May 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman
• 1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453)
• 1471 – Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed)
• 1506 – Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
• 1519 – Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
• 1566 – Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
• 1615 – Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
• 1626 – Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
• 1677 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
• 1684 – John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
• 1729 – Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
• 1734 – James Thornhill, English painter
• 1737 – Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
• 1774 – Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714)
• 1776 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
• 1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
• 1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
• 1811 – Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
• 1824 – Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
• 1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
• 1858 – Aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
• 1859 – Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
• 1880 – Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
• 1901 – John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
• 1903 – Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans – leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
• 1916 – Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
• 1919 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
• 1922 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
• 1937 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
• 1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
• 1945 – Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• 1955 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
• 1961 – Anita Stewart, American film actress (b. 1895)
• 1969 – Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)
• 1970 – Allison Krause – Kent State victim (b. 1951)
• 1970 – Jeffrey Miller – Kent State victim (b. 1950)
• 1970 – Sandra Scheuer – Kent State victim (b. 1949)
• 1970 – William Schroeder (b. 1950)
• 1971 – Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
• 1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
• 1973 – Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (b. 1917)
• 1975 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
• 1984 – Diana Dors, British actress (b. 1931)
• 1985 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (b. 1942)
• 1990 – Emily Remler American Jazz Guitarist (b.1957)
• 1992 – Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
• 2005 – David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)