The 94th day of the year, the 95th in a leap year
Born on 4 April
Every 4 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 4 April in any year.
Which weekday 4 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 4 April falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 4 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 4 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,806 babies were born on 4 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 190th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 4 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Maya Angelou | 1928–2014 | American poet, author, and civil rights activist |
| Robert Downey Jr. | 1965– | American actor |
| Heath Ledger | 1979–2008 | Australian actor |
| Andrei Tarkovsky | 1932–1986 | Soviet film director and screenwriter |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914–1996 | French writer and film director |
| Sami Khedira | 1987– | German association football player |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | 1884–1943 | Japanese Marshal Admiral |
| Abdullah Öcalan | 1948– | founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) |
| Anthony Perkins | 1932–1992 | American actor |
| Hugo Weaving | 1960– | English actor |
| Gary Moore | 1952–2011 | Northern Irish musician |
| Muddy Waters | 1913–1983 | American blues musician |
| Bettina von Arnim | 1785–1859 | German writer and novelist |
| Comte de Lautréamont | 1846–1870 | Uruguayan-born French poet |
| Aki Kaurismäki | 1957– | Finnish film director |
| Remy de Gourmont | 1858–1915 | French writer |
| Daniel Cohn-Bendit | 1945– | German/French journalist and politician |
| Jamie Lynn Spears | 1991– | American actress and singer |
Died on 4 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1929–1968 | American Baptist minister and civil rights leader |
| William Henry Harrison | 1773–1841 | president of the United States in 1841 |
| Carl Benz | 1844–1929 | German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer |
| Roger Ebert | 1942–2013 | American film critic and author |
| Ambrose | 339–397 | Roman theologian and Bishop of Milan |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | 1928–1979 | 4th President and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1853–1932 | Baltic German chemist |
| Gloria Swanson | 1899–1983 | American actress |
| John Napier | 1550–1617 | Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer |
| Isidore of Seville | 560–636 | Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728–1774 | Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician |
| Pope Formosus | 816–896 | pope |
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