June 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 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 (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 – Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
• 2001 – John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Marvin Heemeyer, American muffler owner (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
• 2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)