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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of June 1039 | EVENT | Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 4th of June 1584 | EVENT | Sir Walter Raleigh establishes the first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina). |
| 4th of June 1615 | EVENT | Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan. |
| 4th of June 1760 | EVENT | Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians. |
| 4th of June 1783 | EVENT | The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiere (hot air balloon). |
| 4th of June 1792 | EVENT | Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 4th of June 1794 | EVENT | British troops capture Port-au-Prince in Haiti. |
| 4th of June 1802 | EVENT | 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. |
| 4th of June 1812 | EVENT | Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory. |
| 4th of June 1825 | EVENT | French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States. |
| 4th of June 1859 | EVENT | Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army. |
| 4th of June 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 4th of June 1876 | EVENT | An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City. |
| 4th of June 1878 | EVENT | Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title. |
| 4th of June 1896 | EVENT | Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. |
| 4th of June 1912 | EVENT | Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage. |
| 4th of June 1913 | EVENT | 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. |
| 4th of June 1917 | EVENT | 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. |
| 4th of June 1919 | EVENT | Women's rights: 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. |
| 4th of June 1920 | EVENT | Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris. |
| 4th of June 1928 | EVENT | President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents. |
| 4th of June 1939 | EVENT | Holocaust: 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, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps. |
| 4th of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends : British forces complete evacuation of 300,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. |
| 4th of June 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy. |
| 4th of June 1943 | EVENT | A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramon Castillo. |
| 4th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505 : the first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century. |
| 4th of June 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall. |
| 4th of June 1957 | EVENT | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 4th of June 1965 | EVENT | Duane Earl Pope robbed the Farmers' State Bank of Big Springs, Nebraska, killing three people execution style and severely wounding a fourth. The crime landed Pope on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. |
| 4th of June 1967 | EVENT | Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. |
| 4th of June 1970 | EVENT | Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 4th of June 1973 | EVENT | A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain. |
| 4th of June 1974 | EVENT | During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers. |
| 4th of June 1979 | EVENT | Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown. |
| 4th of June 1986 | EVENT | Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. |
| 4th of June 1989 | EVENT | The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army. |
| 4th of June 1989 | EVENT | 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. |
| 4th of June 1989 | EVENT | 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. |
| 4th of June 1989 | EVENT | Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. |
| 4th of June 1996 | EVENT | The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 20 seconds. It was a Cluster mission. |
| 4th of June 1998 | EVENT | Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. |
| 4th of June 2001 | EVENT | Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace. |
| 4th of June 1394 | BIRTHDAY | Philippa of England, queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (d. 1430) |
| 4th of June 1489 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1544) |
| 4th of June 1604 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia de' Medici, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1648) |
| 4th of June 1665 | BIRTHDAY | Zacharie Robutel de La Noue, Canadian soldier (d. 1733) |
| 4th of June 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Quesnay, French economist (d. 1774) |
| 4th of June 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776) |
| 4th of June 1738 | BIRTHDAY | King George III of Great Britain (d. 1820) |
| 4th of June 1744 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780) |
| 4th of June 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832) |
| 4th of June 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Constant Prevost, French geologist (d. 1856) |
| 4th of June 1801 | BIRTHDAY | James Pennethorne, English architect (d. 1871) |
| 4th of June 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897) |
| 4th of June 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Jinmaku Kyugoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna (d. 1903) |
| 4th of June 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Miina Sillanpaa, Finnish politician (d. 1952) |
| 4th of June 1867 | BIRTHDAY | C.G.E. Mannerheim, Marshal, Supreme Commander and later President of Finland (d. 1951) |
| 4th of June 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) |
| 4th of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1964) |
| 4th of June 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Blandick, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 4th of June 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter (d. 1962) |
| 4th of June 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Longboat, marathon runner (d. 1949) |
| 4th of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Madame Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941) |
| 4th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (d. 1989) |
| 4th of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ir. Soekarno, the first president of the Republic of Indonesia (d. 1967) |
| 4th of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Bhagat Puran Singh, Punjabi social activist (d. 1992) |
| 4th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Roumain, Haitian writer (d. 1944) |
| 4th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Patience Strong, English poet and journalist (d. 1990) |
| 4th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976) |
| 4th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (d. 1999) |
| 4th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993) |
| 4th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009) |
| 4th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes) |
| 4th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Merrill, American baritone (d. 2004) |
| 4th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Komar, Slovenian-born Argentine philosopher (d. 2006) |
| 4th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach |
| 4th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (d. 2007) |
| 4th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Tofilau Eti Alesana, Prime Minister of Samoa (d. 1999) |
| 4th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 4th of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Earl Hughes, American man who became the heaviest known human (d. 1958) |
| 4th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Henning Carlsen, Danish film director |
| 4th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Palmer, English actor |
| 4th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Westheimer, German-born American sex therapist and author |
| 4th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Karolos Papoulias, Greek politician |
| 4th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Morgana King, American actress |
| 4th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Tikhonov, Russian hockey player and coach |
| 4th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 4th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975) |
| 4th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer |
| 4th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (d. 1971) |
| 4th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Colette Boky, Quebec operatic soprano |
| 4th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Nutan Behl, Indian actress (d. 1991) |
| 4th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Dern, American actor |
| 4th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fulghum, American author |
| 4th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 4th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Mortimer Zuckerman, American publisher |
| 4th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Freddy Fender, American musician (d. 2006) |
| 4th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Art Mahaffey, American baseball player |
| 4th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Schwarz, Austrian bishop |
| 4th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth G. Ross, Australian playwright and screenwriter |
| 4th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Reichardt, American mountaineer |
| 4th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Meyer, American religious leader |
| 4th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress |
| 4th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Braxton, American composer and instrumentalist |
| 4th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Waller, Scottish musician (Peter and Gordon) (d. 2009) |
| 4th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria |
| 4th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Champion, English jockey |
| 4th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Sparwasser, German footballer |
| 4th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Arcand, French Canadian actor |
| 4th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Macari, Scottish footballer |
| 4th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | George Noory, American radio personality |
| 4th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dagmar Krause, German singer (Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, Art Bears) |
| 4th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Woodford, English celebrity chef |
| 4th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Pini, American comic book writer and artist |
| 4th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bronis?aw Komorowski, Marshal of the Polish Sejm and acting President of Poland |
| 4th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Parker Stevenson, American actor and director |
| 4th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician (d. 1979) |
| 4th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Susumu Ojima, Japanese entrepreneur (Huser) |
| 4th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Lingle, 6th Governor of Hawaii |
| 4th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002) |
| 4th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Val McDermid, Scottish writer |
| 4th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Stewart, English writer |
| 4th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Testa, American stage actress |
| 4th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Adams, English darts player |
| 4th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Hockenberry, American journalist |
| 4th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Kennedy, American baseball player |
| 4th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Keith David, American actor |
| 4th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Ryan, Irish radio talkshow host (d. 2010) |
| 4th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Treacy, Irish athlete |
| 4th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Yoon Suk-ho, South Korean director |
| 4th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Velez, American Actor |
| 4th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Camacho, Bolivian long-distance runner |
| 4th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Milos ?elmas, Serbian footballer |
| 4th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley Walsh, British actor |
| 4th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | El DeBarge, American singer (DeBarge) |
| 4th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ferenc Gyurcsany, 6th Prime Minister of Hungary |
| 4th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Zenon Jasku?a, Polish cyclist |
| 4th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Krzysztof Holowczyc, Polish rally driver |
| 4th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John P. Kee, American gospel singer |
| 4th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier McDaniel, American basketball player |
| 4th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Yamamura Japanese Animator |
| 4th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Pertwee, English actor |
| 4th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player |
| 4th of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer |
| 4th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician |
| 4th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano |
| 4th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Shane Kimbrough, American astronaut |
| 4th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Wolf, American actor |
| 4th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Al B. Sure, American R&B singer |
| 4th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born comedian |
| 4th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician |
| 4th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Izabella Scorupco, Polish actress |
| 4th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | David Pybus, British musician |
| 4th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | James Callis, British actor |
| 4th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Kabila, Congolese politician |
| 4th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lee, American politician, junior senator from Utah |
| 4th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer |
| 4th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Wyle, American actor |
| 4th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Nikka Costa, American singer |
| 4th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player |
| 4th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hill, American writer |
| 4th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Huebel, American comedian |
| 4th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mikey Whipwreck, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Darin Erstad, American baseball player |
| 4th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Gwynne, British politician |
| 4th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Lessard, American musician |
| 4th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Wakefield, American poet |
