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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
210 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1411 –
King Charles VI granted
a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as
they had been doing for centuries.[1] ·
1561 –
The steeple of St Paul's,
the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a
fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt. ·
1615 – Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. ·
1745 – Battle of
Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an
Austrian army under Prince
Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the
Austrian Succession. ·
1760 – Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim
land in Nova Scotia,
Canada, taken from the Acadians. ·
1783 –
The Montgolfier brothers publicly
demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon). ·
1784 – Élisabeth Thible becomes
the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers
four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated). ·
1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great
Britain. ·
1802 –
King Charles
Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his
brother, Victor
Emmanuel. ·
1812 –
Following Louisiana's admittance
as a U.S. state,
the Louisiana Territory is
renamed the Missouri Territory. ·
1825 – General
Lafayette, a French officer in the American
Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette
Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States. ·
1855 –
Major Henry C. Wayne departs
New York aboard the USS Supply to
procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps. ·
1859 – Italian
Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta,
the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army. ·
1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops
evacuate Fort Pillow on
the Mississippi River,
leaving the way clear for Union troops
to take Memphis, Tennessee. ·
1876 –
An express train called the Transcontinental
Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First
Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after
leaving New York City. ·
1878 – Cyprus Convention:
The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but
retains nominal title. ·
1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered
automobile, and gives it a successful test run. ·
1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state
of the United States to set a minimum wage. ·
1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains
consciousness, and dies four days later. ·
1916 – World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with
an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia. ·
1917 –
The first Pulitzer Prizes are
awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive
the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives
the first Pulitzer for history for his work With
Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first
Pulitzer for journalism for
his work for the New York World. ·
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves
the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
which guarantees suffrage to women,
and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. ·
1920 – Hungary loses 71% of its territory and
63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is
signed in Paris. ·
1928 –
The President
of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese
agents. ·
1932 – Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean
military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the
short-lived Socialist
Republic of Chile. ·
1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying
963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already
being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to
Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps. ·
1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends:
British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale
of the country, Winston Churchill delivers,
only to the House
of Commons, his famous "We shall
fight on the beaches" speech. ·
1942 –
World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The
Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders
a strike on Midway Island by
much of the Imperial Japanese
Navy. ·
1943 –
A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo. ·
1944 –
World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the
German submarine U-505:
The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since
the 19th century. ·
1944
– World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome,
although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north. ·
1961 – Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks
the Berlin Crisis by
threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American,
British and French access to East Berlin. ·
1967 –
Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4
Argonaut crashes at
Stockport in England. ·
1970 – Tonga gains independence from the
United Kingdom. ·
1975 –
The Governor of
California Jerry Brown signs
the California
Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in
the U.S. giving farmworkers collective
bargaining rights. ·
1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. ·
1983 – Gordon Kahl, who killed two US
Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on
February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas,
along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt. ·
1986 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United
States military
intelligence to Israel. ·
1988 –
Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500. ·
1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected as the
new Supreme Leader of
the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after
the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ·
1989
– The Tiananmen
Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's
Liberation Army, with between 241 and 1,000 dead (an unofficial
estimate). ·
1989
– Solidarity's
victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war
Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the
so-called Contract Sejm and
begins the Autumn of Nations. ·
1989
– Ufa train disaster:
A natural gas explosion near Ufa,
Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky
pipeline. ·
1996 –
The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes
after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. ·
1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in
prison for his role in the Oklahoma City
bombing. ·
2010 – Falcon 9 Flight 1 is
the maiden flight of
the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex
40. Births[edit] ·
1394 – Philippa of England,
Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)[2] ·
1489 – Antoine, Duke
of Lorraine (d. 1544) ·
1563 – George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith (d. 1624) ·
1604 – Claudia de' Medici,
Italian daughter of Christina of
Lorraine (d. 1648) ·
1665 – Zacharie
Robutel de La Noue, Canadian captain (d. 1733) ·
1694 – François Quesnay,
French economist and physician (d. 1774) ·
1704 – Benjamin Huntsman,
English inventor and businessman (d. 1776) ·
1738 – George
III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820) ·
1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed
the Ferguson rifle (d.
1780) ·
1754 – Miguel de Azcuénaga,
Argentinian soldier (d. 1833) ·
1754
– Franz Xaver von Zach,
Slovak astronomer and academic (d. 1832) ·
1787 – Constant Prévost,
French geologist and academic (d. 1856) ·
1801 – James Pennethorne,
English architect, designed Victoria Park (d.
