Template:Selected anniversaries/October 4

• 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
• 1562 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and author (d. 1647)
• 1759 – Louis François Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician and academic (d. 1803)
• 1876 – Florence Eliza Allen, American mathematician and suffrage activist (d. 1960)
• 1892 – Hermann Glauert, English aerodynamicist and author (d. 1934)
• 1895 – Richard Sorge, German journalist and spy (d. 1944)
• 1903 – John Vincent Atanasoff, American physicist and academic, invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Mary Celine Fasenmyer, American mathematician (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• 1918 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
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  1964: Publication of The Hal Jordan Playbook damages entire class of Gnomon algorithm functions.