Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Creators33% (16 people)
Authors31% (15 people)
Actors29% (14 people)
Musicians24% (12 people)
Athletes16% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs16% (8 people)
Artists10% (5 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France7 (7 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Finland2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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~61Serge DassaultBecame CEO of Dassault Aviation (1986)
The standouts
The most successful people born on April 4
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Heath Ledger
Top tier
Actor
1979–2008 · Australia
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres. His accolades included an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and producer. His films as a leading actor have grossed over $14.3 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Downey was the highest-paid actor in the world annually from 2013 to 2015.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than 50 years.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television producer. Cross is best known for his stand-up performances, the HBO sketch comedy series Mr.
Clive Jay Davis was an American record executive, A&R executive, record producer and lawyer. He won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 2000. From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records.
U.S. Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Michael Mirra was an American BMX rider who also competed in rallycross racing. He set the record for most medals in BMX Freestyle at the X Games and earned at least one BMX medal at the event in all but one year from the competition's inception in 1995 until 2009.
Richard Green Lugar was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Office of Senator Richard Lugar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Serge Dassault was a French engineer, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Dassault Group, and a conservative politician. According to Forbes, Dassault's net worth was estimated in 2016 at US$15 billion.
MEDEF, cropped by Kyro, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. He was born on April 4, 1823, in the Kingdom of Hanover and died on 19 November 1883 at the age of 60 years in London.
Photographer: Mr. Van der Weyde, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Delphine Caroline Marie Arnault is a French businesswoman who has been the chairperson and chief executive officer of Christian Dior Couture since February 2023.
Sarah Lynn Gadon is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions.
Desmond Herzfelder, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Amanda Righetti is an American actress. She is known for playing Grace Van Pelt on The Mentalist and her roles in Friday the 13th, The O.C. and Colony.
Graham William Walker, known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He is best known as a chat show host, having presented The Graham Norton Show since 2007.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert William Gary Moore was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music, including blues, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and jazz fusion.
Sami Khedira is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach of La Liga club Real Madrid.
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
Jean-Luc Ourlin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Joseph Simmons was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel.
Glen Engel-Cox, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aki Olavi Kaurismäki is a Finnish filmmaker. He is best known for films such as Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), Drifting Clouds (1996), The Man Without a Past (2002), Le Havre (2011), The Other Side of Hope (2017), and Fallen Leaves (2023).
Aiden John McGeady is a former professional footballer. He played for clubs including Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Everton and Sunderland, and won 93 caps for the Republic of Ireland.
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz".
Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician and educator. He is the first ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University.
National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, simply known as Emerson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. At international level, he played 73 games for the Brazil national team between 1997 and 2006, scoring 6 goals.
Nicola Genati, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit is a French-German politician. Born stateless to a German-Polish Ashkenazi Jewish family, Daniel Cohn-Bendit obtained German citizenship in 1959 and French citizenship in 2015.
Marie-Lan Nguyen, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Abraham Ortelius was a cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer from Antwerp in the Spanish Netherlands. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Peter Paul Rubens / After Adriaen Thomasz. Key, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Comte de Lautréamont was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, a French poet, born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern arts and literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Document found in 1977 by Jean-Jacques Lefrère in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (France)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Maurice de Vlaminck was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians.
Greening, Publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Clavius, was a Jesuit German mathematician and physicist, head of mathematicians at the Collegio Romano, and astronomer who was a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by Aloysius Lilius, that is known as the Gregorian calendar.
Edith Irene Södergran was a Swedish-speaking Finnish poet. One of the first modernists within Swedish-language literature, her influences came from French Symbolism, German expressionism, and Russian futurism. She was fluent in French, English and Russian.
Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.
Albert Harlingue, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Zénobe Théophile Gramme was a Belgian electrical engineer. He was born at Jehay-Bodegnée on 4 April 1826, the sixth child of Mathieu-Joseph Gramme, and died at Bois-Colombes on 20 January 1901.
Manabu Saitō is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Japan Football League club Azul Claro Numazu. He spent the majority of his career with Yokohama F. Marinos.
This page lists 49 people born on April 4, 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 September 2025. 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 4. Read the full methodology.
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