1871) ·
1821 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright
(d. 1897) ·
1829 – Jinmaku
Kyūgorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (d. 1903) ·
1854 – Solko van den Bergh,
Dutch target shooter (d. 1916) ·
1860 – Alexis Lapointe, Canadian runner (d. 1924) ·
1861 – William Propsting,
Australian politician, 20th Premier of Tasmania (d.
1937) ·
1866 – Miina Sillanpää,
Finnish journalist and politician (d. 1952) ·
1867 – Carl Gustaf
Emil Mannerheim, Finnish general and politician, 6th President of Finland (d.
1951) ·
1873 – Nictzin Dyalhis, American author (d.1942) ·
1877 – Heinrich Otto
Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1957) ·
1879 – Mabel Lucie Attwell,
English author and illustrator (d. 1964) ·
1880 – Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962) ·
1885 – Arturo Rawson, Argentinian general and
politician, 26th President of
Argentina (d. 1952) ·
1887 – Tom Longboat, Canadian runner and soldier
(d. 1949) ·
1889 – Beno Gutenberg, German-American seismologist
(d. 1960) ·
1903 – Yevgeny Mravinsky,
Russian conductor (d. 1988) ·
1904 – Bhagat Puran Singh,
Indian publisher, environmentalist, and philanthropist (d. 1992) ·
1907 – Jacques Roumain, Haitian journalist and
politician (d. 1944) ·
1907
– Rosalind Russell,
American actress (d. 1976) ·
1907
– Patience Strong,
English poet and journalist (d. 1990) ·
1910 – Christopher
Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (d. 1999) ·
1912 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter
(d. 1993) ·
1915 – Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (d.
2006) ·
1915
– Modibo Keïta,
Malian educator and politician, 1st President of Mali (d.
1977) ·
1915
– Nils Kihlberg,
Swedish actor, singer, and director (d. 1965) ·
1916 – Robert F. Furchgott,
American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2009) ·
1916
– Fernand Leduc,
Canadian painter (d. 2014) ·
1917 – Robert Merrill, American actor and singer
(d. 2004) ·
1921 – Milan Komar, Slovenian-Argentinian
philosopher and academic (d. 2006) ·
1921
– Bobby Wanzer,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Elizabeth Jolley, English-Australian author
and academic (d. 2007) ·
1923
– Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese karateka (d.
1994) ·
1924 – Tofilau Eti Alesana,
Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of
Samoa (d. 1999) ·
1924
– Dennis Weaver,
American actor and director (d. 2006) ·
1925 – Antonio Puchades, Spanish footballer (d.
2013) ·
1926 – Robert Earl Hughes,
American who was the
heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world during his lifetime (d.
1958) ·
1926
– Ain Kaalep, Estonian poet, playwright, and
critic (d. 2020) ·
1926
– Judith Malina,
German-American actress and director, co-founded The Living Theatre (d.
2015) ·
1927 – Henning Carlsen, Danish director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1927
– Geoffrey Palmer,
English actor ·
1928 – Ruth Westheimer, German-American therapist
and author ·
1929 – Karolos Papoulias,
Greek lawyer and politician, 5th President of Greece ·
1930 – George Chesworth, English air marshal and
politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Moray (d. 2017) ·
1930
– Morgana King,
American singer and actress (d. 2018) ·
1930
– Viktor
Tikhonov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014) ·
1931 – Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist
and academic ·
1932 – John Drew Barrymore,
American actor (d. 2004) ·
1932
– Oliver Nelson,
American saxophonist and composer (d. 1975) ·
1932
– Maurice Shadbolt,
New Zealand author and playwright (d. 2004) ·
1934 – Monica Dacon, Vincentian educator and
politician, 6th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ·
1934
– Daphne Sheldrick,
Kenyan-British conservationist and author (d. 2018) ·
1935 – Colette Boky, Canadian soprano and actress ·
1935
– Berhanu Dinka,
Ethiopian economist and diplomat (d. 2013) ·
1936 – Vince Camuto, American fashion designer and
businessman, co-founded Nine West (d.
