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Famous people born on April 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on April 4 include Maya Angelou (1928), Robert Downey Jr. (1965), Heath Ledger (1979) and Andrei Tarkovsky (1932). Our list below has 89 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1646 (Antoine Galland) and the most recent is 2003 (Harvey Elliott). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.
Who was born on April 4?
- Maya Angelou 1928 American poet, author, and civil rights activist
- Robert Downey Jr. 1965 American actor
- Heath Ledger 1979 Australian actor
- Andrei Tarkovsky 1932 Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre…
- Marguerite Duras 1914 French writer and film director
- Sami Khedira 1987 German association football player
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952 Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
- Isoroku Yamamoto 1884 Japanese Marshal Admiral
- Anthony Perkins 1932 American actor
- Gary Moore 1952 Northern Irish musician
- Muddy Waters 1913 American blues musician
- Bettina von Arnim 1785 German writer and novelist
- Comte de Lautréamont 1846 Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse
- Manabu Saito 1990 Japanese association football player
- Remy de Gourmont 1858 French writer
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit 1945 German/French journalist and politician
- Jamie Lynn Spears 1991 American actress and singer
- Thomas Mayne Reid 1818 American writer
- Masakuni Yamamoto 1958 Japanese association football player and manager
- Maria II of Portugal 1819 Queen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- Emerson 1976 Brazilian footballer
- Shojiro Sugimura 1905 Japanese association football player
- Anne Sullivan 1866 American teacher
- Edith Södergran 1892 Finland Swedish poet and writer
- Yasuo Haruyama 1906 Japanese association football player
- Maurice de Vlaminck 1876 French Fauvist and Cubist painter
- Aiden McGeady 1986 Irish association football player
- David Cross 1964 American stand-up comedian and actor
- Hugh Masekela 1939 South African jazz trumpeter
- Dan Simmons 1948 American novelist
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth 1892 German astronomer
- Parveen Babi 1954 Indian actress
- Mahamat Déby 1984 Military leader of Chad since 2021
- Harvey Elliott 2003 English association football player
- Sarah Gadon 1987 Canadian actress
- Graham Norton 1963 Irish comedian, actor and television host
- Amanda Righetti 1983 American actress
- Natasha Lyonne 1979 American actress
- Elmer Bernstein 1922 American composer and conductor
- Shing-Tung Yau 1949 American mathematician from Hong Kong
- Antoine Galland 1646 French orientalist, numismatist and translator
- Barthélemy Boganda 1910 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory
- Craig T. Nelson 1944 American actor and comedian
- Barry Pepper 1970 Canadian actor
- Christine Lahti 1950 American actress and director
- Branco 1964 Brazilian footballer and manager
- Vurnon Anita 1989 Curaçao association football player
- Aimo Cajander 1879 Finnish forest scientist and politician
- David Blaine 1973 American illusionist and extreme performer
- Lisa Ray 1972 Canadian actress
- Rudy Fernández 1985 Spanish basketball player
- James Roday Rodriguez 1976 American actor
- William J. Burns 1956 American diplomat
- Édouard Lucas 1842 French mathematician
- Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem 1952 Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Nina Kraljić 1992 Croatian singer
- Serge Dassault 1925 French businessman and politician
- Hans-Jürgen von Arnim 1889 German general
- Dorothea Dix 1802 American author and social reformer
- Eric André 1983 American comedian and actor
- Jill Scott 1972 American singer
- Angelo Stiller 2001 German footballer
- Benjamin Peirce 1809 American mathematician
- Richard Lugar 1932 American politician
- Nathan Trent 1992 Austrian singer
- Peter Vaughan 1923 British actor
- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 1688 French astronomer
- Rosemarie Ackermann 1952 German former high jumper
- Amedeo Biavati 1915 Italian footballer
- Hans Richter 1843 Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
- Ben Gordon 1983 British-American basketball player
- Dettmar Cramer 1925 German football manager
- Nadine Keßler 1988 German soccer player
- Nachman of Breslov 1772 Hasidic rabbi
- Dudi Sela 1985 Israeli tennis player
- McDonald Mariga 1987 Kenyan footballer and politician
- Étienne Maurice Gérard 1773 Marshal of France
- Ali Babacan 1967 Turkish politician
- Alexa Nikolas 1992 American actress
- Lajos Portisch 1937 Hungarian chess player
- Satoshi Furukawa 1964 Japanese astronaut
- Thaddeus Stevens 1792 American statesman
- Zénobe Gramme 1826 Belgian electrical engineer and inventor
- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon 1758 French painter
- Alexander Tettey 1986 Norwegian association football player
- Ignatius IV of Antioch 1920 Patriarch of Antioch
- Gong Hyo-jin 1980 South Korean actress
- Lorraine Toussaint 1960 Trinidadian actress
- Mohammed Basindawa 1935 Yemeni politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 4 share the 4th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.