Famous Deaths Happened In May - 04
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
1436 On May - 04 death of engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1390s)
1471 Death of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (killed in battle) (b. 1453) on May - 04.
1506 On this day in history death of husayn Bayqarah, ruler of Herat (b. 1438)
1519 Death of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492) on May - 04.
1566 On this day in history death of luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1594 Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62 on May - 04.
1604 On this day in history claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 on May - 04.
1615 On May - 04 death of adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1626 On this day in history death of arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator (b. 1569)
1677 Death of Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630) on this day in history.
1684 Death of John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639) on May - 04.
1729 Death of Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651) on May - 04.
1734 On May - 04 death of james Thornhill, English painter
1737 On May - 04 death of eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
1752 On May - 04 pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 On May - 04 christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1774 Death of Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1714) on May - 04.
1776 Death of Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717) on May - 04.
1790 On May - 04 death of matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)
1799 On this day in history death of tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 On this day in history death of nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 Death of Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754) on this day in history.
1832 Death of Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church on May - 04.
1855 On May - 04 camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1858 On May - 04 death of aimé Bonpland, French explorer and botanist (b. 1773)
1859 On May - 04 death of joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1860 On this day in history emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies
1879 William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68 on this day in history.
1880 On May - 04 death of edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1885 On this day in history aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls on this day in history.
1893 On this day in history george Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1901 On May - 04 death of john Jones Ross, Canadian politician (b. 1831)
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