Famous People Born on August 4
Famous people born on August 4 include Barack Obama (1961), Louis Armstrong (1901) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Barack Obama
44th US President, first African American president
Louis Armstrong
What a Wonderful World, jazz trumpet
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet (1792–1822)
Knut Hamsun
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Prime Minister of Spain from 2004 to 2011
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
American member of the British royal family (born 1981)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1952
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and physicist (1805–1865)
Pope Urban VII
Head of the Catholic Church in 1590
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
Greta Gerwig
American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
Antonio Valencia
Ecuadorian footballer (born 1985)
Billy Bob Thornton
American actor, filmmaker and singer-songwriter (born 1955)
Jeff Gordon
American racing driver (born 1971)
Raoul Wallenberg
Swedish diplomat and humanitarian (1912–1945)
Witold Gombrowicz
Polish writer (1904–1969)
Mark Milligan
Australian soccer player (born 1985)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid, fairy tales
Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood icon, cultural legend
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Jeanne Calment
Oldest verified person in history (1875–1997)
Enver Pasha
Turkish general and politician (1881–1922)
Henry I of France
King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Spanish explorer (c. 1486 – 1526)
Edgar Adrian
English electrophysiologist (1889–1977)
Naoki Matsuda
Japanese footballer (1977–2011)
Frederick Chapman Robbins
American Nobel Prize recipient
John Vianney
French Catholic priest and saint (1786–1859)
Isaac Levitan
Russian painter (1860–1900)
Sources
- August 4 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Barack Obama — Wikipedia
- Louis Armstrong — Wikipedia
- Hans Christian Andersen — Wikipedia
- Marilyn Monroe — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths