Births on 4 April
2000s
Lil Mabu
2005
American rapper (born 2005)
Harvey Elliott
2003
English footballer (born 2003)
Anzor Alem
2001
Congolese actor and singer (born 2001)
Jalen Carter
2001
American football player (born 2001)
Angelo Stiller
2001
German footballer (born 2001)
1900s
Austin Mahone
1996
American singer (born 1996)
Shunsuke Nishikawa
1994
Japanese actor (born 1994)
Risako Sugaya
1994
Japanese singer and actress
Samir Carruthers
1993
English footballer (born 1993)
David Soria
1993
Spanish footballer
Frank Kaminsky
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Lucy May Barker
1992
British actress
Ricky Dillon
1992
American YouTuber
Yui Koike
1991
Japanese actress
Asia Muhammad
1991
American tennis player (born 1991)
Justin O'Neill
1991
Australia international rugby league footballer
Martín Pérez (baseball)
1991
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)
Jamie Lynn Spears
1991
American actress and singer (born 1991)
Marlon Stöckinger
1991
Filipino racing driver (born 1991)
Elizabeth Booker Houston
1990
American lawyer, public health professional, and comedian
Vurnon Anita
1989
Curaçaoan footballer (born 1989)
Steven Finn
1989
English cricketer
Chris Herd
1989
Australian soccer player
Jens Toornstra
1989
Dutch footballer
Frank Fielding
1988
English footballer (born 1988)
Sami Khedira
1987
German footballer (born 1987)
McDonald Mariga
1987
Kenyan footballer (born 1987)
Cameron Maybin
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Markos Vellidis
1987
Greek former footballer
Sarah Gadon
1987
Canadian actress (born 1987)
Eunhyuk
1986
South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and television personality
Cam Barker
1986
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)
Maurice Manificat
1986
French cross-country skier (born 1986)
Aiden McGeady
1986
Irish footballer (born 1986)
Alexander Tettey
1986
Ghanaian-born Norwegian footballer (born 1986)
Rudy Fernández (basketball)
1985
Spanish basketball player (born 1985)
Dudi Sela
1985
Israeli tennis player (born 1985)
Ricardo Vilar
1985
Brazilian footballer
Sean May
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Arkady Vyatchanin
1984
Russian-Serbian swimmer (born 1984)
Evgeny Artyukhin
1983
Russian ice hockey player
Eric André
1983
American comedian and actor (born 1983)
Ben Gordon
1983
British-American basketball player (born 1983)
Doug Lynch (ice hockey)
1983
Canadian ice hockey player
Natalie Pike
1983
British model and presenter (born 1983)
Amanda Righetti
1983
American actress
Justin Cook
1982
American voice actor
Currensy
1981
American rapper (born 1981)
Eduardo Carloto
1981
Brazilian footballer (born 1981)
Casey Daigle
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Anna Pyatykh
1981
Russian triple jumper (born 1981)
Ned Vizzini
1981
American writer
Johnny Borrell
1980
English musician (born 1980)
Trevor Moore (comedian)
1980
American comedian and actor (1980–2021)
Eric Steinbach
1980
American football player (born 1980)
Björn Wirdheim
1980
Swedish professional racing driver (born 1980)
Heath Ledger
1979
Australian actor (1979–2008)
Roberto Luongo
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Natasha Lyonne
1979
American actress, producer, writer, and director (born 1979)
Andy McKee
1979
American musician (born 1979)
Maksim Opalev
1979
Russian canoeist
Jason Ellison
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Alan Mahon
1978
Irish footballer
Stephan Bonnar
1977
American mixed martial artist (1977–2022)
Keith Bulluck
1977
American football player (born 1977)
Adam Dutkiewicz
1977
American musician and record producer
Stephen Mulhern
1977
English entertainer (born 1977)
Omarr Smith
1977
American football player and coach (born 1977)
Nathan Blacklock
1976
Australia international rugby league footballer
Sébastien Enjolras
1976
French racing driver
Emerson (footballer, born 1976)
1976
Brazilian footballer
James Roday Rodriguez
1976
American actor (born 1976)
Delphine Arnault
1975
French businesswoman (born 1975)
Thobias Fredriksson
1975
Swedish cross-country skier
Joyce Giraud
1975
Puerto Rican actress and beauty pageant winner
Pamela Ribon
1975
American screenwriter, author and actress
Miranda Lee Richards
1975
American singer-songwriter
