On this day: 4 June
Events, births and deaths on 4 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Marc Garneau
- Events · 2025 Bengaluru crowd crush
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Carmen Pereira
100 years ago1926
- Births · Judith Malina
- Births · Ain Kaalep
- Births · Robert Earl Hughes
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1039 · Deaths · Conrad II
- 1102 · Deaths · Władysław I Herman
- 946 · Deaths · Guaimar II of Salerno
Events · 25
- 1745Battle of Hohenfriedberg — 1745 battle
- 1859Battle of Magenta — 1859 battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
- 1878Cyprus Convention — treaty
- 1917Pulitzer Prize — award for achievements in journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States in several categories
- 1920Treaty of Trianon — 1920 peace agreement formally ending World War I between most of the Allies of World War I and the Kingdom of Hungary
- 1928Huanggutun Incident — Assassination of Zhang Zuolin in 1928
- 1932Socialist Republic of Chile — short-lived socialist state in Chile
- 1937Battle of Pochonbo — battle between Korean guerilla and Japanese police
- 1940Dunkirk evacuation — evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
- 1940We shall fight on the beaches — Common title given to a speech delivered by Winston Churchill
- 1942Battle of Midway — 1942 World War II naval battle
- 1942Hitler and Mannerheim recording — voice recording
- 19431943 Argentine coup d'état — June 1943 military coup of Argentine President Ramón Castillo
- 1961Berlin Crisis of 1961 — 1961 Cold War incident in divided Berlin
- 1967Stockport air disaster — aviation accident
- 1974Ten Cent Beer Night — promotion in which baseball fans were given heavily discounted beer
- 1988
- 1989Ufa train disaster — train wreck
- 19891989 Polish legislative election — legislative election held in Poland
- 19891989 Iranian Supreme Leader election — 1989 Iranian supreme leader election
- 1996Ariane flight V88 — failed maiden flight of Ariane 5, 1996
- 2022D2809 Train Derailment — train at Rongjiang Station on Guiyang–Guangzhou high-speed railway derailed on 4 June 2022 around 10:30 BJT
- 20232023 Polish protests — demonstration in Warsaw, Poland
- 20232023 Virginia plane crash — 2023 Cessna crash in Virginia
- 20252025 Bengaluru crowd crush — stampede in Bengaluru, India
Births · 60
- 1694François Quesnay — French economist (1694–1774)
- 1855Inukai Tsuyoshi — Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan (1855–1932)
- 1867(Julian date)Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim — Finnish military leader and statesman (1867–1951)
- 1877Heinrich Otto Wieland — German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)
- 1889Beno Gutenberg — German-American seismologist (1889-1960)
- 1903Yevgeny Mravinsky — Soviet Russian conductor, pianist, and music pedagogue (1903–1988)
- 1907Rosalind Russell — American actress (1907–1976)
- 1910Christopher Cockerell — English engineer (1910–1999)
- 1915Modibo Keïta — Malian politician and President of Mali (1915-1977)
- 1916Robert F. Furchgott — American biochemist (1916-2009)
- 1923Mas Oyama — Korean-Japanese full-contact karate master, the founder of Kyokushin (1922-1994)
- 1923Yuriko, Princess Mikasa — Japanese princess; widow of Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1923–2024)
- 1924Dennis Weaver — American actor (1924–2006)
- 1928Ruth Westheimer — German-American sex therapist
- 1929Karolos Papoulias — 6th President of Greece (1929–2021)
- 1930Viktor Tikhonov — Soviet ice hockey coach (1930–2014)
- 1936Bruce Dern — American actor
- 1936Nutan — Indian actress (1936-1991)
- 1937Richard Robson — British-Australian chemist
- 1944Michelle Phillips — American singer and actress
- 1947Viktor Klima — Austrian politician and businessman (born 1947)
- 1948Jürgen Sparwasser — East German footballer and manager
- 1952Bronisław Komorowski — Polish politician; President of Poland (2010–2015)
- 1953Linda Lingle — American politician; governor of Hawaii from 2002 until 2010
- 1955Val McDermid — Scottish crime writer
Deaths · 60
- 756(Julian date)Shōmu — Emperor of Japan
- 863(Julian date)Charles, Archbishop of Mainz — Roman Catholic archbishop
- 1039Conrad II — Holy Roman Emperor
- 1102(Julian date)Władysław I Herman — Duke of Poland (1043-1102)
- 1134Magnus I of Sweden — King of Sweden
- 1135(Julian date)Emperor Huizong of Song — emperor of the Song Dynasty (1082-1135)
- 1206(Julian date)Adèle of Champagne — Queen of the Franks from 1160 to 1180
- 1246(Julian date)Isabella of Angoulême — Queen consort of England as the second wife of King John
- 1257Przemysł I of Greater Poland — Duke of Greater Poland
- 1453(Julian date)Andronikos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos — Byzantine nobleman, Grand Domestic, son of Demetrios I Kantakouzenos
- 1463(Julian date)Flavio Biondo — historian from Italy
- 1472(Julian date)Nezahualcóyotl — ruler of Texcoco
- 1585Muretus — French philosopher
- 1608Francis Caracciolo — Italian Catholic priest
- 1615Toyotomi Hideyori — Japanese samurai (1593-1615)
- 1615Yodo-dono — prominently-placed figure in late-Sengoku period
- 1663William Juxon — churchman, Bishop of London, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1680Tokugawa Ietsuna — Tokugawa shogun (1641-1680)
- 1798Giacomo Casanova — Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)
- 1801Frederick Muhlenberg — American politician and first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1750-1801)
- 1803Peter Ascanius — Norwegian biologist; student of Linnaeus (1723—1803)
- 1809Nicolai Abildgaard — Danish painter, sculptor and architect (1743–1809)
- 1830Antonio José de Sucre — Venezuelan military and politician (1795–1830)
- 1872Johan Rudolph Thorbecke — Dutch statesman (1798-1872)
- 1875Eduard Mörike — German poet (1804–1875)
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