| 137311 | December 4 | Death | 1340 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop (b. 1292) |
| 137312 | December 4 | Death | 1459 – Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein (b. 1401) |
| 137313 | December 4 | Death | 1576 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian-Slovak mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514) |
| 137314 | December 4 | Death | 1585 – John Willock, Scottish minister and reformer (b. 1515) |
| 137315 | December 4 | Death | 1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560) |
| 137316 | December 4 | Death | 1642 – Cardinal Richelieu, French bishop (b. 1585) |
| 137317 | December 4 | Death | 1649 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (b. 1585) |
| 137318 | December 4 | Death | 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and author (b. 1588) |
| 137319 | December 4 | Death | 1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616) |
| 137320 | December 4 | Death | 1696 – Empress Meishō of Japan (b. 1624) |
| 137321 | December 4 | Death | 1732 – John Gay, English poet and playwright (b. 1685) |
| 137322 | December 4 | Death | 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1737) |
| 137323 | December 4 | Death | 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) |
| 137324 | December 4 | Death | 1841 – David Daniel Davis, Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777) |
| 137325 | December 4 | Death | 1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (b. 1783) |
| 137326 | December 4 | Death | 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820) |
| 137327 | December 4 | Death | 1897 – Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834) |
| 137328 | December 4 | Death | 1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851) |
| 137329 | December 4 | Death | 1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861) |
| 137330 | December 4 | Death | 1933 – Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and translator (b. 1868) |
| 137331 | December 4 | Death | 1935 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864) |
| 137332 | December 4 | Death | 1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850) |
| 137333 | December 4 | Death | 1938 – Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903) |
| 137334 | December 4 | Death | 1942 – Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of Estonia (b. 1885) |
| 137335 | December 4 | Death | 1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879) |
| 137336 | December 4 | Death | 1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) |
| 137337 | December 4 | Death | 1948 – Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883) |
| 137338 | December 4 | Death | 1955 – József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1881) |
| 137339 | December 4 | Death | 1967 – Bert Lahr, American actor and singer (b. 1895) |
| 137340 | December 4 | Death | 1969 – Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948) |