List of Famous people born on May 4th
Derek Roy
Derek Leonard Roy is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is currently playing with EHC München of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Roy has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, Nashville Predators and the Edmonton Oilers. He was originally drafted in the second round, 32nd overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft.
Giovanni Mirabassi
Giovanni Mirabassi is a Paris-based Italian jazz pianist, born 4 May 1970 in Perugia, Italy. Self-taught, he learned by listening to Bud Powell, Art Tatum, and Oscar Peterson. He is strongly influenced by Enrico Pieranunzi. At seventeen, after a few important experiences in Italy, he settled in Paris in 1992.
Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is married to director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola lives on her family's winery in Napa Valley, California.
Emina Yamaguchi
Emina Yamaguchi is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-kyū.
Peter Buffett
Peter Andrew Buffett is an American musician, composer, author and philanthropist. With a career that spans more than 30 years, Buffett is an Emmy Award winner, New York Times best-selling author and co-chair of the NoVo Foundation. He is the youngest son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Prince Rainier, 6th Prince of Koháry
Prince Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, in German: Rainer Maria Joseph Florian Ignatius Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga, Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha. Cadet of a reigning German dynasty, Prince Rainer was the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry branch of the House of Wettin, heir in the female line of one of the oldest and wealthiest families of the Hungarian nobility. He is believed to have been killed in action at Budapest in 1945.
Xavier de Fürst
Xavier de Fürst, b. 1948, is a French prefect. He was the high administrator of the French government in the Wallis and Futuna islands in the South Pacific. He accepted the role and became administrator of the islands on 18 January 2005. He was succeeded by Richard Didier.
Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin
Kirill Ivanovich Shchelkin was a Soviet Georgian physicist known for his theoretical and experimental advances in combustion and gas dynamics, for his work on the first Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and for his role as the first scientific director of the Soviet nuclear weapons development centre in the Urals at Chelyabinsk-70 and deputy scientific director of the Soviet atomic bomb project.