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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of May 1256 | EVENT | The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. |
| 4th of May 1415 | EVENT | Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. |
| 4th of May 1471 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales. |
| 4th of May 1493 | EVENT | Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. |
| 4th of May 1626 | EVENT | Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. |
| 4th of May 1675 | EVENT | King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. |
| 4th of May 1686 | EVENT | The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. |
| 4th of May 1776 | EVENT | Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. |
| 4th of May 1799 | EVENT | Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. |
| 4th of May 1814 | EVENT | King Ferdinand VII of Spain signs the Decrete of the 4th of May, returning Spain to absolutism. |
| 4th of May 1814 | EVENT | Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. |
| 4th of May 1855 | EVENT | American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua. |
| 4th of May 1859 | EVENT | The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in England. |
| 4th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with a Union retreat. |
| 4th of May 1869 | EVENT | The Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay is fought in Japan. |
| 4th of May 1871 | EVENT | The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 1904 | EVENT | The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. |
| 4th of May 1904 | EVENT | Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, England. |
| 4th of May 1910 | EVENT | The Royal Canadian Navy is created. |
| 4th of May 1912 | EVENT | Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 1932 | EVENT | In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. |
| 4th of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. |
| 4th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The North Germany Army surrenders to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. |
| 4th of May 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 1949 | EVENT | The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Toma, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash at the Superga hill at the edge of Turin, Italy. |
| 4th of May 1953 | EVENT | Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. |
| 4th of May 1959 | EVENT | The 1st Grammy Awards are held. |
| 4th of May 1961 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. |
| 4th of May 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, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia. |
| 4th of May 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". |
| 4th of May 1974 | EVENT | An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000-meter peak. |
| 4th of May 1979 | EVENT | Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 4th of May 1982 | EVENT | Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. |
| 4th of May 1988 | EVENT | The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 1990 | EVENT | Latvia proclaims the renewal of its independence after the Soviet occupation. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 2000 | EVENT | Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London. |
| 4th of May 2001 | EVENT | The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public. |
| 4th of May 2002 | EVENT | An EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 crashes in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria shortly after takeoff killing more than 148 people. |
| 4th of May 2007 | EVENT | Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7mi wide EF-5 tornado. |
| 4th of May 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. |
| 4th of May 1008 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry I of France (d. 1060) |
| 4th of May 1008 | BIRTHDAY | Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) |
| 4th of May 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Maharaja Chhatrasal (d. 1731) |
| 4th of May 1654 | BIRTHDAY | Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722) |
| 4th of May 1655 | BIRTHDAY | Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (d. 1731) |
| 4th of May 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804) |
| 4th of May 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799) |
| 4th of May 1752 | BIRTHDAY | John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) |
| 4th of May 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847) |
| 4th of May 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823) |
| 4th of May 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832) |
| 4th of May 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859) |
| 4th of May 1796 | BIRTHDAY | William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859) |
| 4th of May 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889) |
| 4th of May 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915) |
| 4th of May 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist (d. 1895) |
| 4th of May 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908) |
| 4th of May 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900) |
| 4th of May 1827 | BIRTHDAY | John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864) |
| 4th of May 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934) |
| 4th of May 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Booth, the third daughter of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1937) |
| 4th of May 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960) |
| 4th of May 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Joe De Grasse, Canadian film director (d. 1940) |
| 4th of May 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Cardinal Spellman, American religious leader (d. 1967) |
| 4th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist, a founder of the Group of Seven (d. 1945) |
| 4th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Adler, American stage actor (d. 1984) |
| 4th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (official Date of Birth) (d. 1975) |
| 4th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (d. 1996) |
| 4th of May 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Katherine Brandram, nee Princess of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007) |
| 4th of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (d. 1971) |
| 4th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian author and activist (d. 2006) |
| 4th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Proenneke, American naturalist (d. 2003) |
| 4th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese political leader (d. 1993) |
| 4th of May 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (d. 2004) |
| 4th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Dory Funk, Professional wrestler (d. 1973) |
| 4th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Edo Murtic, Croatian painter (d. 2005) |
| 4th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Cassidy, American musician (Spirit) |
| 4th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Biber, American physician, pioneer of transgender surgery (d. 2006) |
| 4th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Sykes, British actor and comedian |
| 4th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author |
| 4th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Quigley, British actor (d. 1994) |
| 4th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice R. Greenberg, American businessman |
| 4th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician (d. 2006) |
| 4th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt |
| 4th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961) |
| 4th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Lamb, American linguist |
| 4th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (d. 1993) |
| 4th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Roberta Peters, American soprano |
| 4th of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Jackson, mother of the Jackson musical family |
| 4th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor |
| 4th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Stuttaford, British doctor and writer |
| 4th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | J. Fred Duckett, Texan sports announcer and teacher |
| 4th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | El Cordobes, Spanish matador |
| 4th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Carter, American jazz bassist |
| 4th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Dale, American guitarist |
| 4th of May 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Mr. Fuji, Former professional wrestler |
| 4th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (d. 2005) |
| 4th of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Monsivais, Mexican writer |
| 4th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist |
| 4th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 4th of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Rochefort, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 4th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Cook, American novelist |
| 4th of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | George Will, American writer |
| 4th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nickolas Ashford, American record producer, songwriter, and musician (Ashford and Simpson) |
| 4th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter |
| 4th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer |
| 4th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Narasimhan Ram, Indian journalist |
| 4th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Watson, Northern Irish racecar driver |
| 4th of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Bauer conservative American politician, former presidential candidate |
| 4th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Jenkins, American actor |
| 4th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hurley Haywood, American race car driver, and three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans |
| 4th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Force, American race car driver |
| 4th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Swift, British author |
| 4th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Stella Parton, American country music singer |
| 4th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Hunt, English musician (The Pogues) |
| 4th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Bass, British bassist (Camel) |
| 4th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Jugnot, French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer |
| 4th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5) |
| 4th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Mars, American guitarist (Motley Crue) |
| 4th of May 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tirso Cruz III, Filipino actor and singer. |
| 4th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Barrymore, English comedian, actor, quiz master and entertainer |
| 4th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Oleta Adams, American singer |
| 4th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Salman Hashimikov, Soviet heavyweight wrestler |
| 4th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pia Zadora, American actress |
| 4th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Michael Snyder, American author and convicted sex offender |
| 4th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Avram Grant, Israeli football manager |
| 4th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ellis Orrall, American singer |
| 4th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Oberkfell, American baseball player |
| 4th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Guterson, American author |
| 4th of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete |
| 4th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Delbert Fowler, American football player |
| 4th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Haring, American graphical artist (d. 1990) |
| 4th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Antonis Minou, Greek footballer |
| 4th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Armstrong, American professional wrestling referee |
| 4th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress |
| 4th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Travis, American musician |
| 4th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Denton, Australian television presenter and comedian |
| 4th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria |
| 4th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist |
| 4th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz) |
| 4th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Bardem, Spanish actress |
| 4th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rocco Siffredi, Italian porn actor |
| 4th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian painter and visual artist, founder of transrealism |
| 4th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jane McGrath, co-founder of the McGrath Foundation for breast cancer (d. 2008) |
| 4th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Garraway, English GMTV Presenter |
| 4th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Gasteyer, American actress |
| 4th of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Barratt, English comedian and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh |
| 4th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Micah Aivazoff, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Shamrock, American wrestling valet |
| 4th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Alexander, American musician (New Radicals) |
| 4th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer |
| 4th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Will Arnett, American actor |
| 4th of May 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Basanez, Mexican actor |
| 4th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Borowski, American baseball player |
| 4th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Luiz Garcia, Jr., Brazilian racing driver |
| 4th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day) |
| 4th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Aybar, Dominican baseball player |
| 4th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Tomlin, American musician |
| 4th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer |
| 4th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | John Madden, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tony McCoy, Northern Irish National Hunt jockey |
| 4th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 4th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Laci Peterson, American murder victim (d. 2002) |
| 4th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Grieve, American baseball player |
| 4th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Michaels, American baseball player |
| 4th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Nestoras Kommatos, Greek basketball player |
| 4th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Perkins, Canadian actress |
| 4th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Pernia, Argentine-Spanish footballer |
| 4th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shaenon K. Garrity, American webcomics writer and artist |
| 4th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Burton, Australian football player |
| 4th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Andrews, ESPN sideline reporter |
| 4th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daisuke Ono, Japanese seiyu |
