20 June Deaths

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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).

Deaths

465 – Wen Cheng Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 440)
656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Arabian caliph (b. 577)
840 – Louis the Pious, Frankish emperor (b. 778)
930 – Hucbald, Frankish monk and music theorist
1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince
1351 – Margareta Ebner, German nun and mystic (b. 1291)
1405 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343)
1597 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (b. 1550)
1605 – Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
1668 – Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (b. 1620)
1776 – Benjamin Huntsman, English businessman (b. 1704)
1787 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (b. 1723)
1800 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and academic (b. 1719)
1810 – Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (b. 1755)
1815 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1820 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (b. 1770)
1837 – William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1840 – Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (b. 1761)
1847 – Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (b. 1782)
1869 – Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)
1870 – Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (b. 1830)
1872 – Élie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
1875 – Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)
1888 – Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (b. 1842)
1906 – John Clayton Adams, English painter (b. 1840)
1909 – Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)
1925 – Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1842)
1929 – Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
1938 – Nikolai Janson, Russian politician (b. 1882)
1945 – Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
1947 – Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
1952 – Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1963 – Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
1965 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
1966 – Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
1972 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (b. 1897)
1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
1976 – Lou Klein, American baseball player and coach (b. 1918)
1978 – Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)
1984 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
1996 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
1997 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
1997 – Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
1999 – Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (b. 1902)
2001 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
2002 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1905)
2002 – Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 – Bob Stump, American soldier and politician (b. 1927)
2004 – Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1950)
2005 – Larry Collins, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1929)
2005 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
2006 – Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2006 – Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (b. 1948)
2007 – Trevor Henry, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
2010 – Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (b. 1943)
2010 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916)
2011 – Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977)
2012 – Robert J. Kelleher, American tennis player and judge (b. 1913)
2012 – LeRoy Neiman, American painter (b. 1921)
2012 – Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919)
2012 – Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928)
2013 – Diosa Costello, Puerto Rican-American actress and singer (b. 1913)
2013 – Dicky Rutnagur, Indian journalist (b. 1931)
2013 – Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
2013 – Jean-Louis Scherrer, French fashion designer (b. 1935)
2013 – Jeffrey Smart, Australian painter (b. 1921)
2013 – John David Wilson, English animator and producer (b. 1919)
2014 – Jim Bamber, English cartoonist (b. 1948)
2014 – Michael Coetzee, South African trade union leader and activist (b. 1959)
2014 – Handel Greville, Welsh rugby player (b. 1921)
2014 – Philip Hollom, English ornithologist and author (b. 1912)
2014 – Murat Sökmenoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1945)
2015 – Bob Barry, Jr., American sportscaster (b. 1956)
2015 – Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
2015 – Takanonami Sadahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (b. 1971)
2015 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)

Source: wikipedia