Births on 4 February
2000s
Kyla Kenedy
2003
American actress (born 2003)
Rasmus Højlund
2003
Danish footballer (born 2003)
1900s
MJ Lenderman
1999
American musician (born 1999)
Malik Monk
1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Maximilian Wöber
1998
Austrian footballer (born 1998)
Mohamed Sherif
1996
Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Lavoy Allen
1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Charlie Barnett (actor)
1988
American actor (born 1988)
Carly Patterson
1988
American singer and gymnast (born 1988)
Darren O'Dea
1987
Irish footballer (born 1987)
Lucie Šafářová
1987
Czech tennis player (born 1987)
Maximilian Götz
1986
German racing driver
Mahmudullah
1986
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1986)
Doug Fister
1984
American baseball player (born 1984)
Mauricio Pinilla
1984
Chilean footballer
Hannibal Buress
1983
American comedian (born 1983)
Rebecca White
1983
Australian politician
Ivars Timermanis
1982
Latvian basketball player
Jason Kapono
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Johan Vansummeren
1981
Belgian road bicycle racer
Raimonds Vaikulis
1980
Latvian basketball player
Giorgio Pantano
1979
Italian racing driver (born 1979)
Gavin DeGraw
1977
American singer
Cam'ron
1976
American rapper (born 1976)
Natalie Imbruglia
1975
Australian and British singer and actress (born 1975)
Oscar De La Hoya
1973
Mexican-American boxer (born 1973)
Giovanni (footballer, born 1972)
1972
Brazilian footballer and manager
Dara Ó Briain
1972
Irish comedian and television presenter
Rob Corddry
1971
American actor and comedian (born 1971)
Michael A. Goorjian
1971
American actor and director (born 1971)
Gabrielle Anwar
1970
British actress (born 1970)
Hunter Biden
1970
American businessman and lobbyist (born 1970)
Sergei Grinkov
1967
Russian pair skater (1967–1995)
Viatcheslav Ekimov
1966
Russian cyclist (born 1966)
Jerome Brown
1965
American football player (1965–1992)
Elke Philipp
1964
German Paralympic equestrian
Noodles (guitarist)
1963
American guitarist
Pirmin Zurbriggen
1963
Swiss alpine skier
Clint Black
1962
American country musician (born 1962)
Vern Fleming
1962
American basketball player (born 1962)
Denis Savard
1961
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1961)
Siobhan Dowd
1960
English writer and activist (1960–2007)
Jonathan Larson
1960
American composer, lyricist and playwright (1960–1996)
Christian Schreier
1959
German footballer (born 1959)
Lawrence Taylor
1959
American football player (born 1959)
Tomasz Pacyński
1958
Polish fantasy and science fiction author
Matthew Cobb
1957
British Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester
Mikuláš Dzurinda
1955
Slovak politician (born 1955)
Lisa Eichhorn
1952
American actress, writer, producer (born 1952)
Jenny Shipley
1952
Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1997 to 1999
Thomas Silverstein
1952
American murderer (1952–2019)
Patrick Bergin
1951
Irish actor and singer (born 1951)
Michael Beck
1949
American actor (born 1949)
Rasim Delić
1949
Bosnian Army general (1949–2010)
Alice Cooper
1948
American rock singer (born 1948)
Mienoumi Tsuyoshi
1948
Japanese sumo wrestler
Dennis C. Blair
1947
US Navy admiral and 3rd Director of National Intelligence
Dan Quayle
1947
Vice President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Florence LaRue
1944
American actress and singer (born 1942)
Alan Shields
1944
American artist
Alberto João Jardim
1943
Portuguese politician
Wanda Rutkiewicz
1943
Polish mountain climber (1943–1992)
Ken Thompson
1943
American computer scientist known for Unix (born 1943)
Russell Cooper
1941
Australian politician (born 1941)
Ron Rangi
1941
Rugby player
Jiří Raška
1941
Czech ski jumper
John Steel (drummer)
1941
English drummer
George A. Romero
1940
American filmmaker (1940–2017)
John Schuck
1940
American actor (b. 1940)
Stan Lundine
1939
American politician (born 1939)
Frank J. Dodd
1938
American businessman and politician
Birju Maharaj
1937
Indian dancer, singer, and composer (1938–2022)
David Newman (screenwriter)
1937
American screenwriter (1937–2003)
David Brenner
1936
American comedian and actor (1936–2014)
Gary Conway
1936
American actor and screenwriter
Claude Nobs
1936
Swiss businessman
Wallis Mathias
1935
Pakistani cricketer (1935–1994)
Martti Talvela
1935
Finnish opera singer
Collin Wilcox (actress)
1935
American actress (1935–2009)
Robert Coover
1932
American novelist (1932–2024)
Isabel Perón
1931
President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
Tibor Antalpéter
1930
Hungarian diplomat and volleyball player
