Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 4

Births

 * 1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
 * 1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
 * 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935) (pictured)
 * 1916 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster (d. 2009)
 * 1918 - Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
 * 1929 - Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
 * 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
 * 1969 - Sean Jean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper

Deaths

 * 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
 * 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
 * 1955 - Cy Young, baseball player (b. 1867)
 * 1982 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (b. 1959)
 * 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1922)