March 4
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Art and culture
- 1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
- 1963 - John Lennon's controversial statement on Christianity first published in the United Kingdom.
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
- 1953 - Geoff Nicholson , British novelist and non-fiction 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)
- 1987 - Maria Jolas , American writer and translator (b. 1893)
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