October 4
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
- 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
- 1837 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, British novelist (d. 1915)
- 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
- 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American author (d. 2016)
- 1930 - Erwin C. Dietrich, Swiss film producer (d. 2018)
- 1931 - Richard Rorty, United States philosopher (d. 2007)
- 1941 - Anne Rice, American writer (d. 2021)
- 1960 - Afrika Bambaataa, American musician
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Deaths
- 1582 – Teresa of Ávila, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1515)
- 1669 - Rembrandt, Dutch visual artist (b. 1606 )
- 1903 - Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
- 1970 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
- 1999 - Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928)
- 2002 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Noboru Tanaka, Japanese filmmaker (b. 1937)
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