* Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington ( 1849 – 1934 ), British soldier

** James ( Jaime ), 4th Duke of Braganza and 2nd Duke of Guimarães.

* George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough ( 1739 – 1817 ), elder son of the 3rd Duke

* George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough ( 1766 – 1840 ), elder son of the 4th Duke

* 1572 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.

* 1536 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician ( d. 1572 )

* 1710 – John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, English politician ( d. 1771 )

* 1571 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is arrested for his role in the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I of England and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Image: 4thDukeOfArgyll. jpg | John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll ( 1767 )

* Rupert Davies as Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

* Andrea Esterhazy as General Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond

* October 28 – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort ( b. 1709 )

* January 29 – Tomislav II of Croatia, ( Aimone 4th Duke of Aosta ), king ( b. 1900 )

* January 16 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.

* June 2 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( b. 1536 )

* October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1720 )

* January 14 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk ( b. 1444 )

** William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland, politician ( b. 1768 )

* March 7 – A Spanish-led expedition, commanded by Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, overruns the Tunisian island of Djerba.

* December 5 – George Beauclerk, 4th Duke of St Albans ( d. 1787 )

** Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset ( executed ) ( b. 1438 )

** Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Spanish military leader ( d. 1583 )

About the 4th century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation ; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered.

The conflict in the 4th century had seen Arian and Nicene factions struggling for control of the Church.

Running the courts was one of the major expenses of the Athenian state and there were moments of financial crisis in the 4th century when the courts, at least for private suits, had to be suspended.

Competence does not seem to have been the main issue, but rather, at least in the 4th century BC, whether they were loyal democrats or had oligarchic tendencies.

By the 4th century AD artists had started debating in writing over the proper goals of art as well.

The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.

In the 4th century BC Plato knew oreichalkos as rare and nearly as valuable as gold and Pliny describes how aurichalcum had come from Cypriot ore deposits which had been exhausted by the 1st century AD.

It grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the end of the 4th century had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, replacing other forms of religion practiced under Roman rule.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

The 1925 4th Congress had 20 delegates representing 994 members ; then real growth kicked in.

The gunboats were in support at the Battle of Omdurman, where Beatty made the acquaintance of Winston Churchill who had become a cavalry officer in Beatty's father's old regiment, the 4th Hussars, and had there learnt his family history.

The writing system had two historical phases: the archaic from the 7th to 5th century BC, which used the early Greek alphabet, and the later from the 4th to 1st century BC, which modified some of the letters.

Between the 4th and 16th centuries, the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about March 21 in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March.

The 1st Armoured had taken over 4th and 22nd Armoured Brigades from 7th Armoured Division which by this time had only three tank regiments between them.

Urban life had generally grown less intense by the fourth quarter of the 4th century, and coins minted between 378 and 388 are very rare, indicating a likely combination of economic decline, diminishing numbers of troops, and problems with the payment of soldiers and officials.

If Hezekiah expected the Egyptians to come to his aid, they did not come, and Hezekiah had to face the invasion of Judah by Sennacherib () in the 4th year of Sennacherib ( 701 BC ).

" Thus, by the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon, and by the 5th century the East, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

In the last two centuries of Sasanian rule, Aria ( Herāt ) had great strategic importance in the endless wars between the Sasanians, the Chionites and the Hephthalites who had been settled in modern northern Afghanistan since the late 4th century.

Alexander, between 23 and 30 March 1918, had to assume command of the 4th Guards Brigade, during the British retreat.

Both Catholicism, in 1677, and Eastern Orthodoxy have condemned the belief that Mary was virginally conceived, which had been a belief surfacing occasionally since the 4th century.