March 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#292 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 4 birthdays
Soong Mei-ling · Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China1898
George Gamow · Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist1904
Miriam Makeba · South African singer and civil rights activist1932
Ryszard Kapuściński · Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author1932
Jim Clark · British racecar driver1936
Alpha Condé · President of Guinea from 2010 to 20211938
James Ellroy · American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist1948
Sergei Bagapsh · Abkhazian politician1949
Rick Perry · American politician1950
Kenny Dalglish · Scottish association football player and manager1951
Chris Rea · English male singer-songwriter and guitarist1951
Catherine O'Hara · Canadian-American actress1954
François Fillon · Prime minister of France1954
Jason Newsted · American musician1963
Khaled Hosseini · Afghan novelist1965
Kyriakos Mitsotakis · Greek politician1968
Landon Donovan · American soccer player1982
Draymond Green · American basketball player1990
Bernd Leno · German association football player1992
Erik Lamela · Argentine association football player1992
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: Using artillery transported from Ticonderoga, the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights, forcing the British to abandon Boston two weeks later.
1918A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, United States, conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu pandemic.
1933Frances Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor, making her the first female member of the Cabinet.
1987U.S. president Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
1990Lennox Sebe, President for life of the South African Bantustan of Ciskei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by Brigadier Oupa Gqozo.
2000Playstation 2 was released in Japan.
2007Fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge.
2017Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.
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