People born on April 4

Maya Angelou

American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

Heath Ledger

Australian actor (1979–2008)

Robert Downey Jr.

American actor (born 1965)

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, and theatre and opera director (1932-1986)

Tristan Tzara

Romanian-French Dadaist poet

Marguerite Duras

French writer and film director (1914-1996)

Sami Khedira

German association football player

Isoroku Yamamoto

Japanese Marshal Admiral

Abdullah Öcalan

Ideologist, writer and founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)

Hugo Weaving

British actor

Anthony Perkins

American actor, director, and singer (1932–1992)

Gary Moore

Northern Irish musician (1952–2011)

Comte de Lautréamont

Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)

Bettina von Arnim

German writer and novelist (1785-1859)

Manabu Saito

Japanese association football player