Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 4

Births

 * 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727) (pictured)
 * 1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
 * 1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of Braille (d. 1852)
 * 1935 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
 * 1957 - Patty Loveless, American singer

Deaths

 * 1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)
 * 1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
 * 1960 - Albert Camus, Algerian-born French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
 * 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
 * 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)