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Day of the year
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.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
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 (2.5 mi) in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) 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 in
Buffalo, New York , 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.
1901–present
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.
1919 –
Leon Trotsky bans the
Planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents .
[2]
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
German 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: the
British Armed Forces completes 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 .
1942 – World War II:
Gustaf Mannerheim , the Commander-in-Chief of the
Finnish Army , is granted the title of
Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day,
Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland
for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim .
[3]
[4]
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
Kriegsmarine 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
British Empire .
1975 – The
Governor of California
Jerry Brown signs the
California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers
collective bargaining rights.
1977 –
JVC introduces its
VHS videotape at the
Consumer Electronics Show in
Chicago . It will eventually prevail against
Sony 's rival
Betamax system in a
format war to become the predominant
home video medium.
[5]
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 – In the
1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election ,
Ali Khamenei is elected as the new
Supreme Leader of Iran after the
death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini .
1989 – The
Tiananmen Square protests and massacre are
suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army , with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
[6]
[7]
1989 –
Solidarity 's victory in the
1989 Polish legislative election , the first election since the Communist
Polish United Workers Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the
Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
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 .
2005 – The
Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
[8]
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 .
2023 –
Protests begin in Poland against the
Duda government .
[9]
2023 – Four people are killed when a
Cessna Citation V
crashes into
Mine Bank Mountain in
Augusta County, Virginia .
[10]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
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)
1889 –
Beno Gutenberg , German-American seismologist (d. 1960)
1901–present
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 (d. 2020)
[12]
1928 –
Ruth Westheimer , German-American sex therapist, talk show host, professor, author, and Holocaust survivor
1929 –
Karolos Papoulias , Greek lawyer and politician, 5th
President of Greece (d. 2021)
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 –
Gorilla Monsoon , American wrestler (d. 1999)
[13]
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
[14]
1959 –
Juan Camacho , Bolivian runner
1959 –
Georgios Voulgarakis , Greek politician, 21st
Greek Minister for Culture
1959 –
Anil Ambani , Indian businessman and Chairman of Reliance Infrastructure
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 –
Svetlana Jitomirskaya , American mathematician
[15]
1966 –
Vladimir Voevodsky , Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2017)
1966 –
Bill Wiggin , English politician,
Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
1967 –
Michael Greyeyes , Canadian actor, dancer, choreographer, director, and educator
[16]
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 –
Noah Wyle , American actor and producer
[17]
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
[18]
1975 –
Dinanath Ramnarine , Trinidadian cricketer
1976 –
Kasey Chambers , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 –
Alexei Navalny , Russian lawyer and politician (d. 2024)
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
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 –
T.J. Miller , American actor and comedian
[19]
1981 –
Giourkas Seitaridis , Greek footballer
1981 –
Gary Taylor-Fletcher , English footballer
[20]
1981 –
Natalia Vodopyanova , Russian basketball player
1982 –
Matt Gilks , Scottish footballer
[21]
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 –
Henri Bedimo , Cameroonian footballer
[22]
1984 –
Kento Handa , Japanese actor and singer
[23]
1984 –
Stuart Kettlewell , Scottish football manager and former player
[24]
1984 –
Enrico Rossi Chauvenet , Italian footballer
1984 –
Ian White , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 –
Rainie Yang , Taiwanese actress
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 –
Bar Refaeli , Israeli model and actress
[25]
1985 –
Oddvar Reiakvam , Norwegian politician
1987 –
Mollie King , English singer
[26]
1988 –
Matt Bartkowski , American ice hockey defenseman
[27]
1988 –
Kimberley Busteed , Australian model
1988 –
Tjaronn Chery , Dutch-born Surinamese footballer
[28]
1989 –
Federico Erba , Italian footballer
1989 –
Paweł Fajdek , Polish hammer thrower
1990 –
Evan Spiegel , American Internet entrepreneur
[29]
1991 –
Lorenzo Insigne , Italian footballer
1991 –
Matt McIlwrick , New Zealand rugby league player
[30]
1991 –
Ben Stokes , New Zealand-English cricketer
[31]
1991 –
Rajiv van La Parra , Dutch footballer
[32]
1992 –
Jordan Hugill , English footballer
[33]
1993 –
Jonathan Huberdeau , Canadian ice hockey player
1993 –
Juan Iturbe , Paraguayan footballer
[34]
1993 –
Aaron Nola , American baseball player
[35]
1993 –
Annika Taylor , British-American cross-country skier
[36]
1996 –
Oli McBurnie , Scottish footballer
[37]
1999 –
Kim So-hyun , South Korean actress
[38]
1999 –
Drew Pavlou , Australian activist
[39]
2001 –
Takefusa Kubo , Japanese footballer
[40]
2004 –
Mackenzie Ziegler , American
child actress , dancer, and
recording artist
[41]
2021 –
Princess Lilibet of Sussex
[42]
Deaths
Pre-1600
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)
1601–1900
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)
1901–present
1922 –
W. H. R. Rivers , English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
1925 –
Margaret Murray Washington , American Academic (b. 1865)
[43]
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)
1936 –
Mathilde Verne , English pianist and educator (b. 1869)
[44]
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)
[45]
1997 –
Ronnie Lane , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1946)
[46]
1998 –
Josephine Hutchinson , American actress (b. 1903)
[47]
2002 –
Fernando Belaúnde Terry , Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd
President of Peru (b. 1912)
[48]
2004 –
Steve Lacy , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1934)
[49]
2004 –
Nino Manfredi , Italian actor (b. 1921)
[50]
2007 –
Clete Boyer , American baseball player and manager (b. 1937)
[51]
2007 –
Bill France Jr. , American businessman (b. 1933)
[52]
2007 –
Craig L. Thomas , American captain and politician (b. 1933)
[53]
2010 –
John Wooden , American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
[54]
2011 –
Juan Francisco Luis , Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd
Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940)
[55]
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)
[56]
2012 –
Pedro Borbón , Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1946)
2012 –
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , Guatemalan cardinal (b. 1932)
[57]
2012 –
Herb Reed , American violinist (b. 1929)
[58]
2013 –
Walt Arfons , American race car driver (b. 1916)
2013 –
Joey Covington , American drummer (b. 1945)
[59]
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)
[60]
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)
[61]
2015 –
Marguerite Patten , English economist and author (b. 1915)
[62]
2015 –
Leonid Plyushch , Ukrainian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
[63]
2015 –
Jabe Thomas , American race car driver (b. 1930)
[64]
2015 –
Anne Warburton , British academic and diplomat,
British Ambassador to Denmark (b. 1927)
[65]
2016 –
Carmen Pereira , Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
2017 –
Juan Goytisolo , Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (b. 1931)
[66]
2021 –
Clarence Williams III , American actor (b. 1939)
[67]
2022 –
George Lamming , Barbadian novelist (b. 1927)
[68]
2023 –
Sulochana Latkar , Indian actress (b. 1928)
[69]
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