December 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#185 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 4 birthdays
Samuel Butler · English novelist and critic1835
Crazy Horse · Oglala Sioux chief1849
Edith Cavell · British nurse1865
Wassily Kandinsky · Avant-garde painter of Russian origin1866
Rainer Maria Rilke · Austrian poet and writer1875
Alfred Hershey · American chemist1908
Ramaswamy Venkataraman · President of India from 1987 to 19921910
Gérard Philipe · French actor1922
Albert Bandura · Canadian psychologist1925
Roh Tae-woo · President of South Korea from 1988 to 19931932
Jeff Bridges · American actor1949
Tony Todd · American actor1954
Eric S. Raymond · American programmer & open source advocate1957
Fred Ramsdell · American immunologist1960
Sergey Bubka · Ukrainian pole vaulter1963
Marisa Tomei · American actress1964
Sertab Erener · Turkish singer1964
Jay-Z · American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur1969
Tyra Banks · American television personality, producer, and former model1973
Diogo Jota · Portuguese footballer1996
On this day in history
1872The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances that remain unknown.
1992U.S. president George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
2006Six black teenagers assaulted a white student in Jena, Louisiana; the subsequent court cases became a cause célèbre for perceived racial injustice in the United States.
2012"Il Canto degli Italiani" officially became the national anthem of Italy, 66 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the Italian Republic.
1945By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
1980The English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded.
1986The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker starts leaking while at the port of Savannah, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L).
1991Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
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