| 113701 | October 4 | Death | 1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970) |
| 113702 | October 4 | Death | 1989 – Graham Chapman, English actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1941) |
| 113703 | October 4 | Death | 1990 – Alyn Ainsworth, English singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1924) |
| 113704 | October 4 | Death | 1990 – Avis Bunnage, English actress (b. 1923) |
| 113705 | October 4 | Death | 1990 – Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903) |
| 113706 | October 4 | Death | 1991 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (b. 1941) |
| 113707 | October 4 | Death | 1992 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936) |
| 113708 | October 4 | Death | 1994 – Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945) |
| 113709 | October 4 | Death | 1996 – Larry Gene Bell, American murderer (b. 1949) |
| 113710 | October 4 | Death | 1997 – Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912) |
| 113711 | October 4 | Death | 1997 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game designer, created Game Boy (b. 1941) |
| 113712 | October 4 | Death | 1998 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian and academic (b. 1930) |
| 113713 | October 4 | Death | 1999 – Erik Brødreskift, Norwegian drummer (Immortal and Borknagar) (b. 1969) |
| 113714 | October 4 | Death | 1999 – Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (b. 1928) |
| 113715 | October 4 | Death | 1999 – Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (The Jazztet) (b. 1928) |
| 113716 | October 4 | Death | 2000 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 32nd Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1914) |
| 113717 | October 4 | Death | 2000 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) |
| 113718 | October 4 | Death | 2001 – Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976) |
| 113719 | October 4 | Death | 2001 – George Claydon, English actor (b. 1933) |
| 113720 | October 4 | Death | 2001 – John Collins, American guitarist (b. 1913) |
| 113721 | October 4 | Death | 2001 – Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (b. 1917) |
| 113722 | October 4 | Death | 2002 – André Delvaux, Belgian-Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
| 113723 | October 4 | Death | 2003 – Sid McMath, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912) |
| 113724 | October 4 | Death | 2004 – Gordon Cooper, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927) |
| 113725 | October 4 | Death | 2004 – Rio Diaz, Filipino model, actress, and politician (b. 1959) |
| 113726 | October 4 | Death | 2005 – Stanley K. Hathaway, American lawyer and politician, 40th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1924) |
| 113727 | October 4 | Death | 2006 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933) |
| 113728 | October 4 | Death | 2007 – Qassem Al-Nasser, Jordanian general (b. 1925) |
| 113729 | October 4 | Death | 2009 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer (b. 1928) |
| 113730 | October 4 | Death | 2009 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (b. 1918) |