March 4th, 1944

Born on March 4th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 728 days, exactly on April 23rd, 2026, people who were born on March 4th, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

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What happened on March 4th?

March 4th, 1773

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart departed Italy after the last of his three journeys there.

March 4th, 0852

Trpimir I, the founder of the Trpimirović dynasty of Croatia, issued a document that contains the first known use of the name Croats.

March 4th, 2017

Construction began on a 69-metre (226 ft) statue of the Buddha at Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen in Bangkok.

March 4th, 2009

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan was indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the War in Darfur.

March 4th, 2007

Fourteen-year-old English schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge.

March 4th, 1990

College basketball player Hank Gathers died after collapsing during a West Coast Conference tournament semifinal game in Los Angeles.

March 4th, 1987

U.S. president Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.

March 4th, 1979

The space probe Voyager 1 discovered the rings of Jupiter, the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus.

March 4th, 1966

During an interview, John Lennon of the Beatles argued that the band had become "more popular than Jesus".

March 4th, 1943

The Holocaust: Almost all Jews in Bulgarian-occupied Western Thrace were deported to Treblinka extermination camp to be killed.

March 4th, 1941

Second World War: British Commandos successfully executed a raid on the Lofoten Islands in German-occupied Norway.

March 4th, 1933

Frances Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor, making her the first female member of the Cabinet.

March 4th, 1918

A case of influenza was recorded at Camp Funston, Kansas, conventionally marking the beginning of the Spanish flu pandemic.

March 4th, 1890

The Forth Bridge, a railway bridge connecting Edinburgh to Fife over the Firth of Forth, opened, eventually becoming an internationally recognised Scottish landmark.

March 4th, 1837

Chicago was incorporated as a city.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 4th

Born on March 4th, 1944

80

Glen Baxter

Artist

*March 4th, 1944, Leeds

80

Donata Govoni

Italian sprinter

*March 4th, 1944, Pieve di Cento

80

Alfredo Arias

French actor

*March 4th, 1944, Lanús

58

Ulrich Roski

German singer songwriter (1944-2003)

*March 4th, 1944, Prüm †February 20th, 2003, Berlin

70

Bobby Womack

American singer and songwriter (1944–2014)

*March 4th, 1944, Cleveland †June 27th, 2014, Tarzana

80

Mohammad Reza Nasehi

Iranian weightlifter

*March 4th, 1944, Qom

80

Renato Luiz Rodrigues Marques

Brazilian diplomat

*March 4th, 1944, Rio Grande

80

Elke Back

German ballet dancer

*March 4th, 1944, Wiesbaden

80

Aldo Rico

Argentine politician and army officer

*March 4th, 1944, Buenos Aires

80

Len Walker

English footballer and manager (born 1944)

*March 4th, 1944, Darlington

80

André Betta

French footballer

*March 4th, 1944, Beaune

80

Anthony Ichiro Sanda

Japanese-American Physicist

*March 4th, 1944, Tokyo

80

Robert Muchembled

French historian

*March 4th, 1944, Liévin

55

Harvey Postlethwaite

British Engineer and Technical Director

*March 4th, 1944, Barnet †April 15th, 1999, Barcelona

80

Dale Lovick

Canadian politician

*March 4th, 1944, Vancouver

80

Shin'ya Fujiwara

Japanese photographer

*March 4th, 1944, Moji-ku

80

Judie Brown

American activist

*March 4th, 1944, Los Angeles

76

Dušan Bartovič

Slovak footballer (1944-2020)

*March 4th, 1944, Veľké Kostoľany †April 1st, 2020

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Who's birthday is on March 4th?

81

Katsuto Momii

Japanese businessman

*March 4th, 1943, Kama

63

Steven Weber

American actor (1961-)

*March 4th, 1961, Briarwood

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

61

Daniel Roebuck

American actor and writer

*March 4th, 1963, Bethlehem

84

Brunella Bovo

Italian actress

*March 4th, 1932, Padua †February 21st, 2017, Rome

60

Linda French

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1964, Elmhurst

76

James Ellroy

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist

*March 4th, 1948, Los Angeles

74

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

73

Kenny Dalglish

Scottish association football player and manager

*March 4th, 1951, Glasgow

46

Chris Blair

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1978, Invercargill

41

Michelle Butler-Emmett

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1983, Durban

43

Jürgen Wouters

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1981, Gilze en Rijen

93

Henri de Contenson

French archaeologist

*March 4th, 1926, 16th arrondissement of Paris †September 8th, 2019, 16th arrondissement of Paris

30

Caroline Black

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1994, Lisburn

29

Jennifer Karnott

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1995, Birkesdorf

69

Dominique Pinon

French actor

*March 4th, 1955, Saumur

71

Emilio Estefan

American musician

*March 4th, 1953, Havana

86

Alpha Condé

President of Guinea from 2010 to 2021

*March 4th, 1938, Boké

49

Mats Eilertsen

Musician, composer

*March 4th, 1975, Trondheim

28

Ekaterina Kut

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1996, Orekhovo-Zuyevo

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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