Scott Rolen
1975
American baseball player (born 1975)
Kevin Weekes
1975
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1975)
Chris Banks (American football)
1973
American football player (1973–2014)
David Blaine
1973
American illusionist and extreme performer
Loris Capirossi
1973
Italian motorcycle racer
Peter Hoekstra (footballer)
1973
Dutch footballer
Chris McCormack (triathlete)
1973
Australian triathlete (born 1973)
Kelly Price
1973
American singer (born 1973)
Jim Dymock
1972
Australia & Tonga international rugby league footballer and coach
Martin Rundkvist
1972
Swedish archaeologist (born 1972)
Jill Scott (singer)
1972
American singer (born 1972)
Magnus Sveningsson
1972
Swedish musician
Yanic Perreault
1971
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1971)
Malik Yusef
1971
American spoken word poet, rapper and producer from Chicago
John Zandig
1971
American professional wrestler
Georgios Amanatidis
1970
Greek footballer
Dimitris Basis
1970
Musical artist
Greg Garcia (producer)
1970
American television writer, producer and director (born 1970)
Barry Pepper
1970
Canadian-American actor
Jason Stoltenberg
1970
Australian tennis player
Josh Todd (musician)
1970
American singer
Yelena Yelesina
1970
Soviet/Russian high jumper
Piotr Anderszewski
1969
Polish pianist and composer (born 1969)
Karren Brady
1969
British businesswoman and life peer (born 1969)
Jesús Rollán
1968
Spanish water polo player (1968–2006)
Edith Masai
1967
Kenyan long-distance runner
George Mavrotas
1967
Greek water polo player
Nancy McKeon
1966
American actress (b. 1966)
Mike Starr (musician)
1966
American bassist (1966–2011)
Christos Tsekos (basketball)
1966
Greek basketball player
Vinny Burns
1965
British guitarist
Robert Downey Jr.
1965
American actor (born 1965)
Branco (footballer)
1964
Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1964)
Dr. Chud
1964
American drummer
Anthony Clark (actor)
1964
American actor and comedian
David Cross
1964
American stand-up comedian and actor (born 1964)
Satoshi Furukawa
1964
Japanese surgeon and astronaut (born 1964)
Paul Parker (footballer)
1964
English footballer, manager, and sports television pundit
Đặng Thân
1964
Vietnamese poet and writer
A. Michael Baldwin
1963
American actor (born 1963)
Jack Del Rio
1963
American football player and coach (born 1963)
Dale Hawerchuk
1963
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1963–2020)
Jane McDonald
1963
English singer, songwriter, and television presenter (born 1963)
Graham Norton
1963
Irish comedian, actor, and television host (born 1963)
Craig Adams (musician)
1962
English musician
Kailasho Devi
1962
Indian politician
Hildi Santo-Tomas
1961
American interior designer and television personality
Jonathan Agnew
1960
English cricketer and broadcaster (born 1960)
Jane Eaglen
1960
British opera singer (born 1960)
Godknows Igali
1960
Nigerian public servant, diplomat, author and scholar
Hugo Weaving
1960
English actor (born 1960)
Phil Morris (actor)
1959
American actor (born 1959)
Peter Baltes
1958
German bassist
Cazuza
1958
Brazilian singer-songwriter (1958–1990)
Rodney Eade
1958
Australian rules footballer, born 1958
Paul Downton
1957
English cricketer
Aki Kaurismäki
1957
Finnish film director
Graeme Kelling
1957
Scottish musician (1957–2004)
Nobuyoshi Kuwano
1957
Japanese television performer
Evelyn Hart
1956
Canadian ballerina
Tom Herr
1956
American baseball player (born 1956)
David E. Kelley
1956
American television producer, writer and attorney (born 1956)
Robert Bertrand
1953
Canadian politician (1953–2022)
Henry Fotheringham
1953
South African cricketer
Simcha Jacobovici
1953
Canadian–Israeli film director (born 1953)
Sammy Wilson (politician)
1953
Northern Irish politician (born 1952)
Chen Yi (composer)
1953
Chinese-American composer (born 1953)
Rosemarie Ackermann
1952
German former high jumper
Pat Burns
1952
Canadian ice hockey coach (1952-2010)
Gregg Hansford
1952
Australian racing driver (1952–1995)
Cherie Lunghi
1952
English actress (born 1952)
Karen Magnussen
1952
Canadian figure skater
Gary Moore
1952
Northern Irish musician (1952–2011)
Villy Søvndal
1952
Danish politician
John Hannah (American football)
1951
American football player (born 1951)
