June 4th
Holidays and Festivals
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
Emancipation Day (Tonga) its National Day / Independence Day
Flag Day of the Finnish Defence Forces (Finland) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Estonia) * CLICK HERE
Bhagat Puran Singh's Birthday (Sikhism)
Applesauce Cake Day
Hug Your Cat Day
Old Maid's Day
Feast of Saint Francis Caracciolo (died 1608)
Feast of Saint Petrock of Cornwall
Feast of Saint Quirinus of Sescia (died 308)
Feast of Saint Saturnina
* Mutek Festival - Montreal, Canada June 2 – 6 (3of5) (2010)
* Bama Jam Music & Arts Festival Enterprise, Alabama (2of2)
Toast of The Day
"The health of the salmon to you...
a long life, a full heart and a wet mouth!"
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Strawberry Daiquiri
1 Shot vodka
1 Shot lime juice
4 strawberries
1 Spoon White sugar
Icecubes
Mix in blender
Wine of The Day
Robert Hall Winery (2009) Margaret's Vineyard
Style - Orange Muscat
Paso Robles
$20
Beer of The Day
Leffe Blonde
Brewer - Anheuser-Busch InBev, St Louis, MO
Style - Belgian-Style Blonde Ale
Joke of The Day
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Quote of The Day
"I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free."
- Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4th, 1975), an American actress.
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Fishing Week First Week in June
National Business Etiquette Week First Full Week in June
National Headache Awareness Week First Full Week in June
National Sun Safety Week First Full Week in June
National Tire Safety Week First Full Week in June
Rip Current Awareness Week First Full Week in June
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week (DMRF) First Full Week in June
Superman Days First Thursday through Sunday in June
Historical Events on June 4th
(781 BC) The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1039 Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France
1133 Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surounds & sets fire to Jewish quarter of Seville Spain, surviving Jews sold into slavery
1487 Lord Lovell & John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
1615 Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Venlo
1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner
1664 Viceroy Willem Frederik conquerors Dijlerschans
1666 Battle at Duinkerk: English vs Dutch fleet
1741 Prussia goes to the Covenant of Nymphenburg
1745 Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians & Saxons
1756 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
1760 Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (unmanned hot air balloon).
1784 Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female to fly, first female balloonist.
1789 US constitution goes into effect
1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1794 British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
1794 Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers
1802 Grieving over the death of his wife, Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1805 Tripoli forced to conclude peace with US after war over tribute
1812 Following Louisiana Territory's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC
1831 National Congress selects Leopold von Saksen-Coburg as King of Belgium
1832 3rd national black convention meets (Phila)
1845 Mexican-US war starts
1850 Empire Engine Company No 1 organized
1850 Self deodorizing fertilizer patented in England
1859 Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1862 Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee in the American Civil War.
1868 Van Bosse/Fock government begins
1870 4th Belmont: W Dick aboard Kingfisher wins in 2:59.5
1873 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens
1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1878 Cyprus Convention, The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom for administrative purposes but retains nominal title.
1884 18th Belmont, Jim McLaughlin aboard Panique wins in 2:42
1892 Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
1892 Sierra Club forms in SF
1896 Henry takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit
1907 Automatic washer & dryer introduced
1912 Cone of Mount Katmai (Alaska) collapses
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, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness and dies a few days later.
1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
1917 American men begin registering for the draft
1917 Order of British Empire inaugurated
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 US marines invade Costa Rica
1919 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.
1927 1st Ryder Cup, US beats England, 9½-2½ at Worcester Country Club (Worcester, Massachusetts, US)
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set swim records in 100-yard & 200-yard free-style
1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1929 George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1932 64th Belmont, Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8
1932 Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France
1937 Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France
1938 10th Walker Cup, Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews
1938 70th Belmont, James Stout aboard Pasteurized wins in 2:29.6
1939 The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, many of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 1st NL night game at Sportsman's Park (Dodgers 10, Cardinals 1)
1940 1st night game at Forbes Field (Pirates 14, Braves 2)
1940 The synthetic rubber tire unveiled
1940 Winston Churchill says "We shall fight on the seas & oceans"
1940 German Nazi forces enter the city of Paris, they finish taking control of the city 10 days later. (June 14, 1940), WWII
1940 The Dunkirk evacuation ends British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France, World War II.
1941 Nazi's forbid Jews access to beach & swimming pools
1941 Rep of Croatia orders all Jews to wear a star with the letter Z
1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business
1942 USS Yorktown sinks near Midway Island
1942 The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy, Japan's 1st major defeat in World War II.
1943 A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo, Argentina taken over by Gen Rawson & Col Juan Peron.
1943 Race riots in LA
1943 St Louis Card Mort Cooper pitches his 2nd consecutive 1 hitter
1944 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day
1944 5th Army enters & liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies, It falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall, World War II.
