March 4
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Art and culture
- 1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
Births
- 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
- 1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
- 1913 - John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
- 1928 - Alan Sillitoe, English writer
- 1941 - Adrian Lyne, English film director
- 1948 - James Ellroy, American writer
- 1958 - Lennie Lee, British artist
Deaths
- 1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
- 1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
- 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
- 1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
- 1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
- 1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
- 1967 - José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
- 1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
- 1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
- 1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
- 1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
- 1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
- 1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
- 1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
- 1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
- 1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
- 1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
- 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
- 1981 - Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
- 1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
- 1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
- 1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
- 1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
- 1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
- 1992 - Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
- 1993 - Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
- 1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
- 1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
- 1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
- 1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
- 2001 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
- 2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
- 2001 - Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
- 2002 - Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
- 2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
- 2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
- 2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
- 2003 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- 2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
- 2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
- 2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
- 2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
- 2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
- 2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
- 2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
- 2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
- 2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
- 2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
- 2007 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
- 2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
- 2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
- 2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
- 2007 - Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932
Notes
Geoff Nicholson
Antonin Artaud
Lennie Lee
Nikolai Gogol
William Carlos Williams
Antonio Vivaldi
Franz Marc
Colored
Abraham Lincoln
Hans von Aachen
Maria Jolas
Knockout (comic)
Alan Sillitoe
Adrian Lyne
John Lennon on Christianity
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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