October 4

Events

• AD 23 - Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.
• 1302 - The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
• 1363 - Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
• 1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
• 1535 - The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• 1582 - The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
• 1597 - Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia.
• 1636 - Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
• 1693 - Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
• 1795 - Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
• 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
• 1830 - The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
• 1853 - The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
• 1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
• 1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
• 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1895 - Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
• 1904 - The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
• 1917 - World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• 1918 - World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
• 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
• 1936 - The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
• 1941 - Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
• 1957 - Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1958 - The current constitution of France is adopted.
• 1960 - An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
• 1963 - Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
• 1965 - Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
• 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• 1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
• 1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• 1985 - The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
• 1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
• 1992 - El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
• 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
• 1993 - Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
• 1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
• 2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
• 2003 - The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
• 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
• 2006 - WikiLeaks is launched.
• 2010 - The Ajka plant accident Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
• 2017 - Nigerien and U.S. Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.

  Births

• 1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France
• 1274 - Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
• 1276 - Margaret of Brabant
• 1289 - Louis X of France
• 1331 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland
• 1379 - Henry III of Castile
• 1507 - Francis Bigod, English noble
• 1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter
• 1522 - Gabriele Paleotti, Catholic cardinal
• 1524 - Francisco Vallés, Spanish physician
• 1532 - Francisco de Toledo, Catholic cardinal
• 1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian cardinal and saint
• 1550 - Charles IX of Sweden
• 1562 - Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author
• 1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and philosopher
• 1579 - Guido Bentivoglio, Italian cardinal
• 1585 - Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress
• 1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer
• 1626 - Richard Cromwell, English academic and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain
• 1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician
• 1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and illustrator
• 1694 - Lord George Murray, Scottish Jacobite General
• 1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator
• 1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist and author
• 1759 - Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic
• 1768 - Francisco José de Caldas, Colombian naturalist, executed by royalists in the war of independence
• 1787 - François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France
• 1793 - Charles Pearson, English lawyer and politician
• 1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, Canadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Premier of Canada East
• 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator
• 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States
• 1835 - Jenny Twitchell Kempton, American opera singer and educator
• 1836 - Juliette Adam, French author
• 1837 - Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
• 1841 - Prudente de Morais, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil
• 1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria
• 1843 - Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian nun and Catholic Saint
• 1858 - Léon Serpollet, French businessman
• 1861 - Walter Rauschenbusch, American pastor and theologian
• 1861 - Frederic Remington, American painter, sculptor, and illustrator
• 1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author and publisher
• 1868 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 20th President of Argentina
• 1874 - John Ellis, English executioner
• 1876 - Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist
• 1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer
• 1879 - Robert Edwards, American artist, musician, and writer
• 1880 - Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer.
• 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal
• 1884 - Ramchandra Shukla, Indian historian and author
• 1888 - Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief
• 1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater
• 1890 - Alan L. Hart, American physician and author
• 1890 - Osman Cemal Kaygılı, Turkish writer and journalist
• 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria
• 1892 - Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author
• 1892 - Robert Lawson, American author and illustrator
• 1895 - Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer
• 1895 - Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy
• 1896 - Dorothy Lawrence, English reporter, who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during World War I
• 1900 - August Mälk, Estonian author and playwright
• 1903 - Bona Arsenault, Canadian genealogist, historian, and politician
• 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff-Berry computer
• 1903 - Pierre Garbay, French general
• 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German lawyer and general
• 1906 - Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician
• 1907 - Alain Daniélou, French-Swiss historian and academic
• 1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach
• 1910 - Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, Turkish poet and author
• 1913 - Martial Célestin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
• 1914 - Brendan Gill, American journalist and essayist
• 1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1916 - Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host
• 1916 - George Sidney, American director and producer
• 1917 - Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1921 - Stella Pevsner, American children's author
• 1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, Jr., American businessman and politician, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce
• 1922 - Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group
• 1922 - Don Lenhardt, American baseball player and coach
• 1923 - Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist
• 1924 - Donald J. Sobol, American soldier and author
• 1925 - Roger Wood, Belgian-American journalist
• 1926 - Raymond Watson, American businessman
