The 124th day of the year, the 125th in a leap year
Born on 4 May
Every 4 May birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- EmeraldThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Lily of the valley, HawthornUsually taken today to mean returning happiness and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 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 May in any year.
Which weekday 4 May falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 4 May falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 4 May is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,776 babies were born on 4 May in each year of the twenty, making it the 297th 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 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Audrey Hepburn | 1929–1993 | British actress |
| Hosni Mubarak | 1928–2020 | President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | 1825–1895 | British biologist and comparative anatomist |
| Umm Kulthum | 1904–1975 | Egyptian singer and actress |
| Cesc Fàbregas | 1987– | Spanish football manager and former player |
| Amos Oz | 1939–2018 | Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual |
| Werner Faymann | 1960– | Austrian politician who was Chancellor of Austria and chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria |
| Fernandinho | 1985– | Brazilian footballer |
| Keith Haring | 1958–1990 | American artist and social activist |
| Kakuei Tanaka | 1918–1993 | Japanese politician |
| Mike Dirnt | 1972– | American musician |
| Radja Nainggolan | 1988– | Belgian association football player |
| George Tupou V | 1948–2012 | King of Tonga |
| Bartolomeo Cristofori | 1655–1731 | Italian maker of musical instruments |
| Jorge Lorenzo | 1987– | Spanish professional motorcycle road racer |
| Ruth Negga | 1981– | Ethiopian-Irish actress |
| Wang Jingwei | 1883–1944 | Chinese politician, leader of Wang Jingwei regime |
| John Hanning Speke | 1827–1864 | British military officer and explorer |
Died on 4 May
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Josip Broz Tito | 1892–1980 | Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman |
| Carl von Ossietzky | 1889–1938 | German journalist, author, pacifist and recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize |
| Christian de Duve | 1917–2013 | Belgian biochemist, cytologist |
| Tipu Sultan | 1751–1799 | Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799 |
| Joseph Joubert | 1754–1824 | French moralist and essayist |
| Kanō Jigorō | 1860–1938 | Japanese educator and judoka |
| Fedor von Bock | 1880–1945 | German field marshal |
| Edward Calvin Kendall | 1886–1972 | American chemist |
| Isaac Barrow | 1630–1677 | English Christian theologian and mathematician |
| George Enescu | 1881–1955 | Romanian composer and violinist |
| E. Nesbit | 1858–1924 | English author and poet |
| Milan Rastislav Štefánik | 1880–1919 | Slovak politician, diplomat, French Army general and astronomer |
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