Births on 4 August
1900s
Lil Skies
1998
American rapper and singer-songwriter(born 1998)
Bruna Marquezine
1995
Brazilian actress and director (born 1995)
Bobby Shmurda
1994
American rapper, songwriter, and criminal (born 1994)
Daniele Garozzo
1992
Italian fencer (born 1992)
Domingo Germán
1992
Dominican baseball player (born 1992)
Cole Sprouse
1992
American actor (born 1992)
Dylan Sprouse
1992
American actor (born 1992)
Jessica Mauboy
1989
Australian singer (born 1989)
Wang Hao (chess player)
1989
Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1989)
Kelley O'Hara
1988
American soccer player (born 1988)
Marreese Speights
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Nick Augusto
1986
American drummer
Leon Camier
1986
British motorcycle racer (born 1986)
Cicinho (footballer, born 1986)
1986
Brazilian footballer
Iosia Soliola
1986
NZ & Samoa international rugby league footballer
David Williams (rugby league, born 1986)
1986
Australia international rugby league footballer
Crystal Bowersox
1985
American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1985)
Robbie Findley
1985
American soccer player (born 1985)
Mark Milligan
1985
Australian association football player (born 1985)
Ha Seung-jin
1985
South Korean basketball player (born 1985)
Antonio Valencia
1985
Ecuadorian footballer (born 1985)
Terry Campese
1984
Australia & Italy international rugby league footballer
Mardy Collins
1984
American basketball player (born 1984)
Greta Gerwig
1983
American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
Marques Houston
1981
American singer and actor (born 1981)
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
1981
American member of the British royal family (born 1981)
Richard Dawson (cricketer)
1980
English cricketer and coach
Robin Peterson
1979
South African cricketer (born 1979)
Jeremy Adduono
1978
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1978)
Luke Allen
1978
American baseball player (1978–2022)
Kurt Busch
1978
American racing driver (born 1978)
Agnė Eggerth
1978
Lithuanian sprinter (born 1978)
Ricardo Serrano (cyclist)
1978
Spanish cyclist
Per-Åge Skrøder
1978
Norwegian former ice hockey player (born 1978)
Satoshi Hino
1978
Japanese voice actor
Frankie Kazarian
1977
American professional wrestler (born 1977)
Luís Boa Morte
1977
Portuguese football coach and former player
Paul Goldstein (tennis)
1976
American tennis player (born 1976)
Andrew McLeod
1976
Australian rules footballer (born 1976)
Trevor Woodman
1976
England international rugby union player
Andy Hallett
1975
American actor and singer (1975–2009)
Nikos Liberopoulos
1975
Greek footballer
Jutta Urpilainen
1975
Finnish politician (born 1975)
Daniella van Graas
1975
Dutch model and actress (born 1975)
Kily González
1974
Argentine footballer & manager (born 1974)
Eva Amaral
1973
Spanish singer-songwriter
Xavier Marchand
1973
French swimmer
Marek Penksa
1973
Slovak footballer (born 1973)
Marcos (footballer, born 1973)
1973
Brazilian footballer
Stefan Brogren
1972
Canadian actor and director (born 1972)
Jeff Gordon
1971
American racing driver (born 1971)
John August
1970
American film director and screenwriter
Bret Baier
1970
American journalist (born 1970)
Kate Silverton
1970
English child therapist and former journalist
Max Cavalera
1969
Brazilian heavy metal vocalist and guitarist (born 1969)
Daniel Dae Kim
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Lee Mack
1968
English comedian and actor (born 1968)
Michael Marsh (sprinter)
1967
American sprinter
Vishal Bhardwaj
1965
Indian director, screenwriter and composer
Adam Afriyie
1965
British politician
Dennis Lehane
1965
American novelist (born 1965)
Fredrik Reinfeldt
1965
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
Michael Skibbe
1965
German footballer and manager (born 1965)
Andrew Bartlett
1964
Australian politician (born 1964)
Keith Ellison
1963
American politician (born 1963)
Roger Clemens
1962
American baseball player (born 1962)
Paul Reynolds (musician)
1962
English musician
Barack Obama
1961
President of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Chuck C. Lopez
1960
American jockey
Dean Malenko
1960
American professional wrestler (born 1960)
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
1960
Prime Minister of Spain from 2004 to 2011
Bernard Rose (director)
1960
