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Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who was the fourth president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019.
Famous Birthdays on June 4
1971 — Joseph Kabila
Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
June 4 has 212 recorded notable births across history, from 590 to 2021. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on June 4
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- 1919 Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. Source
- 1989 In the 1989 Iranian supreme leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini. Source
- 1859 Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army. Source
- 1989 Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe. Source
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Russell has been honored with a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1975.
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In mixed doubles, she won the French Open with Jimmy Arias in 1981.
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Yang began her career in 2000 as a member of girl group 4 in Love.
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In November 2018, she was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and has won an additional 14 ARIA Music Awards with nine for Best Country Album.
More major people born on June 4
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1907
Rosalind Russell
American actress (died 1976)
Catherine Rosalind Russell 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…
1965
Andrea Jaeger
American tennis player and preacher
Andrea Jaeger is an American former professional tennis player. She started her professional tennis career at the age of 14 and went on to win pro tennis tournaments while still competing in other junior tennis events.
1984
Rainie Yang
Taiwanese actress
Rainie Yang Cheng Lin is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and television host. Yang began her career in 2000 as a member of girl group 4 in Love.
1976
Kasey Chambers
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
Kasey Chambers is an Australian country singer-songwriter and musician born in Mount Gambier to musicians Diane and Bill Chambers. Her older brother is musician and producer Nash Chambers.
1916
Gaylord Nelson
American politician and environmentalist, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (died 2005)
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and environmentalist from Wisconsin.
1975
Henry Burris
American football player
Henry Armand Burris Jr. is an American former professional football quarterback, and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He is currently the co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Florida A&M.
1489
Antoine
Duke of Lorraine (died 1544)
Antoine, known as the Good, was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 until his death in 1544. Raised at the French court, Antoine would campaign in Italy twice: once under Louis XII and the other with Francis I.
1979
Daniel Vickerman
South African-Australian rugby player (died 2017)
Daniel Joseph Vickerman was a professional rugby union player. The 204 cm, 119 kg lock played 63 Tests with the Wallabies, the national team of his adopted country of Australia.
1984
Ian White
Canadian ice hockey player
Ian White is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played over 500 games in the National Hockey League.
1754
Miguel de Azcuénaga
Argentinian soldier (died 1833)
Brigadier Miguel de Azcuénaga was an Argentine army officer and politician.
1956
John Hockenberry
American journalist and author
John Charles Hockenberry is an American journalist and author. He has reported from all over the world, on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades.
1924
Dennis Weaver
American actor and director (died 2006)
Billy Dennis Weaver was an American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, best known for his work in television and films from the early 1950s until just before his death in 2006.
1953
Linda Lingle
American journalist and politician, 6th Governor of Hawaii
Linda Lingle is an American politician and publisher who served as the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010.
1821
Apollon Maykov
Russian poet and playwright (died 1897)
Apollon Nikolayevich Maykov was a Russian poet, best known for his lyric verse showcasing images of Russian villages, nature, and history.
1942
Louis Reichardt
American mountaineer
Louis French Reichardt is a noted American neuroscientist and mountaineer, the first American to summit both Everest and K2.
1964
Sean Pertwee
English actor
Sean Carl Roland Pertwee is an English actor, narrator and producer.
1952
Dambudzo Marechera
Zimbabwean author and poet (died 1987)
Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels, a book of plays, prose, and poetry, and a collection of poetry.
1967
Robert S. Kimbrough
American colonel and astronaut
Robert Shane Kimbrough is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
1694
François Quesnay
French economist and physician (died 1774)
François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats.