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| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Alton Tobey, American artist (born in 1914) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Robert Heilbroner, American economist (born in 1919) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Frank Harary, American mathematician (born in 1921) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1924) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (born in 1927) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Humphrey Carpenter, English author (born in 1946) | |
| January 4th, 2005 (January 04 2005) | Death | Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad (assassinated) | |
| January 4th, 1995 (January 04 1995) | Birth | Maria Isabel, Spanish singer | |
| January 4th, 1995 (January 04 1995) | Birth | Harry Skinner, English skiier | |
| January 4th, 1995 (January 04 1995) | Death | Sol Tax, American anthropologist (born in 1907) | |
| January 4th, 1995 (January 04 1995) | Death | Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (born in 1942) | |
| January 4th, 1985 (January 04 1985) | Birth | Al Jefferson, American basketball player | |
| January 4th, 1985 (January 04 1985) | Birth | Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver | |
| January 4th, 1985 (January 04 1985) | Death | Brian Horrocks, British general (born in 1895) | |
| January 4th, 1985 (January 04 1985) | Death | Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (born in 1899) | |
| January 4th, 1975 (January 04 1975) | Event | Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint. | |
| January 4th, 1975 (January 04 1975) | Death | Carlo Levi, Italian anti-fascist painter, writer and activist (born in 1902) | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Event | United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Birth | Yvan Attal, French actor and director | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Birth | Guy Forget, French tennis player | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Birth | Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead) | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Birth | Cait O Riordan, British musician (The Pogues) | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Birth | Julia Ormond, English actress | |
| January 4th, 1965 (January 04 1965) | Death | T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1888) | |
| January 4th, 1955 (January 04 1955) | Birth | Mark Hollis, English musician and composer (Talk Talk) | |
| January 4th, 1945 (January 04 1945) | Birth | Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer | |
| January 4th, 1945 (January 04 1945) | Birth | Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate | |
| January 4th, 1935 (January 04 1935) | Birth | Floyd Patterson, American boxer (died in 2006) | |
| January 4th, 1925 (January 04 1925) | Birth | Veikko Hakulinen, Finnish cross-country skier (died in 2003) | |
| January 4th, 1905 (January 04 1905) | Birth | Sterling Holloway, American actor (died in 1992) | |
| January 4th, 1895 (January 04 1895) | Birth | Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (died in 1982) | |
| January 4th, 1885 (January 04 1885) | Event | The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant on Mary Gartside. | |
| January 4th, 1865 (January 04 1865) | Event | The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City. | |
| January 4th, 1825 (January 04 1825) | Death | King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (born in 1751) | |
| January 4th, 1785 (January 04 1785) | Birth | Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (died in 1863) | Philo Quotes |
| January 4th, 1695 (January 04 1695) | Death | Francois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (born in 1628) | |
