The 247th day of the year, the 248th in a leap year

Born on 4 September

Every 4 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.

Star sign
VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
Birthstone
SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
Most common weekdays
Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 4 September. The marked arc is every position it has held on 4 September, 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 September in any year.

Which weekday 4 September falls on

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

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How common a birthday 4 September is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,857 babies were born on 4 September in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 73rd 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 September

18 people born on 4 September, 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
Beyoncé1981–American singer-songwriter
Al-Biruni973–104811th-century Persian scholar and polymath
François-René de Chateaubriand1768–1848French writer, politician and historian
Anton Bruckner1824–1896Austrian composer
Giorgi Margvelashvili1969–Georgian politician and philosopher, fourth President of Georgia (2013–2018)
Antonin Artaud1896–1948French poet, playwright, actor and theatre director
Raúl Albiol1985–Spanish association football player
John McCarthy1927–2011American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
Juliusz Słowacki1809–1849Polish Romantic poet
Kenzō Tange1913–2005Japanese architect
Max Delbrück1906–1981biophysicist
Shinya Yamanaka1962–Japanese doctor and medical scientist
Alexander III of Scotland1241–1286King of Scots 1249–1286
Ivan Illich1926–2002Austrian philosopher and theologian
Yannick Carrasco1993–Belgian association football player
Stanford Moore1913–1982American biochemist
Clive Granger1934–2009British economist
Fatih Terim1953–Turkish association football player and manager

Died on 4 September

11 people who died on 4 September, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965French-German physician, theologian, musician, and philosopher
Edvard Grieg1843–1907Norwegian composer and pianist
Georges Simenon1903–1989Belgian writer
Joan Rivers1933–2014American comedian, actress, and television host
Steve Irwin1962–2006Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
Giorgio Armani1934–2025Italian fashion designer
Pope Boniface Idied 422Pope from 418 to 422
Robert Schuman1886–1963Luxembourg-born French statesman
Marcel Achard1899–1974French writer
Giacinto Facchetti1942–2006Italian association football player
Irene Dunne1898–1990American actress and singer

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