Anniversaries 4 June

Birth

François Quesnay4

French economist 1694–1774

George III of the United Kingdom10

King of Great Britain and King of Ireland 1738–1820

John Scott3

British barrister and politician, born 1751 1751–1838

Benjamin Stanton5

American politician 1809–1872

John William Lloyd5

American anarchist, sexologist, utopian theorist and author… 1857–1940

Frank Buchman9

Evangelical theologist 1878–1961

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV14

King of Mysore 1884–1940

Alan Tower Waterman3

American physicist 1892–1967

Rosalind Russell3

actress from the United States 1907–1976

Розалинд Рассел1

1907–1976

Gaylord Nelson1

American politician 1916–2005

Dennis Weaver2

American actor 1924–2006

Ruth Westheimer2

American sex therapist 1928

Robert Fulghum82

American writer 1937

Joyce Meyer128

American author and speaker 1943

Michelle Phillips10

Singer, actress 1944

Suzanne Ciani5

Italian American composer and musician 1946

Joseph Fred Naumann1

Catholic archbishop 1949

George Noory6

Talk Radio Host 1950

Melanie Phillips15

British journalist 1951

Bronisław Komorowski6

Polish politician, president of Poland 1952

Val McDermid3

Scottish crime writer 1955

Michel Danino4

Indian writer 1956

Tim Jackson4

British economist, specialist of ecological economics 1957

Henry Jenkins2

American media scholar 1958

Ulisses Correia e Silva1

Cape Verdean politician 1962

Vladimir Voevodsky4

Russian mathematician 1966–2017

Al B. Sure!1

American musician 1968

Ekrem İmamoğlu1

Turkish politician, mayor of Istanbul starting in 2019 1970

Joseph Kabila1

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001… 1971

Mike Lee (U.S. politician)2

American politician 1971

Buddy Wakefield19

American poet 1974

Angelina Jolie36

American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975

Russell Brand149

British comedian, actor, and author 1975

Nattawut Saikua2

Thai politician 1975

Alexey Navalny5

Russian anti-corruption activist 1976

Kate Klunk1

American politician 1982

Lukas Podolski1

German footballer 1985

Death

Giacomo Casanova55

Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice 1725–1798

Wilhelm II, German Emperor64

German Emperor and King of Prussia 1859–1941

Alwin Mittasch1

German chemist 1869–1953

William Beebe4

American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and… 1877–1962

György Lukács12

Marxist philosopher and literary critic 1885–1971

André Thérive1

French writer 1891–1967

Joe E. Lewis1

American singer and comedian 1902–1971

Alexandre Kojève2

Russian-born French philosopher and statesman 1902–1968

Reinhard Heydrich4

German Nazi official during World War II 1904–1942

Eric Trist29

British scientist 1909–1993

John Wooden64

American basketball coach 1910–2010

Lilian Jackson Braun5

author 1913–2011

Hermann Zapf1

German type-designer, calligrapher, author and artist 1918–2015

David Markson4

American writer 1927–2010

Lawrence Eagleburger1

American statesman and diplomat 1930–2011

Barry Unsworth1

English novelist 1930–2012

Jack Trout1

American marketing man 1935–2017

Martin Rushent8

English record producer 1948–2011

George Winston1

American recording artist; pianist 1949–2023