Births on 4 May
2000s
Joan Garcia
2001
Spanish footballer (born 2001)
1900s
Rex Orange County
1998
English musician (born 1998)
Shameik Moore
1995
American actor and musician (born 1995)
Abi Masatora
1994
Japanese sumo wrestler
Joseph Tapine
1994
New Zealand and Maori international rugby league player
Victor Oladipo
1992
American basketball player (born 1992)
Brianne Jenner
1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Rory McIlroy
1989
Northern Irish golfer (born 1989)
James van Riemsdyk
1989
American ice hockey player (born 1989)
Radja Nainggolan
1988
Belgian footballer (born 1988)
Cesc Fàbregas
1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Jorge Lorenzo
1987
Spanish motorcycle racer (born 1987)
Devan Dubnyk
1986
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1986)
George Hill (basketball)
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Ravi Bopara
1985
English cricketer (born 1985)
Fernandinho (footballer, born May 1985)
1985
Brazilian footballer (born 1985)
Jme
1985
British grime MC (born 1985)
Brad Maddox
1984
American professional wrestler (born 1984)
Derek Roy
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Eric Djemba-Djemba
1981
Cameroonian footballer (born 1981)
Ruth Negga
1981
Irish actress (born 1982)
Dallon Weekes
1981
American musician and singer-songwriter (born 1981)
Andrew Raycroft
1980
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1980)
Lance Bass
1979
American singer and actor (born 1979)
Lesley Vainikolo
1979
NZ international rugby league & England international rugby union player
Erin Andrews
1978
American sportscaster and television personality (born 1978)
Igor Bišćan
1978
Croatian footballer and manager
James Harrison (American football)
1978
American football player (born 1978)
Kimora Lee Simmons
1975
American model and fashion designer (born 1975)
Tony McCoy
1974
Northern Irish jockey (born 1974)
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
1973
Argentine footballer and manager
John Madden (ice hockey)
1973
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1973)
Mike Dirnt
1972
American rock musician (born 1972)
Chris Tomlin
1972
American Christian musician
Will Arnett
1970
Canadian actor (born 1970)
Dawn Staley
1970
American basketball player and coach (born 1970)
Kate Garraway
1967
English broadcaster (born 1967)
Ana Gasteyer
1967
American actress and comedian (born 1967)
Jay Aston
1961
Musical artist
Werner Faymann
1960
Chancellor of Austria from 2008 to 2016
Randy Travis
1959
American singer (born 1959)
Keith Haring
1958
American artist and social activist (1958–1990)
Caroline Spelman
1958
British politician (born 1958)
Kathy Kreiner
1957
Canadian alpine skier
Ken Oberkfell
1956
American baseball player (born 1956)
Ryan Cayabyab
1954
Filipino musician and composer (born 1954)
Pia Zadora
1953
American actress and singer (born 1954)
Belinda Green
1952
Australian model
Colin Bass
1951
English musician
Colleen Hanabusa
1951
American politician (1951–2026)
Jackie Jackson
1951
American singer and songwriter (born 1951)
George Tupou V
1948
King of Tonga from 2006 to 2012
John Barnard
1946
British engineer and car designer (born 1946)
Gary Bauer
1946
American politician and activist (born 1946)
John Watson (racing driver)
1946
British racing driver (born 1946)
Robert Machray (actor)
1945
American stage and television actor (1945–2025)
Russi Taylor
1944
American voice actress (1944–2019)
Georgi Asparuhov
1943
Bulgarian footballer (1943–1971)
George Will
1941
American political commentator (born 1941)
Robin Cook (American novelist)
1940
American physician and novelist (born 1940)
Amos Oz
1939
Israeli writer, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
Carlos Monsiváis
1938
Mexican writer
Ron Carter
1937
American musician and composer (born 1937)
Dick Dale
1937
American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)
Harlon Hill
1932
American football player (1932–2013)
Katherine Jackson
1930
Mother of Michael Jackson (born 1930)
Manuel Contreras
1929
Chilean general (1929–2015)
Audrey Hepburn
1929
British actress (1929–1993)
Maynard Ferguson
1928
Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1928–2006)
Hosni Mubarak
1928
President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011
Betsy Rawls
1928
American professional golfer (1928–2023)
Maurice R. Greenberg
1925
American business executive (born 1925)
Eric Sykes
1923
English comedian, writer and actor (1923–2012)
Eugenie Clark
1922
American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
Edo Murtić
1921
Croatian painter
Kakuei Tanaka
1918
Prime Minister of Japan from 1972 to 1974
Nick Joaquin
1917
Filipino writer and journalist (1917–2004)
Jane Jacobs
1916
American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
Richard Proenneke
1916
American naturalist (1916–2003)
Maedayama Eigorō
1914
Japanese sumo wrestler
Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark
1913
Child of Constantine I of Greece (1913–2007)
Lincoln Kirstein
1907
American writer and art connoisseur (1907–1996)
Walter Walsh
1907
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and sport shooter
Al Dexter
1905
American singer-songwriter (1905–1984)
Luther Adler
1903
American actor (1903–1984)
Ronnie Aird
1902
English cricketer and administrator
1800s
Franklin Carmichael
1890
20th-century Canadian artist
Francis Spellman
1889
American Catholic prelate (1889–1967)
Andrew Dasburg
1887
American painter (1887–1979)
Richard Baggallay (cricketer)
1884
English cricketer
Wang Jingwei
1883
Chinese politician (1883–1944)
Alice Liddell
1852
Basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland"
Thomas Dewing
1851
19th/20th-century American painter
Bianka Blume
1843
German opera singer (1843–1896)
John Hanning Speke
1827
English explorer and army officer (1827–1864)
Frederic Edwin Church
1826
American landscape painter (1826–1900)
Thomas Henry Huxley
1825
English biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
Augustus Le Plongeon
1825
British photographer and archaeologist (1825–1908)
Charles Boucher de Boucherville
1822
3rd Premier of Quebec (1822–1915)
Julia Gardiner Tyler
1820
First Lady of the United States from 1844 to 1845
John Whiteaker
1820
American politician (1820–1902)
Before 1800
Horace Mann
1796
American educational reformer and politician (1796–1859)
William Pennington
1796
American politician (1796–1862)
William H. Prescott
1796
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
1772
German encyclopedia publisher and editor (1772–1823)
François Gérard
1770
French painter (1770–1837)
Tyagaraja
1767
Composer in Carnatic Classical Music (1767-1847)
Manuel Tolsá
1757
Spanish architect and first director of the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City
John Brooks (governor)
1752
American general and governor
Jean-Charles de Borda
1733
French scientist and Navy officer (1733–1799)
Richard Graves
1715
English minister and writer (1715–1804)
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
1677
Duchess of Orléans; legitimized daughter of Louis XIV
Bartolomeo Cristofori
1655
Italian maker of musical instruments (1655 – 1731)
Chhatrasal
1649
Maharaja of Bundelkhand from 1675 to 1731
Katherine Ferrers
1634
English gentlewoman and alleged bandit (1634–60)
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby
1559
English noblewoman (1559–1637)
Abdullah Ansari
1006
11th-century Sufi scholar and saint