Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/November 4
- 1652 – Death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
- 1698 – Death of Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
- 1765 – Birth of Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
- 1890 – City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell
- 1908 – Birth of Józef Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1984 – Dell Computers is founded as PC's Limited
- 1986 – Death of Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)