English snooker player
• 1960 – Joe Boever, American baseball player
• 1961 – Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter
• 1961 – Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
• 1962 – Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
• 1962 – Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
• 1963 – A. C. Green, American basketball player
• 1963 – Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1964 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, director, entrepreneur, host and photographer (d. 2009)
• 1965 – Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 – Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1965 – Micky Ward, American boxer
• 1967 – Marcus Bentley, English voice actor
• 1967 – Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
• 1967 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
• 1968 – Richard Hancox, English footballer
• 1968 – Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1969 – Abraham Benrubi, American actor
• 1971 – Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
• 1971 – Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Powderfinger and Drag)
• 1972 – Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1973 – Abyss, American wrestler
• 1974 – Paco León, Spanish actor
• 1975 – Daniella Deutscher, American actress
• 1975 – Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer
• 1975 – Mohamed Jameel, Maldivian footballer
• 1976 – Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
• 1976 – Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 – Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer
• 1977 – Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor
• 1977 – Richard Parry, Canadian musician and songwriter (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre)
• 1978 – Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1978 – Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
• 1978 – Go Soo, South Korean actor
• 1979 – Brandon Barash, American actor
• 1979 – Stefan Booth, English actor and singer
• 1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress and producer
• 1979 – Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 – Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1980 – Me'Lisa Barber, American sprinter
• 1980 – Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
• 1980 – Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer
• 1980 – James Jones, American basketball player
• 1980 – Tim Peper, American actor
• 1980 – Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
• 1981 – Shaura, Japanese singer (Moi dix Mois)
• 1981 – Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
• 1982 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
• 1983 – Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 1983 – Risa Kudō, Japanese model and actress
• 1983 – Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 1983 – Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 1983 – Tatsuya Ueda, Japanese singer and actor (KAT-TUN)
• 1984 – Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
• 1984 – Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
• 1985 – Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
• 1986 – Yuridia, Mexican singer
• 1987 – Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 1987 – Will Puddy, English footballer
• 1987 – Marina Weisband, German politician
• 1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player
• 1988 – Melissa Benoist, American singer-actress
• 1989 – Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
• 1989 – Lil Mama, American rapper
• 1989 – Stacey Solomon, English singer
• 2005 – Prince Emmanuel of Belgium

Deaths

• 1052 – Vladimir of Novgorod (b. 1020)
• 1250 – Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (b. 1226)
• 1305 – Emperor Kameyama of Japan (b. 1249)
• 1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
• 1597 – Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1550)
• 1646 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (b. 1586)
• 1660 – Francesco Albani, Italian painter (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Jacqueline Pascal, French nun (b. 1625)
• 1669 – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Dutch painter (b. 1606)
• 1680 – Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi (b. 1609)
• 1743 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
• 1749 – Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (b. 1711)
• 1754 – Tanacharison, American tribal chief (b. 1700)
• 1785 – David Brearley, American politician, signed the United States Constitution (b. 1703)
• 1821 – John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
• 1827 – Grigorios Zalykis, Greek diplomat and lexicographer (b. 1785)
• 1851 – Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1767)
• 1852 – James Whitcomb, American politician, 8th Governor of Indiana (b. 1795)
• 1859 – Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker (b. 1801)
• 1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802)
• 1867 – Francis Xavier Seelos German-American priest and missionary (b. 1819)
• 1871 – Sarel Cilliers South African spiritual leader and preacher (b. 1801)
• 1890 – Catherine Booth, English co-founder of The Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1903 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1904 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1904 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (b. 1847)
• 1910 – Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 – Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Irena Iłłakowicz, Polish lieutenant and intelligence agent (b. 1906)
• 1944 – Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (b. 1878)
• 1947 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 – Henrietta Lacks, American patient, HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (b. 1920)
• 1951 – Willie Moretti, Italian-American gangster (b. 1894)
• 1955 – Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)
• 1958 – Ida Wüst, German actress (b. 1884)
• 1961 – Metropolitan Benjamin, Russian bishop and missionary (b. 1880)
• 1969 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912)
• 1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (Big Brother and the Holding Company) (b. 1943)
• 1974 – Anne Sexton, American poet (b. 1928)
• 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 – José Ber Gelbard, Argentine activist and politician (b. 1917).
• 1981 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (b. 1905)
• 1982 – The Amazing Criswell, American psychic and actor (b. 1907)
• 1982 – Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (b. 1932)
• 1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
• 1989 – Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (b. 1941)
• 1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and bandleader (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923)
• 1991 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941)
• 1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949)
• 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941)
• 1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German Wehrmacht office (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
• 2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917)
• 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino actress (b. 1959)
• 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925)
• 2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Günther Rall, German pilot (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer and activist (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Norman Wisdom, English actor and singer (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Günter Böttcher, German handball player (b. 1954)
• 2012 – K. C. N. Gowda, Indian film producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Pramote Teerawiwatana, Thai badminton player (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Erhard Wunderlich, German handball player (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Amun
  • Francis of Assisi
  • Petronius of Bologna.
  • October 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden)
• Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966.
• The beginning of World Space Week (International)
• World Animal Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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