Birthday twins
August 4 is the birthday of 50 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and historical figures, and 5 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur · Las Vegas Sands
1933–2021 · United States
$29.8Bolder estimate, as of 2020 · Forbes
Sheldon Gary Adelson was an American businessman, investor, and political donor.
Reported estimate as of 2020: $29.8B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every August birthday · battle August 4 against another date · all rankings
The August 4 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1960 · Nigeria
$14Breported estimate as of 2026 · Forbes
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist. As of 2026, he is one of the richest Africans with an estimated net worth of over US$14 billion according to Forbes & Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Entrepreneur · Hewlett-Packard · software
1956 · United States
$4.1Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes
Margaret Cushing Whitman is an American business executive, diplomat and politician. She served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024 under President Joe Biden.
United States Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1956 · Poland
$2.5Bolder estimate, as of 2016 · Forbes
Zygmunt Solorz is a Polish businessman and a media tycoon known for launching Polsat, one of the largest private television channels in the country.
Piotr Drabik from Poland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Greek shipbuilder and art collector
1953 · Greece
$1.5Bolder estimate, as of March 2015 · Bloomberg
George Economou or Georgios Ekonomou is a Greek billionaire shipowner, CEO of DryShips Inc. and Ocean Rig, and the owner of Cardiff Marine. Economou owns oil tankers as well as dry bulk ships and manages them through Cardiff Marine.
Who shares August 4
Share of the 50 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Politician
1961 · United States
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1955 · United States
Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter.
Emmanuelle CHOUSSY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1981 · United States
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is an American member of the British royal family, media personality, entrepreneur, and actress. She is married to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, the younger son of King Charles III.
Fuzheado, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1901–1971 · United States
Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of the genre.
World-Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1792–1822 · Switzerland
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.
After Amelia Curran, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1983 · United States
Greta Celeste Gerwig is an American actress and filmmaker. She was initially known for working on various mumblecore films, such as Baghead (2008) and Yeast (2008), in which she became an important figure in the movement.
Raph_PH, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1912 · Sweden
Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish architect, businessman, diplomat, and humanitarian. He saved thousands of Jews in German-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and Hungarian fascists during the later stages of World War II.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1995 · Italy
Bruna Reis Maia, known professionally as Bruna Marquezine, is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker. She debuted on television in 2000 as one of the children interviewers for the children's program Gente Inocente. She has been part of the cast of several telenovelas.
Multishow, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1964 · United States
Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories and home goods.
Lindsay Stockton, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Louis Vuitton
1821–1892 · France
Louis Vuitton was a French malletier and businessman. He was the founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon III.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Branobel · energy
1829–1896 · Sweden
Robert Hjalmar Nobel was a Swedish businessman, industrialist and investor. He was the founder of Branobel, and a pioneer in the Russian oil industry.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Billa · retail
1917–2015 · Austria
Austrian businessman (1917–2015)
Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
August 4 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1992 · United States
Cole Mitchell Sprouse is an American actor.
Casey "Poppins" Nedelka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1968 · United States
Daniel Dae Kim is an American actor. He is known for his many roles in network television and theater. In 2025, Time magazine listed him as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1929–1987 · India
Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of Indian music.
Musician
1952–2026 · Ireland
Moya Brennan, also known as Máire Brennan, was an Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist. She began performing professionally in 1970 when her family formed the band Clannad. Brennan released her first solo album in 1992 called Máire, a successful venture.
Redfern7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1859–1952 · Norway
Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.
Nasjonalbiblioteket from Norway, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · Ecuador
Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera is an Ecuadorian former professional footballer who played primarily as a right-sided player throughout his career, initially as a right winger, before developing into a right-back.
Author
1165–1240 · Almohad Caliphate
Ibn 'Arabī was a Sunni Muslim Arab scholar, Sufi mystic, poet, and Muslim philosopher from al-Andalus, who exercised notable influence within Sufi metaphysics and Islamic thought in general.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1725–1807 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Newton was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. Newton served as a sailor in the Royal Navy and was a servant for a time in West Africa.
After John Russell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1969 · United Kingdom
Pauline Sara Jo Moyes, known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist, number-one New York Times best selling author and screenwriter.
Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1805–1865 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · Italy
Giovanni Di Lorenzo is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Serie A club Napoli, which he captains, and the Italy national team.
MichaelEmilio, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1953 · Italy
Antonio Tajani is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 22 October 2022.
European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1920–2013 · United States
Helen Amelia Thomas was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps.
Eric Draper, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1985 · Australia
Mark Daniel Milligan is an Australian former professional soccer player and the current head coach of Newcastle Jets.
Granada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1904–1969 · Poland
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.
Creator:Bohdan Paczowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1834–1923 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science.
Unknown (Maull & Fox. studio), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1965 · Sweden
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is a Swedish economist and former politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014 and as Leader of the Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He was the last rotating President of the European Council in 2009.
Executive
1972 · France
Audrey Azoulay is a French civil servant and politician who has served as the 10th Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 2017 to 2025, becoming the second female leader of the organization.
Scientist
1948 · Italy
Giorgio Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems.
Lorenza Parisi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1955 · Saudi Arabia
Lubna Suliman al-Olayan is a Saudi businesswoman and former CEO and deputy chairman of Olayan Financing Company.
World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1961–1992 · Thailand
Ramphueng Chithan, known professionally as Pumpuang Duangjan, was a Thai singer and actress. Honored as the "Queen of Luk Thung", she is one of the most celebrated luk thung vocalists in Thailand.
DancingPower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1841–1922 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
William Henry Hudson, known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Born in the Argentine pampas where he roamed free in his youth, he observed bird life and collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1932–2020 · United States
Frances Elizabeth Allen was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.
Entrepreneur
1953 · Israel
Vadim Zinovyevich Rabinovich is an Israeli and formerly Ukrainian oligarch and Jewish community leader.
Илья Хохлов, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive
1992 · Czech Republic
The Czechoslovak Group (CSG), formerly Excalibur Group, is a Czech industrial-technological holding company encompassing over 100 companies with over 14,000 employees worldwide.
Musician
1970 · Nigeria
Daddy Showkey is a veteran Nigerian galala singer. His genre of music is called ghetto dance or simply ghetto. He was born in Ajegunle and rose to popularity there in the late 1990s. He was born as John Odafe Asiemo but is known as Daddy Showkey all over the Ghetto.
Athlete
1958 · Brazil
Edvaldo Oliveira Chaves, best known as Pita, is a former association footballer in offensive midfielder role, currently works as General Manager by Desportivo Brasil.
Ukrainian politician
1976 · Ukraine
Vitaliy Yuriyovych Khomutynnik is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, investor, oligarch, and former politician. He is the founder and chairman of Cascade Investment Fund and president of the Ukrainian Golf Federation.
Mykhail Zhadenko, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1854–1934 · Soviet Union
Maria Kostiantynivna Adasovska, better known under her pseudonym Maria Zankovetska was a Ukrainian theater actress. Some sources date her birth to 3 August 1860.
н., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1911–2005
Elton Bryson Stephens Sr. (1911–2005) was an American businessman from Alabama, who founded EBSCO Industries.
This page lists 50 people born on August 4, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 5 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 2026. 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 August 4. Read the full methodology.
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