The 308th day of the year, the 309th in a leap year

Born on 4 November

Every 4 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.

Star sign
ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
Birthstone
Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
Birth flower
ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
Most common weekdays
Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 4 November. The marked arc is every position it has held on 4 November, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 4 November in any year.

Which weekday 4 November falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 4 November falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.

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How common a birthday 4 November is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,812 babies were born on 4 November in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 173rd 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 November

18 people born on 4 November, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Laura Bush1946–First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
Matthew McConaughey1969–American actor
Tony Abbott1957–Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
Traian Băsescu1951–President of Romania from 2004 to 2014
Luís Figo1972–Portuguese football player
Charles K. Kao1933–2018Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Achraf Hakimi1998–Moroccan-Spanish footballer
Sean Combs1969–American rapper and producer
Joseph Rotblat1908–2005Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Amadou Toumani Touré1948–2020Malian soldier and politician
Will Rogers1879–1935American humorist and entertainer
Walter Cronkite1916–2009American broadcast journalist
Matti Vanhanen1955–Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010
Thomas Klestil1932–2004Austrian diplomat and politician
Art Carney1918–2003American actor and comedian
Guido Reni1575–1642Bolognese painter
Tabu1971–Indian actress
Shakuntala Devi1929–2013Indian writer and mental calculator

Died on 4 November

12 people who died on 4 November, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Felix Mendelssohn1809–1847German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent
Yitzhak Rabin1922–1995Israeli politician, statesman and general
Gilles Deleuze1925–1995French philosopher
Michael Crichton1942–2008American author, screenwriter, film director
Gabriel Fauré1845–1924French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
Wilfred Owen1893–1918English poet and soldier
Hara Takashi1856–1921Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
René Girard1923–2015French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
Paul Delaroche1797–1856French painter
Shoghi Effendi1897–1957Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith from 1922 to 1957
Ken Hensley1945–2020British singer and guitarist
Bert Patenaude1909–1974American soccer player

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