Births on 4 January
2000s
Marc Guiu
2006
Spanish footballer (born 2006)
Rob Dillingham
2005
American basketball player (born 2005)
Emil Højlund
2005
Danish footballer (born 2005)
Oscar Højlund
2005
Danish footballer (born 2005)
Dafne Keen
2005
Spanish-British actress (born 2005)
Victor Wembanyama
2004
French basketball player (born 2004)
Jaeden Martell
2003
American actor (born 2003)
Kevin (footballer, born 2003)
2003
Brazilian footballer
Vladyslav Vanat
2002
Ukrainian footballer
Odilon Kossounou
2001
Ivorian footballer (born 2001)
Lola Young
2001
English musician (born 2001)
Max Aarons
2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Facundo Colidio
2000
Argentine footballer
1900s
Wessam Abou Ali
1999
Footballer (born 1999)
Daniel Arzani
1999
Australian soccer player (born 1999)
Jan-Niklas Beste
1999
German footballer
Nico Hischier
1999
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1999)
Jaeman Salmon
1999
Australian rugby league footballer
Collin Sexton
1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Coco Jones
1998
American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Arnoldas Kulboka
1998
Lithuanian basketball player (born 1998)
Rodrigo Garro
1998
Argentine footballer (born 1998)
Liza Soberano
1998
Filipino-American actress (born 1998)
Angeliño
1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Ante Žižić
1997
Croatian basketball player (born 1997)
Michael Dickson (American football)
1996
Australian-born American football player (born 1996)
Jackson Hastings
1996
Great Britain international rugby league footballer
Marcus Ingvartsen
1996
Danish footballer (born 1996)
Jasmine Paolini
1996
Italian tennis player (born 1996)
Sarah Nurse
1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Adam Webster (footballer, born 1995)
1995
English footballer
Derrick Henry
1994
American football player (born 1994)
James Michael McAdoo
1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Mahmoud Metwalli
1993
Egyptian footballer (born 1993)
Kris Bryant
1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Quincy Promes
1992
Dutch footballer (born 1992)
Charles Melton
1991
American actor (born 1991)
Iago Falque
1990
Spanish footballer (born 1990)
Raisel Iglesias
1990
Cuban baseball player (born 1990)
Toni Kroos
1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Alberto Paloschi
1990
Italian footballer (born 1990)
Kevin Pillar
1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
Graham Rahal
1989
American racing driver (born 1989)
Anestis Argyriou
1988
Greek footballer (born 1988)
Maximilian Riedmüller
1988
German footballer
Marissa Coleman
1987
American basketball player (born 1987)
Przemysław Tytoń
1987
Polish footballer (born 1987)
Danny Simpson
1987
English footballer (born 1987)
Kay Voser
1987
Swiss footballer (born 1987)
Younes Kaboul
1986
French footballer (born 1986)
Andrei Krauchanka
1986
Belarusian decathlete (born 1986)
Russell Martin (footballer)
1986
Football player and manager (born 1986)
James Milner
1986
English footballer (born 1986)
Lo Mutuc
1986
American comic actor (born 1986)
Lenora Crichlow
1985
English actress (born 1985)
Kari Aalvik Grimsbø
1985
Norwegian handball player (born 1985)
Gökhan Gönül
1985
Turkish footballer
Al Jefferson
1985
American basketball player (born 1985)
Jung Sung-ryong
1985
South Korean footballer (born 1985)
Ross Turnbull
1985
English footballer and coach
Javi Fuego
1984
Spanish footballer (born 1984)
Jiří Hudler
1984
Czech ice hockey player (born 1984)
Will Bynum
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Richard Rankin
1983
Scottish actor (born 1983)
Richard Logan (footballer, born 1982)
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Danny Sullivan (rugby league)
1982
Australian rugby league footballer
Kang Hye-jung
1982
South Korean actress (born 1982)
D'Arcy Carden
1980
American actress and comedian (born 1980)
