May 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#336 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 4 birthdays
Thomas Henry Huxley · British biologist and comparative anatomist1825
Frederic Edwin Church · American landscape painter1826
Kakuei Tanaka · Japanese politician1918
Hosni Mubarak · President of Egypt from 1981 to 20111928
Audrey Hepburn · British actress1929
Ronald Golias · Brazilian actor and comedian1929
Dick Dale · American surf rock guitarist1937
Amos Oz · Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual1939
Richard Jenkins · American actor1947
George Tupou V · King of Tonga1948
Keith Haring · American artist and social activist1958
Werner Faymann · Austrian politician1960
Rocco Siffredi · Italian pornographic actor1964
Mike Dirnt · American musician1972
Yasuhiro Hato · Japanese association football player1976
Masashi Oguro · Japanese association football player and manager1980
Fernandinho · Brazilian footballer1985
Cesc Fàbregas · Spanish professional footballer player and manager1987
Jorge Lorenzo · Spanish professional motorcycle road racer1987
Radja Nainggolan · Belgian association football player1988
On this day in history
1776American Revolution: The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown.
2000Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London.
2015The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House.
2019The inaugural race of the W Series took place at Hockenheimring, Germany, and was won by Jamie Chadwick, who later became the season's champion.
1919The May Fourth Movement began in China with large-scale student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
1961American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1974An all-female Japanese team reached the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas, becoming the first women to climb a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
1979Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
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