Deaths in History on May 4

1737 Eustace Budgell, English writer (The Spectator, writing 37 numbers signed X), dies at 50
1752 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1774 Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 59
1776 Jacques Saly, French sculptor, dies at 58
1790 Matthew Tilghman, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1718)

Tipu Sultan (1750-1799)

Indian ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (1782-99) and pioneer of rocket artillery known as the "Tiger of Mysore", killed by British forces in the Battle of Seringapatam at 48

1811 Nikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1824 Joseph Joubert, French essayist and moralist (b. 1754)
1832 Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church

Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858)

French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt, dies at 84 (date disputed)

1859 Joseph Diez Gergonne, French mathematician, dies at 87
1879 William Froude, English engineer and naval architect, dies at 68
1880 Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1884 Maria Anna of Savoy, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, dies at 80
1885 Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1900 Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist, dies at 73
1901 John Jones Ross, Canadian politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (1884-87), dies at 69
1903 Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans - leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (b. 1872)
1916 Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
1919 Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak politician, French general and astronomer (b. 1880)
1922 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
1924 Edith Nesbit, British children books author (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Five Children and It), dies at 65
1928 Barry Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and writer (Nobel Peace Prize 1935), dies at 48
1945 Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (commander in the German occupation of Austria, invasions of Poland, France, and Russia during WWII), dies at 64
1953 Edward Shanks, British poet and critic, dies at 60
1955 Louis Charles Breguet, French aviation pioneer (founded the Compagnie des messageries aérienne which became Air France), dies at 75
1965 Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1969 Osbert Sitwell, English writer (Out of the Flame), dies at 76
1970 Allison Beth Krause, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military at 19
1970 Jeffrey Miller, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military, at 20
1970 Sandra Scheuer, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military, at 20
1970 William Schroeder, American student, killed by soldiers of the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University while protesting against US military at 20
1971 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, American chemist (Micromanometric analysis), dies at 88
1971 Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1972 Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1973 Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright, dies at 56
1976 Henri Bosco, French author and poet (Gogol), dies at 87

Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)

Yugoslav communist revolutionary and leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87

1984 Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
1985 Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist and writer, dies at 59
1989 Evelle Jansen Younger, American prosecutor (Charles Manson; Sirhan Sirhan), dies at 70
1990 Don Appell, American writer and director, dies at 70
1991 Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1991 George Delacorte, American philanthropist and publisher (Dell Books), dies at 96
1992 Gregor Mackenzie, Labour Party (UK) politician (b. 1927)
1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
1992 Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1994 Karl Francis Hettinger, American police officer (Onion Field survivor), dies at 59
1995 Lewis T Preston, American banker (President of the World Bank 1991-95), dies at 68
1996 Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1997 Vijayananda Dahanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies
1999 Brinsley Ford, British art historian and CEO (National Art Collections Fund), dies at 90
2001 Bonnie Lee Bakley, American murder victim (b. 1956)
2005 David Hackworth, U.S. Army officer and military journalist (b. 1930)
2013 Christian de Duve, British cytologist and biochemist (Nobel 1974), dies from euthanasia at 95
2013 Morgan Morgan-Giles, British Naval officer and politician, dies at 98
2013 Otis Bowen, American politician, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89), dies at 95
2016 Robert "Bob" Bennett, American politician (U.S. Senator fromfrom Utah, 1993-2011), dies at 82
2017 William J. Baumol, American economist (Baumol’s cost disease), dies at 95
2018 Barnet Fain, American businessman and artist, dies at 86
2018 BN Vijaya Kumar, Indian politician, dies at 59 of a heart attack
2018 Bobbie Louise Hawkins, American poet and author, dies at 87
2018 Edwin G. Burrows, American historian and professor, dies at 74
2018 Paul Bloodgood, American artist, dies at 58 of Alzheimer's disease
2018 Renate Dorrelstein, Dutch writer and journalist, dies of cancer at 64