English film director
Tim Winton
1960
Australian writer
Robbin Crosby
1959
American guitarist (1959–2002)
John Gormley
1959
Irish former politician (born 1959)
Allison Hedge Coke
1958
American poet and editor (born 1958)
Mary Decker
1958
American middle-distance runner
Silvan Shalom
1958
Israeli politician (born 1958)
Brian Voss
1958
American professional ten-pin bowler (born 1958)
Rupert Farley
1957
British actor and voice over artist
Brooks D. Simpson
1957
American historian (born 1957)
Valdis Valters
1957
Latvian basketball player (born 1957)
John Wark
1957
Scottish footballer
Alberto Gonzales
1955
American lawyer (born 1955)
Billy Bob Thornton
1955
American actor, filmmaker, and singer-songwriter (born 1955)
Anatoliy Kinakh
1954
Ukrainian politician
Steve Phillips (footballer, born 1954)
1954
English footballer
François Valéry
1954
French singer-songwriter and composer (born 1954)
Hiroyuki Usui
1953
Japanese footballer and manager
James Arbuthnot
1952
British politician and life peer (born 1952)
Moya Brennan
1952
Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist
Gábor Demszky
1952
Hungarian politician
Peter Goodfellow (geneticist)
1951
British geneticist
Caldwell Jones
1950
American basketball player (1950–2014)
N. Rangaswamy
1950
9th Chief Minister of Puducherry since 2021
John Riggins
1949
American football player (born 1949)
Johnny Grubb
1948
American baseball player (born 1948)
Klaus Schulze
1947
German composer and musician (1947–2022)
Aleksei Turovski
1946
Estonian zoologist
Paul McCarthy
1945
American artist (born 1945)
Alan Mulally
1945
American businessman (born 1945)
Richard Belzer
1944
American actor and comedian (1944–2023)
Doudou Ndoye
1944
Senegalese lawyer and politician
Vicente Álvarez Areces
1943
Spanish politician (1943–2019)
Barbara Saß-Viehweger
1943
German politician (born 1943)
Bjørn Wirkola
1943
Norwegian ski jumper (born 1943)
Don S. Davis
1942
American actor (1942–2008)
Cleon Jones
1942
American baseball player (born 1942)
David Lange
1942
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989
Martin Jarvis (actor)
1941
British actor (born 1941)
Andy Smillie
1941
English footballer
Cliff Nobles
1941
American soul singer (1941–2008)
Ted Strickland
1941
American politician (born 1941)
Coriún Aharonián
1940
Uruguayan composer and musicologist
Robin Harper
1940
British politician (born 1940)
Larry Knechtel
1940
American keyboards and bassist session musician (1940–2009)
Frances Stewart (economist)
1940
British economist
Timi Yuro
1940
American singer (1940–2004)
Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling
1939
British Labour politician (born 1939)
Frankie Ford
1939
American rock and roll and R&B singer (1939–2015)
Ellen Schrecker
1938
American historian
David Bedford
1937
English composer and musician (1937–2011)
Giorgos Zographos
1936
Greek musician and actor
Carol Arthur
1935
American actress (1935–2020)
Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt
1935
German footballer
Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil politician)
1935
Irish politician (1935–2013)
Dallas Green (baseball)
1934
American baseball player and manager (1934–2017)
Frances Allen
1932
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
Liang Congjie
1932
Chinese historian and activist
Naren Tamhane
1931
Indian cricketer (1931–2002)
Ali al-Sistani
1930
Islamic scholar (born 1930)
Kishore Kumar
1929
Indian singer and actor (1929–1987)
Vellore G. Ramabhadran
1929
Indian mridangam player (1929-2012)
Gerard Damiano
1928
American film director (1928–2008)
Nadežka Mosusova
1928
Clarke Reed
1928
American businessman and politician (1928–2024)
George Irving Bell
1926
American physicist, biologist and mountaineer (1926–2000)
Perry Moss
1926
American football player, coach, and executive (1926–2014)
Mayme Agnew Clayton
1922
American librarian (1923–2006)
Luis Aponte Martínez
1922
Puerto Rican Catholic cardinal
Herb Ellis
1921
American jazz guitarist (1921–2010)
Maurice Richard
1921
Canadian ice hockey player (1921–2000)
Helen Thomas
1920
American journalist (1920–2013)
Michel Déon
1919
French novelist and literary columnist
Brian Crozier
1918
British journalist and intelligence expert
John Fitch (racing driver)
1917
American racing driver (1917–2012)
Warren Avis
1915
Founder of Avis Rent A Car System Inc.
