Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 4
Births
[edit]- 1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
- 1796 - Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859) (pictured)
- 1852 - Alice Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
- 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
- 1959 - Randy Travis, American musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
- 1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
- 1970 - Kent State victims:
- Allison Krause (b. 1951)
- Jeffrey Miller (b. 1950)
- Sandra Scheuer (b. 1949)
- William Schroeder (b. 1950)
- 1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)
- 1980 - Josip Broz Tito, one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement (b. 1892)