• 1927 - Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic
• 1928 - Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author
• 1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
• 1929 - Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer
• 1929 - John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author
• 1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1931 - Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
• 1931 - Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer
• 1931 - Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author
• 1933 - German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor
• 1933 - Ann Thwaite, English author
• 1934 - Sam Huff, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1936 - Charlie Hurley, Irish footballer and manager
• 1936 - Giles Radice, Baron Radice, English politician
• 1937 - Jackie Collins, English-American author and actress
• 1937 - David Crocker, American philosopher and academic
• 1937 - Gail Gilmore, Canadian-American actress and dancer
• 1937 - Lloyd Green, American steel guitar player
• 1937 - Jim Sillars, Scottish lawyer and politician
• 1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 - Norman D. Wilson, American actor
• 1939 - Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider
• 1940 - Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 - Silvio Marzolini, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1940 - Steve Swallow, American bass player and composer
• 1940 - Alberto Vilar, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1941 - Roy Blount, Jr., American humorist and journalist
• 1941 - Karen Cushman, American author
• 1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian race car driver
• 1941 - Anne Rice, American author
• 1941 - Robert Wilson, American director and playwright
• 1942 - Bernice Johnson Reagon, American singer-songwriter
• 1942 - Karl W. Richter, American lieutenant and pilot
• 1942 - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic politician, 24th Prime Minister of Iceland
• 1942 - Christopher Stone, American actor and screenwriter
• 1943 - H. Rap Brown, American activist
• 1943 - Owen Davidson, Australian tennis player
• 1943 - Karl-Gustav Kaisla, Finnish ice hockey player and referee
• 1943 - Dietmar Mürdter, German footballer
• 1943 - Jimy Williams, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 - Colin Bundy, South African-English historian and academic
• 1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress
• 1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball player and manager
• 1944 - John McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
• 1945 - Clifton Davis, American singer-songwriter, actor, and minister
• 1946 - Larry Clapp, American lawyer and politician
• 1946 - Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
• 1946 - Michael Mullen, American admiral
• 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
• 1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 - Jim Fielder, American bass player
• 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
• 1948 - Iain Hewitson, New Zealand-Australian chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality
• 1948 - Linda McMahon, American businesswoman and politician
• 1948 - Duke Robillard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 - Armand Assante, American actor and producer
• 1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author
• 1952 - Anita DeFrantz, American rower and sports administrator
• 1952 - Jody Stephens, American rock drummer
• 1952 - Zinha Vaz, Bissau-Guinean women's rights activist and politician
• 1953 - Gil Moore, Canadian singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1953 - Andreas Vollenweider, Swiss harp player
• 1955 - John Rutherford, Scottish rugby player
• 1955 - Jorge Valdano, Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager
• 1956 - Lesley Glaister, English author and playwright
• 1956 - Charlie Leibrandt, American baseball player
• 1956 - Sherri Turner, American golfer
• 1956 - Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
• 1957 - Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
• 1957 - Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter
• 1957 - Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm
• 1958 - Barbara Kooyman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 - Anneka Rice, Welsh radio and television host
• 1959 - Chris Lowe, English singer and keyboard player
• 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
• 1959 - Hitonari Tsuji, Japanese author, composer, and director
• 1960 - Joe Boever, American baseball player
• 1960 - Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer
• 1961 - Philippe Russo, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh!
• 1961 - Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
• 1962 - Carlos Carsolio, Mexican mountaineer
• 1963 - A. C. Green, American basketball player
• 1963 - Koji Ishikawa, Japanese author and illustrator
• 1964 - Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor
• 1964 - Yvonne Murray, Scottish runner
• 1965 - Olaf Backasch, German footballer
• 1965 - Skip Heller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1965 - Steve Olin, American baseball player
• 1965 - Micky Ward, American boxer
• 1967 - Nick Green, Australian rower
• 1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor and director
• 1968 - Richard Hancox, English footballer and manager
• 1968 - Tim Wise, American activist and author
• 1971 - Darren Middleton, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 - Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
• 1974 - Paco León, Spanish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
• 1976 - Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 - Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer and rock climber
• 1977 - Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 - Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1978 - Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 - Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
• 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
• 1979 - Björn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 - Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
• 1980 - James Jones, American basketball player
• 1980 - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
• 1981 - Shaura, Japanese singer
• 1981 - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 - Tony Gwynn, Jr., American baseball player
• 1982 - Jered Weaver, American baseball player
• 1983 - Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 1983 - Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 - Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 1983 - Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 1983 - Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
• 1984 - Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
• 1984 - Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
• 1984 - Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
• 1985 - Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 - Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
• 1987 - Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 1987 - Will Puddy, English footballer
• 1987 - Marina Weisband, German politician
• 1988 - Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
• 1988 - Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
• 1988 - Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
• 1988 - Derrick Rose, American basketball player
• 1989 - Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
• 1990 - Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer
• 1990 - Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler
• 1993 - Mitchell Swepson, Australian cricketer
• 1995 - Mikolas Josef, Czech Republic singer and songwriter
• 1997 - Rishabh Pant, Indian Cricketer

