| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| Oleta Adams | Singer | 4-May-1962 |  | Get Here (If You Can) | 
| Luther Adler | Actor | 4-May-1903 | 8-Dec-1984 | Broadway actor | 
| Nickolas Ashford | Songwriter | 4-May-1942 | 22-Aug-2011 | Half of Ashford and Simpson | 
| Julian Barratt | Comic | 4-May-1968 |  | Daaan Aaaashcroooft | 
| Lance Bass | Singer | 4-May-1979 |  | *NSYNC, the Quiet One | 
| Gary Bauer | Government | 4-May-1946 |  | Family Research Council | 
| Gustav Bergmann | Philosopher | 4-May-1906 | 21-Apr-1987 | Ontologist | 
| Daniel A. Carp | Business | 4-May-1948 |  | CEO of Kodak, 2001-05 | 
| Frederic Edwin Church | Painter | 4-May-1826 | 7-Apr-1900 | American landscape painter | 
| Robin Cook | Novelist | 4-May-1940 |  | Coma | 
| Harry K. Daghlian | Physicist | 4-May-1921 | 15-Sep-1945 | Casualty of the Manhattan Project | 
| Dick Dale | Guitarist | 4-May-1937 |  | Surf music guitarist, Deltones | 
| Helene von Damm | Government | 4-May-1938 |  | Reagan's personal secretary | 
| Rolf de Heer | Film Director | 4-May-1951 |  | Bad Boy Bubby | 
| Mike Dirnt | Bassist | 4-May-1972 |  | Bassist for Green Day | 
| Maynard Ferguson | Jazz Musician | 4-May-1928 | 23-Aug-2006 | Jazz bandleader and trumpeter | 
| John Force | Auto Racing | 4-May-1949 |  | Funny car drag racer | 
| Kate Garraway | TV Personality | 4-May-1967 |  | GMTV | 
| Ana Gasteyer | Actor | 4-May-1967 |  | Saturday Night Live | 
| Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr. | Military | 4-May-1948 |  | Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2005-07 | 
| Paul Gleason | Actor | 4-May-1939 | 27-May-2006 | The Breakfast Club | 
| Alexander Gould | Actor | 4-May-1994 |  | Shane Botwin on Weeds | 
| Maurice R. Greenberg | Business | 4-May-1925 |  | CEO of American International Group, 1967-2005 | 
| James Greenwood | Politician | 4-May-1951 |  | Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1993-2005 | 
| Bruce Haack | Musician | 4-May-1932 | 26-Sep-1988 | The Electric Lucifer | 
| John Paul Hammerschmidt | Politician | 4-May-1922 |  | Congressman from Arkansas, 1967-93 | 
| Colleen Hanabusa | Politician | 4-May-1951 |  | Congresswoman, Hawaii 1st | 
| Keith Haring | Painter | 4-May-1958 | 16-Feb-1990 | Abstract graffiti and mural artist | 
| Henri I | Royalty | 4-May-1008 | 4-Aug-1060 | King of France, 1031-60 | 
| Audrey Hepburn | Actor | 4-May-1929 | 20-Jan-1993 | My Fair Lady | 
| Hilly Hicks | Actor | 4-May-1950 |  | Character actor | 
| Karla Homolka | Criminal | 4-May-1970 |  | Husband/wife serial killer team | 
| Jackie Jackson | Musician | 4-May-1951 |  | Tallest of the Jackson Five | 
| Katherine Jackson | Relative | 4-May-1930 |  | Matriarch of the Jackson family | 
| Mannie L. Jackson | Business | 4-May-1939 |  | Owner of the Harlem Globetrotters | 
| Jane Jacobs | Author | 4-May-1916 | 25-Apr-2006 | The Death and Life of Great American Cities | 
| Lincoln Kirstein | Author | 4-May-1907 | 5-Jan-1996 | Co-Founder, New York City Ballet | 
| Esmond Knight | Actor | 4-May-1906 | 23-Feb-1987 | The River | 
| James A. Lash | Business | 4-May-1944 |  | Manchester Principal LLC | 
| Horace Mann | Educator | 4-May-1796 | 2-Aug-1859 | Massachusetts education reformer | 
| Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. | Attorney | 4-May-1853 | 18-Feb-1927 | US Solicitor General, 1893-95 | 
| Mary Beth McDonough | Actor | 4-May-1961 |  | Erin Walton on The Waltons | 
| Rory McIlroy | Golf | 4-May-1989 |  | Winner of 2 Majors | 
| Hosni Mubarak | Head of State | 4-May-1928 |  | President of Egypt, 1981-2011 | 
| Amos Oz | Novelist | 4-May-1939 |  | Elsewhere, Perhaps | 
| A. Mitchell Palmer | Government | 4-May-1872 | 11-May-1936 | US Attorney General, Palmer Raids | 
| Emily Perkins | Actor | 4-May-1977 |  | Sue Lewis on Da Vinci's Inquest | 
| Roberta Peters | Singer | 4-May-1930 |  | Coloratura soprano, NY Metropolitan Opera | 
| Laci Peterson | Victim | 4-May-1975 | 23-Dec-2002 | Pregnant mother's body found in bay | 
| William H. Prescott | Historian | 4-May-1796 | 28-Jan-1859 | The Conquest of Mexico | 
| Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Conductor | 4-May-1931 |  | Bolshoi, Vienna Symphony, Stockholm | 
| Terry Scott | Actor | 4-May-1927 | 26-Jul-1994 | Terry and June | 
| Rocco Siffredi | Pornstar | 4-May-1964 |  | Rocco's True Anal Stories | 
| Howard Da Silva | Actor | 4-May-1909 | 16-Feb-1986 | Bartender in The Lost Weekend | 
| Kimora Lee Simmons | Fashion Designer | 4-May-1975 |  | Fabulosity | 
| Theda Skocpol | Educator | 4-May-1947 |  | Harvard sociologist, political scientist | 
| Francis Cardinal Spellman | Religion | 4-May-1889 | 2-Dec-1967 | Archbishop of New York, 1939-67 | 
| Graham Swift | Novelist | 4-May-1949 |  | Last Orders | 
| Eric Sykes | Actor | 4-May-1923 | 4-Jul-2012 | The Plank | 
| Russi Taylor | Actor | 4-May-1944 |  | Voice of Minnie Mouse | 
| Louis-Jacques Thénard | Chemist | 4-May-1777 | 21-Jun-1857 | Traité de Chimie élémentaire | 
| Randy Travis | Country Musician | 4-May-1959 |  | Country music artist, has 25 top ten hits | 
| Bob Tway | Golf | 4-May-1959 |  | Winner, 1986 PGA Championship | 
| Joseph D. Tydings | Politician | 4-May-1928 |  | US Senator from Maryland, 1965-71 | 
| George Will | Columnist | 4-May-1941 |  | Conservative pundit, baseball lover | 
| Harold Bell Wright | Novelist | 4-May-1872 | 24-May-1944 | The Winning of Barbara Worth | 
| Stephen M. Young | Politician | 4-May-1889 | 1-Dec-1984 | US Senator from Ohio, 1959-71 | 
| Pia Zadora | Singer | 4-May-1953 |  | The Clapping Song |