Born on April 4
April 4 birthdays & history
If you were born on April 4, you share a birthday with Maya Angelou, Robert Downey Jr. and Heath Ledger. April 4 babies are Aries, with diamond as their birthstone and the daisy as their birth flower. April 4 is the 95th day of the year in leap years (94th in other years).
Famous people born on April 4
- 1928Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet
- 1965Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter.
- 1979Heath Ledger, Australian actor
- 1932Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and producer
- 1914Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director
- 1987Sami Khedira, German footballer
- 1884Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral
- 1948Abdullah Öcalan, Turkish activist
- 1932Anthony Perkins, American actor
- 1960Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-Australian actor and producer
What happened on April 4
- 1081The Komnenos dynasty came to full power with the coronation of Alexios I Komnenos as Byzantine emperor.
- 1268The Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice signed a five-year peace treaty.
- 1581Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1818The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
- 1859Bryant's Minstrels premiered the minstrel song "Dixie" in New York City as part of their blackface show.
- 1860The declaration on the introduction of the Finnish markka as an official currency is read in different parts of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
- 1873The Kennel Club, the world's oldest kennel club, was founded in the United Kingdom after Sewallis Shirley became frustrated by trying to organise dog shows without a consistent set of rules.
- 1887Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 1960France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1973A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated.
- 1975Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
- 1990The current flag of Hong Kong was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
Also observed on April 4
- Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960).
- Peace Day (Angola)
- One of the possible days for Qingming Festival.
- NATO Day
Questions, answered
What star sign is April 4?
People born on April 4 are Aries. Their birthstone is diamond and their birth flower is the daisy.
Which famous people were born on April 4?
Maya Angelou (1928), Robert Downey Jr. (1965), Heath Ledger (1979), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Marguerite Duras (1914), Sami Khedira (1987) were all born on April 4.
What happened on April 4 in history?
Among other things: in 1973, A year after the completion of the second of the complex's twin towers, the World Trade Center in New York City was officially dedicated; in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800; in 1990, The current flag of Hong Kong was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
Can I get a newspaper front page from April 4?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any April 4 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “April 4”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.