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| February 4th, 2008 (February 04 2008) | Event | One of the biggest marches took place in the Colombia when almost 9 million people walked in the streets of almost every town and city in the country to protest against the violent actions of FARC and against kidnapping. "No More FARC" (No Mas FARC) was the name of the march. | |
| February 4th, 2008 (February 04 2008) | Death | Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (born in 1942) | |
| February 4th, 2007 (February 04 2007) | Death | Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (born in 1938) | |
| February 4th, 2007 (February 04 2007) | Death | Jose Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (born in 1925) | |
| February 4th, 2007 (February 04 2007) | Death | Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (born in 1959) | |
| February 4th, 2007 (February 04 2007) | Death | Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (born in 1934) | |
| February 4th, 2007 (February 04 2007) | Death | Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (born in 1922) | |
| February 4th, 2006 (February 04 2006) | Event | A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71. | |
| February 4th, 2006 (February 04 2006) | Death | Betty Friedan, American feminist (born in 1921) | |
| February 4th, 2006 (February 04 2006) | Death | Myron Waldman, American animator (born in 1908) | |
| February 4th, 2003 (February 04 2003) | Event | The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution. | |
| February 4th, 2003 (February 04 2003) | Death | Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (born in 1926) | |
| February 4th, 2003 (February 04 2003) | Death | Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (born in 1920) | |
| February 4th, 2002 (February 04 2002) | Death | George Nader, American film and television actor (born in 1921) | George Ade Quotes |
| February 4th, 2001 (February 04 2001) | Death | J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (born in 1924) | |
| February 4th, 2001 (February 04 2001) | Death | Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (born in 1922) | |
| February 4th, 2000 (February 04 2000) | Event | German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. | |
| February 4th, 2000 (February 04 2000) | Death | Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born in 1908) | |
| February 4th, 2000 (February 04 2000) | Death | Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (born in 1941) | |
| February 4th, 2000 (February 04 2000) | Death | Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (born in 1919) | |
| February 4th, 1999 (February 04 1999) | Event | Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city. | |
| February 4th, 1999 (February 04 1999) | Event | The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon. | |
| February 4th, 1998 (February 04 1998) | Event | An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. | |
| February 4th, 1997 (February 04 1997) | Event | En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73. | |
| February 4th, 1997 (February 04 1997) | Event | After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections. | |
| February 4th, 1996 (February 04 1996) | Event | Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26øF (-32.2øC) | |
| February 4th, 1995 (February 04 1995) | Death | Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (born in 1915) | |
| February 4th, 1995 (February 04 1995) | Death | Patricia Highsmith, American author (born in 1921) | |
| February 4th, 1994 (February 04 1994) | Death | Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (born in 1930) | |
| February 4th, 1992 (February 04 1992) | Event | A Coup d etat is led by Hugo Chavez Frias, against VenezuelanPresident Carlos Andres Perez. | |
| February 4th, 1992 (February 04 1992) | Death | Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (born in 1911) | |
| February 4th, 1990 (February 04 1990) | Birth | Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyu | |
| February 4th, 1990 (February 04 1990) | Death | Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (born in 1917) | |
| February 4th, 1988 (February 04 1988) | Birth | Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player | |
| February 4th, 1988 (February 04 1988) | Birth | Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer | |
| February 4th, 1988 (February 04 1988) | Birth | Carly Patterson, American gymnast | |
| February 4th, 1987 (February 04 1987) | Birth | Lucie Safarova, Czech tennis player | |
| February 4th, 1987 (February 04 1987) | Death | Liberace, American musician (born in 1919) | |
| February 4th, 1987 (February 04 1987) | Death | Carl Rogers, American psychologist (born in 1902) | |
| February 4th, 1986 (February 04 1986) | Birth | Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer | |
| February 4th, 1985 (February 04 1985) | Birth | Bug Hall, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1984 (February 04 1984) | Birth | Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer | |
| February 4th, 1983 (February 04 1983) | Death | Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (born in 1950) | |
