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Famous people born on October 4
Short answer
Well-known people born on October 4 include Rutherford B. Hayes (1822), Susan Sarandon (1946), Buster Keaton (1895) and Charlton Heston (1923). Our list below has 110 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 4 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1585 (Anna of Tyrol) and the most recent is 2005 (Prince Emmanuel of Belgium). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, actor.
Who was born on October 4?
- Rutherford B. Hayes 1822 President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
- Susan Sarandon 1946 American actress and activist
- Buster Keaton 1895 American actor, comedian, and director
- Charlton Heston 1923 American actor
- Dakota Johnson 1989 American actress and model
- Christoph Waltz 1956 Austrian-German actor
- Anne Rice 1941 American author
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir 1942 Icelandic politician
- Alicia Silverstone 1976 American actress
- Jean-François Millet 1814 French painter
- François Guizot 1787 French historian, orator and statesman
- Kenichi Fukui 1918 Japanese chemist
- Engelbert Dollfuss 1892 Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman
- Alvin Toffler 1928 American writer, futurist and businessman
- Tomáš Rosický 1980 Czech footballer
- Liev Schreiber 1967 American actor
- Kurt Wüthrich 1938 Swiss chemist
- Ilhan Omar 1982 American politician
- Richard Sorge 1895 Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)
- Derrick Rose 1988 American basketball player
- Jorge Valdano 1955 Argentine association football player and manager
- Richard Cromwell 1626 English politician and Lord Protector
- Walther von Brauchitsch 1881 German field marshal
- Richard Rorty 1931 American philosopher
- Rupi Kaur 1992 Canadian poet
- Mauro Camoranesi 1976 Italian footballer
- Toshiya Fujita 1971 Japanese association football player
- Melissa Benoist 1988 American actress and singer
- Violeta Parra 1917 Chilean musician and folklorist
- Nikola Vlašić 1997 Croatian footballer
- Luis Sepúlveda 1949 Chilean writer
- Francesco Crispi 1818 Italian patriot and statesman
- Nobuo Kawakami 1947 Japanese association football player
- John Vincent Atanasoff 1903 American computer pioneer
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720 Italian painter
- Prudente de Morais 1841 President of Brazil
- Lena Katina 1984 Russian singer, member of the duo t.A.T.u
- Franz Jonas 1899 Seventh President of Austria
- Franz Vranitzky 1937 Austrian chancellor
- Otto Wille Kuusinen 1881 Finnish communist
- Rachael Leigh Cook 1979 American actress and model
- Chuck Hagel 1946 American soldier and politician
- Najat Vallaud-Belkacem 1977 French-Moroccan politician
- Linda McMahon 1948 United States Secretary of Education since 2025
- Eliza McCardle Johnson 1810 First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
- Caitríona Balfe 1979 Irish actress and model
- Moussa Wagué 1998 Senegalese association football player
- Jackie Collins 1937 British-American writer and actress
- Friedrich Olbricht 1888 German general
- Jeremias Gotthelf 1797 Swiss novelist
- Tchéky Karyo 1953 Turkish-French actor
- Félix Gouin 1884 French politician and jurist, temporary Prime Minister of France
- Eugene Kaspersky 1965 Russian specialist in the information security field
- Armand Assante 1949 American actor
- Hans van Breukelen 1956 Dutch footballer
- Soha Ali Khan 1978 Indian actress
- Cristiano Lucarelli 1975 Italian footballer
- Kazuki Takahashi 1961 Japanese manga artist
- Park Yeon-mi 1993 North Korean defector and conservative activist
- Duchess Marie Sophie in Bavaria 1841 Queen consort of the Two Sicilies
- Alexey Andreevich Arakcheyev 1769 Russian general/statesman under the reign of Alexander I
- Francisco Morales Bermúdez 1921 51st President of Peru
- Vicky Krieps 1983 Luxembourgian-German actress
- Wellington Rocha 1990 East Timorese association football player
- Ella Balinska 1996 English actress
- Juliette Adam 1836 French writer and salonnière
- James Lind 1716 Scottish physician and pioneer of naval hygiene
- Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear 1868 Argentine politician, former president of Argentina
- Mikolas Josef 1995 Czech singer-songwriter and former model
- Ryan Shawcross 1987 English association football player
- Dennis Gansel 1973 German film director and screenwriter
- Shote Galica 1895 Hero of Albania
- Gianna Beretta Molla 1922 Italian saint
- Atomu Tanaka 1987 Japanese association football player
- Anna of Tyrol 1585 Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia and Empress Consort of Holy Roman Empire
- Magdaléna Rybáriková 1988 Slovak female tennis player
- Bill Fagerbakke 1957 American actor and voice actor
- Frederic Remington 1861 American painter and sculptor
- Robert Wilson 1941 American stage director and playwright
- Reggie Lee 1975 Filipino actor
- Sara Forestier 1986 French actress
- Ueli Steck 1976 Swiss mountaineer and rock climber
- Ned Luke 1958 American actor
- Silvio Marzolini 1940 Argentine footballer
- Aster Vranckx 2002 Belgian footballer
- Sidney Paget 1860 English illustrator
- Willi Schulz 1938 German footballer
- Francesco Solimena 1657 Italian painter
- Marlen Khutsiev 1925 Soviet film director, screenwriter
- Ana Botín 1960 Spanish businesswoman and banker
- Joe Kennedy III 1980 United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022
- Prince Emmanuel of Belgium 2005 Younger son and third child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1835 English author
- Viktoria Rebensburg 1989 German alpine skier
- Shweta Tiwari 1980 Indian film and television actress
- Slavko Kalezić 1985 Montenegrin singer
- Olga Kuzenkova 1970 Russian athletics competitor
- Mykola Shaparenko 1998 Ukrainian association football player
- Christopher Alexander 1936 American architect and design theorist
- Kimmie Meissner 1989 American figure skater, born 1989
- Catarina Macario 1999 American soccer player
- Shontelle 1985 Barbadian singer and songwriter
- Hoyte van Hoytema 1971 Dutch-Swedish cinematographer
- Norihisa Shimizu 1976 Japanese association football player
- Takahiro Kawamura 1979 Japanese association football player
- Futoshi Ikeda 1970 Japanese association football player and manager
- Józef Beck 1894 Polish diplomat and military officer
- Sergey Shubenkov 1990 Russian athlete
- Rocío Dúrcal 1944 Spanish singer and actress
- Frans G. Bengtsson 1894 Swedish writer
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on October 4 share the 4th of October as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.