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Famous people born on December 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on December 4 include Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Francisco Franco (1892), Thomas Carlyle (1795) and Jeff Bridges (1949). Our list below has 77 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1595 (Jean Chapelain) and the most recent is 2003 (Ousmane Diomande). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, politician.
Who was born on December 4?
- Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 Austrian poet and writer
- Francisco Franco 1892 Spanish general and dictator
- Thomas Carlyle 1795 Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher
- Jeff Bridges 1949 American actor
- Tyra Banks 1973 American television personality, producer, and former model
- Samuel Butler 1835 English novelist and critic
- Diogo Jota 1996 Portuguese footballer
- Sergei Bubka 1963 Ukrainian pole vaulter
- Gérard Philipe 1922 French actor
- Marisa Tomei 1964 American actress
- Alexander Litvinenko 1962 Ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel
- Albert Bandura 1925 Canadian psychologist
- Crazy Horse 1849 Oglala Sioux chief
- R. Venkataraman 1910 President of India from 1987 to 1992
- Sertab Erener 1964 Turkish singer
- Edith Cavell 1865 British nurse
- Alfred Hershey 1908 American chemist
- Nick Vujicic 1982 Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
- Roh Tae-woo 1932 President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993
- Kim Seok-jin 1992 South Korean singer
- Inder Kumar Gujral 1919 Prime Minister of India
- Errico Malatesta 1853 Anarchist
- Eric S. Raymond 1957 American programmer & open source advocate
- Leandro Trossard 1994 Belgian association football player
- Shigeo Sugimoto 1926 Japanese association football player
- Fred Ramsdell 1960 American immunologist
- Philip Hammond 1955 British politician
- Tony Todd 1954 American actor
- Jean-Marie Pfaff 1953 Belgian association football player and manager
- Deanna Durbin 1921 Canadian singer and actress
- Roberta Bondar 1945 Canadian astronaut
- Erwin von Witzleben 1881 German field marshal
- Wilhelm Tempel 1821 German astronomer
- Emílio Garrastazu Médici 1905 Brazilian politician, president of Brazil
- Ulf Kirsten 1965 German footballer
- Nikoloz Baratashvili 1817 Georgian poet
- Ann Linde 1961 Swedish politician
- Robert Adler 1913 American physicist and inventor
- Tahith Chong 1999 Curaçaoan association football player
- Miwa Yonetsu 1979 Japanese association football player
- Kevin Sussman 1970 American actor
- Jules Armand Dufaure 1798 French politician and lawyer
- Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain 1711 Queen consort of Spain
- Sevil Shhaideh 1964 Romanian politician
- Dina Asher-Smith 1995 British sprinter
- Krista Siegfrids 1985 Finnish singer
- Horst Buchholz 1933 German actor
- Patricia Wettig 1951 American actress
- Fred Armisen 1966 American comedian, actor and musician
- Jean Chapelain 1595 French poet and critic
- Maryam Rajavi 1953 Iranian opposition leader
- Ibtihaj Muhammad 1985 American fencer
- Gemma Jones 1942 British actress
- Álex de la Iglesia 1965 Spanish film director and producer
- Zeki Amdouni 2000 Swiss association football player
- William Labov 1927 American linguist
- Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti 1735 Austrian naturalist
- Emil Aarestrup 1800 Danish poet and physician
- Ferry Corsten 1973 Dutch trance producer and DJ
- Étienne Mourrut 1939 French politician
- Anke Huber 1974 German tennis player
- Henri Grégoire 1750 French bishop
- Paul McGrath 1959 Irish footballer
- Gae Aulenti 1927 Italian architect and designer
- Ousmane Diomande 2003 Ivorian footballer
- Guillermo Amor 1967 Spanish former footballer and coach
- George Tupou I 1797 Monarch of Tonga
- Jim Hall 1930 American jazz guitarist, composer
- Max Holloway 1991 American mixed martial artist
- Dennis Wilson 1944 American musician
- Mark Robson 1913 Canadian film director, producer, and editor
- David Cotterill 1987 Welsh association football player
- Feng Youlan 1895 Chinese philosopher and historian
- André Campra 1660 French composer and conductor
- Frances Power Cobbe 1822 Irish writer, philosopher, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading…
- Liu Bocheng 1892 Marshal of the People's Republic of China
- Lukman Haruna 1990 Nigerian footballer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 4 share the 4th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.