| 4th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Angelina Jolie, American actress |
| 4th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Brand, British comedian, actor and television personality |
| 4th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Burris, American football player |
| 4th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kasey Chambers, Australian alternative country singer-songwriter |
| 4th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nenad Zimonjic, Serbian tennis player |
| 4th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dionisis Chiotis, Greek footballer |
| 4th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Berglind Icey, Icelandic actor |
| 4th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Miroshnichenko, Russian guitarist |
| 4th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Manninger, Austrian footballer |
| 4th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Quinten Hann, Australian snooker player |
| 4th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Vickerman, Australian rugby union player |
| 4th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Naohiro Takahara, Japanese footballer |
| 4th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Beauchemin, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Miller, American actor and comedian |
| 4th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer |
| 4th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jin, American rapper |
| 4th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Prude, American football player |
| 4th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Dornan, Irish model and actor |
| 4th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Eboue, Ivorian footballer |
| 4th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Koffi Ndri Romaric, Ivorian footballer |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kento Handa, Japanese actor |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jenaveve Jolie, American pornographic actress |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico Rossi Chauvenet, Italian footballer |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006) |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ian White, Canadian hockey player |
| 4th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress |
| 4th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Lysacek, American 2010 Olympic champion figure skater |
| 4th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Podolski, German footballer |
| 4th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alicja Janosz, Polish singer |
| 4th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bar Refaeli, Israeli model |
| 4th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Oddvar Reiakvam, Norwegian politician |
| 4th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Kippel, Canadian actor |
| 4th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Micky, South Korean singer (TVXQ) |
| 4th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tori Praver, American model |
| 4th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Mollie King, British singer (The Saturdays) |
| 4th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer |
| 4th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Erba, Italian footballer |
| 4th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Prescott, British actress |
| 4th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Prescott, British actress |
| 4th of June 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Jelusic, Croatian singer |
| 4th of June 1039 | DEATH | Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor |
| 4th of June 1135 | DEATH | Emperor Huizong of China (Born 1082) |
| 4th of June 1206 | DEATH | Adele of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France |
| 4th of June 1257 | DEATH | Duke Przemysl I of Poland |
| 4th of June 1394 | DEATH | Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England (Born c 1369) |
| 4th of June 1463 | DEATH | Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist (Born 1392) |
| 4th of June 1585 | DEATH | Muretus, French humanist (Born 1526) |
| 4th of June 1663 | DEATH | William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1582) |
| 4th of June 1798 | DEATH | Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer (Born 1725) |
| 4th of June 1801 | DEATH | Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (Born 1750) |
| 4th of June 1830 | DEATH | Antonio Jose de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho (Born 1795) |
| 4th of June 1872 | DEATH | Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (Born 1798) |
| 4th of June 1875 | DEATH | Eduard Morike, German poet (Born 1804) |
| 4th of June 1922 | DEATH | William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (Born 1864) |
| 4th of June 1926 | DEATH | Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer (Born 1853) |
| 4th of June 1928 | DEATH | Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (Born 1873) |
| 4th of June 1929 | DEATH | Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923 (Born 1881) |
| 4th of June 1939 | DEATH | Tommy Ladnier, American musician (Born 1900) |
| 4th of June 1941 | DEATH | Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor (Born 1859) |
| 4th of June 1942 | DEATH | Reinhard Heydrich, German SS senior officer and Nazi official (Born 1904) |
| 4th of June 1951 | DEATH | Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor (Born 1874) |
| 4th of June 1956 | DEATH | Katherine MacDonald, American actress (Born 1881) |
| 4th of June 1962 | DEATH | Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (Born 1882) |
| 4th of June 1964 | DEATH | Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (Born 1887) |
| 4th of June 1968 | DEATH | Dorothy Gish, American actress (Born 1898) |
| 4th of June 1970 | DEATH | Sonny Tufts, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 4th of June 1971 | DEATH | Georg Lukacs, Hungarian philosopher (Born 1885) |
| 4th of June 1973 | DEATH | Maurice Rene Frechet, French mathematician (Born 1878) |
| 4th of June 1973 | DEATH | Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (Born 1917) |
| 4th of June 1989 | DEATH | Dik Browne, American cartoonist (Born 1917) |
| 4th of June 1992 | DEATH | Carl Stotz, American Little League founder (Born 1910) |
| 4th of June 1994 | DEATH | Massimo Troisi, Italian actor (Born 1953) |
| 4th of June 1994 | DEATH | Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (Born 1943) |
| 4th of June 1997 | DEATH | Ronnie Lane, British bass player (Born 1946) |
| 4th of June 2001 | DEATH | Dipendra of Nepal (Born 1971) |
| 4th of June 2001 | DEATH | John Hartford, American musician (Born 1937) |
| 4th of June 2002 | DEATH | Fernando Belaunde Terry, Peruvian politician (Born 1912) |
| 4th of June 2004 | DEATH | Nino Manfredi, Italian actor (Born 1921) |
| 4th of June 2004 | DEATH | Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (Born 1934) |
| 4th of June 2004 | DEATH | Marvin Heemeyer, American muffler owner (Born 1952) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Clete Boyer, American baseball player (Born 1937) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist (Born 1922) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer (Born 1933) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (Born 1933) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Sotiris Moustakas, Greek actor (Born 1940) |
| 4th of June 2007 | DEATH | Craig L. Thomas, United States Senator (Born 1933) |
| 4th of June 2008 | DEATH | Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (Born 1952) |
| 4th of June 2010 | DEATH | John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (Born 1910) |