Famous people born on 4 January

• Isaac NewtonEnglish mathematician and physicist · 1643–1727
  84 yrs
• Louis BrailleFrench organist and teacher (1809-1852), inventor of braille, a system for reading and writing text and music, used by people who are blind or visually impaired · 1809–1852
  43 yrs
• Jacob GrimmGerman philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist · 1785–1863
  78 yrs
• Carlos Saura ↗Spanish photographer and film director · 1932–2023
  91 yrs
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ↗Italian composer, violinist and organist · 1710–1736
  26 yrs
• Katsura Tarō ↗Japanese general and politician · 1848–1913
  65 yrs
• Günter Schabowski ↗German politician · 1929–2015
  86 yrs
• Georg Elser ↗German opponent of Nazism, planned and carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939 · 1903–1945
  42 yrs
• Julian Sands ↗English actor · 1958–2023
  65 yrs
• Victor Lustig ↗Czech fraudster · 1890–1947
  57 yrs
• Zurab Tsereteli ↗Georgian painter, sculptor, and architect · 1934–2025
  91 yrs
• Benjamin Rush ↗American physician, educator, and author · 1746–1813
  67 yrs
• André Masson ↗French painter · 1896–1987
  91 yrs
• Josef Suk ↗Czech composer and violinist · 1874–1935
  61 yrs
• John I of Aragon ↗King of Aragon · 1351–1396
  45 yrs
• Peter Steele ↗American musician · 1962–2010
  48 yrs
• Floyd Patterson ↗American heavyweight boxer · 1935–2006
  71 yrs
• Gianni Vattimo ↗Italian philosopher and politician · 1936–2023
  87 yrs
• Johan August Arfwedson ↗Swedish chemist · 1792–1841
  49 yrs
• Malietoa Tanumafili II ↗Malietoa in Samoa · 1913–2007
  94 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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