Famous people born on 4 April

• Maya AngelouAmerican poet, author, and civil rights activist · 1928–2014
  86 yrs
• Heath LedgerAustralian actor · 1979–2008
  28 yrs
• Andrei TarkovskySoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director · 1932–1986
  54 yrs
• Marguerite DurasFrench writer and film director · 1914–1996
  81 yrs
• Isoroku YamamotoJapanese Marshal Admiral · 1884–1943
  59 yrs
• Anthony Perkins ↗American actor · 1932–1992
  60 yrs
• Gary Moore ↗Northern Irish musician · 1952–2011
  58 yrs
• Bettina von Arnim ↗German writer and novelist · 1785–1859
  73 yrs
• Muddy Waters ↗American blues musician · 1913–1983
  70 yrs
• Comte de Lautréamont ↗Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse · 1846–1870
  24 yrs
• Remy de Gourmont ↗French writer · 1858–1915
  57 yrs
• Maria II of Portugal ↗Queen of Portugal · 1819–1853
  34 yrs
• Thomas Mayne Reid ↗American writer · 1818–1883
  65 yrs
• Shojiro Sugimura ↗Japanese association football player · 1905–1975
  69 yrs
• Anne Sullivan ↗American teacher · 1866–1936
  70 yrs
• Edith Södergran ↗Finland Swedish poet and writer · 1892–1923
  31 yrs
• Yasuo Haruyama ↗Japanese association football player · 1906–1987
  81 yrs
• Maurice de Vlaminck ↗French Fauvist and Cubist painter · 1876–1958
  82 yrs
• Hugh Masekela ↗South African jazz trumpeter · 1939–2018
  78 yrs
• Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ↗German astronomer · 1892–1979
  87 yrs
• Parveen Babi ↗Indian actress · 1954–2005
  50 yrs
• Christopher Clavius ↗German astronomer and mathematician · 1538–1612
  73 yrs
• Antoine Galland ↗French orientalist, numismatist and translator · 1646–1715
  68 yrs
• Elmer Bernstein ↗American composer and conductor · 1922–2004
  82 yrs
• Barthélemy Boganda ↗1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory · 1910–1959
  48 yrs
• Francesco I de' Medici ↗Grand Duke of Tuscany · 1541–1587
  46 yrs
• Aimo Cajander ↗Finnish forest scientist and politician · 1879–1943
  63 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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