Christine Lahti
1950
American actress and director (born 1950)
Junior Braithwaite
1949
Jamaican musician
Litsa Diamanti
1949
Greek laïko singer
Shing-Tung Yau
1949
Chinese-American mathematician (born 1949)
Abdullah Öcalan
1948
Founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Berry Oakley
1948
American bassist (1948–1972)
Richard Parsons (businessman)
1948
American business executive (1948–2024)
Dan Simmons
1948
American science fiction and horror writer (1948–2026)
Derek Thompson (actor)
1948
British actor (born 1948)
Pick Withers
1948
English drummer (born 1948)
Wiranto
1947
Indonesian general and politician
Ray Fosse
1947
American baseball player and broadcast commentator (1947–2021)
Eli Soriano
1947
Filipino television evangelist (1947–2021)
Colin Coates
1946
Australian speed skater
Dave Hill (guitarist)
1946
English musician
Katsuaki Satō
1946
Martial artist
György Spiró
1946
Hungarian writer
Bubba Wyche
1946
American gridiron football player (born 1946)
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
1945
French-German politician (born 1945)
Caroline McWilliams
1945
American actress (1945–2010)
Magda Aelvoet
1944
Belgian, Flemish politician
Mary Kenny
1944
Irish journalist, broadcaster and playwright
Bob McDill
1944
American songwriter
Craig T. Nelson
1944
American actor and stand-up comedian (born 1944)
Nelson Prudêncio
1944
Brazilian triple jumper (1944-2012)
Toktamış Ateş
1944
Turkish academic and political commentator
Paulette Jiles
1943
American writer (1943–2025)
Jim Fregosi
1942
American baseball player and manager (1942–2014)
Kitty Kelley
1942
Author of unauthorized biographies
Elizabeth Levy
1942
American novelist
Zia Uddin
1941
Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic Scholar
Richard Attwood
1940
British racing driver (born 1940)
Sharon Sheeley
1940
American singer-songwriter
JoAnne Carner
1939
American professional golfer
Darlene Hooley
1939
American politician (born 1939)
Hugh Masekela
1939
South African musician and composer (1939–2018)
A. Bartlett Giamatti
1938
American baseball commissioner and academic administrator (1938–1989)
Geoff Braybrooke
1935
New Zealand politician
Kenneth Mars
1935
American actor (1935–2011)
Trevor Griffiths
1935
English dramatist (1935–2024)
Helen Hanft
1934
American actress
Kronid Lyubarsky
1934
Soviet dissident
Bill France Jr.
1933
Former NASCAR president
Brian Hewson
1933
British middle-distance runner (1933–2022)
Bapu Nadkarni
1933
Indian cricketer (1933–2020)
Clive Davis
1932
American music executive (born 1932)
Richard Lugar
1932
American politician (1932–2019)
Anthony Perkins
1932
American actor (1932–1992)
Johanna Reiss
1932
Dutch-American writer (born 1932)
Andrei Tarkovsky
1932
Soviet filmmaker (1932–1986)
James Dickens
1931
Bobby Ray Inman
1931
United States Navy admiral
Catherine Tizard
1931
Governor-General of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996
Netty Herawaty
1930
Humbert Allen Astredo
1929
American actor (1929–2016)
Maya Angelou
1928
American writer and activist (1928–2014)
Jimmy Logan
1928
Scottish performer, producer, impresario and director (1928–2001)
Monty Norman
1928
British composer (1928–2022)
Joe Orlando
1927
Italian-American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist (1927–1998)
Ronnie Masterson
1926
Irish actress
Dettmar Cramer
1925
German football manager (1925–2015)
Frank Truitt
1925
American basketball coach
Claude Wagner
1925
Canadian politician and judge (1925–1979)
Emmett Williams
1925
American poet (1925 - 2007)
Bob Christie (racing driver)
1924
American racing driver (1924–2009)
Gil Hodges
1924
American baseball player and manager (1924–1972)
Peter Vaughan
1923
English actor (1923–2016)
Gene Reynolds
1923
American actor, producer, writer, and director (1923–2020)
Elmer Bernstein
1922
American composer and conductor (1922–2004)
Orunamamu
1921
American/Canadian professional storyteller, raconteur and griot
Elizabeth Wilson
1921
American actress (1921–2015)
Ignatius IV of Antioch
1920
20th and 21st-century Patriarch of Antioch
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
1918
British army officer, politician and businessman (1918–2007)
Nikola Ljubičić
1916
President of Serbia
Mickey Owen
1916