Miguel Monteiro
1980
Portuguese footballer (born 1980)
Justin Ontong
1980
South African cricketer
Shergo Biran
1979
German footballer
Tristan Gommendy
1979
French professional racing driver
Dominik Hrbatý
1978
Slovak tennis player (born 1978)
Ted Lilly
1976
American baseball player (born 1976)
Shane Carwin
1975
American mixed martial artist
Paul Watson (footballer, born 1975)
1975
English footballer
Danilo Hondo
1974
German cyclist
Frank Høj
1973
Danish cyclist (born 1973)
Shane Walker (rugby league, born 1971)
1971
Australian rugby league footballer
Colin Ward (rugby league)
1971
Australian rugby league footballer
Josh Stamberg
1970
American actor
Corie Blount
1969
American basketball player (born 1969)
Kees van Wonderen
1969
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1969)
Johnny Nelson
1967
British boxer (born 1967)
David Toms
1967
American professional golfer
David Wilson (rugby union, born 1967)
1967
Australia international rugby union player
Deana Carter
1966
American country singer-songwriter (born 1966)
Guy Forget
1965
French tennis player
Beth Gibbons
1965
British singer (born 1965)
Craig Revel Horwood
1965
Australian-British dancer, choreographer, & director (born 1965)
Julia Ormond
1965
English actress (born 1965)
Susan Devoy
1964
New Zealand squash player (born 1964)
Dot-Marie Jones
1964
American actress and retired athlete (born 1964)
Adrian Shelford
1964
New Zealand rugby league footballer
Dave Foley
1963
Canadian stand-up comedian and actor (born 1963)
Till Lindemann
1963
German singer (born 1963)
Martina Proeber
1963
German diver
Joe Kleine
1962
American basketball player (born 1962)
Sidney Green (basketball)
1961
American basketball player and coach (born 1961)
Cliff Levingston
1961
American basketball player-coach
Graham McTavish
1961
Scottish actor (born 1961)
Gavin Miller
1960
Australia international rugby league footballer
Michael Stipe
1960
American singer (born 1960)
Matt Frewer
1958
Canadian-American actor (born 1958)
Julian Sands
1958
British actor (1958–2023)
Patty Loveless
1957
American country music singer (born 1957)
Tom Borton
1956
American saxophonist (1956–2011)
Zehava Galon
1956
Israeli politician (born 1956)
Ann Magnuson
1956
American actress, performance artist, singer
Bernard Sumner
1956
English musician (born 1956)
Rob Kerin
1954
Australian politician
Tina Knowles
1954
American businesswoman and fashion designer (born 1954)
Norberto Alonso
1953
Argentine footballer (born 1953)
Khondakar Ashraf Hossain
1950
Bangladeshi writer
Mick Mills
1949
English footballer (born 1949)
Bwanga Tshimen
1949
Congolese footballer
Kostas Davourlis
1948
Greek footballer
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
1948
Prime Minister of Mali (1948–2021)
Chris Cutler
1947
English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist (born 1947)
Marie-Thérèse Letablier
1947
French sociologist (born 1947)
Arthur Conley
1946
American soul singer (1946–2003)
Vesa-Matti Loiri
1945
Finnish actor and musician (1945–2022)
Richard R. Schrock
1945
American chemist and Nobel laureate (born 1945)
Gary Stevens (rugby league)
1944
Australian rugby league footballer (1944–2025)
Alan Sutherland (rugby union)
1944
New Zealand rugby union player (1944–2020)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
1943
American biographer and historian (born 1943)
Hwang Sok-yong
1943
South Korean novelist (born 1943)
Bolaji Akinyemi
1942
Nigerian professor of political science
Jim Downing
1942
American racing driver
John McLaughlin (musician)
1942
English jazz fusion guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra (born 1942)
George P. Cosmatos
1941
Greek-Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2005)
Kalpnath Rai
1941
Indian politician (1941–1999)
Brian Josephson
1940
British theoretical physicist (born 1940)
Gao Xingjian
1940
