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| May 4th, 2007 (May 04 2007) | Event | Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado. | |
| May 4th, 2007 (May 04 2007) | Event | The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever. | |
| May 4th, 2005 (May 04 2005) | Death | David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (born in 1930) | |
| May 4th, 2002 (May 04 2002) | Event | An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people. | |
| May 4th, 2001 (May 04 2001) | Event | The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public. | |
| May 4th, 2001 (May 04 2001) | Death | Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (born in 1956) | |
| May 4th, 2000 (May 04 2000) | Event | Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London. | |
| May 4th, 1998 (May 04 1998) | Event | A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. | |
| May 4th, 1994 (May 04 1994) | Event | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. | Yitzhak Rabin Quotes |
| May 4th, 1994 (May 04 1994) | Birth | Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stephanie of Monaco | |
| May 4th, 1994 (May 04 1994) | Birth | Alexander Gould, American actor | |
| May 4th, 1992 (May 04 1992) | Birth | Courtney Jines, American actress | |
| May 4th, 1992 (May 04 1992) | Death | Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (born in 1927) | |
| May 4th, 1990 (May 04 1990) | Event | Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation. | |
| May 4th, 1989 (May 04 1989) | Event | Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal. | |
| May 4th, 1988 (May 04 1988) | Event | The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonates during a fire. | |
| May 4th, 1987 (May 04 1987) | Birth | Cesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer | |
| May 4th, 1987 (May 04 1987) | Birth | Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer | |
| May 4th, 1987 (May 04 1987) | Birth | Anjeza Shahini, Albanian singer | |
| May 4th, 1987 (May 04 1987) | Death | Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (born in 1942) | |
| May 4th, 1985 (May 04 1985) | Birth | Anthony Fedorov, American singer | |
| May 4th, 1985 (May 04 1985) | Birth | Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer | |
| May 4th, 1985 (May 04 1985) | Death | Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1907) | |
| May 4th, 1984 (May 04 1984) | Birth | Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player (died in 2007) | |
| May 4th, 1984 (May 04 1984) | Birth | Kevin Slowey, American baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1984 (May 04 1984) | Birth | Montell Owens, American football player | |
| May 4th, 1984 (May 04 1984) | Death | Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (born in 1913) | |
| May 4th, 1984 (May 04 1984) | Death | Diana Dors, British actress (born in 1931) | |
| May 4th, 1983 (May 04 1983) | Birth | Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress | |
| May 4th, 1983 (May 04 1983) | Birth | Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 4th, 1982 (May 04 1982) | Event | Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield (D80) is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. | |
| May 4th, 1982 (May 04 1982) | Birth | Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer | |
| May 4th, 1982 (May 04 1982) | Birth | Hector King, Mexican singer-songwriter | |
| May 4th, 1982 (May 04 1982) | Birth | Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer | |
| May 4th, 1982 (May 04 1982) | Birth | Rasheeda,American hiphop singer | |
| May 4th, 1981 (May 04 1981) | Birth | Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer | |
| May 4th, 1980 (May 04 1980) | Event | President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia dies in Ljubljana at the age of 87. | Josip Broz Tito Quotes |
| May 4th, 1980 (May 04 1980) | Birth | Andrew Raycroft, NHL goalie | |
| May 4th, 1980 (May 04 1980) | Death | Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (born in 1892) | Josip Broz Tito Quotes |
| May 4th, 1979 (May 04 1979) | Event | Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| May 4th, 1979 (May 04 1979) | Birth | Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC) | |
| May 4th, 1979 (May 04 1979) | Birth | Wes Butters, British broadcaster | |
| May 4th, 1979 (May 04 1979) | Birth | Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan born rugby union and rugby league player | |
| May 4th, 1978 (May 04 1978) | Birth | Shaenon K. Garrity, American webcomics writer and artist | |
| May 4th, 1977 (May 04 1977) | Birth | Emily Perkins, Canadian actress | |
| May 4th, 1977 (May 04 1977) | Birth | Mariano Pernia, Argentine-Spanish footballer | |
