Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 4

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[edit] Births

• 1781 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
• 1796 - Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859) (pictured)
• 1852 - Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
• 1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress (d. 1993)
• 1959 - Randy Travis, American musician

[edit] Deaths

• 1737 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
• 1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1889)
• 1970 - Kent State victims:
  • Allison Krause (b. 1951)
  • Jeffrey Miller (b. 1950)
  • Sandra Scheuer (b. 1949)
  • William Schroeder (b. 1950)
• 1975 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)