What happened on June 4 ?

1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor

1135 - Emperor Huizong of China (b. 1082)

1206 - Adèle of Champagne, queen of Louis VII of France

1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland

1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England

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 lover and writer (b. 1725)

1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1750)

1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, South Américan independence hero and Great Marshall of Ayacucho

1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (d. 1798)

1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)

1928 - Chang Tso-lin, Chinese warlord (b. 1873)

1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)

1941 - Kaiser Wilhelm II, last German emperor (b. 1859)

1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (b. 1904)

1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)

1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (b. 1881)

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, Record producer - Father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)

1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917 or 1918)

1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (b. 1943)

1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (b. 1953)

1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player with Small Faces and Faces (band) (b. 1946)

2001 - King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)

2001 - John Hartford, American musician, composer (b. 1937)

2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (b. 1912)

2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)

2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (b. 1921)