| May 4th, 1976 (May 04 1976) | Birth | Ben Grieve, American baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1976 (May 04 1976) | Birth | Jason Michaels, American baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1975 (May 04 1975) | Birth | Laci Peterson, American murder victim (died in 2002) | |
| May 4th, 1975 (May 04 1975) | Death | Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (born in 1897) | |
| May 4th, 1974 (May 04 1974) | Event | An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak. | |
| May 4th, 1974 (May 04 1974) | Birth | Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1973 (May 04 1973) | Birth | Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer | |
| May 4th, 1973 (May 04 1973) | Birth | John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 4th, 1973 (May 04 1973) | Death | Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (born in 1917) | |
| May 4th, 1972 (May 04 1972) | Event | The Don t Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". | |
| May 4th, 1972 (May 04 1972) | Birth | Manny Aybar, Dominican baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1972 (May 04 1972) | Birth | Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day) | |
| May 4th, 1972 (May 04 1972) | Birth | Chris Tomlin, American musician | |
| May 4th, 1972 (May 04 1972) | Death | Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1886) | |
| May 4th, 1971 (May 04 1971) | Birth | Joe Borowski, American baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1971 (May 04 1971) | Birth | Luiz Garcia, Jr., Brazilian racing driver | |
| May 4th, 1971 (May 04 1971) | Death | Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (born in 1934) | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Event | Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States invasion of Cambodia. | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Birth | Gregg Alexander, American musician (New Radicals) | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Death | Allison KrauseKent State victim (born in 1951) | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Death | Jeffrey MillerKent State victim (born in 1950) | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Death | Sandra ScheuerKent State victim (born in 1949) | |
| May 4th, 1970 (May 04 1970) | Death | William Schroeder (born in 1950) | |
| May 4th, 1969 (May 04 1969) | Birth | Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| May 4th, 1969 (May 04 1969) | Birth | Ryan Shamrock, American wrestling valet | |
| May 4th, 1969 (May 04 1969) | Death | Osbert Sitwell, English writer (born in 1892) | |
| May 4th, 1968 (May 04 1968) | Birth | Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh | Julian Quotes |
| May 4th, 1967 (May 04 1967) | Birth | Ana Gasteyer, American actress | |
| May 4th, 1967 (May 04 1967) | Birth | Kate Garraway, English GMTV Presenter | |
| May 4th, 1966 (May 04 1966) | Birth | Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer (died in 2008) | |
| May 4th, 1964 (May 04 1964) | Birth | Monica Bardem, Spanish actress | |
| May 4th, 1964 (May 04 1964) | Birth | Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian painter and visual artist, founder of transrealism | |
| May 4th, 1964 (May 04 1964) | Birth | Rocco Siffredi, Italian porn actor | |
| May 4th, 1962 (May 04 1962) | Birth | Oleta Adams, American singer | |
| May 4th, 1961 (May 04 1961) | Event | American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. | |
| May 4th, 1961 (May 04 1961) | Birth | Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist | |
| May 4th, 1961 (May 04 1961) | Birth | Jay Aston, British singer, star of Bucks Fizz | |
| May 4th, 1961 (May 04 1961) | Birth | Ishita Bhaduri, Indian (Bengali) Poet | |
| May 4th, 1961 (May 04 1961) | Death | Anita Stewart, American film actress (born in 1895) | |
| May 4th, 1960 (May 04 1960) | Birth | Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian | |
| May 4th, 1959 (May 04 1959) | Birth | Scott Armstrong, American professional wrestling referee | |
| May 4th, 1959 (May 04 1959) | Birth | Randy Travis, American musician | |
| May 4th, 1958 (May 04 1958) | Birth | Delbert Fowler, American and Canadian professional football player | |
| May 4th, 1958 (May 04 1958) | Birth | Keith Haring, American graphical artist (died in 1990) | |
| May 4th, 1956 (May 04 1956) | Birth | David Guterson, American author | |
| May 4th, 1956 (May 04 1956) | Birth | Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete | |
| May 4th, 1956 (May 04 1956) | Birth | Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player | |
| May 4th, 1955 (May 04 1955) | Birth | Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer | |
| May 4th, 1955 (May 04 1955) | Death | George Enescu, Romanian composer (born in 1881) | |
| May 4th, 1954 (May 04 1954) | Birth | Pia Zadora, American actress | |
