4-William

Seat 4-William H. Chadwick

* March 4-William Carlos Williams, writer

* May 4-William Murdoch, poet ( born 1823 )

* November 4-William Ritchie Sorley, philosopher (+ 1935 )

* August 4-William Henry Hudson, naturalist and author ( died 1922 )

* February 4-William Harrison Ainsworth, novelist (+ 1882 )

* October 4-William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson.

* December 4-William Drummond of Hawthornden, poet ( born 1585 )

* June 4-William Fry's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia.

* December 4-William Sturgeon ( born 1783 ), inventor.

* May 4-William Murdoch, poet ( b. 1823 )

* May 4-William Froude ( born 1810 ), hydrodynamicist.

* May 4-William Kingdon Clifford ( died 1879 ), geometer.

* August 4-William Oliver, Cornish-born English physician ( died 1764 )

* 4-William I. Mott ( 1997, 1998, 2010, 2011 )

* June 4-William Edward Frost, English painter ( b. 1810 )

* March 4-William F. Harnden, founder of Harnden and Company, becomes the first person to send an express shipment by rail when he ships an express package from Boston, Massachusetts, to Providence, Rhode Island, on the Boston and Providence Rail Road.