American baseball player (1916–2005)
David White (actor)
1916
American actor (1916–1990)
Louis Archambault
1915
Canadian sculptor (1915-2003)
Richard Coogan
1914
American actor (1914–2014)
Marguerite Duras
1914
French writer and film director (1914–1996)
David Goodall (botanist)
1914
Botanist and ecologist
Dave Brown (rugby league, born 1913)
1913
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
Rosemary Lane (actress)
1913
American actress (1913–1974)
Frances Langford
1913
American singer, entertainer and actress (1913–2005)
Jules Léger
1913
Governor General of Canada from 1974 to 1979
Muddy Waters
1913
American blues musician (1913–1983)
Đặng Văn Ngữ
1910
Vietnamese medical doctor and intellectual
Robert Askin
1907
Australian politician
Bea Benaderet
1906
American actress (1906–1968)
John Cameron Swayze
1906
American news commentator and game show panelist (1906–1995)
Eugène Bozza
1905
French composer and violinist
Erika Nõva
1905
Estonian architect
Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin
1902
French writer (1902–1969)
Stanley G. Weinbaum
1902
American writer (1902–1935)
1800s
Hillel Oppenheimer
1899
Israeli professor of botany
Agnes Ayres
1898
American actress (1892–1940)
Pierre Fresnay
1897
French actor (1897–1975)
Robert E. Sherwood
1896
American writer (1896–1955)
Arthur Murray
1895
American dance instructor (1895-1991)
Italo Mus
1892
Italian painter
Edith Södergran
1892
Finnish poet (1892–1923)
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
1889
Indian writer (1889–1969)
Tris Speaker
1888
American baseball player (1888–1958)
Zdzisław Żygulski (literary historian)
1888
Polish literary historian and Germanist
Frank Luther Mott
1886
American historian and journalist (1886–1964)
James Alberione
1884
Italian Catholic priest (1884–1971)
Isoroku Yamamoto
1884
Japanese admiral (1884–1943)
Gustav Goßler
1879
German rower (1879–1940)
Walter Conrad Arensberg
1878
American art collector, critic and poet
Stylianos Lykoudis
1878
Greek rear admiral
Maurice de Vlaminck
1876
French painter (1876–1958)
Pierre Monteux
1875
French and American conductor (1875–1964)
Mary Colter
1869
American architect (1869–1958)
Philippa Fawcett
1868
English mathematician and educator (1868–1948)
Remy de Gourmont
1853
French writer (1858–1915)
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy
1851
Irish politician (1851–1931)
Comte de Lautréamont
1846
Uruguayan-born French author (1846–1870)
William Henry Jackson
1843
American photographer and painter (1843–1942)
Édouard Lucas
1842
French mathematician (1842–1891)
John Hughlings Jackson
1835
English neurologist (1835–1911)
Owen Suffolk
1829
English bushranger and writer in Australia
Zénobe Gramme
1826
Belgian electrical engineer (1826–1901)
Linus Yale Jr.
1821
American mechanical engineer (1821–1868)
Maria II of Portugal
1819
Queen of Portugal from 1826 to 1828 and 1834 to 1853
Thomas Mayne Reid
1818
British novelist and tutor (1818–1883)
Dorothea Dix
1802
American social reformer (1802–1887)
Before 1800
Thaddeus Stevens
1792
American statesman (1792–1868)
Bettina von Arnim
1785
German writer (1785–1859)
Edward Hicks
1780
19th-century American artist
Nachman of Breslov
1772
Hasidic rabbi (1772–1810)
Stephen Storace
1762
English composer
Juan Manuel Olivares
1760
Venezuelan composer (1760–1797)
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli
1752
Italian composer (1752–1837)
Benjamin Kennicott
1718
English churchman and Hebrew scholar
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
1688
French astronomer and cartographer (1688–1768)
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
1676
Italian composer (1676–1760)
Grinling Gibbons
1648
Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver
Antoine Galland
1646
French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)
Gaspar Sanz
1640
Spanish guitarist and composer
Edward Nicholas
1593
17th-century English courtier and politician
Richard Saltonstall
1586
William Strachey
1572
English writer (1572–1621)
Ambrosius Blarer
1492
German Protestant reformer
Vojtěch I of Pernštejn
1490
Bohemian nobleman
Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria
1436
Duchess consort of Bavaria-Landshut
Caracalla
188
Roman emperor from 198 to 217