| 100471 | September 4 | Birth | 1826 – Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (d. 1905) |
| 100472 | September 4 | Birth | 1832 – Antonio Agliardi, Italian cardinal (d. 1915) |
| 100473 | September 4 | Birth | 1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition (d. 1912) |
| 100474 | September 4 | Birth | 1848 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928) |
| 100475 | September 4 | Birth | 1848 – Jennie Lee, American actress (d. 1925) |
| 100476 | September 4 | Birth | 1850 – Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal (d. 1928) |
| 100477 | September 4 | Birth | 1851 – John Dillon, Irish poet and politician (d. 1927) |
| 100478 | September 4 | Birth | 1885 – Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal (d. 1971) |
| 100479 | September 4 | Birth | 1886 – Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967) |
| 100480 | September 4 | Birth | 1887 – Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946) |
| 100481 | September 4 | Birth | 1890 – Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1947) |
| 100482 | September 4 | Birth | 1890 – Naima Wifstrand, Swedish actress, singer, and director (d. 1968) |
| 100483 | September 4 | Birth | 1891 – Fritz Todt, German engineer and politician (d. 1942) |
| 100484 | September 4 | Birth | 1892 – Darius Milhaud, French composer and educator (d. 1974) |
| 100485 | September 4 | Birth | 1896 – Antonin Artaud, French actor, director, and playwright (d. 1948) |
| 100486 | September 4 | Birth | 1896 – Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of Alexander of Greece (d. 1972) |
| 100487 | September 4 | Birth | 1901 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (d. 1985) |
| 100488 | September 4 | Birth | 1902 – Thomas Mitchell, English cricketer (d. 1996) |
| 100489 | September 4 | Birth | 1905 – Mary Renault, English-South African author (d. 1983) |
| 100490 | September 4 | Birth | 1905 – Walter Zapp, Latvian-Estonian inventor, invented the Minox (d. 2003) |
| 100491 | September 4 | Birth | 1906 – Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) |
| 100492 | September 4 | Birth | 1907 – Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (d. 1991) |
| 100493 | September 4 | Birth | 1908 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (d. 1999) |
| 100494 | September 4 | Birth | 1908 – Richard Wright, American author and poet (d. 1960) |
| 100495 | September 4 | Birth | 1909 – Eduard Wirths, German physician (d. 1945) |
| 100496 | September 4 | Birth | 1910 – Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 1993) |
| 100497 | September 4 | Birth | 1912 – Syd Hoff, American author and illustrator (d. 2004) |
| 100498 | September 4 | Birth | 1912 – Alexander Liberman, Russian-American publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1999) |
| 100499 | September 4 | Birth | 1913 – Mickey Cohen, American mob boss (d. 1976) |
| 100500 | September 4 | Birth | 1913 – Victor Kiernan, English historian and academic (d. 2009) |