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On This Day · The 124th day of the year

May 4

100 years on from United Kingdom, May 4 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where politics and nation-building recur.

♉ZodiacTaurus ◈BirthstoneEmerald ❀Birth flowerLily of the Valley

Taurus is the sign for May 4 — read more on the Taurus page, or see May's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on May 4?

May 4 is the 124th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1814 and 2000. Famous people born on May 4 include Cesc Fàbregas, Wang Jingwei and James van Riemsdyk.

Released on May 4

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • TV Born with Luck

2023

  • Game Ravenlok
  • TV Silo

2022

  • Game Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1814

    Napoleon

  2. 1904

    Panama Canal

  3. 1919

    May Fourth Movement

  4. 1926

    United Kingdom

  5. 1942

    World War II

  6. 1949

    Torino FC

  7. 1970

    Vietnam War

  8. 1979

    Margaret Thatcher

  9. 1990

    Latvia

  10. 2000

    Ken Livingstone

Famous birthday twins

Born on May 4

Cesc Fàbregas

b. 1987

Wang Jingwei

b. 1883

James van Riemsdyk

b. 1989

Brad Maddox

b. 1984

Hosni Mubarak

b. 1928

Audrey Hepburn

b. 1929

Jackie Jackson

b. 1951

Werner Faymann

b. 1960

Deaths

  • 2014Jean-Paul Ngoupandé
  • 1980Josip Broz Tito
  • 1923Ralph McKittrick
  • 1799Tipu Sultan
  • 1774Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick
  • 1038Gotthard of Hildesheim

Holidays & observances

  • —Anti-Bullying Day (United Nations)
  • —Bird Day (United States)
  • —Cassinga Day (Namibia)
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Michał Giedroyć
  • —Christian feast day: English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era (Church of England)
  • —Christian feast day: F. C. D. Wyneken (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
  • —Christian feast day: Florian

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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