February 4 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, historical figures and scientists, and 2 of them are billionaires.
Jonathan D. Gray is an American billionaire businessman who is the president and chief operating officer of Blackstone Group, a New York–based asset management firm. He is also the chairman of Hilton Worldwide.
Michael Jerry Saylor is an American entrepreneur and billionaire business executive. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy Inc., formerly known as MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (14 people)
Politicians27% (13 people)
Scientists21% (10 people)
Actors19% (9 people)
Entrepreneurs15% (7 people)
Musicians13% (6 people)
Athletes10% (5 people)
Countries
22 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States17 (17 people)
France4 (4 people)
Canada2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Spain2 (2 people)
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Alice Cooper is an American singer and songwriter. With a career spanning over six decades, he is known for his raspy singing voice and theatrical stage shows that feature numerous props and illusions.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles (5,800 km), flying alone for over 33 hours. His aircraft, the Spirit of St.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Robert Hunter Biden is an American artist, disbarred former attorney, and businessman. He is the second son of former president Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden.
James Danforth Quayle is an American retired politician and Indiana National Guard veteran who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 under President George H. W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party, Quayle represented Indiana in the U.S.
U.S. Department of Defense, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.
Alèxia Putellas i Segura, often known mononymously as Alexia, is a Spanish professional footballer from Catalonia who plays as a midfielder or forward for Women's Super League club London City Lionesses and the Spain women's national team.
Pedro J Pacheco, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joshua Abraham Norton, commonly known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California, who declared himself Emperor of the United States in 1859 and Protector of Mexico in 1866, roles that he maintained until his death in 1880.
Jenette Goldstein is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with director James Cameron, she won a Saturn Award for her portrayal of Private Vasquez in his 1986 sci-fi horror film Aliens.
Sideways Entertainment, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev, also spelled Sergey Pugachyov, is a Russian-born French business magnate. He is a doctor of technical sciences and a member of the International Engineering Academy.
Visuals editor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Andrew Romero was an American and Canadian filmmaker, writer, editor, and actor. Regarded as an influential pioneer of the horror film genre, particularly zombie films, he has been described as an "icon" and the "father of the zombie film".
nicolas genin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Isabel Martínez de Perón is an Argentine politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads of state in the world, and the first woman to serve as president of a country.
Archivo General de la Nación, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ida Lupino was a British and American actress and filmmaker. Throughout her 48-year career she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948.
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was a Pakistani four-star rank general who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, under martial law. His presidency oversaw a civil war in East Pakistan, resulting in Bangladesh's secession.
Yahya and Nixon.jpg: Original uploader was User:Yahoo1 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Conrad Stafford Bain was a Canadian-American actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), and as Charlie Ross in Mr. President (1987–1988).
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.
Betty Friedan was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer. Restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kim Yong-nam was a North Korean politician who served as the president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019.
Constance Georgine Markievicz, also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish republican politician, suffragist, socialist and labour activist who was the first woman elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Keogh Brothers Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Clyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer and telescope maker, best known for discovering Pluto in 1930, marking the first detection of what would eventually be recognized as the Kuiper belt.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Masanori Takahashi, professionally known as Kitarō (喜多郎), is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic-instrumental music, and is often associated with and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new-age music.
Domo Music Group, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style.
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best-regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).
Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov is a Ukrainian and Soviet former footballer who played as a striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleg Blokhin's 42.
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture.
Ludwik Szaciński, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer. He is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature, to this day.
Per Krafft the Elder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter best known for being a half of a composing-songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, specializing himself in writing lyrics for film songs. On music Livingston composed, Evans wrote the lyrics.
Mikuláš Dzurinda is a Slovak politician who was the prime minister of Slovakia from 30 October 1998 to 4 July 2006. Dzurinda is the founder and leader of the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) and then the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ–DS).
European People's Party, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium.
Joseph Hornung, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
George Leon Argyros is an American former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Spain. He is also a real estate investor and philanthropist. Argyros was the owner of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners from 1981 to 1989.
U.S. State Department, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on February 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 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 February 4. Read the full methodology.
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