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September 4:

 * 1831 - Captain Robert FitzRoy strongly objected to taking on Charles Darwin as the supernumerary naturalist for the second voyage of the HMS Beagle.
 * 1890 - Samuel Beckles died in Hastings, England.
 * 2011 - Lukas Hottinger died in Basel, Switzerland.