1944 French general De Gaulle arrives in London
1944 A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures and boards the German submarine U-505 the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century, World War II.
1945 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa
1945 US, Russia, England & France agree to split occupied Germany
1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed
1947 "Louisiana Lady" closes at Century Theater NYC after 4 performances
1947 House of Reps approves Taft-Hartley act
1949 "Cavalcade of Stars" debuts (DuMont); Jackie Gleason made host in 1950
1950 CVP wins Belgian parliamentary election
1950 Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded
1951 Pirate's Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4
1953 Pitts trades outfielder Ralph Kiner & Joe Garagiola to Chic
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 France grants Vietnam independence inside French Union
1955 Mickey Rooney Show," TV comedy last airs on NBC
1956 Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public
1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
1957 May & Cowdrey make 411 stand v WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
1958 French premier De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1958 SF Giants Hank Sauer & B Schmidt are 2nd to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1961 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1962 Lee Harvey Oswald departs Rotterdam on SS Maasdam to US
1963 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
1963 British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler
1964 Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
1964 LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Phil Phillies, 3-0
1964 Maldives adopts constitution
1964 Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1966 "Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
1966 Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras
1966 98th Belmont, William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6
1967 19th Emmy Awards, Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts & Lucy Ball
1967 Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games)
1967 KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational
1967 Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
1967 Stockport Air Disaster, British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
1968 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft
1969 Beatles release Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US
1969 Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group
1970 43rd National Spelling Bee, Libby Childress wins spelling croissant
1970 SD Padres draft Mike Ivie #1
1970 Tonga (formerly Friendly Islands) declares independence from United Kingdom.
1970 WSMW TV channel 27 in Worcester, MA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 1st of 3 times in 28 days
1971 J Luns appointed secretary-general of NATO
1971 Oakland A's beat Wash Senators, 5-3, in 21 innings
1971 Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours
1972 Angela Davis, black activist, acquitted of killing a white guard
1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1972 Record 8 shutouts pitched in 16 major league games (AL=5, NL=3)
1973 43rd French Womens Tennis, Margaret Court beats C Evert (67 76 64)
1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
1974 NFL grants franchise to Seattle Seahawks
1974 Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field & cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9th
1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in NC
1977 Apple II, the 1st personal computer, goes on sale
1977 Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2
1978 "Working" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 25 performances
1978 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic), JoAnne Carner
1978 32nd Tony Awards, Da & Ain't Misbehavin' win
1978 Liberal Julio Turbay Ayola wins Colombia elections
1979 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1979 South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal
1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1981 54th National Spelling Bee, Paige Pipkin wins spelling sarcophagus
1982 "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," released in USA
1982 Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon
1983 53rd French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats Mima Jausovec (61 62)
1984 18th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers
1984 Arnold Palmer fails to make US Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs
1984 Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal
1984 NY Mets draft Shawn Abner, 17, #1
1985 STS 51-G vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Supreme Court strikes down Alabama "moment of silence" law
1986 Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty in US court to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins
1988 "Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances
1988 42nd Tony Awards, M Butterfly & Phantom of the Opera win
1988 58th French Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60)
1988 Longest game in Balt Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)
1988 Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a NY Yankee
1989 2nd Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $770,000
1989 43rd Tony Awards, Heidi Chronicles & Jerome Robbin's Broadway win
1989 Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989 Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in Poland
1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1989 Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway
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 The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army.
1989 The victims of murderer Oba Chandler are found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Chandler would not be arrested until 1992.
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.
1990 24th Music City News Country Awards, R Van Shelton & Patty Loveless
1990 Dr Jack Kevorkian assisted an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die
1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy
1990 LA Dodger Ramon Martinez strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves
1990 NY Telephone company announces that it wants Bronx area code 917
1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania
1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders
1991 Robert Strauss becomes US ambassador to Soviet Union
1991 The United Kingdom's Conservative government announces that some British regiments would disappear or be merged into others, the largest armed forces cuts in almost twenty years.
1992 San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium
1992 USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp
1994 Haile Gebre Selassie runs world record 5 km (12:56.96)
1995 "Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect" closes at Golden NYC at 347 perf
1995 8th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $1,331,000
1995 49th Tony Awards, Love! Valour! Compassion! & Sunset Boulevard win
1995 Dale Eggeling wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1996 The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
2008 Detroit Red Wings defeat Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 in the Stanley Cup
2009 Pittsburgh Penguins defeat Detroit Red Wings 4-3, in the Stanley Cup, Evgeni Malkin 1st Russian to win MVP
2012 Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq
2012 Japan's stock market plummets to record lows with the S&P/TOPIX 150 reaching its lowest level since 1983
2012 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi
2012 Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan
2014 10 Nigerian generals and five other senior military officers have been courts-martialed for providing arms and information to Boko Haram
2016 Garbiñe Muguruza beats Serena Williams (7-5, 6-4) to claim her 1st grand slam title in the 115th Women's French Open
Born on June 4th
1394 Philippa of England, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430)
1489 Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544)
1604 Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648)
1665 Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733)
1694 François Quesnay, French economist, personal physician of Louis XIV (d. 1774)
1697 Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi
1700 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor
1704 Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
1738 George III, English King during American Revolution (1760-1820) (d. 1820)
1744 Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
1751 John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
1754 Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
1770 James Hewitt, composer
1787 Constant Prévost, French geologist (d. 1856)
1801 James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871)
1803 Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1881)
1815 Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
1816 Phillipe Regis Denis de Keredern de Trobriand, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union)
1821 Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
1828 Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1833 Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier
1838 Servaas Daems (Peeter Klein), Flemish writer (Lute & Flute)
1846 Josef Sittard, music writer
1863 Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician
1864 Nassau William Senior, British economist
1866 Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician (d. 1952)
1867 C(arl) G(ustaf) E baron Mannerheim, Supreme Commander and President of Finland (1944-46) (d. 1951)
1869 Boudouin LPMCAJL, prince of Belgium/count of Vlaanderen
1876 Robert Dower, cricketer
1877 Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist (bile acids) (Nobel laureate 1927) (d. 1957)
1878 Frank N D Buchman, US theologist (Moral Rearmament)
1879 Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1964)
1880 Clara Blandick, American actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer) (d. 1962)
1881 Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962)
1882 Karl Valentin, German comic/writer
1887 Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949)
1891 Erno Rapee, composer
1893 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
1893 Daan Boens, Flemish poet (Man who sold his Wife)
1894 Blanch Knopf, publishing CEO (Knopf)
1894 Madame Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
1895 Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
1899 Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989)
1899 Leo Spies, composer
1902 Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928)
1904 Bhagat Puran Singh, Punjabi Social Activist (d. 1992)
1906 Richard Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame)
1907 Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944)
1907 Marjan Kozina, composer
1907 Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990)
1907 Rosalind Russell, American actress (Mame, Take a Letter Darling) (d. 1976)
1908 Earl of Halsbury, chancellor (Brunei University)
1908 Lambertus L van Rooijen, Dutch actor
1908 Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
1909 Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince)
1909 William Batten, CEO (NY Stock Exchange 1976-84)
1910 Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (Hovercraft) (d. 1999)
1910 Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar
1911 Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor
1912 Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (great iron sculptures) (d. 1993)
1913 Bruno Bettinelli, composer
1914 Willy-August Linnemann, Danish writer/journalist
1915 Modibo Keita, president of Mali (1960-68)
1915 Walter Hadlee, cricketer (father of Richard & Dayle), New Zealand batsman 40's
1916 Cecil Blacker, CEO (British Equestrian Federation)
1916 Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
1916 Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
1917 Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)
1917 Charles Collingwood, Mich, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917 Howard Metzenbaum, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1974)
1917 Robert Merrill, American baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera) (d. 2004)
1918 LeRoy Walker, Atlanta Ga, CEO (US Olympic Committee)
1920 Marion Motley, NFL running back (all-time leading AAFC rusher)
