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Famous people born on May 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on May 4 include Audrey Hepburn (1929), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825) and Cesc Fàbregas (1987). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives May 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1654 (Kangxi Emperor) and the most recent is 2007 (Kendry Páez). The most common fields on this date: football, politician, actress.
Who was born on May 4?
- Audrey Hepburn 1929 British actress
- Hosni Mubarak 1928 President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
- Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 British biologist and comparative anatomist
- Cesc Fàbregas 1987 Spanish professional footballer player and manager
- Amos Oz 1939 Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
- Kangxi Emperor 1654 3rd Emperor of the Qing dynasty (r. 1661–1722)
- Werner Faymann 1960 Austrian politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social…
- Fernandinho 1985 Brazilian footballer
- Ronald Golias 1929 Brazilian actor and comedian
- Keith Haring 1958 American artist and social activist
- Masashi Oguro 1980 Japanese association football player and manager
- Mike Dirnt 1972 American musician
- Radja Nainggolan 1988 Belgian association football player
- Kakuei Tanaka 1918 Japanese politician
- George Tupou V of Tonga 1948 King of Tonga
- Bartolomeo Cristofori 1655 Italian maker of musical instruments
- Yasuhiro Hato 1976 Japanese association football player
- Ruth Negga 1981 Ethiopian-Irish actress
- Jorge Lorenzo 1987 Spanish professional motorcycle road racer
- William Kingdon Clifford 1845 English mathematician and philosopher
- Richard Jenkins 1947 American actor
- Wang Jingwei 1883 Chinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime
- Kenan Yıldız 2005 Turkish association football player
- Frederic Edwin Church 1826 American landscape painter
- Horace Mann 1796 American politician
- Vitaliy Parakhnevych 1969 Tajikistani footballer
- Trisha Krishnan 1983 Indian actress
- Joan Garcia 2001 Spanish footballer
- Muharrem İnce 1964 Turkish physics teacher and politician
- Dick Dale 1937 American surf rock guitarist
- Ibrahim Mohamed Solih 1964 Former President of the Maldives
- Bruno Taut 1880 German architect
- Tatiana Samoilova 1934 Soviet and Russian actress
- Jane Jacobs 1916 American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist
- Noriko Baba 1977 Japanese association football player
- Rory McIlroy 1989 Northern Irish professional golfer
- Alice Liddell 1852 English woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland"
- Robin Cook 1940 American novelist, ophthalmologist, aquanaut
- Lance Bass 1979 American singer, dancer, actor, and film and television producer
- François Gérard 1770 French painter
- Abdou Diallo 1996 French-Senegalese footballer
- Ruslan Malinovskyi 1993 Ukrainian footballer
- Jackie Jackson 1951 American singer
- Nicolas Seiwald 2001 Austrian association football player
- Will Arnett 1970 Canadian and American actor and comedian
- Graham Swift 1949 English writer
- Jean-Charles de Borda 1733 French scientist, political advisor and sailor
- Leonid Slutsky 1971 Russian football coach
- Ruth First 1925 South African politician
- Louis Jacques Thénard 1777 French chemist
- Ulrike Meyfarth 1956 German former high jumper
- Ignacio Camacho 1990 Spanish footballer
- Éric Djemba-Djemba 1981 Cameroonian and French footballer
- Gérard Jugnot 1951 French actor and cinematographer
- Giannino Castiglioni 1884 Italian sculptor and painter
- Anghel Iordănescu 1950 Romanian footballer and manager
- Maynard Ferguson 1928 Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
- Kendry Páez 2007 Ecuadorian footballer
- Wolfgang von Trips 1928 German racing driver
- Tyagaraja 1767 Indian composer of Carnatic music
- Mariano Pernía 1977 Spanish-Argentinian footballer and racing driver
- Oleksandr Abramenko 1988 Ukrainian freestyle skier
- Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark 1913 Youngest child of King Constantine I of Greece and Sophia of Prussia
- Alexander Gould 1994 American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and screenwriter
- Ashley Rickards 1992 American actress
- Ron Carter 1937 American jazz bassist, cellist, and composer
- José Sanfilippo 1935 Argentine footballer
- Georgi Asparuhov 1943 Bulgarian footballer
- René Mayer 1895 French politician, Prime Minister of France
- Jenő Buzánszky 1925 Hungarian footballer
- Med Hondo 1935 Mauritanian actor
- Luis Herrera Campins 1925 President of Venezuela
- Gennadi Rozhdestvensky 1931 Russian conductor and composer
- Inger Nilsson 1959 Swedish actress and singer
- Randy Travis 1959 American country singer
- William Hickling Prescott 1796 American historian and Hispanist
- Russi Taylor 1944 American voice actress
- John Marshall Watson 1946 British racecar driver
- Émile Gallé 1846 French glass artist and cabinetmaker
- Daniel Siebert 1984 German association football referee
- Elly Schlein 1985 Italian politician
- Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux 1718 Swiss astronomer
- Igor Bišćan 1978 Croatian association football manager
- Françoise Marie de Bourbon 1677 French duchess, princess
- Éric Vuillard 1968 French writer, film director and screenwriter
- Dániel Gyurta 1989 Hungarian breaststroke swimmer
- Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro 1985 Japanese association football player
- Rikarudo Higa 1973 Japanese association football player
- Katherine Jackson 1930 Matriarch of the Jackson musical family
- Leonid Mandelstam 1879 Soviet physicist
- Doug Jones 1954 United States Senator from Alabama
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on May 4 share the 4th of May as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.