In deaths:
| July 4th 1891 | | Frederic Louis Ritter, composer, dies at 67
| | July 4th 1901 | | John Fiske, [Edmund Fisk Green], US historian/philosopher, dies
| | July 4th 1910 | | Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
| | July 4th 1910 | | Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
| | July 4th 1917 | | Johan H C Kern, Dutch linguist (Sanskreet), dies at 84
| | July 4th 1923 | | Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67
| | July 4th 1929 | | Otto Taubmann, composer, dies at 70
| | July 4th 1931 | | Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
| | July 4th 1931 | | Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
| | July 4th 1934 | | Chaim Nachman Bialik, zionist poet, dies
| | July 4th 1934 | | "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies
| | July 4th 1938 | | Otto Bauer, Austrian social democrat, dies at 56
| | July 4th 1938 | | Suzanne Lenglen, 6 time Wimbledon champ, dies at 39 of anemia
| | July 4th 1943 | | Wladyslaw Sikorski, gen/PM of Poland in exile (1939-43), dies at 62
| | July 4th 1946 | | Othenio Able, Austria paleontology, dies at 71
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