1921 Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach
1921 Emilio Komar, Slovenian-born Argentine philosopher (d. 2006)
1921 Nina Vyroubova, Russ/French ballerina (Pavlova-prize 1957)
1922 Irwin Bazelon, Evanston Illinois, composer (Duo for Viola)
1922 John McNamara, baseball player
1922 John West, vice chancellor (Bradford University)
1923 Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007)
1923 John Lea, British vice-admiral
1924 Dennis Weaver, American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered) (d. 2006)
1924 Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999)
1926 Nan Leslie, LA California, actress (Kings Row, Californians)
1926 Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became the heaviest known human (486 kg) (d. 1958)
1927 Geoffrey Palmer, British actor (Smacks & Thistle)
1927 Henning Carlsen, Danish film director
1927 Priscilla Morrill, Medford Mass, actress (Edie Grant-Mary Tyler Moore)
1928 Paul Greening, master of Queen's household
1928 Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist (WYNY-FM) and author
1929 Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician
1930 Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (Godfather)
1930 Pentti Raitio, composer
1930 Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach
1931 Cesar Bolanos, composer
1932 John Drew Barrymore, American actor (Pantomine Quiz) (d. 2004)
1932 Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
1932 Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
1933 John Sparrow, Chairman (British Horserace Betting Levy Board)
1934 Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971)
1935 Colette Boky, Quebec operatic soprano
1935 Hendrikus C "Henk" Admiraal, Dutch actor (Rififi in Amsterdam)
1936 Bruce Dern, American actor (Coming Home, Silent Running, Tatoo)
1936 David Lyon, CEO (Bowater)
1936 Nutan Behl, Indian actress (d. 1991)
1937 Freddy Fender, American country singer (Feelings) (d. 2006)
1937 Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1937 Mortimer B Zuckerman, American publisher, CEO (US News & World Report, NY Daily News)
1937 Robert Fulghum, American author
1938 Art Mahaffey, American baseball player
1939 Phil Linz, baseball shortstop (NY Yankees)
1940 Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
1940 Gerrit H Terpstra, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1940 Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop
1941 Kenneth G. Ross Australian playwright and screenwriter
1943 Joyce Meyer, American religious leader
1943 Sandra Haynie, Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1974 US Women's Open)
1944 Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist (Family)
1944 Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
1944 Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1945 Anthony Braxton, American jazz composer and instrumentalist
1945 Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach
1945 Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon)
1945 Ivan "Ironman" Stewart, Mickey Thompson off-road champ (1983, 84, 90)
1945 Margaret Impert, Horseheads NY, actress (Maggie, Spencer's Pilots)
1946 Bettina Gregory, correspondent/journalist (ABC-TV)
1947 Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria
1948 Bob Champion, English jockey and horse trainer
1948 Jurgen Sparwasser, German footballer
1948 Rosemary Joyce, model/actress (Daphne Draper-Search For Tomorrow)
1948 Sandra Post, LPGA golfer
1949 Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor
1950 Brian Rose, cricketer (England batsman in 9 Tests 1977-81)
1950 Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1950 George Noory, American radio personality
1950 Kevin Woodford, English celebrity chef
1950 Wayne Powers, New Rochelle NY, actor (Laverne & Shirley, 13 East)
1951 Charles Dickinson, American author
1951 David Yip, actor (Ping Pong)
1951 Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist
1951 Yvonne MCT van Rooy, Dutch Secretary of State Secretary (CDA)
1952 Carlene Watkins, Hartford CT, actress (Tough Enough)
1952 Catherine Watkins, Hartford Ct, actress (It's Not Easy, Mary)
1952 Parker Stevenson, American actor and director (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace)
1953 Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician (d. 1979)
1953 Linda Lingle, 6th Governor of Hawaii
1953 Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
1953 Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser)
1955 Mary Testa, American stage actress
1955 Paul Stewart, English writer
1955 Val McDermid, Scottish writer
1956 Gerry Ryan, Irish radio talkshow host
1956 John Hockenberry, American journalist
1956 John Treacy, marathonr (Olympics-silver-1984)
1956 Keith David, American actor
1956 Martin Adams, English darts player
1956 Terry Kennedy, American baseball player
1957 John Treacy, Irish athlete
1957 Tony Pena, Monte Cristi Dom Rep, catcher (Cleveland Indians)
1957 Yoon Suk-ho, South Korean director
1958 Julie Gholson, Birmingham Ala, actress (Where the Lilies Bloom)
1958 Tony Pigott, cricketer (England pace bowler in a Test v NZ 1984)
1959 Juan Camacho, Bolivian long-distance runner
1959 Lord Rayleigh, agri-businessman (Lord Rayleigh Farms)
1959 Paul Taylor, rocker (Winger-17)
1959 Rod Connop, CFL corner (Edmonton Eskimos)
1960 Bradley Walsh, British actor
1961 Cathy Marino, LPGA golfer
1961 El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge)
1961 Ferenc Gyurcsány, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary
1962 John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1962 Krzysztof Holowczyc, Polish rally driver
1962 Zenon Jaskula, Polish cyclist
1963 Carey Nelson, Canada, marathoner (Olympics-96)
1963 Jim Lachey, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1963 Mossimo Giannulli, fashion designer (hot)
