March 4 is the birthday of 42 notable people we've found so far, including entrepreneurs, authors, actors and athletes, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Andrew W. Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2 billion.
Share of the 42 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Entrepreneurs26% (11 people)
Authors24% (10 people)
Actors21% (9 people)
Athletes21% (9 people)
Musicians19% (8 people)
Politicians17% (7 people)
Scientists17% (7 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States14 (14 people)
United Kingdom5 (5 people)
Argentina2 (2 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Kingdom of the Netherlands2 (2 people)
Australia1 (1 people)
Life timeline
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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.
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~23Kevin JohnsonReceived the NBA Most Improved Player Award (1989)
Catherine Anne O'Hara was a Canadian and American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over 50 years. O'Hara started in sketch and improvisational comedy in film and television before taking dramatic roles to expand her career.
Jerry Avenaim at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Anton Rea was an English-Irish rock and blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. He was known for his distinctive gravelly voice, slide guitar playing and music style blending soft rock with blues.
Andrzej Barabasz (Chepry), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Angela Gabrielle White is an Australian pornographic film actress and director. She has been inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame and the XRCO Hall of Fame, and in 2020 became AVN's first three-time Female Performer of the Year winner.
Landon Timothy Donovan is an American-Canadian former professional soccer player and coach who played as a winger or forward. He most recently was the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).
Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish is a Scottish former football player and manager. During his career, he made 338 appearances for Celtic and 515 for Liverpool, playing as a forward, and earned a record 102 caps for the Scotland national team, scoring 30 goals, also a joint record.
Saw from Singapore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Muhammad Ali was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt.
Auguste Couder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Michel Krieger is a Brazilian entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Kevin Systrom, and served as its chief technology officer (CTO) until 2018.
Kevin Maurice Johnson, also known by his initials KJ, is an American former professional basketball player and politician who served as the 55th mayor of Sacramento, California, from 2008 to 2016.
Christopher Henry Smith is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 4th congressional district since 1981. Though it has taken various forms, his district has always been situated in central New Jersey.
United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Malafeev is a Russian football official and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is a one-club man, having spent all 17 of his professional seasons with Zenit Saint Petersburg. He also represented the Russian national team, earning 29 caps.
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Benedict of Nursia, often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian monk and the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict. He is famed in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, and Old Catholic Churches.
Fra Angelico, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Kyriakos Mitsotakis is a Greek politician, currently serving as the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy party since 2016.
Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.
Reprise Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Erik Manuel Lamela is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or right winger. He is currently a coach of Liga MX club Monterrey.
Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito", thus he is called Burrito Ortega.
Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires from Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore was an English astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
South Downs Planetarium, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Gamow was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory.
Unknown, dedicated to Bettmann Archive, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology.
Ward Walrath Kimball was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961.
Harry Brakmann Helmsley was an American real estate billionaire whose company, Helmsley-Spear, became one of the country's biggest property holders, owning the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Building, the Graybar Building, the Flatiron Building, and some of New York's most noted hotels.
Abram Isaakovich Alikhanov was a Soviet experimental physicist of Armenian origin who specialized in particle and nuclear physics. He was one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Arthur Fentener van Vlissingen was a Dutch businessman. He was one of the wealthiest people in the Netherlands and made major investments in the travel industry. The total capital of the family is, according to Quote magazine, around €9.2 billion.
Ramón Báez Romano was a Dominican businessman, politician, and golfer. Coming from one of the most influential families in the Dominican Republic, he was Minister of Industry and Trade during the administration of President Antonio Guzmán.
This page lists 42 people born on March 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 June 2016. 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 March 4. Read the full methodology.
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