Natural disasters in 1994
* Christmas 1994 Nor'easter
* Northridge earthquake
* 1994 Paez river earthquake
People who died on July 04 (various years)
* 2007 - Bill Pinkney, American singer and performer
* 2007 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician
* 2005 - Hank Stram, American football coach
* 2004 - Frank Robinson (Xylophone Man), an eccentric street entertainer in Nottingham, England
* 2004 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor
* 2003 - André Claveau, French singer
* 2003 - Barry White, American singer
* 2002 - Mansoor Hekmat, Iranian politician
* 2002 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr., American general
* 2000 - Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer
* 1999 - Leo Garel, American artist and cartoonist (b.1917)
* 1997 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist
* 1997 - Charles Kuralt, American television presenter
* 1995 - Bob Ross, American artist and television host
* 1995 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress
* 1993 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician and historian
* 1992 - Ástor Piazzolla, Argentinian composer
* 1991 - Victor Chang, Australian physician
* 1988 - Adrian Adonis, American artist
* 1986 - Flor Peeters, Belgian composer, organist, and teacher
* 1986 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician
* 1984 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter
* 1982 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death
* 1980 - Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian
* 1977 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist
* 1976 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet
* 1975 - Georgette Heyer, English author
* 1971 - August Derleth, American writer and editor
* 1970 - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family
* 1970 - Barnett Newman, American artist
* 1963 - Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand
* 1948 - Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian writer
* 1946 - Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp overseer
* 1941 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician
* 1938 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player
* 1938 - Otto Bauer, Austrian Social Democratic politician
* 1934 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics
* 1931 - Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat
* 1931 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician
* 1926 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian mountaineer
* 1922 - Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot
* 1916 - Alan Seeger, American war poet
* 1910 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer
* 1910 - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States
* 1905 - Élisée Reclus, French anarchist
* 1902 - Swami Vivekananda, Indian spiritual leader
* 1901 - Johannes Schmidt, German linguist
* 1891 - Hannibal Hamlin, U.S. Vice President
* 1882 - Joseph Brackett, American composer
* 1881 - Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman
* 1857 - William L. Marcy, American statesman
* 1854 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist
* 1850 - William Kirby, English entomologist
* 1848 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French writer
* 1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
* 1826 - Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States
* 1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
* 1821 - Richard Cosway, English artist
* 1787 - Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise, Marshal of France
* 1780 - Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader
* 1761 - Samuel Richardson, English writer
* 1754 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist
* 1742 - Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician
* 1648 - Antoine Daniel, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs
* 1623 - William Byrd, English composer
* 1603 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer
* 1546 - Hayreddin Barbarossa, Admiral of the Ottoman Navy
* 1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish explorer
* 1187 - Raynald of Chatillon, Prince of Antioch
* 973 - Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890)
* 965 - Pope Benedict V
* 907 - Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria