| 125993 | November 4 | Birth | 1942 – Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist and academic |
| 125994 | November 4 | Birth | 1943 – Clark Graebner, American tennis player |
| 125995 | November 4 | Birth | 1943 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver and skier (d. 2001) |
| 125996 | November 4 | Birth | 1944 – Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995) |
| 125997 | November 4 | Birth | 1944 – Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes) |
| 125998 | November 4 | Birth | 1946 – Laura Bush, American educator, 45th First Lady of the United States |
| 125999 | November 4 | Birth | 1946 – Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer |
| 126000 | November 4 | Birth | 1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989) |
| 125971 | November 4 | Birth | 1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (d. 1987) |
| 125972 | November 4 | Birth | 1929 – Dickie Valentine, English singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 1971) |
| 125973 | November 4 | Birth | 1930 – James E. Brewton, American painter (d. 1967) |
| 125974 | November 4 | Birth | 1930 – Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (d. 2015) |
| 125975 | November 4 | Birth | 1930 – Dick Groat, American baseball player and sportscaster |
| 125976 | November 4 | Birth | 1930 – John Hahn-Petersen, Danish actor (d. 2006) |
| 125977 | November 4 | Birth | 1930 – Frank J. Prial, American journalist and author (d. 2012) |
| 125978 | November 4 | Birth | 1931 – Bernard Francis Law, Mexican-American cardinal |
| 125979 | November 4 | Birth | 1932 – Thomas Klestil, Austrian politician and diplomat, 10th President of Austria (d. 2004) |
| 125980 | November 4 | Birth | 1932 – Tommy Makem, Irish-American singer-songwriter (The Clancy Brothers) (d. 2007) |
| 125981 | November 4 | Birth | 1933 – Tito Francona, American baseball player |
| 125982 | November 4 | Birth | 1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 125983 | November 4 | Birth | 1933 – C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian colonel and politician, President of Biafra (d. 2011) |
| 125984 | November 4 | Birth | 1935 – Elgar Howarth, English conductor and composer |
| 125985 | November 4 | Birth | 1936 – C. K. Williams, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 2015) |
| 125986 | November 4 | Birth | 1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress and singer |
| 125987 | November 4 | Birth | 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian academic and politician, 31st Canadian Minister of Finance |
| 125988 | November 4 | Birth | 1939 – Gail E. Haley, American author and illustrator |
| 125989 | November 4 | Birth | 1939 – Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (d. 2015) |
| 125990 | November 4 | Birth | 1940 – Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter |
| 125991 | November 4 | Birth | 1940 – Marlène Jobert, French actress, singer, and author |
| 125992 | November 4 | Birth | 1941 – Lyndall Gordon, South African-English author and academic |