June 4 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1039 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 990)
• 1135 – Emperor Huizong of Song (b. 1082)
• 1206 – Adèle of Champagne, French wife of Louis VII of France (b. 1140)
• 1257 – Przemysł I of Greater Poland (b. 1221)
• 1394 – Mary de Bohun, English wife of Henry IV of England (b. 1369)
• 1463 – Flavio Biondo, Italian historian (b. 1392)
• 1585 – Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
• 1663 – William Juxon, English bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1582)
• 1798 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (b. 1725)
• 1801 – Frederick Muhlenberg, American minister and politician (b. 1750)
• 1830 – Antonio José de Sucre, Venezuelan general and statesmen, 2nd President of Bolivia (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
• 1875 – Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
• 1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
• 1926 – Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
• 1928 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
• 1929 – Harry Frazee, American agent, producer, and director (b. 1881)
• 1939 – Tommy Ladnier, American trumpeter (b. 1900)
• 1941 – Wilhelm II, German Emperor (b. 1859)
• 1942 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1951 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor, musician, and composer (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, American musician, songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1917)
• 1989 – Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Carl Stotz, American businessman, founder of Little League Baseball (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Derek Leckenby, English guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
• 1994 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)
• 1997 – Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Faces and Small Faces) (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
• 2001 – John Hartford, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician, President of Peru (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Marvin Heemeyer, American welder and shop owner (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Steve Lacy, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Jim Clark, American sheriff (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Bill France, Jr., American businessman (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Freddie Scott, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
• 2010 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
• 2011 – Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940)
• 2011 – Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
• 2012 – Abu Yahya al-Libi, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda (b. 1963)
• 2012 – Ireneo García Alonso, Spanish bishop (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Peter Beaven, New Zealand architect, designed the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Bobby Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Pedro Borbón, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Jim Fitzgerald, American businessman (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Bernard A. Jean, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Eduard Khil, Russian singer (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala City (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Herb Reed, American singer and musician (The Platters) (b. 1929)