September 4 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 4, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#136 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 4 birthdays
Anton Bruckner · Austrian composer1824
Kārlis Ulmanis · Prime Minister of Latvia and agronomist1877
Antonin Artaud · French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director1896
Max Delbrück · Biophysicist1906
Richard Wright · American novelist and poet1908
Stanford Moore · American biochemist1913
Kenzō Tange · Japanese architect1913
Ivan Illich · Austrian philosopher and theologian1926
John McCarthy · American computer scientist and cognitive scientist1927
Clive Granger · British economist1934
Rishi Kapoor · Indian actor1952
Fatih Terim · Turkish association football player and manager1953
Satoshi Tezuka · Japanese association football player and manager1958
Shinya Yamanaka · Japanese doctor and medical scientist1962
John DiMaggio · American actor1968
Giorgi Margvelashvili · Georgian politician and philosopher, fourth President of Georgia1969
Louis Aliot · French politician1969
Beyoncé · American singer-songwriter1981
Raúl Albiol · Spanish association football player1985
Yannick Carrasco · Belgian association football player1993
On this day in history
1886After more than 25 years of fighting against the United States Army and the armed forces of Mexico, Geronimo of the Chiricahua Apache surrendered at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.
1957Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
1972The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.
2002The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017.
1934Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
1951The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1967Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley.
1970Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile.
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