List of Famous people born on January 4th

Mario Vegetti was an Italian historian of philosophy.

Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. is an American educator and politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Education, and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet.

Brian David Josephson is a Welsh theoretical physicist and professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and quantum tunnelling, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his prediction of the Josephson effect, made in 1962 when he was a 22-year-old PhD student at Cambridge University. Josephson is the only Welshman to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He shared the prize with physicists Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, who jointly received half the award for their own work on quantum tunnelling.

Aaron Joseph Russell is an American volleyball player, member of the United States men's national volleyball team and Italian club Gas Sales Piacenza. He was part of the bronze medalist winning USA team at the 2016 Olympic Games.

Ingemar Skogö was a Swedish civil servant. Born in Tranås, Skogö was a graduate of Lund University. He served as the Governor of Västmanland County from 2009 to 2015. Skogö was also the Director-General of the Civil Aviation Administration from 1992 to 2001, and the Swedish Road Administration from 2001 to 2009.

Zhang Jiewen is a Chinese former badminton player.

Martin Vidnovic is an American actor and singer.

Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, was a German jurist and musician.