2015) ·
1936
– Bruce Dern, American actor ·
1937 – Freddy Fender, American singer and guitarist
(d. 2006) ·
1937
– Mortimer Zuckerman,
Canadian-American businessman and publisher, founded Boston Properties ·
1938 – John Harvard,
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Lieutenant
Governor of Manitoba (d. 2016) ·
1938
– Art Mahaffey,
American baseball player ·
1939 – Jeremy
Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, Anglo-Irish peer (d. 2014) ·
1939
– Denis de Belleval,
Canadian civil servant and politician ·
1939
– Henri Pachard,
American director and producer (d. 2008) ·
1939
– George
Reid, Scottish journalist and politician, 2nd Presiding
Officer of the Scottish Parliament ·
1940 – Ludwig Schwarz, Slovak-Austrian bishop ·
1941 – Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and
screenwriter ·
1942 – Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer ·
1942
– Bill Rowe, Canadian lawyer and politician ·
1943 – John Burgess,
Australian radio and television host ·
1943
– Sandra Haynie,
American golfer ·
1943
– Tom Jaine, English author ·
1944 – Roger Ball,
Scottish saxophonist and songwriter ·
1944
– Michelle Phillips,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1945 – Anthony Braxton, American saxophonist,
clarinet player, and composer ·
1945
– Daniel Topolski,
English rower and coach (d. 2015) ·
1945
– Gordon Waller,
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009) ·
1947 – Viktor Klima, Austrian businessman and
politician, 25th Chancellor of
Austria ·
1948 – Bob Champion, English jockey ·
1948
– Sandra Post, Canadian golfer and
sportscaster ·
1948
– Jürgen Sparwasser,
German footballer and manager ·
1949 – Gabriel Arcand, Canadian actor ·
1949
– Mark B. Cohen,
American lawyer and politician ·
1950 – Raymond Dumais, Canadian bishop (d. 2012) ·
1951 – Leigh Kennedy, American author ·
1951
– Bronisław
Malinowski, Polish runner (d. 1981) ·
1951
– Melanie Phillips,
English journalist and author ·
1951
– Wendy Pini, American author and illustrator ·
1951
– David Yip, English actor and playwright ·
1952 – Bronisław
Komorowski, Polish historian and politician, 5th President of Poland ·
1952
– Dambudzo Marechera,
Zimbabwean author and poet (d. 1987) ·
1953 – Linda Lingle, American journalist and
politician, 6th Governor of Hawaii ·
1953
– Jimmy McCulloch,
Scottish musician and songwriter (d. 1979) ·
1953
– Susumu Ojima,
Japanese businessman, founded Huser ·
1953
– Paul Samson, English guitarist and producer
(d. 2002) ·
1954 – Raphael Ravenscroft,
English saxophonist and composer (d. 2014) ·
1954
– Kazuhiro Yamaji,
Japanese actor and voice actor ·
1955 – Val McDermid, Scottish author ·
1955
– Mary Testa, American singer and actress ·
1956 – Keith David, American actor ·
1956
– John Hockenberry,
American journalist and author ·
1956
– Terry Kennedy,
American baseball player and manager ·
1956
– Joyce Sidman,
American author and poet ·
1957 – Neil McNab, Scottish footballer[3] ·
1959 – Juan
Camacho, Bolivian runner ·
1959
– Georgios Voulgarakis,
Greek politician, 21st Greek
Minister for Culture ·
1960 – Miloš Đelmaš,
Serbian footballer and manager ·
1960
– Kristine Kathryn
Rusch, American author ·
1960
– Paul Taylor,
American guitarist and keyboard player ·
1960
– Bradley Walsh,
English television presenter, comedian, singer and former footballer ·
1961 – El DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1961
– Ferenc Gyurcsány,
Hungarian businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister
of Hungary ·
1962 – Krzysztof
Hołowczyc, Polish race car driver ·
1962
– Zenon Jaskuła,
Polish cyclist ·
1962
– John P. Kee, American singer-songwriter and
pastor ·
1962
– Junius Ho, Hong Kong solicitor and
politician ·
1963 – Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union
player ·
1963
– Jim Lachey, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1963
– Xavier McDaniel,
American basketball player and coach ·
1964 – Sean Pertwee, English actor ·
1964
– Kōji Yamamura,
Japanese animator, producer, and screenwriter ·
1965 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer ·
1965
– Andrea Jaeger,
American tennis player and preacher ·
1966 – Cecilia Bartoli, Italian soprano and actress ·
1966
– Vladimir Voevodsky,
Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2017) ·
1966
– Bill Wiggin, English politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Wales ·
1967 – Robert S. Kimbrough,
American colonel and astronaut ·
1968 – Roger Lim, American actor, director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1968
– Niurka Montalvo,
Cuban-Spanish long jumper ·
1968
– Al B. Sure!, American R&B
singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer ·
