The 4t o December is the 338t day o the year (339t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 27 days bidin.
- 1795 - Thomas Carlyle, Scots writer an historian (d. 1881)
- 1817 - Thomas Thomson, Scots botanist an surgeon (d. 1878)
- 1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrick poet an writer (d. 1926)
- 1892 - Francisco Franco, Spaingie dictator (d. 1975)
- 1910 - R. Venkataraman, Preses o Indie (d. 2009)
- 1921 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress an sangster (d. 2013)
- 1930 - Ronnie Corbett, Scots actor an comedian (d. 2016)
- 1932 - Roh Tae-woo, former Preses o Sooth Korea
- 1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress, writer an psychologist
- 1949 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
- 1955 - Philip Hammond, Inglis politeecian
- 1963 - Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
- 1964 - Sertab Erener, Turkish sangster
- 1964 - Marisa Tomei, American actress
- 1969 - Jay-Z, American rapper an sangster
- 1973 - Tyra Banks, American model, telly personality an actress
- 1993 - Caitlin Pringle, Scots badminton player
- 1995 - Dina Asher-Smith, Inglis track-an-field athlete
- 771 - Carloman I, Frankish King (b. 751)
- 1123 - Omar Khayyam, Persie polymath (b. 1048)
- 1214 - William the Lion, King o Scots (b. 1143)
- 1334 - Pape John XXII (b. 1249)
- 1585 - John Willock, Scots reformer (b. 1515)
- 1642 - Cardinal Richelieu, French statesman (b. 1585)
- 1649 - William Drummond o Hawthornden, Scots poet (b. 1585)
- 1649 - Alexander Hume, Scots poet (b. 1580)
- 1679 - Thomas Hobbes, Inglis philosopher (b. 1588)
- 1798 - Luigi Galvani, Italian pheesicist (b. 1737)
- 1828 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nt Yerl o Liverpuil, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1770)
- 1975 - Hannah Arendt, German poleetical philosopher (b. 1906)
- 1976 - Benjamin Britten, Inglis componer (b. 1913)
- 1993 - Frank Zappa, American muisicker (b. 1940)
- 2015 - Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2017 - Jimmy Hood, Scots politeecian (b. 1948)
- 2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, Preses o Yemen (b. 1942)
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