| February 4th, 1982 (February 04 1982) | Birth | Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler | |
| February 4th, 1982 (February 04 1982) | Birth | Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist | |
| February 4th, 1982 (February 04 1982) | Birth | Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls) | |
| February 4th, 1982 (February 04 1982) | Death | Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (born in 1935) | |
| February 4th, 1982 (February 04 1982) | Death | Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (born in 1909) | |
| February 4th, 1981 (February 04 1981) | Birth | Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player | |
| February 4th, 1981 (February 04 1981) | Birth | Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player | |
| February 4th, 1981 (February 04 1981) | Birth | Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player | |
| February 4th, 1980 (February 04 1980) | Event | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran. | Ruhollah Khomeini Quotes |
| February 4th, 1979 (February 04 1979) | Birth | Andrei Arlovski, Russian mixed martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| February 4th, 1979 (February 04 1979) | Birth | Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver | |
| February 4th, 1978 (February 04 1978) | Birth | Danna Garcia, Colombian actress | |
| February 4th, 1977 (February 04 1977) | Birth | Gavin DeGraw, American musician | |
| February 4th, 1977 (February 04 1977) | Death | Brett Halliday, American writer (born in 1904) | |
| February 4th, 1976 (February 04 1976) | Event | In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000. | |
| February 4th, 1976 (February 04 1976) | Birth | Cam ron, American rapper | |
| February 4th, 1975 (February 04 1975) | Event | Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China. | |
| February 4th, 1975 (February 04 1975) | Birth | Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress | |
| February 4th, 1975 (February 04 1975) | Birth | Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer | |
| February 4th, 1975 (February 04 1975) | Death | Louis Jordan, American musician (born in 1908) | |
| February 4th, 1975 (February 04 1975) | Death | Howard Hill, American archer (born in 1899) | |
| February 4th, 1974 (February 04 1974) | Event | The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California. | Bion Quotes |
| February 4th, 1974 (February 04 1974) | Birth | Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer | |
| February 4th, 1974 (February 04 1974) | Birth | Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international | |
| February 4th, 1974 (February 04 1974) | Death | Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (born in 1894) | |
| February 4th, 1973 (February 04 1973) | Birth | Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-born boxer | |
| February 4th, 1972 (February 04 1972) | Birth | Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer | |
| February 4th, 1971 (February 04 1971) | Birth | Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian | |
| February 4th, 1971 (February 04 1971) | Birth | Michael A. Goorjian, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1970 (February 04 1970) | Birth | Gabrielle Anwar, English actress | |
| February 4th, 1969 (February 04 1969) | Event | Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. | Yasser Arafat Quotes |
| February 4th, 1969 (February 04 1969) | Birth | Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace) | |
| February 4th, 1969 (February 04 1969) | Birth | Dallas Drake, ice hockey player | |
| February 4th, 1969 (February 04 1969) | Birth | Brandy Ledford, American actress and model | |
| February 4th, 1968 (February 04 1968) | Birth | Marko Matvere, Estonian actor | |
| February 4th, 1968 (February 04 1968) | Death | Neal Cassady, American writer (born in 1926) | |
| February 4th, 1967 (February 04 1967) | Birth | Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (died in 1995) | |
| February 4th, 1967 (February 04 1967) | Death | Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1886) | |
| February 4th, 1966 (February 04 1966) | Event | All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133. | |
| February 4th, 1966 (February 04 1966) | Birth | Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist | |
| February 4th, 1966 (February 04 1966) | Birth | Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer | |
| February 4th, 1966 (February 04 1966) | Death | Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (born in 1875) | |
| February 4th, 1965 (February 04 1965) | Birth | Jerome Brown, American football player (died in 1992) | |
| February 4th, 1964 (February 04 1964) | Birth | Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring) | |
| February 4th, 1963 (February 04 1963) | Birth | Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss skier | |
| February 4th, 1962 (February 04 1962) | Birth | Clint Black, American musician | |
| February 4th, 1962 (February 04 1962) | Birth | Michael Riley, Canadian actor | |
| February 4th, 1962 (February 04 1962) | Birth | Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian | |
| February 4th, 1961 (February 04 1961) | Birth | Stewart O Nan, American author | |
| February 4th, 1961 (February 04 1961) | Birth | Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| February 4th, 1960 (February 04 1960) | Birth | Tim Booth, British singer (James) | |
| February 4th, 1960 (February 04 1960) | Birth | Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (died in 2007) | |
| February 4th, 1960 (February 04 1960) | Birth | Jenette Goldstein, American actress | |
| February 4th, 1960 (February 04 1960) | Birth | Jonathan Larson, American composer (died in 1996) | |
| February 4th, 1959 (February 04 1959) | Birth | Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress | |
| February 4th, 1959 (February 04 1959) | Birth | Lawrence Taylor, American football player. | |
| February 4th, 1959 (February 04 1959) | Death | Una O Connor, Irish actress (born in 1880) | |
| February 4th, 1958 (February 04 1958) | Birth | Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer | |
| February 4th, 1958 (February 04 1958) | Death | Henry Kuttner, American author (born in 1915) | |
| February 4th, 1957 (February 04 1957) | Event | The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne s novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". | |
| February 4th, 1957 (February 04 1957) | Birth | Don Davis, American composer | |
| February 4th, 1957 (February 04 1957) | Birth | Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist | |
| February 4th, 1955 (February 04 1955) | Birth | Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovak Prime minister | |
| February 4th, 1953 (February 04 1953) | Birth | Kitaro, Japanese composer | |
| February 4th, 1952 (February 04 1952) | Birth | Lisa Eichhorn, American actress | |
| February 4th, 1952 (February 04 1952) | Birth | Jerry Shirley, drummer of rock band Humble Pie. | |
| February 4th, 1952 (February 04 1952) | Birth | Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist | |
| February 4th, 1951 (February 04 1951) | Birth | Patrick Bergin, Irish actor | |
| February 4th, 1951 (February 04 1951) | Birth | Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas) | |
| February 4th, 1951 (February 04 1951) | Birth | Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician | |
| February 4th, 1951 (February 04 1951) | Birth | Stan Papi, American baseball player | |
| February 4th, 1950 (February 04 1950) | Birth | Pamela Franklin, British actress | |
| February 4th, 1949 (February 04 1949) | Birth | Michael Beck, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1948 (February 04 1948) | Event | Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. | |
| February 4th, 1948 (February 04 1948) | Birth | Alice Cooper, American musician | Alice Cooper Quotes |
| February 4th, 1947 (February 04 1947) | Birth | Dan Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States | Dan Quayle Quotes |
| February 4th, 1945 (February 04 1945) | Event | World War II: The Yalta Conference begins. | |
| February 4th, 1944 (February 04 1944) | Birth | Florence LaRue, American singer (The Fifth Dimension) | |
| February 4th, 1944 (February 04 1944) | Death | Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (born in 1867) | |
| February 4th, 1944 (February 04 1944) | Death | Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (born in 1872) | |
| February 4th, 1943 (February 04 1943) | Event | World War II: Battle of Stalingrad ends. | |
| February 4th, 1943 (February 04 1943) | Birth | Alberto Joao Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira | |
| February 4th, 1943 (February 04 1943) | Birth | Ken Thompson, American computer scientist | |
| February 4th, 1943 (February 04 1943) | Death | Frank Calder, the first NHL President (born in 1877) | |
| February 4th, 1941 (February 04 1941) | Event | World War II: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops. | |
| February 4th, 1941 (February 04 1941) | Birth | John Steel, British musician (The Animals) | |
| February 4th, 1940 (February 04 1940) | Birth | George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer | |
| February 4th, 1940 (February 04 1940) | Birth | John Schuck, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1940 (February 04 1940) | Death | Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (born in 1895) | |
| February 4th, 1937 (February 04 1937) | Birth | David Newman, American filmmaker (died in 2003) | |
| February 4th, 1936 (February 04 1936) | Event | Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. | |
| February 4th, 1936 (February 04 1936) | Birth | David Brenner, American comedian | |
| February 4th, 1936 (February 04 1936) | Birth | Gary Conway, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1936 (February 04 1936) | Death | Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (born in 1895) | |
| February 4th, 1935 (February 04 1935) | Birth | Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (died in 1989) | |
| February 4th, 1933 (February 04 1933) | Death | Archibald Sayce, English educator (born in 1846) | |
| February 4th, 1932 (February 04 1932) | Event | World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China. | |
| February 4th, 1931 (February 04 1931) | Birth | Isabel Martinez de Peron, third wife of Argentine president Juan Peron | |
| February 4th, 1929 (February 04 1929) | Birth | Jerry Adler, American actor | |
| February 4th, 1928 (February 04 1928) | Death | Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1853) | |
| February 4th, 1925 (February 04 1925) | Birth | Russell Hoban, American writer | |
| February 4th, 1923 (February 04 1923) | Birth | Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor | |
| February 4th, 1921 (February 04 1921) | Birth | Betty Friedan, American feminist (died in 2006) | |
| February 4th, 1918 (February 04 1918) | Birth | Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (died in 1995) | |
| February 4th, 1918 (February 04 1918) | Birth | Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (died in 1991) | Philo Quotes |
| February 4th, 1918 (February 04 1918) | Birth | Janet Waldo, American actress | |
| February 4th, 1917 (February 04 1917) | Birth | Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (died in 1980) | |
| February 4th, 1916 (February 04 1916) | Birth | Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (died in 1980) | |
| February 4th, 1915 (February 04 1915) | Birth | Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (died in 2007) | Evans Quotes |
| February 4th, 1915 (February 04 1915) | Birth | William Talman, American actor (died in 1968) | |
| February 4th, 1915 (February 04 1915) | Birth | Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian | |
| February 4th, 1914 (February 04 1914) | Birth | Alfred Andersch, German writer (died in 1980) | |
| February 4th, 1913 (February 04 1913) | Birth | Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (died in 2005) | |
| February 4th, 1912 (February 04 1912) | Birth | Ola Skjak Br?k, Norwegian politician (died in 1999) | |
| February 4th, 1912 (February 04 1912) | Birth | Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (died in 1993) | |
| February 4th, 1912 (February 04 1912) | Birth | Byron Nelson, American golfer (died in 2006) | |
| February 4th, 1912 (February 04 1912) | Birth | Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (died in 2006) | |
| February 4th, 1908 (February 04 1908) | Birth | Julian Bell, British poet (died in 1937) | Julian Quotes |
| February 4th, 1906 (February 04 1906) | Birth | Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (died in 1945) | Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes |
| February 4th, 1906 (February 04 1906) | Birth | Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (died in 1997) | |
| February 4th, 1905 (February 04 1905) | Birth | Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (died in 1986) | |
| February 4th, 1905 (February 04 1905) | Death | Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (born in 1841) | |
| February 4th, 1904 (February 04 1904) | Birth | MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (died in 1977) | |
| February 4th, 1902 (February 04 1902) | Birth | Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (died in 1974) | |
| February 4th, 1902 (February 04 1902) | Birth | Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (died in 2003) | Hartley Shawcross Quotes |
| February 4th, 1901 (February 04 1901) | Birth | Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (died in 1987) | Jascha Heifetz Quotes |
| February 4th, 1900 (February 04 1900) | Birth | Jacques Prevert, French poet and lyricist (died in 1977) | |
| February 4th, 1899 (February 04 1899) | Event | The Philippine-American War begins. | |
| February 4th, 1897 (February 04 1897) | Birth | Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (died in 1977) | |
| February 4th, 1896 (February 04 1896) | Birth | Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (died in 1938) | |
| February 4th, 1896 (February 04 1896) | Birth | Friedrich Hund, German physicist (died in 1997) | |
| February 4th, 1895 (February 04 1895) | Birth | Nigel Bruce, English actor (died in 1953) | |
| February 4th, 1894 (February 04 1894) | Death | Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (born in 1814) | |
| February 4th, 1892 (February 04 1892) | Birth | Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (died in 1937) | |
| February 4th, 1892 (February 04 1892) | Birth | E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (died in 1964) | |
| February 4th, 1881 (February 04 1881) | Birth | Fernand Leger, French painter (died in 1955) | |
| February 4th, 1875 (February 04 1875) | Birth | Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (died in 1953) | |
| February 4th, 1873 (February 04 1873) | Birth | Etienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (died in 1905) | |
| February 4th, 1872 (February 04 1872) | Birth | Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (died in 1903) | |
| February 4th, 1871 (February 04 1871) | Birth | Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichsprasident of the Weimar Republic (died in 1925) | |
| February 4th, 1861 (February 04 1861) | Event | American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, Delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form The Confederate States of America. | |
