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| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Event | The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers. | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Event | United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease. | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Death | Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (born in 1953) | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Death | Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (born in 1964) | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Death | Una Hale, Australian soprano (born in 1922) | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Death | Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (born in 1951) | |
| March 4th, 2005 (March 04 2005) | Death | Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (born in 1934) | |
| March 4th, 1995 (March 04 1995) | Death | Eden Ahbez, American composer (born in 1908) | Eden Ahbez Quotes |
| March 4th, 1985 (March 04 1985) | Event | The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. | |
| March 4th, 1985 (March 04 1985) | Birth | Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player | |
| March 4th, 1975 (March 04 1975) | Birth | Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Andrew Collins, English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Stacy Edwards, American actress | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Gary Helms, American country singer | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut | |
| March 4th, 1965 (March 04 1965) | Birth | Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway | |
| March 4th, 1955 (March 04 1955) | Birth | Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42) | |
| March 4th, 1955 (March 04 1955) | Birth | Dominique Pinon, French actor | |
| March 4th, 1955 (March 04 1955) | Birth | James Weaver, English race car driver | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Event | In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver. | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Event | Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany. | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Birth | Tara Browne, British socialite (died in 1966) | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Birth | Dieter Meier, Swiss singer | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Birth | Frank Novak, American actor | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Birth | Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Birth | Gary Williams, American basketball coach | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Death | Lucille La Verne, American actress (born in 1872) | |
| March 4th, 1945 (March 04 1945) | Death | Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (born in 1900) | |
| March 4th, 1935 (March 04 1935) | Birth | Bent Larsen, Danish chess player | |
| March 4th, 1935 (March 04 1935) | Birth | Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (died in 2003) | |
| March 4th, 1925 (March 04 1925) | Event | Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio. | Calvin Coolidge Quotes |
| March 4th, 1925 (March 04 1925) | Birth | Paul Mauriat, French musician (died in 2006) | |
| March 4th, 1925 (March 04 1925) | Death | Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (born in 1854) | |
| March 4th, 1925 (March 04 1925) | Death | James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (born in 1843) | Philo Quotes |
| March 4th, 1925 (March 04 1925) | Death | John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (born in 1860) | |
| March 4th, 1915 (March 04 1915) | Birth | Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (died in 1997) | |
| March 4th, 1915 (March 04 1915) | Death | William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (born in 1856) | |
| March 4th, 1895 (March 04 1895) | Birth | Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (died in 1953) | |
| March 4th, 1895 (March 04 1895) | Birth | Shemp Howard, American comedian (Three Stooges) (died in 1955) | |
| March 4th, 1875 (March 04 1875) | Birth | Mihaly Karolyi, former Prime Minister of Hungary and President of Hungary (died in 1955) | |
| March 4th, 1865 (March 04 1865) | Event | Third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America adopted. | |
| March 4th, 1835 (March 04 1835) | Birth | John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (died in 1911) | |
| March 4th, 1805 (March 04 1805) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (born in 1725) | |
| March 4th, 1795 (March 04 1795) | Death | John Collins, American politician (born in 1717) | |
| March 4th, 1745 (March 04 1745) | Birth | Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814) | |
| March 4th, 1715 (March 04 1715) | Birth | James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (died in 1763) | |
| March 4th, 1675 (March 04 1675) | Event | John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England. | |
| March 4th, 1665 (March 04 1665) | Event | English King Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. | |
| March 4th, 1665 (March 04 1665) | Birth | Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck, Swedish soldier (died in 1694) | |
| March 4th, 1615 (March 04 1615) | Death | Hans von Aachen, German painter (born in 1552) | |
| March 4th, 1525 (March 04 1525) | Birth | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (died in 1594) | |
| March 4th, 1275 (March 04 1275) | Event | Chinese astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun. | |
| March 4th, 1215 (March 04 1215) | Event | King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III. | |
