Famous People Born on January 4
Famous people born on January 4 include Isaac Newton (1643), Jacob Grimm (1785) and Gao Xingjian (1940).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Gao Xingjian
Chinese novelist, critic, playwright and Nobel laureate
Louis Braille
French educator and inventor of braille (1809–1852)
Toni Kroos
German footballer (born 1990)
Brian Josephson
British physicist (born 1940)
James Milner
English footballer (born 1986)
Till Lindemann
German singer (born 1963)
Carlos Saura
Spanish film director and photographer (1932–2023)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
Richard R. Schrock
American chemist and Nobel laureate (born 1945)
Katsura Tarō
Japanese general and politician (1848–1913)
Julia Ormond
English actress (born 1965)
Dafne Keen
Spanish-British actress (born 2005)
Dyan Cannon
American actress and filmmaker (born 1937)
Michael Stipe
American singer (born 1960)
Günter Schabowski
German politician
DIED ON THIS DAY
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger's cat, wave equation
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land, Nobel-winning modernist poet
Albert Camus
Author of The Stranger, Nobel laureate
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
Benito Pérez Galdós
Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920)
Moses Mendelssohn
German philosopher and theologian (1729–1786)
Glynis Johns
British actress (1923–2024)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
American business tycoon (1794–1877)
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
King of Naples and Sicily (r. 1759–1799; 1799–1806; 1815–1825)
Christopher Isherwood
English and American novelist (1904–1986)
Georg von Hertling
Chancellor of the German Empire from 1917 to 1918
Tanya Roberts
American actress (1949–2021)
Mohamed Bouazizi
Tunisian who self-immolated (1984–2011)
Sources
- January 4 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Isaac Newton — Wikipedia
- Jacob Grimm — Wikipedia
- Erwin Schrödinger — Wikipedia
- T. S. Eliot — Wikipedia
- Albert Camus — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths