Famous people born on 4 February

• Rosa ParksCivil rights activist · 1913–2005
  92 yrs
• Ludwig ErhardChancellor of West Germany · 1897–1977
  80 yrs
• Charles LindberghAmerican aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist · 1902–1974
  72 yrs
• Conrad BainCanadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activist · 1923–2013
  89 yrs
• Jacques PrévertFrench poet and screenwriter · 1900–1977
  77 yrs
• Dietrich BonhoefferGerman Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident · 1906–1945
  39 yrs
• Friedrich EbertGerman politician, president of Germany · 1871–1925
  54 yrs
• Kliment VoroshilovSoviet marshal and politician · 1881–1969
  88 yrs
• Tadeusz KościuszkoPolish, Lithuanian and American military leader · 1746–1817
  71 yrs
• Betty FriedanAmerican feminist writer and activist · 1921–2006
  85 yrs
• Clyde TombaughAmerican astronomer · 1906–1997
  90 yrs
• Yahya Khan ↗Former Pakistani president · 1917–1980
  63 yrs
• Pierre de Marivaux ↗French novelist and dramatist · 1688–1763
  75 yrs
• Božena Němcová ↗Czech writer · 1820–1862
  41 yrs
• George A. Romero ↗Canadian-American filmmaker · 1940–2017
  77 yrs
• Ida Lupino ↗British actress · 1918–1995
  77 yrs
• Fernand Léger ↗French painter · 1881–1955
  74 yrs
• Georg Brandes ↗Danish literature critic and scholar · 1842–1927
  85 yrs
• Pitirim Sorokin ↗Russian sociologist · 1889–1968
  79 yrs
• Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle ↗Swiss botanist · 1778–1841
  63 yrs
• Andrei Karlov ↗Soviet and Russian diplomat · 1954–2016
  62 yrs
• Lotfi A. Zadeh ↗American electrical engineer and computer scientist · 1921–2017
  96 yrs
• Jean Richepin ↗French poet, novelist and dramatist · 1849–1926
  77 yrs
• Constance Markievicz ↗Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe · 1868–1927
  59 yrs
• Carl Michael Bellman ↗Swedish poet, songwriter and composer · 1740–1795
  55 yrs
• Taejo of Goryeo ↗Founder of the Goryeo Dynasty · AD 877–943
  66 yrs
• Friedrich Hund ↗German physicist · 1896–1997
  101 yrs
• Gyula Grosics ↗Hungarian footballer · 1926–2014
  88 yrs
• Belisario Betancur ↗Former President of Colombia · 1923–2018
  95 yrs
• Guillaume Budé ↗French scholar, humanist and administrator · 1467–1540
  73 yrs
• Ludwig Prandtl ↗German physicist · 1875–1953
  78 yrs
• Mikhail Prishvin ↗Russian writer · 1873–1954
  80 yrs
• Almeida Garrett ↗Portuguese writer and politician · 1799–1854
  55 yrs
• Go-Nara ↗Emperor of Japan · 1497–1557
  60 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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