Famous People Born on May 4

10 notable figures share this birthday — from artists and athletes to world leaders and scientists. Explore their life path numbers and cosmic profiles.

Numerological profile — May 4

May 4 carries the numerological vibration of 9 — the Humanitarian. This number emerges from the combined energy of fifth-month May and the 4th day, reduced to its essential frequency. Nine contains all other numbers — it is the sum before a new cycle begins, the completion that makes the next beginning possible. It is the vibration of universal compassion, of hard-won wisdom, and of the elder who has lived through the full range of human experience and emerged not embittered but enlarged, with something genuine to offer the next generation.

May is the world at peak vitality — late spring, everything green and abundant, the year at its most expansive. In Celtic tradition, May Day marked the beginning of summer: a threshold festival of fertility, possibility, and the full opening of the natural world. May energy is celebratory, free, and radiantly alive — the sense that the world is generous and that movement in any direction will be rewarded. It is the year's most optimistic month, and that optimism is grounded in evidence. The first ten days of any month carry that month's freshest, most undiluted impulse. Born in this opening movement, you arrive before the month's energy has been worked into its more complex and weathered expressions — there is something initiatory about early-month birthdays, a quality of the seed before the flower, carrying the month's full potential in compressed form.

Artists, activists, spiritual leaders, educators, healers — anyone whose work eventually becomes about more than themselves tends to operate from this vibration. The 9 has usually lived through significant intensity before it arrives at its gift, and its wisdom is earned rather than merely acquired. People born on this date often carry a quality of having already known something before it happens — a familiarity with endings and thresholds that allows them to be present with others in their most difficult moments without flinching or turning away.

For those born on May 4, the central life tension is difficulty releasing — 9 energy often clings to what needs to be let go, whether relationships, beliefs, or identities that were once essential but have now been outgrown. The compensating gift — and it is a real one — is wisdom that has been earned through the full arc of experience, not merely read: an understanding of the human condition that makes it possible to meet others exactly where they are. The expansive, liberated energy of a world at the height of its vitality, where every direction feels possible and the year is at its most generous runs through everything this date produces, giving it a specific character that distinguishes it even from other dates sharing the same vibration. The world receives those born here as people who understand, deeply and from early on, what it means to be present with endings without turning away.

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