--- title: "May 4 Birthday: Zodiac Sign, Personality and Numerology" description: "May 4 birthday meaning: Taurus decan 2, birthday number 4, Life Path by year, Chinese zodiac note and famous birthdays." canonical: https://unifiedreading.com/birthday/may-4 last-updated: 2026-10-23 reviewed: false author: Unified Reading editorial --- # May 4 Birthday: Zodiac Sign, Personality and Numerology In Western astrology, a May 4 birthday falls in Taurus, in the second decan, with Venus as the sign's ruler and Mercury as the decan's. In numerology the day gives birthday number 4. The Life Path also uses the birth year. Taurus is fixed and earth. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Sun sign | Taurus in every year from 1930 to 2030 | | Decan | Taurus decan 2 (Mercury) | | Sun's position at noon UTC | About 13° Taurus | | Taurus · element · modality · ruler | Earth · Fixed · Venus | | Birthday number | 4 | | Life Path by birth year | 1960: 7 · 1970: 8 · 1980: 9 · 1990: 1 · 2000: 11 · 2010: 3 · 2020: 4 | | Chinese zodiac | After Lunar New Year, so the animal is the birth year's own | | Born on this day | Audrey Hepburn (1929), Hosni Mubarak (1928), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825) | ## May 4 zodiac sign and personality Four is the builder's number, and Taurus is the builder's sign, so the 4th of May doubles down on structure. With the Sun around thirteen degrees into the Bull and Mercury colouring the decan, the instinct is to plan carefully, then execute without fuss. Traditional readings describe a dependable, methodical temperament that can mistake stubbornness for principle when tired. On May 4 the Sun usually sits at about 13° Taurus, in the second decan, where Mercury is the sub-ruler alongside Venus. Mercury, the ruler of Virgo, acts as sub-ruler for Taurus between 10 and 19 degrees, roughly the first ten days of May. That pairing brings a practical intelligence to the sign's patience. These Taureans are frequently pictured as craftspeople at heart: they like to learn how something works, refine it and make it last. Speech tends to be measured and grounded in specifics. The Virgoan undertone can add a critical eye, which is helpful in a workshop or a spreadsheet and sometimes less welcome at the dinner table. Their gift is turning ideas into durable, useful things that other people can rely on for years. ## May 4 in numerology A 4th-of-the-month birthday gives a birthday number of 4, with no further reduction needed. In numerology the birth day acts as a supplementary number, describing practical talents that sit beside the Life Path. The 4 stands for the square: four walls, four seasons, a stable base. Anyone born on the 4th is often pictured as organised, trustworthy and good at turning plans into schedules. They tend to prefer a method that has been tested to one that merely sounds exciting. The growing edge for 4s is usually flexibility, letting the structure bend when circumstances genuinely change. The Life Path, the main number in a numerology chart, also uses the birth year, so it changes from one May 4 birthday to the next: it is 7 for 1960, 8 for 1970, 9 for 1980 and 1 for 1990, for example. Some birth years on this date reach the master number 11. ## Born on May 4: season, famous birthdays and Chinese zodiac May brings late spring in the northern hemisphere, a season of blossom and long evenings, and late autumn to the southern. Taurus holds the first three weeks, with Gemini arriving around May 20 or 21. In numerology May is month 5, the number of freedom, curiosity and change, which tends to give these birthdays a restless, experimental streak beneath the calm Taurean surface. May 4 is the 124th day of the year (125th in a leap year). By May 21, 17 days later, the Sun has usually moved on into Gemini. For the Chinese zodiac, Lunar New Year has always passed by May 4, so the animal is simply the one for the birth year. Well-known people born on May 4 include Audrey Hepburn (1929), Hosni Mubarak (1928) and Thomas Henry Huxley (1825). ## Frequently asked questions ### What zodiac sign is May 4? May 4 is Taurus in every year from 1930 to 2030, wherever you were born. It falls in the second decan of Taurus, which tradition links with Mercury. ### What is the Life Path number for someone born on May 4? It depends on the birth year. On May 4 the Life Path is 7 in 1960, 8 in 1970, 9 in 1980, 1 in 1990, 11 in 2000, 3 in 2010 and 4 in 2020. The birthday number, from the day alone, is 4 for everyone born on the 4th. ### What Chinese zodiac sign is someone born on May 4? Chinese astrology is straightforward for a May 4 birthday: the new year began weeks earlier, so the birth year's own animal applies. ### Which famous people were born on May 4? May 4 is also the birthday of Audrey Hepburn (1929), Hosni Mubarak (1928) and Thomas Henry Huxley (1825). 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The preview is free at https://unifiedreading.com/#details; the full reading is $4.99, paid once through Stripe, with no subscription. A fictional sample is at https://unifiedreading.com/sample. With a birth time and place it adds whole sign houses and the chart ruler; it does not calculate planetary aspects or transits, and it is a framework for reflection, not a prediction.