| February 4th, 1859 (February 04 1859) | Event | The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. | |
| February 4th, 1859 (February 04 1859) | Birth | Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (died in 1881) | |
| February 4th, 1849 (February 04 1849) | Birth | Jean Richepin, French poet (died in 1926) | |
| February 4th, 1848 (February 04 1848) | Birth | Jean Aicard, French poet (died in 1921) | |
| February 4th, 1846 (February 04 1846) | Birth | Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (died in 1915) | |
| February 4th, 1841 (February 04 1841) | Birth | Clement Ader, French aviation pioneer (died in 1926) | |
| February 4th, 1831 (February 04 1831) | Birth | Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1895) | |
| February 4th, 1825 (February 04 1825) | Event | The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal. | |
| February 4th, 1810 (February 04 1810) | Event | Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe. | |
| February 4th, 1808 (February 04 1808) | Birth | Josef Kajetan Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(died in 1856) | |
| February 4th, 1801 (February 04 1801) | Event | John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States. | John Marshall Quotes |
| February 4th, 1799 (February 04 1799) | Birth | Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (died in 1854) | |
| February 4th, 1799 (February 04 1799) | Death | Etienne-Louis Boullee, French architect (born in 1728) | |
| February 4th, 1794 (February 04 1794) | Event | The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. | |
| February 4th, 1792 (February 04 1792) | Event | George Washington is unanimously elected to a second term as President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. | George Washington Quotes |
| February 4th, 1789 (February 04 1789) | Event | George Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. | George Washington Quotes |
| February 4th, 1781 (February 04 1781) | Death | Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (born in 1737) | |
| February 4th, 1778 (February 04 1778) | Birth | A. P. de Candolle, Swiss botanist (died in 1841) | |
| February 4th, 1774 (February 04 1774) | Death | Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (born in 1701) | |
| February 4th, 1746 (February 04 1746) | Birth | Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian national hero (died in 1817) | |
| February 4th, 1725 (February 04 1725) | Birth | Dru Drury, English entomologist (died in 1804) | |
| February 4th, 1713 (February 04 1713) | Death | Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (born in 1671) | Philo Quotes |
| February 4th, 1703 (February 04 1703) | Event | In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-Seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master s death. | |
| February 4th, 1694 (February 04 1694) | Death | Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (born in 1651) | |
| February 4th, 1688 (February 04 1688) | Birth | Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (died in 1763) | |
| February 4th, 1677 (February 04 1677) | Birth | Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (died in 1731) | |
| February 4th, 1646 (February 04 1646) | Birth | Hans Erasmus A?mann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (died in 1699) | |
| February 4th, 1620 (February 04 1620) | Birth | Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (died in 1667) | |
| February 4th, 1617 (February 04 1617) | Death | Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (born in 1546) | |
| February 4th, 1615 (February 04 1615) | Death | Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (born in 1552) | |
| February 4th, 1615 (February 04 1615) | Death | Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (born in 1535) | |
| February 4th, 1590 (February 04 1590) | Death | Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (born in 1517) | |
| February 4th, 1575 (February 04 1575) | Birth | Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal and statesman (died in 1629) | |
| February 4th, 1524 (February 04 1524) | Birth | Luis de Camoes, Portugal s greatest poet. (died in 1580) | Luis de Camoes Quotes |
| February 4th, 1508 (February 04 1508) | Death | Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (born in 1459) | |
| February 4th, 1454 (February 04 1454) | Event | In the Thirteen Years War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master. | |
| February 4th, 0960 (February 04 0960) | Event | The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. | |
| February 4th, 0869 (February 04 0869) | Death | Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (born in 827) | |
| February 4th, 0856 (February 04 0856) | Death | Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (born in circa 780) | |
| February 4th, 0708 (February 04 0708) | Death | Pope Sisinnius | |
| February 4th, 0211 (February 04 0211) | Event | Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta. | |
| February 4th, 0211 (February 04 0211) | Death | Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (born in 146) | |