| May 4th, 1953 (May 04 1953) | Event | Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. | Ernest Hemingway Quotes |
| May 4th, 1952 (May 04 1952) | Birth | Michael Barrymore, English comedian, actor, quiz master and entertainer | |
| May 4th, 1951 (May 04 1951) | Birth | Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel) | |
| May 4th, 1951 (May 04 1951) | Birth | Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5) | |
| May 4th, 1951 (May 04 1951) | Birth | Gerard Jugnot, French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer | |
| May 4th, 1951 (May 04 1951) | Birth | Mick Mars, American guitarist (Motley Crue) | |
| May 4th, 1950 (May 04 1950) | Birth | Darryl Hunt, English musician (The Pogues) | |
| May 4th, 1949 (May 04 1949) | Event | The entire Torino football (soccer) team (except for one player who did not take the trip due to an injury) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy. | |
| May 4th, 1949 (May 04 1949) | Birth | John Force, American race car driver | |
| May 4th, 1949 (May 04 1949) | Birth | Stella Parton, American country music singer | |
| May 4th, 1949 (May 04 1949) | Birth | Graham Swift, British author | |
| May 4th, 1948 (May 04 1948) | Birth | Hurley Haywood, American race car driver, and three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans | |
| May 4th, 1946 (May 04 1946) | Event | In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Navy Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison. Five people are killed in the riot. | |
| May 4th, 1946 (May 04 1946) | Birth | John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver | |
| May 4th, 1946 (May 04 1946) | Birth | Gary Bauer conservative American politician, former presidential candidate | |
| May 4th, 1945 (May 04 1945) | Event | World War II: The liberation of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg by the British Army. | |
| May 4th, 1945 (May 04 1945) | Event | World War II: The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. | |
| May 4th, 1945 (May 04 1945) | Birth | Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist | |
| May 4th, 1945 (May 04 1945) | Death | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (born in 1880) | |
| May 4th, 1944 (May 04 1944) | Birth | Roger Rees, British-born actor | |
| May 4th, 1943 (May 04 1943) | Birth | Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter | |
| May 4th, 1942 (May 04 1942) | Event | World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. | Solomon Quotes |
| May 4th, 1942 (May 04 1942) | Birth | Nickolas Ashford, American record producer, songwriter, and musician (Ashford and Simpson) | |
| May 4th, 1941 (May 04 1941) | Birth | George Will, American writer | |
| May 4th, 1940 (May 04 1940) | Birth | Robin Cook, American novelist | |
| May 4th, 1939 (May 04 1939) | Birth | Paul Gleason, American actor (died in 2006) | |
| May 4th, 1939 (May 04 1939) | Birth | Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist | |
| May 4th, 1939 (May 04 1939) | Birth | Leon Rochefort, Quebec ice hockey player | |
| May 4th, 1938 (May 04 1938) | Birth | Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (died in 2005) | |
| May 4th, 1938 (May 04 1938) | Birth | Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer | |
| May 4th, 1938 (May 04 1938) | Death | Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1889) | |
| May 4th, 1937 (May 04 1937) | Birth | Ron Carter, American jazz bassist | |
| May 4th, 1937 (May 04 1937) | Birth | Dick Dale, American guitarist | |
| May 4th, 1937 (May 04 1937) | Birth | Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler | |
| May 4th, 1937 (May 04 1937) | Death | Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (born in 1910) | |
| May 4th, 1936 (May 04 1936) | Birth | El Cordobes, Spanish matador | |
| May 4th, 1933 (May 04 1933) | Birth | J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher | |
| May 4th, 1932 (May 04 1932) | Event | In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. | Al Capone Quotes |
| May 4th, 1931 (May 04 1931) | Birth | Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor | |
| May 4th, 1931 (May 04 1931) | Birth | Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer | |
| May 4th, 1930 (May 04 1930) | Event | British police arrest Mahatma Gandhi and place him in Yeravda Central Prison. | Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
| May 4th, 1930 (May 04 1930) | Birth | Roberta Peters, American soprano | |
| May 4th, 1930 (May 04 1930) | Birth | Katherine Jackson, mother of the Jackson musical family | |
| May 4th, 1929 (May 04 1929) | Birth | Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (died in 1993) | Audrey Hepburn Quotes |
| May 4th, 1929 (May 04 1929) | Birth | Sidney Lamb, American linguist | |
| May 4th, 1928 (May 04 1928) | Birth | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician (died in 2006) | |
| May 4th, 1928 (May 04 1928) | Birth | Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt | |
| May 4th, 1928 (May 04 1928) | Birth | Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (died in 1961) | |
| May 4th, 1925 (May 04 1925) | Birth | Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman | |
| May 4th, 1923 (May 04 1923) | Birth | Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit) | |
| May 4th, 1923 (May 04 1923) | Birth | Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian | |
| May 4th, 1923 (May 04 1923) | Birth | Godfrey Quigley, British actor (died in 1994) | |
| May 4th, 1923 (May 04 1923) | Birth | Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author | |
| May 4th, 1922 (May 04 1922) | Death | Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (born in 1888) | |
| May 4th, 1921 (May 04 1921) | Birth | Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (died in 2005) | |
| May 4th, 1919 (May 04 1919) | Event | May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. | |
| May 4th, 1919 (May 04 1919) | Birth | Dory Funk, Professional wrestler (died in 1973) | |
| May 4th, 1919 (May 04 1919) | Death | Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (born in 1880) | |
| May 4th, 1918 (May 04 1918) | Birth | Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (died in 1993) | |
| May 4th, 1918 (May 04 1918) | Birth | Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (died in 2004) | |
| May 4th, 1916 (May 04 1916) | Birth | Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian author and activist (died in 2006) | |
| May 4th, 1916 (May 04 1916) | Death | Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (born in 1887) | |
| May 4th, 1913 (May 04 1913) | Birth | Lady Katherine Brandram, nee Princess of Greece and Denmark | |
| May 4th, 1912 (May 04 1912) | Event | Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes. | |
| May 4th, 1910 (May 04 1910) | Event | The Royal Canadian Navy is created. | |
| May 4th, 1908 (May 04 1908) | Birth | Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (died in 1968) | |
| May 4th, 1907 (May 04 1907) | Birth | Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (died in 1996) | |
| May 4th, 1904 (May 04 1904) | Event | Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal. | |
| May 4th, 1904 (May 04 1904) | Event | Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. | |
| May 4th, 1904 (May 04 1904) | Birth | Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (died in 1975) | |
| May 4th, 1903 (May 04 1903) | Birth | Luther Adler, American stage actor (died in 1984) | |
| May 4th, 1903 (May 04 1903) | Death | Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkansleader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (born in 1872) | |
| May 4th, 1901 (May 04 1901) | Death | John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (born in 1831) | |
| May 4th, 1889 (May 04 1889) | Birth | Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (died in 1967) | |
| May 4th, 1886 (May 04 1886) | Event | Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd. | |
| May 4th, 1880 (May 04 1880) | Death | Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (born in 1815) | |
| May 4th, 1873 (May 04 1873) | Birth | Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (died in 1940) | |
| May 4th, 1871 (May 04 1871) | Event | The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. | |
| May 4th, 1870 (May 04 1870) | Birth | Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (died in 1960) | |
| May 4th, 1869 (May 04 1869) | Event | The Naval Battle of Hakodate takes place in Japan. | |
| May 4th, 1864 (May 04 1864) | Birth | Marie Booth, the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (died in 1937) | William Booth Quotes |
| May 4th, 1863 (May 04 1863) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat. | |
| May 4th, 1859 (May 04 1859) | Event | The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England. | Devo Quotes |
| May 4th, 1859 (May 04 1859) | Death | Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (born in 1771) | |
| May 4th, 1858 (May 04 1858) | Death | Aime Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (born in 1773) | |
| May 4th, 1855 (May 04 1855) | Event | American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. | |
| May 4th, 1852 (May 04 1852) | Birth | Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (died in 1934) | |
| May 4th, 1849 (May 04 1849) | Death | Hokusai, Japanese artist (born in 1760) | |
| May 4th, 1827 (May 04 1827) | Birth | John Hanning Speke, British explorer (died in 1864) | |
| May 4th, 1826 (May 04 1826) | Birth | Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (died in 1900) | |
