Famous people born on 4 October

• Rutherford B. HayesPresident of the United States from 1877 to 1881 · 1822–1893
  70 yrs
• Buster KeatonAmerican motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor · 1895–1966
  70 yrs
• Charlton HestonAmerican actor · 1923–2008
  84 yrs
• Vitaly GinzburgRussian physicist · 1916–2009
  93 yrs
• Gerolamo CardanoItalian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer · 1501–1576
  74 yrs
• Anne RiceAmerican author · 1941–2021
  80 yrs
• Jean-François MilletFrench painter · 1814–1875
  60 yrs
• Kenichi Fukui ↗Japanese chemist · 1918–1998
  79 yrs
• Engelbert Dollfuss ↗Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman · 1892–1934
  41 yrs
• François Guizot ↗French historian, orator and statesman · 1787–1874
  86 yrs
• Alvin Toffler ↗American writer, futurist and businessman · 1928–2016
  87 yrs
• Charles IX of Sweden ↗King of Sweden in 1604–1611 · 1550–1611
  61 yrs
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner ↗Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal · 1903–1946
  43 yrs
• Richard Sorge ↗Soviet spy in Germany and Japan · 1895–1944
  49 yrs
• Richard Cromwell ↗English politician and Lord Protector · 1626–1712
  85 yrs
• Walther von Brauchitsch ↗German field marshal · 1881–1948
  67 yrs
• Richard Rorty ↗American philosopher · 1931–2007
  75 yrs
• Violeta Parra ↗Chilean musician and folklorist · 1917–1967
  49 yrs
• Wenceslaus II of Bohemia ↗King of Bohemia and Poland · 1271–1305
  33 yrs
• Francesco Crispi ↗Italian patriot and statesman · 1818–1901
  82 yrs
• John Vincent Atanasoff ↗American computer pioneer · 1903–1995
  91 yrs
• Luis Sepúlveda ↗Chilean writer · 1949–2020
  70 yrs
• Franz Jonas ↗Seventh President of Austria · 1899–1974
  74 yrs
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi ↗Italian painter · 1720–1778
  58 yrs
• Prudente de Morais ↗President of Brazil · 1841–1902
  61 yrs
• Otto Wille Kuusinen ↗Finnish communist · 1881–1964
  82 yrs
• Eliza McCardle Johnson ↗First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869 · 1810–1876
  65 yrs
• Friedrich Olbricht ↗German general · 1888–1944
  55 yrs
• Guru Ram Das ↗Guru of Sikhism · 1534–1581
  46 yrs
• Jackie Collins ↗British-American writer and actress · 1937–2015
  77 yrs
• Jeremias Gotthelf ↗Swiss novelist · 1797–1854
  57 yrs
• Félix Gouin ↗French politician and jurist, temporary Prime Minister of France · 1884–1977
  93 yrs
• William Adams ↗English navigator who travelled to Japan · 1564–1620
  55 yrs
• Alexey Andreevich Arakcheyev ↗Russian general/statesman under the reign of Alexander I · 1769–1834
  64 yrs
• Duchess Marie Sophie in Bavaria ↗Queen consort of the Two Sicilies · 1841–1925
  83 yrs
• Kazuki Takahashi ↗Japanese manga artist · 1961–2022
  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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