Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 4

Births

 * 1798 – Jules Armand Dufaure, 33rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1881)
 * 1844 – Franz Xavier Wernz, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
 * 1861 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922)
 * 1892 – Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain (d. 1975)
 * 1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
 * 1919 – I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (d. 2012)

Deaths

 * 1131 – Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher and polymath (b. 1048)
 * 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
 * 1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
 * 1938 – Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler and 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903)
 * 1980 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
 * 1993 – Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)