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Famous people born on January 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 4 include Isaac Newton (1643), Gao Xingjian (1940), Louis Braille (1809) and Toni Kroos (1990). Our list below has 99 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1643 (Isaac Newton) and the most recent is 2008 (Rayssa Leal). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on January 4?
- Isaac Newton 1643 English mathematician and physicist
- Gao Xingjian 1940 Chinese novelist and playwright
- Louis Braille 1809 French organist and teacher, inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing…
- Toni Kroos 1990 German former football player
- Jacob Grimm 1785 German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist
- Brian David Josephson 1940 Welsh physicist
- May-Britt Moser 1963 Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist
- James Milner 1986 English association football player
- Till Lindemann 1963 German singer
- Ilia II of Georgia 1933 Patriarch of Georgia
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710 Italian composer, violinist and organist
- Carlos Saura 1932 Spanish photographer and film director
- Richard R. Schrock 1945 1945-, American chemist
- Katsura Tarō 1848 Japanese general and politician
- Christian Kern 1966 Austrian politician and businessman
- Julia Ormond 1965 British actress
- Daryl Sabara 1992 American actor
- Kiyotaka Matsui 1961 Japanese association football player
- Emma Mackey 1996 British-French actress and model
- Dyan Cannon 1937 American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer
- Dafne Keen 2005 Spanish-British actress
- Michael Stipe 1960 American musician
- Jaeden Martell 2003 American actor
- Günter Schabowski 1929 German politician
- Rudolf Schuster 1934 Slovak President, head of Slovak National Council and politician
- Kyrylo Budanov 1986 Chief of Staff of president Zelensky
- Julian Sands 1958 English actor
- John McLaughlin 1942 English guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Victor Wembanyama 2004 French basketball player
- Zurab Tsereteli 1934 Georgian painter, sculptor, and architect
- Hsieh Su-Wei 1986 Taiwanese female tennis player
- Benjamin Rush 1746 American physician, educator, and author
- Viktor Axelsen 1994 Danish badminton player
- Quincy Promes 1992 Dutch association football player
- André Masson 1896 French painter
- Budimir Vujačić 1964 Montenegrin association football player
- Miguel Monteiro 1980 Portuguese footballer
- Angeliño 1997 Spanish association football player
- Matt Frewer 1958 American actor
- Josef Suk 1874 Czech composer and violinist
- Peter Steele 1962 American musician
- Odilon Kossounou 2001 Ivorian association football player
- Przemysław Tytoń 1987 Polish association football player
- María Isabel López 1995 Spanish singer and actress
- Floyd Patterson 1935 American heavyweight boxer
- Wilhelm Beer 1797 Astronomer and banker
- Max Aarons 2000 English association football player
- Gianni Vattimo 1936 Italian philosopher and politician
- Jasmine Paolini 1996 Italian tennis player
- Malietoa Tanumafili II 1913 Malietoa in Samoa
- Danny Simpson 1987 English association football player
- Ross Turnbull 1985 English footballer
- Alberto Paloschi 1990 Italian footballer
- Marc Guiu Paz 2006 Spanish association football player
- Vivant Denon 1747 French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist
- August Diehl 1976 German actor
- Risako Oga 1997 Japanese association football player
- Krystian Bielik 1998 Polish footballer
- Jung Sung-ryong 1985 South Korean association football player
- Norberto Alonso 1953 Argentine association football player
- Younes Kaboul 1986 French footballer
- Greg Cipes 1980 American actor and voice actor
- Rayssa Leal 2008 Brazilian skateboarder
- Joël Bats 1957 French football player and manager
- George P. Cosmatos 1941 Greek film director and screenwriter
- Marie-Louise von Franz 1915 Swiss psychologist and scholar
- Coco Jones 1998 American actress and singer
- Bob Black 1951 American anarchist
- Liza Soberano 1998 Filipino and American actress
- Louis Lucien Bonaparte 1813 French philologist and politician
- Paul Virilio 1932 French philosopher
- Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1881 German sculptor
- Yvan Attal 1965 Israeli-born French actor and director
- Oleg Romantsev 1954 Russian footballer and manager
- Iago Falque 1990 Spanish footballer
- Charles Melton 1991 American actor
- Barbara Rush 1927 American actress
- James Bond 1900 American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy
- Labrinth 1989 British singer, rapper and record producer
- Chen Cheng 1897 Chinese politician and soldier
- Adam Webster 1995 English association football player
- Nirupa Roy 1930 Indian actress
- Julius Yego 1989 Kenyan javelin thrower
- Tigran Keosayan 1966 Russian film director, actor, and television presenter
- Alicia Garza 1981 American activist and writer
- Daniel Arzani 1999 Australian soccer player
- Beth Gibbons 1965 British singer
- Émile Cohl 1857 French caricaturist
- Igor Shuvalov 1967 Russian politician
- Yaroslav Popovych 1980 Ukrainian cyclist
- Harmony Korine 1973 American film director and screenwriter
- April Winchell 1960 American voice actress
- Baron Alexander von Bach 1813 Austrian politician
- Zhou Weihui 1973 Chinese writer
- Angelo De Donatis 1954 Italian Catholic cardinal
- Armin Zöggeler 1974 Italian luger
- Dominik Hrbatý 1978 Slovak tennis player
- Ramon Casas 1866 Spanish artist
- C. L. R. James 1901 Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 4 share the 4th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.