November 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#232 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 4 birthdays
Will Rogers · American humorist and entertainer1879
Joseph Rotblat · Polish-born British-naturalised physicist1908
Gig Young · American actor1913
Walter Cronkite · American broadcast journalist1916
Ruth Handler · American businesswoman1916
Art Carney · American actor and comedian1918
Martin Balsam · American actor1919
Doris Roberts · American actress1925
Charles K. Kao · Hong Kong-British-American physicist1933
Laura Bush · First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 20091946
Amadou Toumani Touré · Malian soldier and politician1948
Traian Băsescu · President of Romania from 2004 to 20141951
David Julius · American physiologist and Nobel laureate 20211955
Matti Vanhanen · Finnish politician and the 40th prime minister of Finland1955
Tony Abbott · Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 20151957
Ralph Macchio · American actor1961
Matthew McConaughey · American actor1969
Sean Combs · American rapper and producer1969
Luís Figo · Portuguese football player and philatelist1972
Achraf Hakimi · Moroccan-Spanish footballer1998
On this day in history
1912The keel of USS Nevada was laid down, beginning construction on the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought".
1924In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
1970Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
2008Barack Obama became the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
1964Ruhollah Khomeini was arrested by SAVAK, the Iranian secret police, and exiled to Turkey.
1980Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
2002Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2016The Paris Agreement, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, came into effect.
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