| 4th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC) |
| 4th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Butters, British broadcaster |
| 4th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan born rugby union and rugby league player |
| 4th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Raycroft, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Franziska Weisz, Austrian actress |
| 4th of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Djemba-Djemba, Cameroon footballer |
| 4th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kleopas Giannou, Greek footballer |
| 4th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hector King, Mexican singer-songwriter |
| 4th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer |
| 4th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rasheeda,American hiphop singer |
| 4th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Tsiaras, Greek basketball player |
| 4th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress |
| 4th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Roy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Slowey, American baseball player |
| 4th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi test cricket player (d. 2007) |
| 4th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Montell Owens, American football player |
| 4th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Fedorov, American singer |
| 4th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer |
| 4th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | George Hill, American Basketball player |
| 4th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Cesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer |
| 4th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer |
| 4th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Anjeza Shahini, Albanian singer |
| 4th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Ioannidis, Greek footballer |
| 4th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lacy, American writer |
| 4th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Aris Tatarounis, Greek basketball player |
| 4th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer |
| 4th of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | James van Riemsdyk, American hockey player |
| 4th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Matthias Cuntz, German footballer |
| 4th of May 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Jines, American actress |
| 4th of May 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Ducruet, daughter of HSH Princess Stephanie of Monaco |
| 4th of May 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Gould, American actor |
| 4th of May 2009 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Henrik of Denmark, Danish royalty |
| 4th of May 1436 | DEATH | Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman |
| 4th of May 1471 | DEATH | Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (Born 1453) |
| 4th of May 1471 | DEATH | Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (executed) |
| 4th of May 1506 | DEATH | Husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (Born 1438) |
| 4th of May 1519 | DEATH | Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (Born 1492) |
| 4th of May 1566 | DEATH | Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (Born 1490) |
| 4th of May 1615 | DEATH | Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (Born 1561) |
| 4th of May 1626 | DEATH | Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (Born 1569) |
| 4th of May 1677 | DEATH | Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (Born 1630) |
| 4th of May 1684 | DEATH | John Nevison, English highwayman (Born 1639) |
| 4th of May 1729 | DEATH | Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (Born 1651) |
| 4th of May 1734 | DEATH | James Thornhill, English painter |
| 4th of May 1737 | DEATH | Eustace Budgell, English writer (Born 1686) |
| 4th of May 1774 | DEATH | Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (Born 1714) |
| 4th of May 1776 | DEATH | Jacques Saly, French sculptor (Born 1717) |
| 4th of May 1790 | DEATH | Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (Born 1718) |
| 4th of May 1799 | DEATH | Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (Born 1750) |
| 4th of May 1811 | DEATH | Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (Born 1776) |
| 4th of May 1824 | DEATH | Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (Born 1754) |
| 4th of May 1849 | DEATH | Hokusai, Japanese artist (Born 1760) |
| 4th of May 1858 | DEATH | Aime Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (Born 1773) |
| 4th of May 1859 | DEATH | Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (Born 1771) |
| 4th of May 1880 | DEATH | Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (Born 1815) |
| 4th of May 1901 | DEATH | John Jones Ross, Canadian politician (Born 1831) |
| 4th of May 1903 | DEATH | Gotse Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans : leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Born 1872) |
| 4th of May 1916 | DEATH | Members of the Easter Rising Edward Daly, Irish nationalist and Member of the Easter Rising (Born 1891) Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish nationalist and Leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1887) Willie Pearse, Irish nationalist and Member of the Easter Rising (b. 1891) |
| 4th of May 1919 | DEATH | Milan Rastislav Stefanik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (Born 1880) |
| 4th of May 1922 | DEATH | Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (Born 1888) |
| 4th of May 1937 | DEATH | Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (Born 1910) |
| 4th of May 1938 | DEATH | Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1889) |
| 4th of May 1945 | DEATH | Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (Born 1880) |
| 4th of May 1955 | DEATH | George Enescu, Romanian composer (Born 1881) |
| 4th of May 1961 | DEATH | Anita Stewart, American film actress (Born 1895) |
| 4th of May 1969 | DEATH | Osbert Sitwell, English writer (Born 1892) |
| 4th of May 1970 | DEATH | Allison Krause : Kent State victim (Born 1951) |
| 4th of May 1970 | DEATH | Eugenia Livanos, Greek socialite (Born 1927) |
| 4th of May 1970 | DEATH | Jeffrey Miller : Kent State victim (Born 1950) |
| 4th of May 1970 | DEATH | William Schroeder (Born 1950) |
| 4th of May 1970 | DEATH | Sandra Scheuer : Kent State victim (Born 1949) |
| 4th of May 1971 | DEATH | Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (Born 1934) |
| 4th of May 1972 | DEATH | Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1886) |
| 4th of May 1973 | DEATH | Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (Born 1917) |
| 4th of May 1975 | DEATH | Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (Born 1897) |
| 4th of May 1980 | DEATH | Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (Born 1892) |
| 4th of May 1984 | DEATH | Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (Born 1913) |
| 4th of May 1984 | DEATH | Diana Dors, British actress (Born 1931) |
| 4th of May 1985 | DEATH | Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (Born 1907) |
| 4th of May 1987 | DEATH | Paul Butterfield, American blues harmonica player (Born 1942) |
| 4th of May 1990 | DEATH | Emily Remler American Jazz Guitarist (Born1957) |
| 4th of May 1992 | DEATH | Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (Born 1927) |
| 4th of May 1995 | DEATH | Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (Born 1922) |
| 4th of May 2001 | DEATH | Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (Born 1956) |
| 4th of May 2005 | DEATH | David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (Born 1930) |
| 4th of May 2009 | DEATH | Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (Born 1933) |
| 4th of May 2010 | DEATH | Ernie Harwell, American baseball broadcaster (Born 1918) |