January 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#152 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 4 birthdays
Louis Braille · French organist and teacher1809
Katsura Tarō · Japanese general and politician1848
Carlos Saura · Spanish photographer and film director1932
Ilia II of Georgia · Patriarch of Georgia1933
Dyan Cannon · American film and television actress1937
Gao Xingjian · Chinese novelist and playwright1940
Brian Josephson · Welsh physicist1940
Richard R. Schrock · American chemist1945
Michael Stipe · American musician1960
Kiyotaka Matsui · Japanese association football player1961
May-Britt Moser · Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist1963
Till Lindemann · German singer1963
Julia Ormond · British actress1965
Christian Kern · Austrian politician and businessman1966
James Milner · English association football player1986
Toni Kroos · German former football player1990
Daryl Sabara · American actor1992
Emma Mackey · British-French actress and model1996
Jaeden Martell · American actor2003
Dafne Keen · Spanish-British actress2005
On this day in history
1853Solomon Northup regained his freedom after having been sold into slavery in the American South; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later became a bestseller.
2004Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars.
2007Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
2020Sembawang Hot Spring Park in Singapore reopened after being redeveloped by the National Parks Board.
1977The English punk-rock band Sex Pistols' lewd and disruptive behaviour at Heathrow Airport prompted the record label EMI to end their contract.
1998A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1999Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
2010The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai.
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