Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 4

Births

• 1394 - Henry the Navigator (d. 1460) (pictured)
• 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
• 1888 - Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
• 1954 - Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 1852 - Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
• 1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
• 1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
• 1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)