Chinese novelist, critic, playwright and Nobel laureate
Jim Norton (Irish actor)
1938
Irish actor (born 1938)
Eberhard Wagner
1938
German linguist and author (born 1938)
Grace Bumbry
1937
American opera singer (1937–2023)
Dyan Cannon
1937
American actress and filmmaker (born 1937)
Floyd Patterson
1935
American boxer (1935–2006)
Rudolf Schuster
1934
President of Slovakia from 1999 to 2004
Carlos Saura
1932
Spanish film director and photographer (1932–2023)
Clint Hill (Secret Service)
1932
U.S. Secret Service agent (1932–2025)
William Deane
1931
Governor-General of Australia from 1996 to 2001
Nora Iuga
1931
Romanian poet, writer and translator
Sorrell Booke
1930
American actor (1930–1994)
Don Shula
1930
American football player and coach (1930–2020)
Günter Schabowski
1929
German politician
Paul Desmarais
1927
Canadian businessman
Barbara Rush
1927
American actress (1927–2024)
Veikko Hakulinen
1925
Finnish forestry technician and cross country skier
Marianne Werner
1924
West German athlete (1924–2023)
William Colby
1920
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 1976
Rosalie Crutchley
1920
British actress (1920–1997)
Lionel Newman
1916
American composer, pianist and conductor (1916–1989)
Robert Parrish
1916
American film editor (1916–1995)
Malietoa Tanumafili II
1913
O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa from 1962 to 2007
Georg Elser
1903
Attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (1903–1945)
John A. McCone
1902
American businessman and politician (1902–1991)
C. L. R. James
1901
Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist (1901–1989)
James Bond (ornithologist)
1900
American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy
1800s
Chen Cheng
1897
Chinese politician and general (1898–1965)
Everett Dirksen
1896
American politician (1896–1969)
André Masson
1896
French painter
Leroy Grumman
1895
American engineer and industrialist
Edward Brooker
1891
Australian politician (1891–1948)
M. Patanjali Sastri
1889
2nd Chief Justice of India
Guy Pène du Bois
1884
American painter (1884–1958)
Max Eastman
1883
American writer and political activist (1883–1969)
Johanna Westerdijk
1883
Dutch plant pathologist (1883–1961)
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
1881
German sculptor
A. E. Coppard
1878
English writer
Augustus John
1878
Welsh painter (1878–1961)
Gibson Gowland
1877
English film actor (1872–1877)
Marsden Hartley
1877
American Modernist painter (1877–1943)
Josef Suk (composer)
1874
Czech composer and violinist (1874–1935)
Tommy Corcoran
1869
American baseball player (1869–1960)
Clara Emilia Smitt
1864
Swedish doctor and author
Carter Glass
1858
American politician (1858–1946)
Katsura Tarō
1848
Japanese general and politician (1848–1913)
Carl Humann
1839
German engineer, architect and archaeologist
General Tom Thumb
1838
American circus performer (1838–1883)
George Tryon
1832
British admiral (1832–1893)
Isaac Pitman
1813
British linguist (1813–1897)
Louis Braille
1809
French educator and inventor of braille (1809–1852)
Before 1800
Jacob Grimm
1785
German linguist, jurist and mythologist
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
1737
French chemist (1737–1816)
Karl Abraham Zedlitz
1731
Prussian minister (1731–1793)
Johann Friedrich Agricola
1720
German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1710
Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
Hugh Boulter
1672
Anglican bishop (1672–1742)
Lars Roberg
1654
Swedish physician and naturalist (1664–1742)
James Ussher
1581
17th-century Anglican Archbishop of Armagh
Bodo III, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
1467
Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
1334
Count of Savoy from 1343 to 1383
Emperor Zhezong
1077
Emperor of Song China from 1085 to 1100
Ali al-Sajjad
659
Great-grandson of Muhammad and fourth Shia Imam (659–713)