Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist who lived from April 4, 1928 to May 28, 2014. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and she is credited with over 50 plays, movies, and television shows. She was the recipient of dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and adolescent years. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), chronicles her life up to the age of 17, and brought her international acclaim and recognition.

Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963) is an Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter better known by his stage name Graham Norton. In the United Kingdom, he is well-known for his work as a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present), and an eight-time award winner overall. His chat show, which began on BBC Two before moving to other BBC One slots, succeeded Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in BBC One's prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in 2010. Norton hosted the Saturday morning slot on BBC Radio 2 from 2010 to 2020. In 2021, he began presenting on Virgin Radio UK on Saturdays and Sundays. He has been the BBC's Eurovision Song Contest television commentator since 2009.

Prabhu Deva (born 3 April 1973) is an Indian dance choreographer, film director, producer, and actor best known for his work in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu films. He has performed and designed a wide range of dancing styles over the course of his 32-year career, and he has won two National Film Awards for Best Choreography. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019 for his contributions to dance. Prabhu Deva was born on April 3, 1973, in Mysore, Karnataka, to Mugur Sundar and Mahadevamma Sundar. Inspired by his father Mugur Sundar, a South Indian film choreographer, he began dancing and studied Indian classical dance forms such as Bharatanatyam from Dharmaraj and Udupi Lakshminarayanan, as well as Western styles.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is a producer and actor from the United States. His career has been marked by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal problems, before resuming commercial success later in his career. Time magazine named Downey one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008, and Forbes named him Hollywood's highest-paid actor from 2013 to 2015.

General of the Army Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, also known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. He lived from 3 April 1914 to 27 June 2008, and was widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"). Beginning with service in the British Indian Army during World War II, his active military career spanned four decades and five wars.

Shivaji Bhonsale I, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan who reigned from 19 February 1630 to 3 April 1680. Shivaji created the Maratha Empire by carving out an enclave from the declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur. At Raigad Fort, he was formally crowned Chhatrapati of his realm in 1674. Shivaji died on the eve of Hanuman Jayanti, approximately 3–5 April 1680, at the age of 50. The exact reason of Shivaji's death is unknown. According to British sources, Shivaji died of bloody flux after being unwell for 12 days. The documented cause of death of Shivaji is anthrax, according to a contemporaneous publication in Portuguese, the Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa. However, Krishnaji Anant Sabhasad, author of Shivaji's biography Sabhasad Bakhar, has listed fever as the cause of Shivaji's death.

André Jules Michelin, who lived from 16 January 1853 to 4 April 1931, was a French industrialist who founded the Michelin Tyre Company (Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) in 1888 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940). André Michelin published the first Michelin Guide in 1900, with the goal of promoting car tourism and thus supporting his tyre manufacturing operation. André Michelin, 33, left his successful Parisian engineering career in 1886 to take over his grandfather's failing agricultural goods and farm equipment business. Following the death of the founder in 1832, "Michelin et Cie" suffered from neglect and was on the verge of insolvency.

Although his life was cut short, his achievements as an actor, even during this little era, will be remembered for a long time by moviegoers. Heath, who made his television debut in the series 'Roar,' went on to establish his acting abilities in films such as 'The Brothers Grimm' and 'Brokeback Mountain.' His portrayal of the Joker in maverick filmmaker Christopher Nolan's blockbuster 'The Dark Knight' established him as a global household celebrity. Heath Ledger was born on April 4, 1979, in Perth, Australia, to Kim and Sally Ledger. While his mother was a French teacher, his father sought a career as a racing car driver.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, or Alibaba, is a Chinese multinational technology company that specialises in e-commerce, retail, the Internet, and technology. The company, which was founded on April 04, 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services through web portals, as well as electronic payment services, shopping search engines, and cloud computing services. It owns and operates a diverse portfolio of companies in a variety of business sectors around the world. In 1999, Jack Ma founds the Chinese online retailer Alibaba.

Smulders, Jacoba Francisca Maria "Cobie" (born April 3, 1982) is a Canadian-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014) and as S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero films, in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, as well as the ABC action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.

Carl Friedrich Benz, also known as Karl Friedrich Benz, was a German engine designer and automotive engineer who lived from 25 November 1844 to 4 April 1929. His 1885 Benz Patent Motorcar is regarded as the first practical automobile and the first car to be mass-produced. In 1886, he received a patent for the motorcar. Benz & Cie., based in Mannheim, was the world's largest automobile plant at the time. It merged with Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft in 1926 to form Daimler-Benz, which manufactures the Mercedes-Benz and other brands. Benz is widely regarded as the "Father of the Automobile" and the "Father of the Automobile Industry." Karl Benz died on April 4, 1929, at the age of 84, in his house in Ladenburg, of a bronchial inflammation. Bertha Benz remained at their last house until her death on May 5, 1944. The family stayed in the house for another thirty years.

Alexander Baldwin (born April 3, 1958) is an actor, writer, comedian, film producer, and political activist from the United States. He is the eldest of the Baldwin family's four actor brothers. Baldwin rose to prominence after starring in the sixth and seventh seasons of the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing. From 2006 to 2013, Baldwin received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, alongside Tina Fey, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards in history. In the 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, he played Stanley Kowalski.

Parveen Babi (April 4, 1954 – January 20, 2005) was an Indian model and actress. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Babi was best known for her roles in Hindi films. She was known as a glamorous fashion icon and one of the highest-paid actresses throughout her career. Babi made her acting debut in the 1973 film Charitra, and she first gained attention for her role as Neela in the drama film Majboor (1974). She made her debut as Anita in the action crime-drama film Deewaar (1975), and went on to star in numerous films throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, most notably as Jenny in Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Anu in Suhaag (1979), and Anita in Kaala Patthar (1980). (1979).

Motorola was the first business to create a mobile phone that could be held in one's hand. Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call using portable subscriber equipment on April 3, 1973, dialling Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs, his competitor. Regardless, the call marked a significant step forward in the evolution of mobile technology, but it would take another decade for the DynaTAC to reach consumers and another two decades for cell phones to surpass land lines in global usage. However, "phone" has become associated with "mobile phone," and the newest trend is toward mobile gadgets that aren't actually phones at all. Meanwhile, Google now owns Motorola's mobile division.

Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1955 until his assassination in 1968, he was the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement. He was born on January 15, 1929, and died on April 4, 1968. King, the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., advanced civil rights for people of colour in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent activism. Martin Luther King Jr was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was sent to St. Joseph's Hospital and died at 7:05 p.m.

Gurmukh Singh "Garry" Sandhu is an Indian singer, songwriter, and actor best known for his contributions to Punjabi music. In 2010, he made his singing debut with the song "Main Ni Peenda," and his acting debut with the film Romeo Ranjha (2014). Illegal Weapon, Yeah Baby, Banda Ban Ja, Excuses, and other songs have been released by him. He is also the owner of the record label Fresh Media Records. In 2019, his song "Yeah Baby" was remade as "Hauli Hauli" in the Bollywood film De De Pyaar De. He has received numerous nominations for PTC Punjabi Music Awards. According to Business Today, Sandhu's song Illegal Weapon 2.0 was one of the top YouTube music videos in India on December 14, 2020.

Edward Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is a comedian, actor, writer, producer, and singer from the United States. He rose to prominence as a regular cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has also worked as a stand-up comedian, ranking 10th on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in 48 Hrs. (1982), the Beverly Hills Cop series (1984–present), Trading Places (1983), The Nutty Professor (1996), and Dolemite Is My Name (2001). (2019). He has also received numerous accolades for his work on the fantasy comedy films Dr. Dolittle (1998) and its sequel (2001).