Birthday twins
December 4 is the birthday of 36 notable people we've found so far, including actors, creators, musicians and authors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1932 · Argentina
$3.4Bolder estimate, as of 2024 · Forbes
Argentine businessman
Reported estimate as of 2024: $3.4B. 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 December birthday · battle December 4 against another date · all rankings
The December 4 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1944 · South Korea
$1.9Bolder estimate, as of December 2024 · Forbes
Kim Jun-ki is a South Korean businessman. Founder and former CEO of DB Group, he is among the richest people in South Korea. In December 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.9 billion and ranked him the 18th richest in the country.
Who shares December 4
Share of the 36 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
Actor
1964 · United States
Marisa Tomei is an American actress. She gained prominence for her comedic performance in My Cousin Vinny (1992), which earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received further nominations in the category for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008).
Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1892–1975 · Spain
Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. He had led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Athlete
1996–2025 · Portugal
Diogo José Teixeira da Silva, commonly known as Diogo Jota, was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a forward and winger. He was known for his finishing, pace, dribbling ability, and work rate.
Timmy96, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1949 · United States
Jeffrey Leon Bridges is an American actor and singer. Bridges describes himself as an actor, musician, photographer, painter, sculptor, campaigner, and storyteller.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1973 · United States
Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, television personality, producer, writer, and actress.
Juice Group, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
American immunologist
1960 · United States
Frederick Jay Ramsdell is an American immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate. As of 2025, he is an advisor at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a biotechnology company co-founded by him.
US Embassy Sweden, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1935–2020 · United States
Paul Henry O'Neill was an American businessman and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term, from January 2001 until his resignation in December 2002.
Department of the Treasury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1747–1819 · Russian Empire
Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, sometimes spelled Aleksandr or Alexandr and Baranof, was a Russian trader and merchant, who worked for some time in Siberia.
Not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · energy
1933–2024 · Greece
Vardis Vardinogiannis was a Greek billionaire oil and shipping businessman. He was the chairman and controlling shareholder of Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas and involved in numerous other shipping and business interests.
December 4 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Athlete
1994 · Belgium
Leandro Trossard is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for Süper Lig club Beşiktaş and the Belgium national team.
jamesboyes, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1954–2024 · United States
Anthony Tiran Todd was an American actor.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1992 · South Korea
Kim Seok-jin, known professionally as Jin, is a South Korean singer. He rose to prominence as member of the South Korean boy band BTS.
TV 10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1866–1944 · France
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art.
未知上傳者, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1875–1926 · Austria
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1795–1881 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.
https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/f0/6c/b554ec34381c2fcb57e351a309bb.jpg Gallery: https://wellcomeimages.o, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1982 · Australia
Nicholas James Vujicic, known as Nick Vujicic, is an Australian and American evangelist and motivational speaker. Vujicic has tetra-amelia syndrome, a condition characterised by the absence of arms and legs.
Christliches Medienmagazin pro, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1919–2012 · India
Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat, politician, and independence activist, who served as prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.
Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1921–2013 · Canada
Edna Mae Durbin, known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-American lyric soprano and actress, who moved to the United States with her family in infancy. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Gwenn Walters, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1911–1979 · Italy
Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1835–1902 · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1945 · Canada
Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.
JSC/NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1957 · United States
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack.
southeastlinuxfest, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
German criminal and founder of a sect and agricultural commune Colonia Dignidad in Chile · Colonia Dignidad
1921–2010 · Germany
Paul Schäfer Schneider was a German-Chilean Christian minister, convicted sexual offender, and the founder and leader of a sect and agricultural commune of 300 German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad located in Parral in southern Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago from 1961 to 2005.
Author
1853–1932 · Kingdom of Italy
Errico Gaetano Maria Pasquale Malatesta was an Italian anarchist, theorist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy, Britain, France, and Switzerland.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1953 · Belgium
Jean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and spent most of his professional career with Beveren and Bayern Munich.
Jean-Marie_Pfaff_at_Runa_Ralley_2007.jpg: Tim Dobbelaere from Ieper, Belgium derivative work: Huhbakker (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1922–1959 · France
Gérard Philipe was a prominent French actor who appeared in 32 films between 1944 and 1959 known for his outspoken communist views. He came to prominence during the later period of the poetic realism movement of French Cinema in the late 1940s.
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1964 · Turkey
Sertab Erener is a Turkish singer, songwriter and composer. With her coloratura soprano voice, she started working as a backing vocalist for Sezen Aksu, and with Aksu's help she released her first studio album in the 1990s.
MHIRM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1944 · Philippines
Ronaldo "Ronny" Bayan Zamora is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as representative of the lone district of San Juan for 21 non-consecutive years beginning in 1995.
Cesar Tomambo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1908–1997 · United States
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1913–2007 · United States
Robert Adler was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents. He worked for Zenith Electronics, retiring as the company's Vice President and Director of Research.
Actor
1970 · Nigeria
Charles Inojie is a Nigerian actor, comedian, movie director and producer. He is known for his comedic roles.
Scientist
1821–1889 · Kingdom of Saxony
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel, normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1956 · Philippines
Buenaventura Geronimo Perez Treñas, publicly known as Jerry P. Treñas, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the mayor of Iloilo City from 2019 to 2025. He also previously served in that office from 2001 to 2010 and briefly in 1992.
Athlete
1926–2002 · Japan
Shigeo Sugimoto was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
This page lists 36 people born on December 4, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 December 2024. 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 December 4. Read the full methodology.
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