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October 4

6 births · 5 deaths · 1 events

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Event anniversary

Constitution of France

68 years ago

Born this day

1822

Rutherford B. Hayes

Would be 204

Oldest record

357th

Rembrandt

death anniversary

Famous births6

1822 · 204 yrs

Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings.

PoliticsWould be 204

Photo: Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain

1895 · 131 yrs

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent films, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts.

FilmWould be 131

Photo: Bain News Service · Public domain

1923 · 103 yrs

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films.

FilmWould be 103

Photo: 20th Century Fox studios · Public domain

1946 · 80 yrs

Susan Sarandon

Susan Abigail Sarandon ( sə-RAN-dən; née Tomalin; born October 4, 1946) is an American actor.

ActivismAge 80

Photo: Pedro J Pacheco · CC BY-SA 4.0

1956 · 70 yrs

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz (German:; born 4 October 1956) is an Austrian and German actor. Waltz gained international recognition for his portrayal of villainous and supporting roles in English-language films.

FilmAge 70

Photo: LucaFazPhoto · CC BY-SA 4.0

1989 · 37 yrs

Dakota Johnson

Dakota Mayi Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. Her accolades include nominations for a British Academy Film Award and a Critics' Choice Award.

FashionAge 37

Photo: Jan Beránek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Famous deaths5

1669 · 357 yrs

Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.

ArtWould be 420

Photo: Rembrandt · Public domain

1880 · 146 yrs

Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.

MusicWould be 207

Photo: Nadar · Public domain

1947 · 79 yrs

Max Planck

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (German:; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist.

ScienceWould be 168

Photo: Courtesy of the Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center. · CC BY-SA 3.0

1970 · 56 yrs

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and her stage presence.

MusicWould be 83

Photo: Grossman Glotzer Management Corporation · Public domain

2013 · 13 yrs

Võ Nguyên Giáp

Võ Nguyên Giáp (chữ Hán: 武元甲, Vietnamese pronunciation:; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory in the decades-long Indochina wars.

MilitaryWould be 115

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain

Events1

1958 · 68 yrs

Constitution of France

The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (French: la Constitution de la Cinquième République), and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946, keeping its preamble.

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