Wesley Addy
1913
American actor (1913–1996)
Robert Hayden
1913
American poet and academic (1913–1980)
Aleksandr Aleksandrov (mathematician)
1912
Russian mathematician (1912–1999)
David Raksin
1912
American composer (1912–2004)
Raoul Wallenberg
1912
Swedish diplomat and humanitarian (1912–1945)
Anita Page
1910
American actress (1910–2008)
William Schuman
1910
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
Hedda Sterne
1910
Romanian-American artist (1910–2011)
Glenn Cunningham (runner)
1909
American middle-distance runner (1909-1988)
Kurt Eichhorn
1908
German conductor
Eugen Schuhmacher
1906
German zoologist and documentary filmmaker
Abeid Karume
1905
President of Zanzibar from 1964 to 1972
Witold Gombrowicz
1904
Polish writer (1904–1969)
Bill Hallahan
1902
American baseball player (1902–1981)
Louis Armstrong
1901
American jazz trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
1900
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
1800s
Ezra Taft Benson
1899
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1899–1994)
Ernesto Maserati
1898
Italian racing driver and engineer (1898–1975)
Fritz Gause
1893
German historian, archivist, and curator
Dolf Luque
1890
Cuban baseball player (1890–1957)
Taher Saifuddin
1888
Da'i al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohra from 1915 to 1965
Albert M. Greenfield
1887
American businessman
Béla Balázs
1884
Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet
Henri Cornet
1884
French cyclist
Laura Knight
1877
English artist (1877–1970)
Giovanni Giuriati
1876
Italian politician (1876–1970)
John Scaddan
1876
Australian politician (1876–1934)
William Holman
1871
Australian politician
Harry Lauder
1870
Scottish entertainer (1870–1950)
Master C. V. V.
1868
Indian philosopher, yogi, and guru (1868–1922)
Jake Beckley
1867
American baseball player (1867–1918)
Daniel Edward Howard
1861
President of Liberia from 1912 to 1920 (1861-1935)
Knut Hamsun
1859
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
John Henry Twachtman
1853
American impressionist painter (1853–1902)
Henri Berger
1844
Prussian musical artist (1844–1929)
Walter Pater
1839
English writer, critic and essayist (1839–1894)
Vilhelm Dahlerup
1836
Danish architect (1836–1907)
John Venn
1834
English logician and philosopher (1834–1923)
Louis Vuitton (designer)
1821
French malletier (1821–1892)
James S. White
1821
Co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
William Rowan Hamilton
1805
Irish mathematician and physicist (1805–1865)
Before 1800
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
English poet (1792–1822)
Nicolas-Jacques Conté
1755
French painter, and inventor of the modern pencil (1755–1805)
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
1721
British politician (1721–1803)
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
1719
German and Russian mineralogist (1719–1767)
Louis, Duke of Orléans (born 1703)
1704
Duke of Orléans, grandson of Louis XIV (1703–1752)
Thomas Blackwell (scholar)
1701
Scottish academic (1701-1757)
Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
1623
Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
1604
French cleric and theatre critic (1604–1676)
Udai Singh II
1522
Founder of Udaipur and Maharana of Mewar from 1540 to 1572
Pope Urban VII
1521
Head of the Catholic Church in 1590
Bernardo Dovizi
1470
Italian Catholic cardinal and playwright (1470–1520)
Lucrezia de' Medici (1470–1553)
1470
Italian noblewoman
Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1469
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici
1463
Italian banker and politician
Leopold I, Duke of Austria
1290
Duke of Austria and Styria from 1308 to 1326
Külüg Khan
1281
Emperor of Yuan Dynasty from 1307 to 1311
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
1222
English nobleman (1222–1262)