April 3 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner, and chairman of King Power. He was the owner of then Premier League team Leicester City from 2010 until his death in a helicopter crash just outside the club's King Power Stadium in 2018.
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors32% (16 people)
Actors30% (15 people)
Politicians22% (11 people)
Athletes20% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
Creators12% (6 people)
Artists8% (4 people)
Countries
25 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
France4 (4 people)
Spain3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Italy2 (2 people)
Kingdom of Great Britain2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Edward Regan Murphy is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Black artists in the entertainment industry, and one of the greatest comedians of all time.
David Shankbone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Rae Baldwin III is an American actor and film producer. He is known for his leading and supporting roles in a variety of genres, from comedy to drama.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda Laura Bynes is an American retired actress. Bynes began her career as a child actress and received recognition for her roles on the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That (1996–2000) and The Amanda Show (1999–2002), both of which she won several Kids' Choice Awards for.
The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724).
UnknownUnknown , style of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Robinson Luce was an American magazine publisher who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. He was known as one of "the most influential [Americans] of his day".
New York World-Telegram and the Sun staff photographer: Stanziola, Phil, photographer., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE, also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah, was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an adviser to King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Adi Burjorji Godrej is an Indian Parsi billionaire businessman and head of the Godrej family, chairman of the Godrej Group. As of November 2025, he has an estimated net worth of US$4 billion.
World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Nielsen Hauge was a 19th-century Norwegian Lutheran lay minister, spiritual leader, business entrepreneur, social reformer and author. He led a noted Pietism revival known as the Haugean movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Eve Garth is an American actress. She is known for starring as Kelly Taylor throughout the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise and Val Tyler on the sitcom What I Like About You (2002–06). In 2012, she starred in her own reality show, Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country on CMT.
Sofia Boutella is an Algerian actress, dancer and model. Born in Algiers, she emigrated to Paris at the age of 10. Shortly thereafter, she started rhythmic gymnastics, joining the French national team at the age of 18.
Fabián Ruiz Peña, also known simply as Fabián, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the Spain national team.
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in London, she later attended the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the creation of the European Union (EU).
Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Leslie Howard Steiner, better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
Selznick International Pictures; Fred Parrish, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Marsha Mason is an American actress and theatre director. She has been nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), and Only When I Laugh (1981).
Marsha_Mason_and_Omar_Sangare_at_Dialogue_ONE.jpg: PathfinderPL derivative work: B3t (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Harrison was an English joiner and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.
Philippe Joseph Tassaert (1732-1803) After Thomas King († circa 1796date QS:P,+1796-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902) [1, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953.
Presidenza Del Consiglio Dei Ministri, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Mario Haas is a German former professional tennis player. He competed on the ATP Tour from 1996 to 2017, and was ranked world No. 2 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in May 2002.
Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera Media Network, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists."
Robert White, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher who in 1903 published the book Geschlecht und Charakter, which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23.
Photogravure Richard Paulussen (1852-1906), Wien, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, known professionally as Marisa Paredes, was a Spanish actress with a 60-year-long career. She acted in more than 75 films, 80 TV shows, and 15 plays.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Karim Adil Ansarifard is an Iranian former professional footballer who played as a forward. His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Ali Daei and he has been named Daei's "successor".
Jakob Gijsbert "Jaap" de Hoop Scheffer is a Dutch retired politician, jurist and diplomat who served as the eleventh secretary general of NATO from January 2004 to August 2009.
St. Gallen Symposium, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henry Clemens van de Velde was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium.
Nicola_Perscheid_-_Henry_van_de_Velde_1904.jpg: Nicola Perscheid derivative work: Amano1 (talk), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hanna Stanisława Suchocka is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 8 July 1992 to 26 October 1993 during the presidency of Lech Wałęsa.
Pope Martin IV, was the head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1281 until his death on 22 March 1285. He was the last French pope to hold his court in Rome before the papacy moved to Avignon.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Iskandar Safa was a French businessman and philanthropist of Lebanese origin. In the late 1970s, Safa enrolled in the American University of Beirut, graduating with a degree in civil engineering.
This page lists 50 people born on April 3, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2018. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 3. Read the full methodology.
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