Who are famous people born on August 4?

Famous people born on August 4 include Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Knut Hamsun (1859), Louis Armstrong (1901), Yasser Arafat (1929).

What star sign is someone born on August 4?

Someone born on August 4 is a Leo.

What is the birthstone for August 4?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

How common is a birthday on August 4?

In the US, August 4 is the No. 117 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,605 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on August 4

Famous people born on August 4, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♌ Star sign
Leo
💎 Birthstone
Peridot
👶 How common
No. 117 of 366

Born on August 4

Percy Bysshe Shelley
born 1792 · British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
William Rowan Hamilton
born 1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
Knut Hamsun
born 1859 · Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
Louis Armstrong
born 1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer (1901–1971)
Yasser Arafat
born 1929 · Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
Barack Obama
born 1961 · 44th President of the United States (2009–2017)
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
born 1960 · Spanish politician
Greta Gerwig
born 1983 · American actress and filmmaker (born 1983)
Audrey Azoulay
born 1972 · French politician (1972-)
Timur Safin
born 1992 · Russian fencer
Klaus Schulze
born 1947 · German composer and musician (1947–2022)
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Daniel Bautista Rocha
born 1952 · Mexican athletics competitor (born 1952)
Orhan Gencebay
born 1944 · Turkish actor and singer (born 1944)
Lubna Olayan
born 1955 · Saudi business woman
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Arto Tunçboyacıyan
born 1957 · Turkish musician of Armenian ancestry (born 1957)
Turki Abdulmuhsen A. AlAl-Shikh
born 1981 · Saudi Arabian advisor and minister
Abdurrahman Wahid
born 1940 · 4th President of the Republic of Indonesia (1940–2009)
Ildo Maneiro
born 1947 · Uruguayan footballer
Hubert Ingraham
born 1947 · Prime Minister of the Bahamas
Giorgio Parisi
born 1948 · Italian physicist (1948-)
Moya Brennan
born 1952 · Irish folk singer, songwriter, harpist, and philanthropist (1952–2026)
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Hiroyuki Usui
born 1953 · Japanese association football player
Antonio Tajani
born 1953 · Italian politician (born 1953)
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Edvaldo Oliveira Chaves
born 1958 · Brazilian association football player and manager
Pumpuang Duangjan
born 1961 · Thai female singer
Fredrik Reinfeldt
born 1965 · Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014
Daniel Dae Kim
born 1968 · South Korean-American actor
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Daniel Šarić
born 1972 · Croatian footballer
Predrag Đorđević
born 1972 · Serbian footballer (1972-)
Marcos
born 1973 · Brazilian association football player
Kily González
born 1974 · Argentine footballer and manager
Muqtada al-Sadr
born 1974 · Iraqi Shia scholar, politician and militia leader (born 1974)
Nikos Liberopoulos
born 1975 · Greek footballer
Marek Heinz
born 1977 · Czech footballer
Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge
born 1977 · politician of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Luís Boa Morte
born 1977 · Portuguese footballer
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Elkin Soto
born 1980 · Colombian footballer
Ismael Fuentes
born 1981 · Chilean association football player
Malkhaz Asatiani
born 1981 · Georgian footballer (born 1981)
Antonio Valencia
born 1985 · portughez association football player

August 4 in history

2020Beirut Port explosion: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
2007NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is launched.
1984The Ariane 3 rocket is launched for the first time, carrying the Eutelsat I F-2 and Télécom 1A satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
1974A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1964Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1944The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1922Enver Pasha dies in a skirmish between the Bolshevik Red Army and Basmachi troops, to whom he had defected earlier.
1889The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
1854The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1791The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
1781Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, a fleet of six East India Company ships sets sail from Fort Marlborough to raid the Dutch VOC factories on the West coast of Sumatra including the major port of Padang.
1578Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese but both the Moroccan king Abd al-Malik and the Portuguese king Sebastian die. Ahmad al-Mansur follows Abd al-Malik as sultan of Morocco while the death of Sebastian leads to a succession crisis in Portugal.
598Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aristarchus
Christian feast day: Blessed Cecilia Cesarini
Christian feast day: Euphronius
Christian feast day: Blessed Frédéric Janssoone
Christian feast day: John Vianney
Christian feast day: Molua (or Lua)
Christian feast day: Raynerius of Split
Christian feast day: Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
Christian feast day: August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Coast Guard Day (United States)

August 4 in every year

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Questions about August 4 birthdays

Who are famous people born on August 4?: Famous people born on August 4 include Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Knut Hamsun (1859), Louis Armstrong (1901), Yasser Arafat (1929).
What star sign is someone born on August 4?: Someone born on August 4 is a Leo.
What is the birthstone for August 4?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
How common is a birthday on August 4?: In the US, August 4 is the No. 117 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,605 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).