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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, June 04


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Births

* 1975 Russell Brand English stand-up comedian, radio DJ, television presenter, newspaper columnist, and sometime actor.
* 1975 Nattawut Saikua Leader of National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, one of the largest anti-government protests in Thailand.
* 1975 Angelina Jolie American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
* 1975 Jatuporn Prompan Leader of National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, one of the largest anti-government protests in Thailand.
* 1974 Buddy Wakefield Spoken Word poet, signed to Sage Francis' record label, Strange Famous Records.
* 1951 Melanie Phillips British journalist and author, best known for her columns about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail and Jewish Chronicle.
* 1950 George Noory Weekday host of the late-night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM.
* 1937 Robert Fulghum American author, primarily of short essays.
* 1907 Rosalind Russell Four-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning American film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday.
* 1892 Alan Tower Waterman American physicist.
* 1751 John Scott Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1801 to 1806 and from 1807 to 1827.
* 1738 George III of the United Kingdom King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, formed by the union of these two countries, until his death.

Deaths

† 2011 Martin Rushent English record producer.
† 2011 Lawrence Eagleburger U S Secretary of State under George H W Bush, 1992–1993.
† 2010 John Wooden Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (1961) and a coach (1973).
† 1962 William Beebe American naturalist, explorer, and author.
† 1942 Reinhard Heydrich SS-Obergruppenführer, chief of the RSHA and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia.
† 1941 Wilhelm II of Germany Born Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Preußen, was the last German Emperor and the last King of Prussia, ruling from 1888 to 1918.
† 1798 Giacomo (Jacques Casanova de Seingal) Casanova Italian adventurer and author; also known as Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
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