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Armand Assante has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Famous Birthdays on October 4
1949 — Armand Assante
American actor and producer
October 4 has 236 recorded notable births across history, from 1160 to 1997. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1957 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. Source
- 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique. Source
- 1363 Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang. Source
- 1993 Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. Source
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Charlton Heston won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Rutherford B. Hayes was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862.
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, often known by his nickname, "Irish" Micky Ward, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2003.
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The duo would later become Russia's most successful pop music act.
More major people born on October 4
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1923
Charlton Heston
American actor, director and gun rights activist (died 2008)
Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action…
1822
Rutherford B. Hayes
American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (died 1893)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881.
1965
Micky Ward
American boxer
George Michael Ward Jr., often known by his nickname, "Irish" Micky Ward, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2003.
1984
Lena Katina
Russian singer-songwriter
Elena Sergeyevna Katina, better known as Lena Katina, is a Russian singer who gained fame as one half of the pop/electronica duo t.A.T.u.
1892
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria (died 1934)
Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934.
1550
Charles IX of Sweden (died 1611)
Charles IX, also Carl, reigned as King of Sweden from 1604 until 1611.
1980
Sarah Fisher
American race car driver
Sarah Marie Fisher is an American retired professional race car driver who competed in the Indy Racing League and the Indianapolis 500 intermittently from 1999 to 2010.
1990
Saki
Japanese guitarist and songwriter
Saki is a Japanese heavy metal musician and songwriter, best known as guitarist of the band Mary's Blood from 2012 until their hiatus in 2022.
1942
Bernice Johnson Reagon
American singer-songwriter (died 2024)
Bernice Johnson Reagon was an American song leader, composer, professor of American history, curator at the Smithsonian, and social activist.
1910
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Turkish poet and author (died 1956)
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı was a Turkish poet. Identified with the poem "Otuz Beş Yaş", Tarancı adhered to the understanding of "art for art's sake".
1841
Prudente de Morais
Brazilian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Brazil (died 1912)
Prudente José de Morais Barros was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the third president of Brazil from 1894 to 1898.
1991
Leigh-Anne Pinnock
English singer and songwriter
Leigh-Anne Gray is an English singer and actress. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix, which was formed on and won the eighth series of The X Factor.
1979
Caitríona Balfe
Irish actress
Caitríona Mary Balfe is an Irish actress and former model. She began her career as a fashion model in Paris at age 18, working with fashion houses such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, before transitioning to acting a…
1910
Frankie Crosetti
American baseball player and coach (died 2002)
Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti, nicknamed "The Crow", was an American baseball player. From 1932 to 1948, he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the New York Yankees at shortstop.
1914
Jim Cairns
Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (died 2003)
James Ford Cairns was an Australian politician who was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Treasurer and the fourth deputy prime minister of Australia, both in the Whitlam…
1944
John McFall
Baron McFall of Alcluith, Scottish educator and politician
John Francis McFall, Baron McFall of Alcluith,, is a Scottish politician and life peer who served as Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the House of Lords, from 2021 to 2026.
1988
Evgeni Krasnopolski
Israeli figure skater
Evgeni Krasnopolski is a Ukrainian-born Israeli retired pair skater. Krasnopolski and Andrea Davidovich were the first pair representing Israel to qualify for Israel at the 2014 Olympics. They finished 15th in Sochi.
1934
Sam Huff
American football player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)
Robert Lee "Sam" Huff was an American professional football player whose frequent battles against Cleveland Browns star fullback Jim Brown made him the first member of the defense to gain widespread prominence in the…
1890
Alan L. Hart
American physician and author (died 1962)
Alan L. Hart was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist.