About the day » Sunday May 4, 2008Calender converter

• Agatha Pankras (79), Alkmaar
• Annet Wolters (75), Tongeren, België
• Cornelis Albertus HEERINGS (81), Den Haag (NL/ZH)
• Benardus Johannes Nagel (76), Amsterdam
• Dale Alton Weiler (93), Waterloo (Black Hawk County) (Iowa)
• Cornelia SLOTTJE (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Hensbergen (81), Eemnes
• Edward A. Swaby (57)
• Antonius Hendrikus Petrus Hendriks (85), Rijkevoort, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Cornelia Pancras (79), Alkmaar

• 1990 » Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver
• 1990 » Irina Falconi, American tennis player
• 1990 » Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
• 1992 » Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
• 1993 » Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1994 » Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist
• 1997 » Max King, Australian rugby league player

• 2004 » David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery (b. 1965)
• 2005 » David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (b. 1918)
• 2009 » Dom DeLuise, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1933)
• 2011 » Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964)
• 2012 » Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
• 2013 » Otis R. Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
• March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
• May 12 » U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
• July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
• August 1 » The Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway begins operation as the fastest commuter rail system in the world.
• August 8 » A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing eight people and injuring 64 others.
• September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa

The temperature on May 4, 2008 was between 8.8 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.