Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 4

Births

 * 1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887) (pictured)
 * 1882 - Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
 * 1915 - Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983)
 * 1928 - Maya Angelou, American writer (d. 2014)
 * 1932 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
 * 1979 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)

Deaths

 * 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1728)
 * 1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
 * 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
 * 1983 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)