1968
– Scott Wolf, American actor ·
1969 – Horatio Sanz, Chilean-American actor and
comedian ·
1970 – Deborah Compagnoni,
Italian skier ·
1970
– Richie Hawtin,
English-Canadian DJ and producer ·
1970
– Dave Pybus, English bass player and
songwriter ·
1970
– Izabella Scorupco,
Polish-Swedish actress and model ·
1971 – Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and
politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ·
1971
– Mike Lee,
American lawyer and politician ·
1971
– Shoji Meguro,
Japanese director and composer ·
1971
– Karl Martin Sinijärv,
Estonian journalist and poet ·
1971
– Noah Wyle, American actor and producer ·
1972 – Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey
defenseman ·
1972
– Rob Huebel, American comedian, actor,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1973 – Mikey Whipwreck, American wrestler and
trainer ·
1974 – Jacob Sahaya
Kumar Aruni, Indian chef (d. 2012) ·
1974
– Darin Erstad,
American baseball player and coach ·
1974
– Andrew Gwynne,
English lawyer and politician ·
1974
– Janette Husárová,
Slovak tennis player ·
1974
– Buddy Wakefield,
American poet and author ·
1975 – Russell Brand, English comedian and actor ·
1975
– Henry Burris,
American football player ·
1975
– Angelina Jolie,
American actress, filmmaker, humanitarian, and activist ·
1975
– Dinanath Ramnarine,
Trinidadian cricketer ·
1975
– Alex Wharf, English cricketer ·
1976 – Kasey Chambers, Australian singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1976
– Alexei Navalny,
Russian lawyer and politician ·
1976
– Nenad Zimonjić,
Serbian tennis player ·
1977 – Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer ·
1977
– Alex Manninger,
Austrian footballer ·
1977
– Roman Miroshnichenko,
Ukrainian guitarist and composer ·
1977
– Roland G. Fryer Jr.,
American economist and professor ·
1978 – Robin Lord Taylor,
American actor ·
1979 – Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer ·
1979
– Daniel Vickerman,
South African-Australian rugby player (d. 2017) ·
1980 – François Beauchemin,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 – Jennifer
Carroll, Canadian swimmer ·
1981
– Giourkas Seitaridis,
Greek footballer ·
1981
– Natalia Vodopyanova,
Russian basketball player ·
1982 – Abel Kirui, Kenyan runner ·
1982
– Ronnie Prude,
American-Canadian football player ·
1983 – Romaric,
Ivorian footballer ·
1983
– Emmanuel Eboué,
Ivorian footballer ·
1983
– Olha Saladuha,
Ukrainian triple jumper ·
1984 – Enrico Rossi
Chauvenet, Italian footballer ·
1984
– Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress ·
1984
– Ian White,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ (d.
2011) ·
1985
– Anna-Lena Grönefeld,
German tennis player ·
1985
– Evan Lysacek,
American figure skater ·
1985
– Lukas Podolski,
German footballer ·
1985
– Oddvar Reiakvam,
Norwegian politician ·
1987 – Luisa Zissman, English businesswoman ·
1987
– Mollie King, English singer-songwriter and
model ·
1988 – Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey
defenseman ·
1988
– Kimberley Busteed,
Australian model ·
1989 – Federico Erba, Italian footballer ·
1989
– Paweł Fajdek,
Polish hammer thrower ·
1990 – Zac Farro, American singer and drummer ·
1990
– Evan Spiegel,
American Internet entrepreneur ·
1991 – Lorenzo Insigne, Italian footballer ·
1991
– Matt McIlwrick,
New Zealand rugby league player[4] ·
1991
– Ben Stokes, New Zealand-English cricketer ·
1993 – Jonathan Huberdeau,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1995 – Shiori Tamai, Japanese singer ·
1999 – Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress ·
1999 – Drew Pavlou, Australian activist[5] ·
2004 – Mackenzie Ziegler,
American dancer, singer, actress and model Deaths[edit] ·
756 – Shōmu, Japanese emperor (b. 701) ·
863 – Charles,
archbishop of Mainz ·
895 – Li Xi, chancellor of
the Tang Dynasty ·
946 – Guaimar II (Gybbosus),
Lombard prince ·
956 – Muhammad III of
Shirvan, Muslim ruler ·
1039 – Conrad II,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 990) ·
1102 – Władysław
I Herman, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1044) ·
1134 – Magnus I of Sweden (b.
1106) ·
1135 – Emperor Huizong
of Song (b. 1082) ·
1206 – Adela of Champagne (b.
1140) ·
1246 – Isabella of
Angoulême (b. 1188) ·
1257 – Przemysł
I of Greater Poland (b. 1221) ·
1394 – Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b.c.
1368) ·
1453 – Andronikos
Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, Byzantine commander ·
1463 – Flavio Biondo, Italian historian and author
(b. 1392) ·
1472 – Nezahualcoyotl,
Aztec poet (b. 1402) ·
1585 – Muretus, French philosopher and author (b.
