04 January: today's birthdays

• Louis Braille - French educator and inventor. He created a system of reading and writing for the visually impaired
• Ramon Casas - Catalan painter
• Gao Xingjian - Chinese writer and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000. He is the translator of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
• Steve Genter - American swimmer
• Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau - French chemist and politician
• Toni Kroos - German footballer 
• André Masson - French artist
• John McLaughlin - English guitarist, one of the greatest in the world
• James Milner - English professional footballer, born James Philip Milner 
• Michael Stipe - American singer. He has been He was the lead singer of rock band R.E.M.
• Jean-Pierre Vernant - French historian and anthropologist
• Paul Virilio - French philosopher and writer
• Armin Zöggeler - Italian luger