Famous Deaths on 4 Jun

Famous Deaths on 4 Jun

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (b. 1392)
1585 - Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (b. 1725)
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
1928 - Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (b. 1859)
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official, by assassination (b. 1904)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898)
1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (b. 1911)
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
1992 - Carl Stotz, American Little League Founder (b. 1910)
1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player (b. 1946)
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
2007 - Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2007 - Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 - Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 - Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2008 - Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)