1526) ·
1608 – Francis Caracciolo,
Italian Catholic priest (b. 1563) ·
1622 – Péter Révay, Hungarian soldier and historian
(b. 1568) ·
1647 – Canonicus, Grand Chief Sachem of the
Narragansett (b. 1565) ·
1663 – William Juxon, English archbishop and
academic (b. 1582) ·
1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and
author (b. 1725) ·
1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg,
American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.
1750) ·
1809 – Nicolai Abildgaard,
Danish neoclassical and history painter, sculptor and architect (b. 1743) ·
1830 – Antonio José de
Sucre, Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of Bolivia (b.
1795) ·
1872 – Johan Rudolph
Thorbecke, Dutch historian, jurist, and politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1798) ·
1875 – Eduard Mörike, German pastor and poet (b.
1804) ·
1876 – Abdülaziz
of the Ottoman Empire, 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1830) ·
1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist,
neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864) ·
1925 – Margaret
Murray Washington, American Academic (b. 1865)[6] ·
1926 – Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer
and coach (b. 1853) ·
1928 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873) ·
1929 – Harry Frazee, American director, producer,
and agent (b. 1881) ·
1931 – Hussein
bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the
Hejaz (b. 1853/54) ·
1933 – Ahmet Haşim, Turkish poet and author
(b. 1884) ·
1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (b.
1900) ·
1941 – Wilhelm II,
German Emperor (b. 1859) ·
1942 – Reinhard Heydrich,
German SS officer and politician (b. 1904) ·
1951 – Serge Koussevitzky,
Russian-American bassist, composer, and conductor (b. 1874) ·
1956 – Katherine MacDonald,
American actress and producer (b. 1881) ·
1962 – Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b.
1882) ·
1967 – Linda Eenpalu, Estonian lawyer and
politician (b. 1890) ·
1968 – Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898) ·
1970 – Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911) ·
1971 – György Lukács,
Hungarian historian and philosopher (b. 1885) ·
1973 – Maurice René Fréchet,
French mathematician and academic (b. 1878) ·
1973
– Murry Wilson,
American songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1917) ·
1981 – Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and
soldier (b. 1897) ·
1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917) ·
1990 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1949) ·
1992 – Carl Stotz, American businessman,
founded Little League
Baseball (b. 1910) ·
1993 – Bernard Evslin, American writer (b. 1922) ·
1994 – Derek Leckenby, English musician (b.
1943) [7] ·
1997 – Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1946) [8] ·
1998 – Josephine Hutchinson,
American actress (b. 1903) [9] ·
2002 – Fernando Belaúnde
Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd President of Peru (b.
1912) [10] ·
2004 – Steve Lacy,
American saxophonist and composer (b. 1934) [11] ·
2004
– Nino Manfredi,
Italian actor (b. 1921) [12] ·
2007 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1937) [13] ·
2007
– Bill France, Jr.,
American businessman (b. 1933) [14] ·
2007
– Craig L. Thomas,
American captain and politician (b. 1933) [15] ·
2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1910) [16] ·
2011 – Juan Francisco Luis,
Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor
of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940) [17] ·
2011
– Andreas P. Nielsen,
Danish author and composer (b. 1953) ·
2012 – Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect,
designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (b.
1925) [18] ·
2012
– Pedro Borbón,
Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1946) ·
2012
– Rodolfo Quezada
Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (b. 1932) [19] ·
2012
– Herb Reed, American violinist (b.
1929) [20] ·
2013 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (b.
1916) ·
2013
– Joey Covington,
American drummer (b. 1945) [21] ·
2013
– Hermann Gunnarsson,
Icelandic footballer, handball player, and sportscaster (b. 1946) ·
2013
– Will Wynn,
American football player (b. 1949) ·
2014 – George Ho, American-Hong Kong businessman
(b. 1919) [22] ·
2014
– Nathan Shamuyarira,
Zimbabwean journalist and politician, Zimbabwean
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928) ·
2014
– Sydney
Templeman, Baron Templeman, English lawyer and judge (b. 1920) ·
2014
– Don Zimmer, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (b. 1931) [23] ·
2015 – Marguerite Patten,
English economist and author (b. 1915) [24] ·
2015
– Leonid Plyushch,
Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938) [25] ·
2015
– Jabe Thomas, American race car driver (b.
1930) [26] ·
2015
– Anne Warburton,
British academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Denmark (b.
1927) [27] ·
2016 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician
(b. 1937) ·
2017 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and
novelist (b. 1931) [28] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Birthday of Carl
Gustaf Emil Mannerheim & Flag Day celebration of
the Finnish Defence
Forces (Finland) ·
Christian feast day: o Optatus o June
4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition
of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the
independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in
1970. (Tonga) ·
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of
Aggression (International) ·
National
Unity Day (Hungary) ·
Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day (International) |
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