People born on January 4

Isaac Newton

English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)

Gao Xingjian

Chinese novelist and playwright (1940- )

Louis Braille

Inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired (1809-1852)

Toni Kroos

German association football player

Jacob Grimm

German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863)

Brian David Josephson

Welsh Nobel Laureate in Physics

May-Britt Moser

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist

James Milner

English association football player

Till Lindemann

German singer (born 1963)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)

Ilia II of Georgia

Patriarch of Georgia

Carlos Saura

Spanish photographer and film director

Richard R. Schrock

American chemist

Kiyotaka Matsui

Japanese association football player

Christian Kern

Austrian politician and businessman