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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of September 0476 | EVENT | Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy, thus ending Western Roman Empire. |
| 4th of September 0626 | EVENT | Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China. |
| 4th of September 1260 | EVENT | The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti. |
| 4th of September 1666 | EVENT | In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs. |
| 4th of September 1781 | EVENT | Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers. |
| 4th of September 1797 | EVENT | Coup of 18 fructidor an V in France. |
| 4th of September 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire. |
| 4th of September 1862 | EVENT | Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North. |
| 4th of September 1870 | EVENT | Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. |
| 4th of September 1884 | EVENT | The United Kingdom ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. |
| 4th of September 1886 | EVENT | Indian Wars: after almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. |
| 4th of September 1888 | EVENT | George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. |
| 4th of September 1894 | EVENT | In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions. |
| 4th of September 1919 | EVENT | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. |
| 4th of September 1923 | EVENT | Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
| 4th of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: a Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of war and German ships are bombed. |
| 4th of September 1941 | EVENT | World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the USS Greer. |
| 4th of September 1944 | EVENT | World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. |
| 4th of September 1948 | EVENT | Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. |
| 4th of September 1949 | EVENT | The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. |
| 4th of September 1949 | EVENT | Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon. |
| 4th of September 1950 | EVENT | First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. |
| 4th of September 1950 | EVENT | Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. |
| 4th of September 1951 | EVENT | The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. |
| 4th of September 1956 | EVENT | The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer to use magnetic disk storage. |
| 4th of September 1957 | EVENT | American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis : Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School. |
| 4th of September 1957 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. |
| 4th of September 1963 | EVENT | Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Durrenasch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. |
| 4th of September 1964 | EVENT | Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. |
| 4th of September 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. |
| 4th of September 1971 | EVENT | Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. |
| 4th of September 1972 | EVENT | Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. |
| 4th of September 1975 | EVENT | The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. |
| 4th of September 1977 | EVENT | The Golden Dragon Massacre took place in San Francisco, California. |
| 4th of September 1985 | EVENT | The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. |
| 4th of September 1996 | EVENT | War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed. |
| 4th of September 1998 | EVENT | Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. |
| 4th of September 2010 | EVENT | Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages. |
| 4th of September 1241 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286) |
| 4th of September 1383 | BIRTHDAY | Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (d. 1451) |
| 4th of September 1454 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483) |
| 4th of September 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Sofie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1631) |
| 4th of September 1563 | BIRTHDAY | Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620) |
| 4th of September 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (d. 1687) |
| 4th of September 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783) |
| 4th of September 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. (d. 1810) |
| 4th of September 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848) |
| 4th of September 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891) |
| 4th of September 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Juliusz S?owacki, Polish Romantic poet (d. 1849) |
| 4th of September 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896) |
| 4th of September 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Dadabhai Naoroji, An early Indian political leader (d. 1917) |
| 4th of September 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Wiberg, Swedish computer pioneer (d. 1905) |
| 4th of September 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915) |
| 4th of September 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Burnham, American architect (d. 1912) |
| 4th of September 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925) |
| 4th of September 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (d. 1928) |
| 4th of September 1851 | BIRTHDAY | John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927) |
| 4th of September 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (d. 1971) |
| 4th of September 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (d. 1971) |
| 4th of September 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967) |
| 4th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Roy William Neill, Irish director (d. 1946) |
| 4th of September 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Naima Wifstrand, Swedish film actor, operetta singer, troubadour, director and composer (d. 1968) |
| 4th of September 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942) |
| 4th of September 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974) |
| 4th of September 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948) |
| 4th of September 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Aspasia Manos, wife of king Alexander of Greece (d. 1972) |
| 4th of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985) |
| 4th of September 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mitchell, England cricketer (d. 1996) |
| 4th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983) |
| 4th of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Max Delbruck, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981) |
| 4th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Dmytryk, American film director (d. 1999) |
| 4th of September 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960) |
| 4th of September 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (d. 1945) |
| 4th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Tomlinson, South African cricketer (d. 1993) |
| 4th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976) |
| 4th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Kiernan, British historian (d. 2009) |
| 4th of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982) |
| 4th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003) |
| 4th of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987) |
| 4th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009) |
| 4th of September 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter |
| 4th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005) |
| 4th of September 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver |
| 4th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Per Olof Sundman, Swedish writer and politician (d. 1992) |
| 4th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004) |
| 4th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Forrest Carter, American author (d. 1979) |
| 4th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Illich, Austrian philosopher (d. 2002) |
| 4th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John McCarthy, American computer scientist |
| 4th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ferenc Santa, Hungarian writer (d. 2008) |
| 4th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dick York, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 4th of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 4th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mitzi Gaynor, American actress |
| 4th of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Antonios Trakatellis, Greek politician |
| 4th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Romero Barcelo, Puerto Rican politician |
| 4th of September 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dinsdale Landen, English actor (d. 2003) |
| 4th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate |
| 4th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Khil, Russian singer |
| 4th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer |
| 4th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006) |
| 4th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (d. 2010) |
| 4th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Lindsay, South African cricketer (d. 2005) |
| 4th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher |
| 4th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician |
| 4th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ramesh Sethi, East African cricketer |
| 4th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Van Gyseghem, English actress |
| 4th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Jarrett, American professional wrestling promoter |
| 4th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Floyd, American professional golfer |
| 4th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Gatton, American musician (d. 1994) |
| 4th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Mauricette, Canadian cricketer |
| 4th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Duncan, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) |
| 4th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Watson, American golfer |
| 4th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Pees, American football defensive coordinator |
| 4th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Doyle Alexander, American baseball player |
| 4th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ehteshamuddin, Pakistani cricketer |
| 4th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders) |
| 4th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Ivey, American actress |
| 4th of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician |
| 4th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor |
| 4th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Fatih Terim, Turkish footballer and coach |
| 4th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Broza, a multi-platinum Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist. |
| 4th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Schweitzer, American politician, 23rd governor of Montana |
| 4th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Le Roux, former South African cricketer |
| 4th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Blackie Lawless, American musician, lead singer in W.A.S.P. |
| 4th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Khandi Alexander, American actress |
| 4th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Tallman, American actress |
| 4th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen) |
| 4th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host |
| 4th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Marzio Innocenti, Italian rugby union player and coach |
| 4th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Harrington, Australian actor |
| 4th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Armin Kogler, Austrian ski jumper |
| 4th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Thayil, American guitarist (Soundgarden, Probot) |
| 4th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian |
| 4th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Kennedy, English actor |
| 4th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Blinko, English musician (Rudimentary Peni) |
| 4th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Pakistani cricketer |
| 4th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kiran More, Indian cricketer |
| 4th of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ulla T?rnaes, Danish politician |
| 4th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Jarzombek, American drummer (Halford) |
| 4th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Yaffa, Finnish musician (Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls) |
| 4th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | John Vanbiesbrouck, American hockey player |
| 4th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Pape, German bass |
| 4th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Momesso, French Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Yanka Dyagileva, Russian poet and singer-songwriter (d. 1991) |
| 4th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Tremaine, American director and producer |
| 4th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Darrin Murray, New Zealand cricketer |
| 4th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | John DiMaggio, American Voice Actor |
| 4th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Phill Lewis, American actor |
| 4th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Piazza, American baseball player |
| 4th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Taylor, English-born actor |
| 4th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Dekkers, Dutch kickboxer |
| 4th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer |
| 4th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Buchwald, American hacker and film maker |
| 4th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer (Sepultura) |
| 4th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Daisy Dee, West Indian-born singer |
| 4th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Klusener, South African cricketer |
| 4th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Maik Taylor, Northern Irish footballer |
| 4th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress |
| 4th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ione Skye, English actress |
| 4th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Yip, Canadian actress |
| 4th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason David Frank, American actor |
| 4th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Fultz, American baseball player |
| 4th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Naved Ashraf, Pakistani cricketer |
| 4th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian and musician for The Chaser |
| 4th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls) |
| 4th of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Roberts, West Indian cricketer |
| 4th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kai Owen, Welsh actor |
| 4th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Salmoni, Canadian zoologist, animal trainer |
| 4th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model |
| 4th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mario-Ernesto Rodriguez, Uruguayan-Italian footballer |
| 4th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Denilson Martins Nascimento, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton R. Nixon, American game designer |
