deaths
January 4, 1967
Donald Campbell, English racing driver and world speed record holder (born 1921)

Donald Campbell
Donald Malcolm Campbell, was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England.
January 4
January 4 is the fourth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 361 days remain until the end of the year.