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Famous people born on August 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on August 4 include Barack Obama (1961), Louis Armstrong (1901), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792) and Knut Hamsun (1859). Our list below has 93 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1687 (John William Friso, Prince of Orange) and the most recent is 2004 (Pan Zhanle). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actor.
Who was born on August 4?
- Barack Obama 1961 44th President of the United States
- Louis Armstrong 1901 American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
- Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 British Romantic poet
- Knut Hamsun 1859 Norwegian novelist
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 1981 Member of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero 1960 Spanish politician
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900 Queen consort of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
- William Rowan Hamilton 1805 Irish mathematician and astronomer
- Pumpuang Duangjan 1961 Thai female singer
- Fredrik Reinfeldt 1965 Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
- Greta Gerwig 1983 American actress and filmmaker
- Billy Bob Thornton 1955 American actor, filmmaker, and musician
- Jeff Gordon 1971 American racing driver
- Antonio Valencia 1985 Portughez association football player
- Raoul Wallenberg 1912 Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat and humanitarian
- Witold Gombrowicz 1904 Polish writer
- Antonio Tajani 1953 Italian politician
- Mark Milligan 1985 Australian association football player
- John Venn 1834 British logician and philosopher
- Giorgio Parisi 1948 Italian physicist
- Meg Whitman 1956 American business executive
- Muqtada al-Sadr 1974 Iraqi Shia scholar, politician and militia leader
- Giovanni Di Lorenzo 1993 Italian association football player
- Hiroyuki Usui 1953 Japanese association football player
- Frances Allen 1932 American computer scientist
- Audrey Azoulay 1972 French politician
- Ali Sistani 1930 Iranian cleric
- Moya Brennan 1952 Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
- Daniel Dae Kim 1968 South Korean-American actor
- Cole Sprouse 1992 American actor
- Kishore Kumar 1929 Indian singer and actor
- Edvaldo Oliveira Chaves 1958 Brazilian association football player and manager
- Maria Zankovetska 1854 Ukrainian actress
- Arturo Umberto Illia 1900 President of Argentina
- Helen Thomas 1920 American author and journalist
- Jojo Moyes 1969 British novelist and journalist
- Don S. Davis 1942 American character actor
- Anna Sui 1964 American fashion designer
- Dennis Lehane 1965 American novelist
- Hakeem Jeffries 1970 American politician
- Werner von Fritsch 1880 German general
- Dylan Sprouse 1992 American actor
- Jessica Mauboy 1989 Australian singer, songwriter and actress
- Marcos 1973 Brazilian association football player
- Walter Pater 1839 English writer, critic and essayist
- Nana Ichise 1997 Japanese association football player
- Nabi Tajima 1900 Japanese supercentenarian
- Marie José of Belgium 1906 Queen Consort of Italy
- Timur Safin 1992 Russian fencer
- Kily González 1974 Argentine footballer and manager
- Maurice Richard 1921 Canadian ice hockey player
- Frederik Rønnow 1992 Danish association football player
- Klaus Schulze 1947 German composer and musician
- Alberto Gonzales 1955 80th United States Attorney General
- Keith Ellison 1963 American politician
- Luca Antonini 1982 Italian footballer
- David Lange 1942 Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989
- Carlos Luz 1894 19th President of Brazil
- Anita Page 1910 American actress
- Izet Hajrović 1991 Bosnian footballer
- Marek Heinz 1977 Czech footballer
- Phil Younghusband 1987 Filipino footballer
- Jutta Urpilainen 1975 Finnish politician
- Kim Reynolds 1959 Governor of Iowa since 2017
- Nikos Liberopoulos 1975 Greek footballer
- Arbaaz Khan 1967 Indian actor, film producer and director
- Luís Boa Morte 1977 Portuguese footballer
- Alexis Ruano Delgado 1985 Spanish footballer
- Saido Berahino 1993 Burundian association football player
- Pan Zhanle 2004 Chinese swimmer
- Béla Balázs 1884 Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet
- Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge 1977 Politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Jang Keun-suk 1987 South Korean actor, singer and model
- John William Friso, Prince of Orange 1687 Stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen
- Wang Hao 1989 Chinese chess player
- Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans 1703 Duke of Orléans, grandson of Louis XIV
- Louis Vuitton 1821 French fashion designer and businessman
- Henri Cornet 1884 French racing cyclist
- Natalia Lavrova 1984 Olympic rhythmic gymnast
- Oleg Ivanov 1986 Russian association football player
- Abigail Spencer 1981 American actress
- Mohamed Elyounoussi 1994 Association football player
- Andris Bērziņš 1951 Prime Minister of Latvia
- Jackson Porozo 2000 Ecuadorian association football player
- John Wark 1957 Scottish association football player
- Richard Belzer 1944 American actor and comedian
- Mary Decker 1958 American athletics competitor, middle distance runner, long distance runner
- Saunders Mac Lane 1909 American mathematician
- Kelley O'Hara 1988 American soccer player
- Joseph Paul-Boncour 1873 French politician and diplomat
- Hubert Ingraham 1947 Prime Minister of the Bahamas
- Predrag Đorđević 1972 Serbian footballer
- Milan Stojadinović 1888 Serbian politician
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 4 share the 4th of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.