The 4th day of the year
Born on 4 January
Every 4 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Capricorn, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CapricornEarth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Wednesday16 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 January in any year.
Which weekday 4 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 4 January falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Wednesday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Monday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 4 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,834 babies were born on 4 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 115th 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Isaac Newton | 1643–1727 | English mathematician and physicist; born 4 January 1643 in the Gregorian calendar, 25 December 1642 in the Julian |
| Gao Xingjian | 1940– | Chinese novelist and playwright |
| Louis Braille | 1809–1852 | French educator and inventor of braille |
| Toni Kroos | 1990– | German former football player |
| Jacob Grimm | 1785–1863 | German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist |
| Brian Josephson | 1940– | Welsh physicist |
| James Milner | 1986– | English association football player |
| Till Lindemann | 1963– | German singer |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1710–1736 | Italian composer, violinist and organist |
| Carlos Saura | 1932–2023 | Spanish photographer and film director |
| Richard R. Schrock | 1945– | American chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry |
| Katsura Tarō | 1848–1913 | Japanese general and politician |
| Julia Ormond | 1965– | British actress |
| Dyan Cannon | 1937– | American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer |
| Michael Stipe | 1960– | American musician |
| Dafne Keen | 2005– | Spanish-British actress |
| Rudolf Schuster | 1934– | President of Slovakia from 1999 to 2004 |
| Jaeden Martell | 2003– | American actor |
Died on 4 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Camus | 1913–1960 | French philosopher, author, and journalist |
| Erwin Schrödinger | 1887–1961 | Austrian physicist |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888–1965 | US-British poet |
| Henri Bergson | 1859–1941 | French philosopher |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843–1920 | Spanish realist novelist |
| Moses Mendelssohn | 1729–1786 | German-Jewish philosopher and theologian |
| Glynis Johns | 1923–2024 | British actress |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt | 1794–1877 | American businessman and tycoon |
| Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies | 1751–1825 | King of Naples (1759-1806, 1815-1816), Sicily (1759-1816), and the Two Sicilies (1816-1825) |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904–1986 | British-American novelist |
| Georg von Hertling | 1843–1919 | German chancellor |
| Tanya Roberts | 1949–2021 | American actress |
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