February 4
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Art and culture
- 1857 - Les Fleurs du mal - Baudelaire sends some of the poems to his Belgian publisher Auguste Poulet-Malassis
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Births
- 1842 - Georg Brandes, Danish critic and scholar (d. 1927)
- 1849 - Jean Richepin, French poet (d. 1926)
- 1856 - Paul Napoléon Roinard, French poet (Cantique des Cantiques) (d. 1930)
- 1900 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (d. 1977)
- 1921 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Russell Hoban, American writer (d. 2011)
- 1938 - Martin Greif, American writer and historian (d. 1996)
- 1940 - George Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2017)
- 1948 - Alice Cooper, American musician
- 1953 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
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Deaths
- 1498 - Antonio del Pollaiolo Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith (b. 1429/1433)
- 1615 – Giambattista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath, playwright (b. 1535)
- 1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
- 1915 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon, British Victorian era novelist (b. 1837)
- 1947 - Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 - February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer (b. 1885)
- 1954 - Olga Khokhlova, Ukrainian-Russian dancer and first wife of Pablo Picasso(b. 1891)
- 1957 - Walter Van Beirendonck, Flemish fashion designer
- 1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
- 1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
- 1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
- 2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
- 2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player (b. 1932)
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