| May 4th, 1825 (May 04 1825) | Birth | Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (died in 1895) | Thomas Henry Huxley Quotes |
| May 4th, 1825 (May 04 1825) | Birth | Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (died in 1908) | |
| May 4th, 1824 (May 04 1824) | Death | Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (born in 1754) | Joseph Joubert Quotes |
| May 4th, 1822 (May 04 1822) | Birth | Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (died in 1915) | |
| May 4th, 1820 (May 04 1820) | Birth | Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (died in 1889) | |
| May 4th, 1814 (May 04 1814) | Event | Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. | |
| May 4th, 1814 (May 04 1814) | Event | King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism. | |
| May 4th, 1811 (May 04 1811) | Death | Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (born in 1776) | |
| May 4th, 1799 (May 04 1799) | Event | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. | |
| May 4th, 1799 (May 04 1799) | Death | Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (born in 1750) | |
| May 4th, 1796 (May 04 1796) | Birth | Horace Mann, American educator (died in 1859) | Horace Mann Quotes |
| May 4th, 1796 (May 04 1796) | Birth | William H. Prescott, American historian (died in 1859) | |
| May 4th, 1790 (May 04 1790) | Death | Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (born in 1718) | |
| May 4th, 1781 (May 04 1781) | Birth | Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (died in 1832) | Karl Kraus Quotes |
| May 4th, 1776 (May 04 1776) | Death | Jacques Saly, French sculptor (born in 1717) | |
| May 4th, 1774 (May 04 1774) | Death | Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (born in 1714) | |
| May 4th, 1772 (May 04 1772) | Birth | Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (died in 1823) | |
| May 4th, 1767 (May 04 1767) | Birth | Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (died in 1847) | |
| May 4th, 1752 (May 04 1752) | Birth | John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1825) | |
| May 4th, 1737 (May 04 1737) | Death | Eustace Budgell, English writer (born in 1686) | |
| May 4th, 1734 (May 04 1734) | Death | James Thornhill, English painter | |
| May 4th, 1733 (May 04 1733) | Birth | Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (died in 1799) | |
| May 4th, 1729 (May 04 1729) | Death | Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (born in 1651) | |
| May 4th, 1715 (May 04 1715) | Birth | Richard Graves, English writer (died in 1804) | |
| May 4th, 1686 (May 04 1686) | Event | Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. | |
| May 4th, 1684 (May 04 1684) | Death | John Nevison, English highwayman (born in 1639) | |
| May 4th, 1677 (May 04 1677) | Death | Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (born in 1630) | |
| May 4th, 1675 (May 04 1675) | Event | King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. | |
| May 4th, 1655 (May 04 1655) | Birth | Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (died in 1731) | |
| May 4th, 1654 (May 04 1654) | Birth | Kangxi Emperor of China (died in 1722) | |
| May 4th, 1626 (May 04 1626) | Event | Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. | |
| May 4th, 1626 (May 04 1626) | Death | Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (born in 1569) | |
| May 4th, 1615 (May 04 1615) | Death | Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (born in 1561) | |
| May 4th, 1566 (May 04 1566) | Death | Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (born in 1490) | |
| May 4th, 1519 (May 04 1519) | Death | Lorenzo II de Medici, Duke of Urbino (born in 1492) | |
| May 4th, 1506 (May 04 1506) | Death | Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (born in 1438) | |
| May 4th, 1494 (May 04 1494) | Event | Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| May 4th, 1493 (May 04 1493) | Event | Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| May 4th, 1471 (May 04 1471) | Event | Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales. | |
| May 4th, 1471 (May 04 1471) | Death | Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (born in 1453) | |
| May 4th, 1471 (May 04 1471) | Death | Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed) | |
| May 4th, 1436 (May 04 1436) | Death | Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (born in 1390s) | |
| May 4th, 1415 (May 04 1415) | Event | Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. | |
| May 4th, 1256 (May 04 1256) | Event | The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| May 4th, 1008 (May 04 1008) | Birth | Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (died in 1088) | |
| May 4th, 1008 (May 04 1008) | Birth | King Henry I of France (died in 1060) | |
