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June 4

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109

Pulitzer Prize

109 years ago

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1975

Angelina Jolie

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Famous births32

1694 · 332 yrs

François Quesnay

François Quesnay (French:; 4 June 1694 – 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats.

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ScienceDied aged 80

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1738 · 288 yrs

George III of Great Britain

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. During his reign, the Acts of Union 1800 merged Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom.

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RoyaltyDied aged 81

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1867 · 159 yrs

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Finland Swedish:, 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military commander and statesman.

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MilitaryDied aged 83

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1877 · 149 yrs

Heinrich Otto Wieland

Heinrich Otto Wieland (German pronunciation:; 4 June 1877 – 5 August 1957) was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids.

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1881 · 145 yrs

Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian: Ната́лья Серге́евна Гончаро́ва, IPA:; 3 July 1881 – 17 October 1962) was a Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer. Goncharova's lifelong partner was fellow Russian avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov.

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1907 · 119 yrs

Rosalind Russell

Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress, model, comedian, screenwriter, and singer, known for her role as fast-talking newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), opposite Cary Grant, as well as for her role of catty Sylvia…

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1915 · 111 yrs

Modibo Keïta

Modibo Keïta (4 June 1915 – 16 May 1977) was a Malian politician who served as the first President of Mali from 1960 to 1968. He espoused a form of African socialism.

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1916 · 110 yrs

Robert F. Furchgott

Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was an American Nobel Prize winning biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems.

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1929 · 97 yrs

Karolos Papoulias

Karolos Papoulias (Greek: Κάρολος Παπούλιας; 4 June 1929 – 26 December 2021) was a Greek politician who served as the president of Greece from 2005 to 2015. A member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), he previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1989 and again from 1993 until 1996.

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1936 · 90 yrs

Bruce Dern

Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor.

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1952 · 74 yrs

Bronisław Komorowski

Bronisław Maria Komorowski (born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as the 5th president of Poland from 2010 to 2015.

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1953 · 73 yrs

Mitsuo Watanabe

Mitsuo Watanabe (渡辺三男, Watanabe Mitsuo; born June 4, 1953) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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AD 79 · 1947 yrs

Vespasian

Vespasian (Latin: Vespasianus; 17 November 9 AD – 23 June 79) was Roman emperor from 69 to 79. The last emperor to reign in the Year of the Four Emperors, he founded the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the empire for 27 years.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1798 · 228 yrs

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (Italian:; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and writer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe.

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LiteratureDied aged 73

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1830 · 196 yrs

Antonio José de Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (Spanish pronunciation:; 3 February 1795 – 4 June 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" (English: "Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan general and politician who served as the president of Bolivia from 1825 to 1828.

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MilitaryDied aged 35

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1876 · 150 yrs

Abdülaziz

Abdulaziz (Ottoman Turkish: عبد العزيز, romanized: ʿAbdü'l-ʿAzîz; Turkish: Abdülaziz; 8 February 1830 – 4 June 1876) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 25 June 1861 to 30 May 1876, when he was overthrown in a government coup. He was a son of Sultan Mahmud II and succeeded his brother Abdulmejid I in 1861.

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MusicDied aged 46

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1887 · 139 yrs

William A. Wheeler

William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 – June 4, 1887) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 19th vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes.

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PoliticsDied aged 67

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1918 · 108 yrs

Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was the 26th vice president of the United States under President Theodore Roosevelt serving from 1905 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, Fairbanks was previously a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.

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PoliticsDied aged 66

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1925 · 101 yrs

Pierre Louÿs

Pierre-Félix Louÿs (French:; 10 December 1870 – 4 June 1925) was a Belgian poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection".

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LiteratureDied aged 54

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1941 · 85 yrs

Wilhelm II

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor from 1888 until his abdication in 1918. His fall from power marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 400-year rule over Prussia.

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RoyaltyDied aged 82

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1942 · 84 yrs

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (German:; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.

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1966 · 60 yrs

Chang Myon

Chang Myon (Korean: 장면; August 28, 1899 – June 4, 1966) was a South Korean statesman, educator, diplomat, journalist and social activist as well as a Roman Catholic youth activist. He was the only prime minister of the parliamentary Second Republic.

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1971 · 55 yrs

Georg Lukács

György Lukács (born Bernát György Löwinger; Hungarian: Lukács György; German: Georg Bernard Lukács; 13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician.

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2021 · 5 yrs

Richard Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich.

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1917 · 109 yrs

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes ( PULL-it-sər) are 23 annual American awards for achievements in "journalism, arts and letters", administered by Columbia University in New York City.

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Culture

1920 · 106 yrs

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon (French: Traité de Trianon; Hungarian: Trianoni békediktátum; Italian: Trattato del Trianon; Romanian: Tratatul de la Trianon), often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference.

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Politics

1942 · 84 yrs

Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

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War

1992 · 34 yrs

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the UN process for negotiating an agreement to limit dangerous climate change. It is an international treaty among countries to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system".

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Politics

2009 · 17 yrs

2009 European Parliament election

The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history.

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