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June 20
is the 171st day of the year (172nd in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 194 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 451
- The
Battle of Chalons
,
Flavius Aetius
' victory over
Attila the Hun
.
- 1214
?
University of Oxford
receives its charter.
- 1605
-
Tsar
Feodor III of Russia
is murdered.
- 1631
? The
sack of Baltimore
: the
Irish
village of Baltimore was attacked by
Algerian
pirates.
- 1667
-
Pope Clement IX
is elected.
- 1685
?
Monmouth Rebellion
: The
Duke of Monmouth
declared himself King of England at
Bridgwater
.
- 1756
? English garrison imprisoned in the
Black Hole of Calcutta
.
- 1782
? The
U.S. Congress
adopts the
Great Seal of the United States
.
- 1789
? Deputies of the French
Third Estate
took the
Tennis Court Oath
- 1791
? The
Flight to Varennes
began.
- 1819
? The US vessel
Savannah
arrives at
Liverpool
. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
- 1837
?
Queen Victoria
succeeds to the British throne.
- 1840
-
Samuel Morse
receives a
patent
for the
telegraph
.
- 1862
?
Barbu Catargiu
is assassinated in
Romania
.
- 1863
?
West Virginia
is admitted as the 35th
U.S. state
.
- 1877
?
Alexander Graham Bell
installs world's first commercial
telephone
service in
Hamilton
Ontario
.
- 1884
- The
Pentre Ifan
Neolithic
site in
Pembrokeshire
, west
Wales
, gets the special status of a "Scheduled
Monument
".
- 1887
-
Victoria Terminus
, the busiest railway station in
India
, opens in
Bombay
.
- 1893
?
Lizzie Borden
is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father.
- 1895
- The
Kiel Canal
, crossing the base of the
Jutland
peninsula in Northern
Germany
, is officially opened.
- 1900
? In
China
, the
Boxer Rebellion
begins.
- 1919
? 150 die at the
Teatro Yaguez
fire,
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
.
- 1921
- Workers of the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills in
Chennai
,
India
, begin a four-month strike.
- 1939
?
Benny Goodman
's
Song School
ends its radio series.
- 1940
-
World War II
:
Italy
begins
- 1943
- The
Detroit
race riots break out.
- 1944
-
World War II
: The
Battle of the Philippine Sea
finishes, with a decisive
US
Naval victory.
- 1944
- Continuation War: The
Soviet Union
demands the unconditional surrender of
Finland
, which the Finnish
government
refuses.
- 1945
- The
United States Secretary of State
approves the transfer of
Wernher von Braun
and his team of
Nazi
rocket
scientists
to the
US
.
- 1948
?
Toast of the Town
, later
The Ed Sullivan Show
, debuts.
- 1005
-
Ali az-Zahir
, Egyptian
caliph
(d.
1036
)
- 1389
-
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
(d.
1435
)
- 1469
-
Gian Galeazzo Sforza
, consort of
Isabella of Naples
(d.
1496
)
- 1566
?
Sigismund III Vasa
, King of
Poland
and
Sweden
(d.
1632
)
- 1583
-
Jacob De la Gardie
, Swedish
soldier
and
statesman
(d.
1652
)
- 1634
-
Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy
(d.
1675
)
- 1642
-
George Hickes
, English
theologian
and
writer
(d.
1715
)
- 1647
-
John George III, Elector of Saxony
(d.
1691
)
- 1717
-
Jacques Saly
, French
sculptor
(d.
1776
)
- 1723
?
Adam Ferguson
, Scottish
philosopher
and historian (d.
1816
)
- 1737
-
Tokugawa Ieharu
, Japanese
shogun
(d.
1786
)
- 1753
-
Antoine de Rivarol
, French writer (d.
1801
)
- 1754
-
Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
(d.
1832
)
- 1756
-
Joseph Martin Kraus
, German composer (d.
1792
)
- 1760
-
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
, British
statesman
(d.
1842
)
- 1763
-
Wolfe Tone
, Irish
lawyer
and independence campaigner (d.
1798
)
- 1771
-
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
, Scottish philanthropist (d.
1820
)
- 1778
-
Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac
, French
statesman
(d.
1832
)
- 1786
-
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
, French writer (d.
1859
)
- 1819
?
Jacques Offenbach
, German-French composer (d.
1880
)
- 1832
-
Benjamin Bristow
, American politician (d.
1896
)
- 1833
-
Leon Bonnat
, French painter (d.
1922
)
- 1858
?
Charles W. Chesnutt
, American writer (d.
1932
)
- 1860
-
Alexander Winton
, Scottish
automobile
designer and racer (d.
1932
)
- 1860
-
Jack Worrall
, Australian
cricketer
and
footballer
(d.
1932
)
- 1861
?
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
,
English
chemist
, won the 1929
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d.
1947
)
- 1862
-
Marco Praga
, Italian
playwright
(d.
1929
)
- 1869
-
Lucy Kemp-Welch
, English painter (d.
1958
)
- 1872
-
George Carpenter
, 5th
General
of the
Salvation Army
(d.
1948
)
- 1875
-
Reginald Punnett
, British
geneticist
(d.
1967
)
- 1884
-
Johannes Heinrich Schultz
, German
psychiatrist
(d.
1970
)
- 1887
-
Kurt Schwitters
, German painter and writer (d.
1948
)
- 1889
-
John S. Paraskevopoulos
, Greek-South African
astronomer
(d.
1951
)
- 1891
?
John A. Costello
, Irish
Taoiseach
(d.
1976
)
- 1891
-
Giannina Arangi-Lombardi
, Italian
soprano
(d.
1951
)
- 1896
-
Wilfrid Pelletier
, Canadian
conductor
,
pianist
,
composer
and
arts
administrator (d.
1982
)
- 1897
?
Elisabeth Hauptmann
, German writer (d.
1973
)
- 1897
-
Jimmy Driftwood
, American folk musician and
songwriter
(d.
1998
)
- 1899
-
Jean Moulin
, French resistance leader (d.
1943
)
- 1902
-
Juan Evaristo
, Argentine
footballer
(d.
1978
)
- 1905
?
Lillian Hellman
, American
playwright
(d.
1984
)
- 1906
-
Bob King
, American high jumper (d.
1965
)
- 1907
-
Jimmy Driftwood
, American
singer-songwriter
and
banjo
player (d.
1998
)
- 1909
?
Errol Flynn
, Australian-American actor (d.
1959
)
- 1913
?
Lilian Jackson Braun
, American writer (d.
2011
)
- 1913
-
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona
, Spanish royal, father of King
Juan Carlos I of Spain
(d.
1993
)
- 1915
-
Terence Young
, British
screenwriter
and
director
(d.
1994
)
- 1916
-
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
, 21st
Premier
of
Quebec
(d.
1973
)
- 1917
-
Helena Rasiowa
, Polish
mathematician
(d.
1994
)
- 1920
-
Man Mohan Adhikari
,
Nepalese
politician (d.
1999
)
- 1920
-
Eduardo Mondlane
,
Mozambican
political activist (d.
1969
)
- 1923
-
Jerzy Nowak
, Polish actor (d.
2013
)
- 1923
-
Peter Gay
, German-American
historian
, educator and
writer
(d.
2015
)
- 1924
?
Chet Atkins
, American
guitarist
and producer (d.
2001
)
- 1924
?
Fritz Koenig
, German
sculptor
(d.
2017
)
- 1924
-
Rainer Barzel
, German politician (d.
2006
)
- 1925
-
Audie Murphy
, American
soldier
,
actor
and
songwriter
(d.
1971
)
- 1925
-
Doris Hart
, American
tennis
player (d.
2015
)
- 1926
-
Giovanni Viola
, Italian
footballer
(d.
2008
)
- 1927
-
Simin Behbahani
,
Iranian
poet
(d.
2014
)
- 1927
?
Josef Posipal
, German
footballer
and manager (d.
1997
)
- 1928
?
Jean-Marie Le Pen
, French far-right politician
- 1928
?
Martin Landau
, American actor (d.
2017
)
- 1928
-
Eric Dolphy
, American
jazz
musician (d.
1964
)
- 1929
-
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
, Canadian-American businessman (d.
2013
)
- 1929
-
Edith Windsor
, American LGBT rights activist ad technological manager at IBM (d.
2017
)
- 1930
-
Magdalena Abakanowicz
, Polish
sculptor
and
artist
(d.
2017
)
- 1931
?
Olympia Dukakis
, American
actress
(d.
2021
)
- 1932
-
Robert Rozhdestvensky
, Russian
poet
(d.
1994
)
- 1933
-
Danny Aiello
, American actor
- 1933
-
Dai Dower
, Welsh boxer (d.
2016
)
- 1933
-
Brett Halsey
, American actor
- 1934
-
Sergio Balanzino
, Italian
diplomat
, former Secretary-General of
NATO
.
- 1934
-
Graham Leggat
, Scottish
footballer
- 1934
-
Wendy Craig
, English actress
- 1935
-
Armando Picchi
, Italian
footballer
(d.
1971
)
- 1936
-
Billy Guy
, American singer (d.
2002
)
- 1937
-
Phil Skoglund
, New Zealand lawn bowls player (d.
2015
)
- 1938
-
Joan Kirner
, Australian politician, 42nd
Premier
of
Victoria
(d.
2015
)
- 1939
-
Konrad Spindler
, German prehistorian (d.
2005
)
- 1940
-
John Mahoney
, English-American actor (d.
2018
)
- 1941
-
Stephen Frears
, British
actor
,
director
,
producer
- 1941
-
Ulf Merbold
, German
physicist
and
astronaut
- 1942
?
Brian Wilson
, American musician (
The Beach Boys
)
- 1945
?
Anne Murray
, Canadian singer
- 1945
-
Jean-Claude Izzo
, French writer (d.
2000
)
- 1945
-
Shekhar Mehta
, Kenyan rally driver (d.
2006
)
- 1946
-
Lars Vilks
, Swedish
sculptor
,
artist
and
activist
- 1946
?
Xanana Gusmao
, former
President
of
East Timor
- 1948
?
Ludwig Scotty
, former
President
of
Nauru
- 1948
-
Cirilo Flores
, American
bishop
(d.
2014
)
- 1948
-
Alan Longmuir
, Scottish musician and actor (
Bay City Rollers
) (d.
2018
)
- 1949
-
Lionel Richie
,
American
singer
and
musician
- 1950
?
Nouri al-Maliki
,
Prime Minister
of
Iraq
- 1951
?
Tress MacNeille
, American voice actress
- 1952
?
John Goodman
, American actor
- 1952
?
Vikram Seth
, Indian
poet
- 1952
-
Larry Riley
, American actor
- 1952
-
Mabel Rivera
, Spanish
actress
- 1953
-
Ulrich Muhe
, German actor (d.
2007
)
- 1954
?
Michael Anthony
, American musician (
Van Halen
)
- 1954
-
Allan Lamb
, South African-English
cricketer
- 1954
-
Ilan Ramon
, Israeli
astronaut
(d.
2003
)
- 1958
-
Barbara Rosenkranz
, Austrian politician
- 1958
-
Chuck Wagner
, American actor
- 1959
?
Chris Williams
, African-American actor
- 1960
?
John Taylor
, British musician ("
Duran Duran
")
- 1963
-
Jose Basualdo
, Argentine
footballer
- 1964
-
Pierfrancesco Chili
, Italian
motorcycle
racer
- 1964
-
Silke Moller
, German athlete
- 1966
-
Boaz Yakin
, American
screenwriter
and
director
- 1967
?
Nicole Kidman
, Australian actress
- 1967
-
Angela Melillo
, Italian actress, model, singer and television personality
- 1968
-
Mateusz Morawiecki
, Polish politician,
Prime minister
of
Poland
- 1969
-
Paulo Bento
, Portuguese
footballer
and manager
- 1970
?
Prince Moulay Rachid
of
Morocco
- 1970
-
Andrea Nahles
, German politician
- 1971
-
Josh Lucas
, American actor
- 1971
-
Jeordie White
, American musician
- 1972
-
Craig Thomson
, Scottish football referee
- 1973
-
Chino Moreno
, American
singer-songwriter
and
musician
- 1976
?
Juliano Belletti
, Brazilian footballer
- 1978
?
Frank Lampard
, English
footballer
- 1978
-
Quinton Jackson
, American mixed martial artist and actor
- 1979
-
Masashi Motoyama
, Japanese
footballer
- 1980
?
Carlo Festuccia
, Italian
rugby
player
- 1980
-
Vignir Svavarsson
, Icelandic
handball
player
- 1981
-
Brede Hangeland
, Norwegian
footballer
- 1982
?
Aleksei Berezutski
, Russian footballer
- 1982
?
Vasili Berezutski
, Russian footballer
- 1982
?
Example
, English rapper
- 1982
-
George Forsyth
,
Peruvian
footballer
- 1983
-
Josh Childress
, American
basketball
player
- 1984
-
Hassan Adams
, American
basketball
player
- 1985
-
Souleymane Mamam
,
Togolese
footballer
- 1986
-
Luca Cigarini
, Italian
footballer
- 1987
?
Itumeleng Khune
, South African footballer
- 1987
-
Alexey Korolev
, Kazakhstani ski jumper
- 1987
?
Paweł Rogali?ski
, Polish journalist
- 1987
-
Asmir Begovic
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
footballer
- 1988
-
Shefali Chowdhury
, British
actress
- 1989
?
Javier Pastore
, Argentine footballer
- 1989
-
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
, American actor
- 1990
-
Ding Ning
, Chinese
table tennis
player
- 1990
-
Iselin Solheim
, Norwegian singer
- 1991
-
Rick ten Voorde
, Dutch
footballer
- 1993
-
Sead Kolasinac
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
footballer
- 1996
-
Majid Hosseini
, Iranian
footballer
- 1997
-
Maria Lark
, Russian-American actress
- 1997
-
Jordan Larsson
, Swedish
footballer
- 1998
-
Jadin Gould
, American actress
- 1999
-
Yui Mizuno
, Japanese
singer
and
model
- 451
?
Theodorid
,
King of the Visigoths
- 537
-
Pope Silverius
- 840
?
Louis the Pious
, King of the Franks, Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire
(b.
778
)
- 1176
-
Mikhail of Vladimir
- 1597
?
Willem Barentsz
, navigator (b.
1550
)
- 1605
?
Tsar
Feodor II of Russia
(b.
1589
)
- 1668
-
Heinrich Roth
, German scholar (b.
1620
)
- 1776
-
Benjamin Huntsman
, English
inventor
and manufacturer (b.
1704
)
- 1787
?
Karl Friedrich Abel
, German composer
- 1810
-
Axel von Fersen the Younger
, Swedish
statesman
(b.
1755
)
- 1820
?
Manuel Belgrano
, Argentine lawyer and politician (b.
1770
)
- 1837
? King
William IV of the United Kingdom
(b.
1765
)
- 1840
-
Pierre Claude Francois Daunou
, French
statesman
(b.
1761
)
- 1847
-
Juan Larrea
, Argentine politician and businessman (b.
1782
)
- 1862
-
Barbu Catargiu
, Romanian politician (b.
1807
)
- 1869
-
Hijikata Toshizo
, Japanese
military
leader (b.
1835
)
- 1870
-
Jules de Goncourt
, French
writer
(b.
1830
)
- 1888
?
Johannes Zukertort
, German
chess
player (b.
1847
)
- 1891
-
Mihail Kogalniceanu
, Romanian
historian
,
writer
and
journalist
(b.
1817
)
- 1909
-
Friedrich Martens
,
Estonian
-
Russian
diplomat
,
lawyer
and
historian
(b.
1845
)
- 1925
-
Josef Breuer
, Austrian
psychologist
(b.
1842
)
- 1929
-
Emmanuel Benakis
, Greek merchant and politician (b.
1843
)
- 1933
?
Clara Zetkin
, German politician and
feminist
(b.
1857
)
- 1940
-
Jehan Alain
, French
organist
and
composer
(b.
1911
)
- 1945
?
Bruno Frank
, German writer (b.
1878
)
- 1945
-
Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbon
, Spanish prince (b.