1963 Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player, NBA forward (Seattle SuperSonics)
1964 Chris Kavanagh, Musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1964 Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1964 Sean Pertwee, English actor
1964 Steve Searcy, baseball player
1965 Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player (retired as a teenager)
1965 Beau Allred, baseball player
1965 Jonathan Canter, LA Cal, tennis star
1965 Kurt Stillwell, Glendale CA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
1965 Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer
1965 Tim Perry, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
1966 Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1966 Nick Kypreos, Toronto, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1966 Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician
1967 Rick Wilkins, Jacksonville FL, catcher (Houston Astros)
1967 Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut
1967 Scott Servais, La Crosse Wisc, catcher (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Simon Sheldon-Collins, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1968 Al B. Sure, American R&B singer
1968 Scott Wolf, American actor (Broken Arrow, Party of 5)
1968 Stacy Leigh Arthur, Naperville Ill, playmate (Jan, 1991)
1969 Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian
1969 Regi Blinker, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 Robert Perez, Bolivar Venezuela, outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 Tine Moberg-Parker, Oslo Norway, Canada Europe class yachter (Oly-96)
1970 David Pybus, British musician
1970 Gary Lynagh, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress
1970 Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1970 Ronnie Harris, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 James Callis, British actor
1971 Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician
1971 Noah Wyle, American actor (Dr John Carter-ER)
1971 Patrick Scott, NFL/WLAF linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Roy Janse, Edmonton Alberta, tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1971 Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1971 Tanya Beyer, St Paul Minn, playmate (Feb, 1992)
1972 Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1972 Nikka Costa, American singer
1972 Rob Huebel, American comedian
1973 Antonio Anderson, defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 Corey Walker, running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Doug Colman, linebacker (NY Giants)
1973 Mikey Whipwreck, American professional wrestler
1973 Sir Mawn Wilson, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 Andrew Gwynne, British politician
1974 Buddy Wakefield, American poet
1974 Darin Erstad, American baseball player, outfielder (California Angels)
1974 James Miller, Australian pole vaulter (Olympics-96)
1974 Johnny Taylor, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
1974 Lyndsay Kahler, Orange California, Miss America-California (1997)
1974 Stefan Lessard, American musician
1975 Angelina Jolie, American actress (Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider)
1975 Betty Okino, Uganda, US gymnist (Olympic-92)
1975 Dinanath Ramnarine, cricketer (Trinidad & Tobago leg-spinner)
1975 Henry Burris, American Football Quarterback
1975 Kurt Dreger, Ironwood Mich, dance skater (& Cronin-1997 Natl-13th)
1975 Russell Brand, British comedian, actor and television personality
1976 Kasey Chambers, Australian alternative country singer-songwriter
1977 Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer
1977 Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor
1977 Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer
1977 Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player
1979 Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player
1979 Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer
1980 Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
1980 François Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer
1981 T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian
1982 Jamie Dornan, Irish model and actor
1982 Jin, Chinese-American rapper
1982 Ronnie Prude, American football player, NFL
1983 Emmanuel Eboué, Ivorian footballer
1983 Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer
1984 Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer
1984 Ian White, Canadian hockey player
1984 Jenaveve Jolie, Mexican-American pornographic actress
1984 Kento Handa, Japanese actor
1984 Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1985 Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
1985 Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
1985 Evan Lysacek, American 2010 Olympic champion figure skater
1985 Lukas Podolski, Polish-born footballer
1985 Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician
1986 Micky, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
1986 Shane Kippel, Canadian actor
1987 Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays)
1988 Leigh Adams, Australian Footballer
1991 Kathryn Prescott, British actress
1991 Megan Prescott, British actress
1992 Dino Jelusic, Croatian singer
1992 Earvin Johnson III, son of NBA foward Magic Johnson
1993 Mowatt, grandson of English princess Alexandra
Died on June 4th
1039 Conrad II the Salian, King-Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39)
1135 Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)
1206 Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1257 Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1267 Hendrik of Vianden, bishop of Utrecht (1252-67)
1316 Louis X, King of France (1314-16)
1394 Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (b. c 1369)
1463 Flavio Biondi, Italian writer, humanist (Rome instaurata) (b. 1392)
1558 Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral
1585 Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1585 Muretus, French humanist (b. 1526)
1608 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint
1663 William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1660-63) (b. 1582)
1674 John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver
1792 John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright
1793 Jan Ekels de Young, Dutch painter
1798 Giacomo (Jacopo) Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer, renound romancer (b. 1725)
1801 Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (b. 1750)
1809 Nicolai Arbraham Abildgaard, Danish painter/architect
1818 John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot)
1825 Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV)
1826 Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon)
1830 Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (b. 1795)
1850 Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange
1872 Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician, premier (b. 1798)
1872 Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer
1875 Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1880 Eugen Adam, painter
1905 Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
1907 Agathe Grondahl, composer
1915 William Charles Denis Browne, composer
1916 Mildred J Hill, composer and musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1921 Heinrich E Albers-Schoenberg, German x-ray experimenter
1922 William Halse Rivers, English psychologist, anthropologist (b. 1864)
1925 Gheorghe Dima, composer
1925 Pierre Louys (PF Louis), French writer (Aphrodite)
1926 Eugeen of Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Sparks & Radiates)
1926 Fred(erick) (Robert) Spofforth, Australian cricketer (b. 1853)
1928 Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)
1929 Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (b. 1881)
1931 Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz
1937 Donald Eligon, cricketer (Trinidad, nail in his cricket boot)
1939 Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1941 Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, German emperor (1888-1918) (b. 1859)
1942 Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (Bohemia/Moravia - Lidice) (b. 1904)
1943 Jean du Bela, singer/actor (Sobibor)
1945 Georg Kaiser, playwright
1950 Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28)
1951 Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
1954 Harold Hoffman, (Gov-NJ)
1956 Katherine MacDonald, American actress (b. 1881)
1956 Max Kowalski, composer
1958 M Lichnowsky, writer
1959 Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms)
1960 Lucien Littlefield, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1962 Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (b. 1882)
1962 William Beebe, US biologist/explorer
1964 Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1965 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/educator (Pleidooi near een non)
1968 Dorothy Gish (de Guiche), American actress (Home Sweet Home) (b. 1898)
1970 Hjalmar Schcacht (Horace Greeley), Nazi minister
1970 Jopie (Johan A) Pengel, premier Suriname
1970 Menasha Skulnik, comedian (Menasha the Magnificent)
1970 Sonny Tufts, American actor (Atomic Blonde, 7 Year Itch) (b. 1911)
1971 Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1885)
1972 Godfried Devreese, composer
1973 Arna Bontemps, writer (Harlem Renaissance)
1973 Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1973 Murray Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train)
1979 Edward Dawson, cricketer (England batsman in 5 Tests 1927-30)
1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989)
1989 Dik Browne, American cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible) (b. 1917)
1989 Vaclav Kaslik, Czech opera composer and conductor
1990 Jack Gilford, comedic actor (Cocoon II)
1992 Carl Stotz, American Little League founder (b. 1910)
1993 June Smaney, actress (Sainted Sister), apparent suicide
1994 Derek Lek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)
1994 Earle Warren, alto Sax Player
1994 Horace "Stephen" McNally, attorney/actor (Johnny Belinda)
1994 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre) (b. 1953)
1994 Roberto Burle Marx, landscape gardener
1994 Sophie Winter, actress (She's a Good Fighter)
1994 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian
1994 Toto Bissainthe, voodoo poet
1995 Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist
1995 Herta Ryder, literary agent
1995 Paul WIlliams, climber
1995 William J Law, sailor
1996 Tito Okello, president of Uganda (1985-86)
1997 Kurt Adler, therapist/writer
1997 Ronnie Lane, British bass player (Faces) (b. 1946)
2001 Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
2001 John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2002 Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician (b. 1912)
2004 Marvin Heemeyer, American muffler owner (b. 1952)
2004 Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)
2004 Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2007 Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (b. 1933)
2007 Clete Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (b. 1933)
2007 Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
2007 Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (b. 1922)
2007 Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (b. 1940)
2008 Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
2010 John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1910)
2011 Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953)
2011 Juan Francisco Luis, U.S. Virgin Islander governor (b. 1940)
2014 Don Zimmer, American baseball manager
2015 Hermann Zapf, German typeface designer (Palatino and Optima)