Arthur E. Chase
1930
American businessman and politician
Jim Loscutoff
1930
American professional basketball player
Jerry Adler
1929
American actor and director (1929–2025)
Paul Burlison
1929
American rockabilly guitarist (1929–2003)
Neil Johnston
1929
American basketball player
Oscar Cabalén
1928
Argentine racing driver
Osmo Antero Wiio
1928
Rolf Landauer
1927
American-German physicist, engineer (1927–1999)
Gyula Grosics
1926
Hungarian footballer and manager (1926–2014)
Russell Hoban
1925
American writer (1925–2011)
Stanley Karnow
1925
American historian and journalist
Christopher Zeeman
1925
British mathematician (1925–2016)
Conrad Bain
1923
Canadian-American actor (1923–2013)
Bhimsen Joshi
1922
Indian Hindustani classical vocalist (1922-2011)
Betty Friedan
1921
American feminist writer and activist (1921–2006)
Lotfi A. Zadeh
1921
Azerbaijani scientist (1921–2017)
Janet Waldo
1920
American actress (1920–2016)
Ida Lupino
1918
British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995)
Luigi Pareyson
1918
Italian philosopher (1918–1991)
Yahya Khan
1917
President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971
William Talman (actor)
1915
American actor (1915–1968)
Norman Wisdom
1915
English actor, comedian and singer (1915–2010)
Alfred Andersch
1914
German writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914–1980)
Rosa Parks
1913
American civil rights activist (1913–2005)
Ola Skjåk Bræk
1912
Norwegian banker and politician
Erich Leinsdorf
1912
American conductor (1912–1993)
Byron Nelson
1912
American professional golfer (1912–2006)
Julian Bell
1908
British poet (1908-1937)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1906
German theologian (1906–1945)
Letitia Dunbar-Harrison
1906
Irish librarian (1906–1994)
Clyde Tombaugh
1906
American astronomer (1906–1997)
Hylda Baker
1905
English comedian and actress (1905–1986)
MacKinlay Kantor
1904
American journalist (1904–1977)
Deng Yingchao
1904
Chinese politician (1904–1992)
Alexander Imich
1903
Polish–American scientist (1903–2014)
Charles Lindbergh
1902
American aviator (1902–1974)
Hartley Shawcross
1902
English barrister and politician
Jacques Prévert
1900
French poet and screenwriter (1900–1977)
1800s
Virginia M. Alexander
1899
American physician (1899-1949
Ludwig Erhard
1897
Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 to 1966
Friedrich Glauser
1896
Swiss writer
Friedrich Hund
1896
German physicist (1896–1997)
Nigel Bruce
1895
British actor (1895–1953)
Raymond Dart
1893
Australian anatomist and anthropologist (1893–1988)
E. J. Pratt
1892
Canadian poet (1882–1964)
M. A. Ayyangar
1891
Indian politician
Reinhold Rudenberg
1883
German born American electrical engineer (1893–1961)
Eulalio Gutiérrez
1881
President of Mexico from 1914 to 1915
Fernand Léger
1881
French painter (1881–1955)
Kliment Voroshilov
1881
Soviet military officer and politician (1881–1969)
Varia Kipiani
1879
Georgian scientist
Eddie Cochems
1877
American football player and coach (1877–1953)
Ludwig Prandtl
1875
German physicist (1875–1953)
Étienne Desmarteau
1873
Canadian athlete (1873–1905)
Gotse Delchev
1872
Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1872–1903)
Friedrich Ebert
1871
President of Germany from 1919 to 1925
Bill Haywood
1869
American labor organizer (1869–1928)
Constance Markievicz
1868
Irish revolutionary and suffragist (1868–1927)
Abe Isoo
1865
Japanese politician
Édouard Estaunié
1862
French novelist
Jean Richepin
1849
French poet, novelist and dramatist (1849–1926)
Jean Aicard
1848
French poet, dramatist and novelist (1848–1921)
Oliver Ames (governor)
1831
19th-century American businessman, financier, and politician
Emperor Norton
1818
Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (1818–1880)
Antonija Höffern
1803
Slovenian noblewoman and educator (1803–1871)
Before 1800
Almeida Garrett
1799
Portuguese poet, orator, playwright, novelist, journalist, politician (1799–1854)
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
1778
Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
Carl Michael Bellman
1740
Swedish poet, songwriter and composer (1740–1795)
Dru Drury
1725
British entomologist (1725–1804)
Pierre de Marivaux
1688
French playwright and novelist (1688–1763)
Johann Ludwig Bach
1677
German composer
Hans Erasmus Aßmann
1646
Pierre de Bérulle
1575
French Catholic priest and cardinal
Mikołaj Rej
1505
Polish poet and writer (1505–1569)
Francesco II Sforza
1495
Duke of Milan from 1521 to 1535
Jean Parisot de Valette
1495
16th-century French nobleman and military leader
Lodovico Lazzarelli
1447
15th century Italian philosopher