04 March: today's birthdays

• Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle - American actor, producer and director
• Lucio Dalla - Italian singer-songwriter and musician, He wrote Caruso, Piazza Grande, 4 marzo 1943, Com'è profondo il mare, Caro amico ti scrivo
• James Ellroy - American crime fiction writer. He wrote The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's a Rover
• Hans Eysenck - German-born English psychologist
• François Fillon - French politician, currently Prime Minister of France
• Scott Hicks - Australian director and screenwriter born in Uganda
• Khaled Hosseini - Afghan-born American writer. He wrote The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed.
• Ryszard Kapuściński - Polish journalist, poet and writer
• Erik Lamela - Argentine professional footballer, born Erik Manuel Lamela 
• ​Bernd Leno - German professional footballer
• Miriam Makeba - South African singer
• Kyriakos Mitsotakis - Greek politician currently serving as Prime Minister of Greece
• Piotr Demianovitch Ouspensky (Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii) - Russian philosopher
• ​Paolo Virzì - Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer
• Antonio Vivaldi - Italian composer and violinist. He is the author of The Four Seasons (in Italian: Le quattro stagioni): group of four violin concerti 
• Len Wiseman - American film director and screenwriter