Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 4
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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)
