| 38611 | April 4 | Birth | 1897 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (d. 1975) |
| 38612 | April 4 | Birth | 1897 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American super-centenarian (d. 2012) |
| 38613 | April 4 | Birth | 1898 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) |
| 38614 | April 4 | Birth | 1899 – Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist and academic (d. 1971) |
| 38615 | April 4 | Birth | 1902 – Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French journalist and author (d. 1969) |
| 38616 | April 4 | Birth | 1902 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author and poet (d. 1935) |
| 38617 | April 4 | Birth | 1905 – Eugène Bozza, French composer and conductor (d. 1991) |
| 38618 | April 4 | Birth | 1905 – Erika Nõva, Estonian architect and engineer (d. 1987) |
| 38619 | April 4 | Birth | 1906 – Bea Benaderet, American actress and singer (d. 1968) |
| 38620 | April 4 | Birth | 1906 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist and actor (d. 1995) |
| 38621 | April 4 | Birth | 1907 – Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1981) |
| 38622 | April 4 | Birth | 1910 – Đặng Văn Ngữ, Vietnamese physician and academic (d. 1967) |
| 38623 | April 4 | Birth | 1911 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992) |
| 38624 | April 4 | Birth | 1913 – Frances Langford, American actress and singer (d. 2005) |
| 38625 | April 4 | Birth | 1913 – Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer (d. 1974) |
| 38626 | April 4 | Birth | 1913 – Jules Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (d. 1980) |
| 38627 | April 4 | Birth | 1913 – Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1983) |
| 38628 | April 4 | Birth | 1914 – Richard Coogan, American actor (d. 2014) |
| 38629 | April 4 | Birth | 1914 – Marguerite Duras, French author, screenwriter, and director (d. 1996) |
| 38630 | April 4 | Birth | 1915 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003) |
| 38631 | April 4 | Birth | 1916 – Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (d. 2005) |
| 38632 | April 4 | Birth | 1916 – Mickey Owen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2005) |
| 38633 | April 4 | Birth | 1916 – David White, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 38634 | April 4 | Birth | 1918 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (d. 2007) |
| 38635 | April 4 | Birth | 1920 – Orunamamu, American-Canadian author and educator (d. 2014) |
| 38636 | April 4 | Birth | 1920 – Ignatius IV of Antioch, Greek patriarch (d. 2012) |
| 38637 | April 4 | Birth | 1920 – Éric Rohmer, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
| 38638 | April 4 | Birth | 1921 – Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (d. 2015) |
| 38639 | April 4 | Birth | 1922 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (d. 2004) |
| 38640 | April 4 | Birth | 1923 – Peter Vaughan, English actor |