Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 4
Births
[edit]- 1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
- 1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935) (pictured)
- 1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster (d. 2009)
- 1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
- 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
- 1969 - Sean Jean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
Deaths
[edit]- 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
- 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
- 1955 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
- 1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
- 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1922)