1888
)
- 1946
-
Wan Rong
, last Empress of
China
(b.
1906
)
- 1947
?
Bugsy Siegel
, American gangster (b.
1906
)
- 1947
-
Howard Mason Gore
, 17th
Governor
of
West Virginia
(b.
1877
)
- 1952
-
Luigi Fagioli
, Italian racing driver (b.
1898
)
- 1958
?
Kurt Alder
, German chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1902
)
- 1965
-
Bernard Baruch
, American financier and politician (b.
1870
)
- 1966
?
Georges Lemaitre
, Belgian
theologian
and
astrophysicist
(b.
1894
)
- 1976
-
Lou Klein
, American
baseball
player (b.
1918
)
- 1979
-
Bill Stewart
, American
journalist
(b.
1941
)
- 1995
?
Emil Cioran
, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (b.
1911
)
- 1997
-
Lawrence Payton
, American
singer-songwriter
and
producer
(b.
1938
)
- 1998
?
Conrad Schumann
, East German borderguard, most famous escapee from
East Germany
(b.
1942
)
- 1999
?
Clifton Fadiman
, writer (b.
1902
)
- 2001
-
Gina Cigna
, Italian-French
opera
singer and dramatic
soprano
(b.
1900
)
- 2002
?
Erwin Chargaff
, Austrian biochemist (b.
1905
)
- 2002
?
Tinus Osendarp
, Dutch sprinter (b.
1916
)
- 2003
?
Bob Stump
, U.S. Congressman from Arizona (b.
1927
)
- 2005
?
Jack Kilby
, American electrical engineer (b.
1923
)
- 2009
?
Neda Agha-Soltan
, Iranian student (shot), symbol of the resistance to
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(b.
1982
)
- 2010
?
Roberto Rosato
, Italian
footballer
(b.
1943
)
- 2011
?
Ryan Dunn
, American television star and
stuntman
(b.
1977
)
- 2012
-
Judy Agnew
, wife of
Spiro Agnew
(b.
1920
)
- 2013
-
Ingvar Rydell
, Swedish
footballer
(b.
1922
)
- 2014
-
Oberdan Cattani
, Brazilian
footballer
(b.
1919
)
- 2014
-
Jaroslav Walter
, Czech
ice hockey
player (b.
1939
)
- 2015
-
Elson Floyd
, American educator (b.
1956
)
- 2015
-
Angelo Niculescu
, Romanian football manager (b.
1921
)
- 2015
-
Takanonami Sadahiro
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (b.
1971
)
- 2015
-
Francois Delapierre
, French
politician
(b.
1970
)
- 2015
-
Esther Brand
, South African athlete (b.
1922
)
- 2015
-
William Brantley Aycock
, American educator (b.
1915
)
- 2016
-
Frank Chapot
, American
equestrian
(b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Rich Olive
, American politician (b.
1949
)
- 2016
-
Ernesto Maceda
, Filipino politician (b.
1935
)
- 2016
-
Edgard Pisani
, French politician (b.
1918
)
- 2016
-
Chayito Valdez
, Mexican-American folk singer and actress (b.
1945
)
- 2017
-
Sergei Mylnikov
, Russian
ice hockey
player (b.
1958
)
- 2017
-
Prodigy
, American
rapper
(b.
1974
)
- 2017
-
Fredrik Skagen
, Norwegian writer (b.
1936
)
- 2018
-
Ken Albiston
, Australian rules football player (b.
1926
)
- 2018
-
Dante Caputo
, Argentine politician (b.
1943
)
- 2018
-
Peter Thomson
, Australian golfer (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Bill Hendon
, American activist, writer and politician (b.
1944
)
- 2018
-
Ernie Hunt
, English
footballer
(b.
1943
)
- 2018
-
Sandor Kanyadi
, Hungarian poet and translator (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Bill Speakman
, British soldier (b.
1927
)
- 2019
-
Eddie Garcia
, Filipino actor, director and television personality (b.
1929
)
- 2019
-
Ruben Sune
, Argentine
footballer
(b.
1947
)
- 2019
-
Mark Warawa
, Canadian politician (b.
1950
)