List of Famous people born on January 4th

Alexandre Vladimirovich "Sasha" Fadeev is a Russian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union. Fadeyev is the 1985 World champion and a four-time European champion.

Richard Michael Krause was an American physician, microbiologist, and immunologist. He was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1984. Krause later served as the dean of medicine at Emory University before returning to National Institutes of Health as a senior scientific advisor at the John E. Fogarty International Center. Krause was formerly a longtime professor at Rockefeller University.

John Emery is a Canadian bobsledder who competed in the mid-1960s. He won a gold medal in the four-man event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

Fabijan Šovagović was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer.

Zoltán Rockenbauer is a Hungarian ethnologist, art historian and politician, who served as Minister of Culture between 2000 and 2002. His father was the well-known hiker, film editor Pál Rockenbauer, the creator of the Hungarian television nature films.

Hans Bentzien (1927–2015) was a German writer and politician who served as the culture minister of East Germany from 1961 to 1966. Being a member of the ruling party Socialist Unity Party (SED), he held several political and public posts in East Germany.