February 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#262 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 4 birthdays
Friedrich Ebert · German politician, president of Germany1871
Kliment Voroshilov · Soviet marshal and politician1881
Ludwig Erhard · Chancellor of West Germany1897
Jacques Prévert · French poet and screenwriter1900
Charles Lindbergh · American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist1902
Clyde Tombaugh · American astronomer1906
Rosa Parks · Civil rights activist1913
Yahya Khan · Former Pakistani president1917
Betty Friedan · American feminist writer and activist1921
Lotfi A. Zadeh · American electrical engineer and computer scientist1921
Conrad Bain · Canadian-American actor, personality, entertainer, and activist1923
Isabel Perón · First female president of Argentina from 1974 to 19761931
George A. Romero · Canadian-American filmmaker1940
Ken Thompson · American programmer and computer scientist1943
Dan Quayle · Vice president of the United States from 1989 to 19931947
Alice Cooper · American singer1948
Jerome Powell · American financier1953
Shigeru Ishiba · President of the Liberal Democratic Party from 2024 to 2025 and Prime1957
Hunter Biden · American businessman and lobbyist1970
Oscar De La Hoya · American boxer and boxing promoter1973
On this day in history
1801John Marshall, whose court opinions helped lay the basis for U.S. constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a coequal branch of government, took office as chief justice.
1899The Philippine–American War began when an American soldier, under orders to keep insurgents away from his unit's encampment, fired on a Filipino soldier in Manila.
1945World War II: American forces liberated the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, the largest Japanese-run internment camp for enemy civilians in the Philippines.
1999The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history.
1861American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six breakaway U.S. states meet and initiate the process that would form the Confederate States of America on February 8.
1941The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1969Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1992A coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
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