| 4th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sun-Woo Kim, Korean Major League Baseball player |
| 4th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ronson, English DJ/Producer and co-founder of Allido Records |
| 4th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lucie Silvas, English musician |
| 4th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Wes Bentley, American actor |
| 4th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Walz, svensk soulartist. |
| 4th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 4th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Camacho, Portuguese composer |
| 4th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese racing driver |
| 4th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | MC Mong, South Korean hip hop artist |
| 4th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kristina Krepela, Croatian actress |
| 4th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Neshek, American baseball player |
| 4th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hitomi Shimatani, Japanese singer |
| 4th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Beyonce Knowles, American singer and actress |
| 4th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Garcia, Australian footballer |
| 4th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lacey Sturm, American singer (Flyleaf) |
| 4th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Whitney Cummings, American comedian and actress |
| 4th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Gardner, American sex offender and fictional fifth Duke of Cleveland |
| 4th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN) |
| 4th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Margit Ruutel, Estonian tennis player |
| 4th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Camila Bordonaba, Argentine actress, singer and composer |
| 4th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hamish McIntosh, Australian football player |
| 4th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Demetris Nichols, American basketball player |
| 4th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Walid Mesloub, Algerian football player |
| 4th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | James Younghusband, Philippine footballer |
| 4th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | John Tyler Hammons, American politician, mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma |
| 4th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Stefania Fernandez, Venezuelan beauty queen and Miss Universe 2009 |
| 4th of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Lomax, English Rugby League player |
| 4th of September 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Jenkins, American actor |
| 4th of September 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Gagnon, American actor |
| 4th of September 0799 | DEATH | Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (Born 745) |
| 4th of September 1037 | DEATH | King Bermudo III of Leon (Born 1010) |
| 4th of September 1063 | DEATH | Toghrul, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad |
| 4th of September 1199 | DEATH | Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (Born 1165) |
| 4th of September 1537 | DEATH | Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (Born c.1475) |
| 4th of September 1588 | DEATH | Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (Born 1532) |
| 4th of September 1767 | DEATH | Charles Townshend, English politician (Born 1725) |
| 4th of September 1780 | DEATH | John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (Born 1721) |
| 4th of September 1784 | DEATH | Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (Born 1714) |
| 4th of September 1794 | DEATH | John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (Born 1724) |
| 4th of September 1804 | DEATH | Richard Somers, American naval officer |
| 4th of September 1821 | DEATH | Jose Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (Born 1785) |
| 4th of September 1852 | DEATH | William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (Born 1796) |
| 4th of September 1864 | DEATH | John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (Born 1825) |
| 4th of September 1907 | DEATH | Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (Born 1843) |
| 4th of September 1909 | DEATH | Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (Born 1865) |
| 4th of September 1940 | DEATH | George William de Carteret, author from Jersey island (Born 1869) |
| 4th of September 1944 | DEATH | General Erich Fellgiebel, German army officer who participated in the July 20th plot to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. (Born 1886) |
| 4th of September 1963 | DEATH | Robert Schuman, French politician (Born 1886) |
| 4th of September 1965 | DEATH | Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1875) |
| 4th of September 1974 | DEATH | Marcel Achard, French playwright (Born 1899) |
| 4th of September 1974 | DEATH | Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (Born 1914) |
| 4th of September 1974 | DEATH | Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (Born 1884) |
| 4th of September 1977 | DEATH | Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (Born 1899) |
| 4th of September 1977 | DEATH | Jean Rostand, French biologist (Born 1894) |
| 4th of September 1977 | DEATH | E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (Born 1911) |
| 4th of September 1979 | DEATH | Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (Born 1904) |
| 4th of September 1986 | DEATH | Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (Born 1911) |
| 4th of September 1986 | DEATH | Otto Gloria, Brazilian football coach (Born 1917) |
| 4th of September 1987 | DEATH | Bill Bowes, English cricketer (Born 1908) |
| 4th of September 1989 | DEATH | Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (Born 1903) |
| 4th of September 1989 | DEATH | Georges Simenon, French author (Born 1903) |
| 4th of September 1990 | DEATH | Irene Dunne American actress (Born 1898) |
| 4th of September 1991 | DEATH | Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (Born 1926) |
| 4th of September 1991 | DEATH | Dottie West, American singer (Born 1932) |
| 4th of September 1991 | DEATH | Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (Born 1913) |
| 4th of September 1993 | DEATH | Herve Villechaize, French actor (Born 1943) |
| 4th of September 1995 | DEATH | Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax (Born 1950) |
| 4th of September 1995 | DEATH | William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (Born 1919) |
| 4th of September 1997 | DEATH | Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (Born 1931) |
| 4th of September 1998 | DEATH | Elizabeth Kata, Australian writer, A Patch of Blue (Born 1912) |
| 4th of September 1999 | DEATH | Georg Gawliczek, German football manager (Born 1919) |
| 4th of September 2001 | DEATH | Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (Born 1962) |
| 4th of September 2002 | DEATH | Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (Born 1904) |
| 4th of September 2003 | DEATH | Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (Born 1921) |
| 4th of September 2003 | DEATH | Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (Born 1921) |
| 4th of September 2004 | DEATH | Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (Born 1971) |
| 4th of September 2004 | DEATH | Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (Born 1929) |
| 4th of September 2004 | DEATH | James O. Page, American paramedic (Born 1936) |
| 4th of September 2006 | DEATH | Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (Born 1920) |
| 4th of September 2006 | DEATH | Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (Born 1942) |
| 4th of September 2006 | DEATH | Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (Born 1962) |
| 4th of September 2006 | DEATH | Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (Born 1918) |