July 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#363 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 4 birthdays
Nathaniel Hawthorne · American author1804
Giuseppe Garibaldi · Italian general, patriot and republican1807
Henrietta Swan Leavitt · American astronomer and human calculator1868
Calvin Coolidge · President of the United States from 1923 to 19291872
Gulzarilal Nanda · Indian politician1898
Gloria Stuart · American actress1910
Robert K. Merton · American sociologist1910
Eva Marie Saint · American actress1924
Alfredo Di Stéfano · Argentine-Spanish association football player1926
Gina Lollobrigida · Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician1927
Neil Simon · American playwright, writer, and academic1927
Thomas Nagel · American philosopher1937
Queen Sonja of Norway · Queen of Norway, from 1991 to 20261937
Bill Withers · American musician1938
Álvaro Uribe · 39.º President of Colombia from 2002 to 20101952
Victoria Abril · Spanish actress1959
Edi Rama · Prime Minister of Albania since 20131964
Nina Badrić · Croatian singer1972
Mick Wingert · American voice actor1974
Post Malone · American singer and rapper1995
On this day in history
1863American Civil War: Confederate forces failed in an attempt to recapture the Union-occupied Helena, Arkansas.
1998The monster movie Pulgasari, the most-widely-seen North Korean film ever made, premiered in Tokyo, Japan.
2004The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2024Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the United Kingdom general election, ending fourteen years of Conservative rule.
1966U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
1982Space Shuttle program: Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the program's final test flight, STS-4. President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
1988Kylie Minogue's first album, Kylie, was released, and went on to top the charts in the UK and New Zealand.
1997NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
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