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Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row.
Notable Deaths on June 4
2010 — John Wooden
American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
June 4 has 91 recorded notable deaths across history, from 756 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
91 source records
756 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on June 4
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 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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Hussein bin Ali accepted the Caliphate after delegations from the Hejaz and neighboring regions urged him to assume it, staying in power until 1925 when Hejaz was invaded by the Sultanate of Nejd.
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Nezahualcoyotl Acolmiztli, "Fasting Coyote" was tlatoani (king) of the Acolhua altepetl (city-state) of Texcoco from 1431 to his death in 1472, in pre-Columbian Mexico.
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Sulochana Latkar, better known by her screen name Sulochana, was an Indian actress of Marathi and Hindi cinema, who acted in 50 films in Marathi and around 250 films in Hindi.
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Born as the 11th son of Emperor Shenzong, he ascended the throne in 1100 upon the death of his elder brother and predecessor, Emperor Zhezong, because Emperor Zhezong's only son had died prematurely.
More major people who died on June 4
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1931
Hussein bin Ali
Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi was a Hejazi leader from the Banu Qatadah branch of the Banu Hashim clan who was the Sharif and Emir of Mecca from 1908 and, after proclaiming the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire,…
1472
Nezahualcoyotl
Aztec poet (born 1402)
Nezahualcoyotl Acolmiztli, "Fasting Coyote" was tlatoani (king) of the Acolhua altepetl (city-state) of Texcoco from 1431 to his death in 1472, in pre-Columbian Mexico.
2023
Sulochana Latkar
Indian actress (born 1928)
Sulochana Latkar, better known by her screen name Sulochana, was an Indian actress of Marathi and Hindi cinema, who acted in 50 films in Marathi and around 250 films in Hindi.
1135
Emperor Huizong of Song (born 1082)
Emperor Huizong of Song, personal name Zhao Ji, was the eighth emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the penultimate emperor of the Northern Song dynasty. He was also a very well-known painter, poet and calligrapher.
1801
Frederick Muhlenberg
American minister and politician, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1750)
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was an American minister and politician who was the first speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791 and again from 1793 to 1795.
2025
Marc Garneau
Canadian astronaut and Member of Parliament (born 1949)
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau was a Canadian Armed Forces officer, astronaut and politician. Garneau served as a naval officer before being selected as an astronaut as part of the 1983 NRC Group.
2024
Parnelli Jones
American racing driver (born 1933)
Rufus Parnell "Parnelli" Jones was an American professional racing driver and racing team owner.
2007
Craig L. Thomas
American captain and politician (born 1933)
Craig Lyle Thomas was an American politician who served as United States senator from Wyoming from 1995 until his death in 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party.
2012
Herb Reed
American violinist (born 1929)
Herbert Reed was an American musician, vocalist, and founding/naming member of The Platters, known for songs such as "Only You " and "The Great Pretender".
1463
Flavio Biondo
Italian historian and author (born 1392)
Flavio Biondo was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history and is known as one of the first archaeologists.
2012
Pedro Borbón
Dominican-American baseball player (born 1946)
Pedro Borbón Rodriguez was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher.
1973
Maurice René Fréchet
French mathematician and academic (born 1878)
René Maurice Fréchet was a French mathematician. He made major contributions to general topology and was the first to define metric spaces.
2004
Steve Lacy
American saxophonist and composer (born 1934)
Steve Lacy was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.
1257
Przemysł I of Greater Poland (born 1221)
Przemysł I, a member of the Piast dynasty, was Duke of Greater Poland from 1239 until his death, from 1241 with his brother Bolesław the Pious as co-ruler.
1971
György Lukács
Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)
György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician.
2007
Clete Boyer
American baseball player and coach (born 1937)
Cletis Leroy "Clete" Boyer was an American professional baseball third baseman—who occasionally played shortstop and second base—in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Athletics (1955–1957), New York Yankees…
2015
Marguerite Patten
English economist and author (born 1915)
Hilda Elsie Marguerite Patten,, was a British home economist, food writer and broadcaster.
1926
Fred Spofforth
Australian-English cricketer and coach (born 1853)
Frederick Robert Spofforth, also known as "The Demon Bowler", was an Australian cricket team pace bowler of the nineteenth century.
1973
Murry Wilson
American songwriter, producer, and manager (born 1917)
Murry Gage Wilson was an American songwriter, talent manager, record producer, and music publisher, best known as the father of the Beach Boys' Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson.