Famous people died in 4 December

Irene Dunne was an American stage, film and television actress and singer

Thomas Hunt Morgan was a Nobel Prize winning American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist

Charles Robert Richet was a French physiologist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine’ in 1913

John Tyndall was an Irish physicist

Armand Jean du Plessis, commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French noble, statesman and clergyman

John Gay was an English poet best known for his ballad opera, ‘The Beggar’s Opera’

Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century

Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet

Thomas Hobbes was popular and controversial English philosopher

Hannah Arendt was a popular political philosopher and theorist