04 September: today's birthdays

• Antonin Artaud - French playwright, writer, and stage actor. He wrote The Theatre and Its Double (Le Théâtre et son Double) 
• Anton Bruckner - Austrian composer
• Roger Capron - French ceramic artist
• François-René de Chateaubriand - French writer and politician. He wrote The Genius of Christianity (Génie du christianisme).
• Dawn Lorraine Fraser - Former Australian swimmer
• Beyoncé Knowles - American singer, born Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter
• Darius Milhaud - French composer
• ​Oskar Schlemmer - German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer 
• Kenzo Tange - Japanese architect and urban planner
• Bas van de Goor - Dutch volleyball coach and former player
• Richard Wright - American writer. He wrote Uncle Tom's Children, Native Son, Black Boy, and The Outsider