  Deaths

• AD 23 - Wang Mang, Emperor of China
• 744 - Yazid III, Umayyad caliph
• 863 - Turpio, Frankish nobleman
• 1052 - Vladimir of Novgorod
• 1160 - Constance of Castile, Queen of France
• 1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
• 1221 - William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu
• 1226 - Francis of Assisi
• 1227 - Caliph al-Adil of Morocco
• 1250 - Herman VI, Margrave of Baden
• 1305 - Emperor Kameyama of Japan
• 1361 - John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray, English baron
• 1497 - John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile
• 1582 - Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint
• 1597 - Sarsa Dengel, Ethiopian emperor
• 1646 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier and politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom
• 1660 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter
• 1661 - Jacqueline Pascal, French nun and composer
• 1669 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator
• 1680 - Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer, designed the Canal du Midi
• 1743 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish commander and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey
• 1749 - Baron Franz von der Trenck, Austrian soldier
• 1821 - John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer, designed the Waterloo Bridge
• 1827 - Grigorios Zalykis, Greek-French lexicographer and scholar
• 1851 - Manuel Godoy, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1852 - James Whitcomb, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Indiana
• 1859 - Karl Baedeker, German publisher, founded Baedeker
• 1864 - Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman
• 1867 - Francis Xavier Seelos, German-American priest and missionary
• 1871 - Sarel Cilliers, South African spiritual leader and preacher
• 1890 - Catherine Booth, English theologian and saint, co-founded The Salvation Army
• 1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher and author
• 1904 - Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty
• 1904 - Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist and academic
• 1910 - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician
• 1935 - Jean Béraud, French painter and academic
• 1935 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director
• 1943 - Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant
• 1944 - Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York
• 1946 - Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor
• 1947 - Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1951 - Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient
• 1955 - Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece
• 1958 - Ida Wüst, German actress and screenwriter
• 1961 - Benjamin, Russian metropolitan
• 1963 - Alar Kotli, Estonian architect
• 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter
• 1974 - Anne Sexton, American poet and author
• 1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist
• 1977 - José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician
• 1980 - Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia
• 1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach
• 1982 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor
• 1982 - Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1988 - Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter
• 1989 - Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter
• 1990 - Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright
• 1992 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver
• 1994 - Danny Gatton, American guitarist
• 1997 - Otto Ernst Remer, German general
• 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy
• 1998 - S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic
• 1999 - Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer
• 1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator
• 1999 - Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer
• 2000 - Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China
• 2000 - Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2001 - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver
• 2001 - John Collins, American guitarist
• 2001 - Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar
• 2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter
• 2003 - Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas
• 2004 - Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior
• 2007 - Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general
• 2009 - Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer
• 2009 - Günther Rall, German general and pilot
• 2010 - Norman Wisdom, English actor, comedian, and singer-songwriter
• 2011 - Doris Belack, American actress
• 2012 - David Atkinson, Canadian actor and singer
• 2012 - Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 2012 - Tom Stannage, Australian footballer, historian, and academic
• 2013 - John Cloudsley-Thompson, Pakistani-English commander
• 2013 - Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat
• 2013 - Akira Miyoshi, Japanese composer
• 2013 - Diana Nasution, Indonesian singer
• 2013 - Võ Nguyên Giáp, Vietnamese general and politician, 3rd Minister of Defence for Vietnam
• 2013 - Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
• 2014 - Konrad Boehmer, German-Dutch composer and educator
• 2014 - Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2014 - Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager
• 2014 - Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti
• 2014 - Jewel Joseph Newman, American sergeant and politician
• 2015 - William A. Culpepper, American general, lawyer, and judge
• 2015 - Edida Nageswara Rao, Indian director and producer
• 2015 - Dave Pike, American vibraphone player and songwriter
• 2015 - Neal Walk, American basketball player

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• *Amun
• *Francis of Assisi
• *Petronius of Bologna
• *October 4
• Cinnamon Roll Day
• Day of Peace and Reconciliation
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from the United Kingdom in 1966.
• The beginning of World Space Week
• World Animal Day