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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
194 days remain until the end of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere,
the Summer solstice sometimes
occurs on this date, while the Winter solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was
inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a
victory. ·
1180 – First Battle of Uji,
starting the Genpei War in Japan.[1] ·
1620 –
The Battle of Höchst takes
place during the Thirty Years' War. ·
1631 –
The Sack of Baltimore:
The Irish village of Baltimore is
attacked by Algerian pirates. ·
1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is
appointed Grand Vizier of
the Ottoman Empire. ·
1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James
Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England
at Bridgwater. ·
1756 –
A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of
Calcutta. ·
1782 –
The U.S. Congress adopts
the Great
Seal of the United States. ·
1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to
call the government the 'United States'. ·
1789 – Deputies of
the French Third Estate take
the Tennis Court Oath. ·
1819 –
The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives
at Liverpool, United Kingdom. It is the first
steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is
made under sail. ·
1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British
throne.[2] ·
1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for
the telegraph. ·
1862 – Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister
of Romania, is assassinated. ·
1863 – American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the
35th U.S. state. ·
1877 – Alexander Graham
Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada. ·
1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the
murders of her father and stepmother. ·
1895 –
The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest
artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened. ·
1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese
Army begins a 55-day
siege of the Legation Quarter in
Beijing, China. ·
1900
– Baron Eduard Toll,
leader of the Russian
Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the
explorer ship Zarya,
never to return. ·
1921 –
Workers of Buckingham
and Carnatic Mills in the city of Chennai, India, begin a four-month
strike. ·
1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and
three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände,
steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz
concentration camp. ·
1943 –
The Detroit race
riot breaks out and continues for three more days. ·
1943
– World War II:
The Royal Air Force launches Operation Bellicose,
the first shuttle bombing raid
of the war. Lancaster bombers damage the V-2 rocket production facilities at
the Zeppelin Works while
en route to an air base in Algeria. ·
1944 –
World War II: The Battle of
the Philippine Sea concludes with a decisive U.S. naval
victory. The lopsided naval air battle is also known as the "Great
Marianas Turkey Shoot". ·
1944
– Continuation War:
The Soviet Union demands
an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially
successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk
Offensive. The Finnish government refuses. ·
1944
– The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of
176 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space. ·
1945 –
The United
States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and
his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip. ·
1948 –
The Deutsche Mark is
introduced in Western Allied-occupied
Germany. The Soviet Military Administration in Germany responded
by imposing the Berlin Blockade four
days later. ·
1956 –
A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New
Jersey, killing 74 people. ·
1959 – A rare June
hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. ·
1960 –
The Mali Federation gains
independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal). ·
1963 –
Following the Cuban Missile Crisis,
the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the
so-called "red telephone"
link between Washington and Moscow. ·
1972 – Watergate scandal:
An 18˝-minute gap appears in the tape recording of
the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers
regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex. ·
1973 – Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in what is known as the Ezeiza massacre. At least 13 are killed and
more than 300 are injured. ·
1973
– Aeroméxico Flight
229 crashes on approach to Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz International Airport,
killing all 27 people on board.[3] ·
1975 –
The film Jaws is
released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that
time and starting the trend of films known as "summer
blockbusters". ·
1979 –
ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is
shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier
under the regime of Anastasio Somoza
Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international
outcry against the regime. ·
1982 –
The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal
Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. ·
1990 – Asteroid Eureka is discovered. ·
1990
– The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar
earthquake affects northern Iran with
a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and
injuring 60,000–105,000. ·
1991 –
German Bundestag votes to
move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to
the present capital Berlin. ·
1994 –
The 1994
Imam Reza shrine bomb explosion in Iran leaves
at least 25 dead and 70 to 300 injured. ·
2003 –
The Wikimedia Foundation is
founded in St. Petersburg,
Florida.[4] Births[edit] ·
1005 – Ali az-Zahir, Fatimid caliph of Egypt (d.
1036) ·
1389 – John
of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English statesman (d. 1435) ·
1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza,
duke of Milan (d. 1494) ·
1566 – Sigismund III Vasa,
Polish and Swedish king (d. 1632) ·
1583 – Jacob De la Gardie,
Swedish soldier and politician, Lord High
Constable of Sweden (d. 1652) ·
1634 – Charles
Emmanuel II, duke of Savoy (d. 1675) ·
1642 – George Hickes,
English minister and scholar (d. 1715) ·
1647 – John
George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691) ·
1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor and painter
(d. 1776) ·
1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and
historian (d. 1816) ·
1737 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shōgun (d.
1786) ·
1754 – Amalie
of Hesse-Darmstadt, princess of Baden (d. 1832) ·
1756 – Joseph Martin Kraus,
German-Swedish composer and educator (d. 1792) ·
1761 – Jacob Hübner, German entomologist and author
(d. 1826) ·
1763 – Wolfe Tone, Irish rebel leader (d. 1798) ·
1770 – Moses Waddel, American minister and academic
(d. 1840) ·
1771 – Thomas
Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright (d. 1820) ·
1771
– Hermann von Boyen,
Prussian general and politician, Prussian
Minister of War (d. 1848) ·
1777 – Jean-Jacques
Lartigue, Canadian bishop (d. 1840) ·
1778 – Jean
Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French politician, 7th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1832) ·
1786 – Marceline
Desbordes-Valmore, French poet and author (d. 1859) ·
1796 – Luigi
Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878) ·
1808 – Samson Raphael
Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1888) ·
1809 – Isaak August Dorner,
German theologian and academic (d. 1884) ·
1813 – Joseph Autran, French poet and author (d.
1877) ·
1819 – Jacques Offenbach,
German-French cellist and composer (d. 1880) ·
1847 – Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women's
rights activist (d. 1916)[5] ·
1855 – Richard Lodge, English historian and
academic (d. 1936) ·
1858 – Charles W. Chesnutt,
American novelist and short story writer (d. 1932) ·
1860 – Alexander Winton, Scottish-American race car
driver and engineer (d. 1932) ·
1860
– Jack Worrall,
Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937) ·
1861 – Frederick
Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1947) ·
1865 – George Redmayne
Murray, English biologist and physician (d. 1939) ·
1866 – James Burns,
English cricketer (d. 1957) ·
1869 – Laxmanrao Kirloskar,
Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group (d. 1956) ·
1870 – Georges Dufrénoy,
French painter and academic (d. 1943) ·
1872 – George
Carpenter, American 5th General of
The Salvation Army (d. 1948) ·
1875 – Reginald Punnett, English geneticist,
statistician, and academic (d. 1967) ·
1882 – Daniel Sawyer, American golfer (d. 1937) ·
1884 – Mary R. Calvert, American astronomer and
author (d. 1974) ·
1884
– Johannes
Heinrich Schultz, German psychiatrist and psychotherapist (d.
1970) ·
1885 – Andrzej
Gawroński, Polish linguist and academic (d. 1927) ·
1887 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter and
illustrator (d. 1948) ·
1889 – John S.
Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (d.
1951) ·
1891 – Giannina
Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951) ·
1891
– John A. Costello,
Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1976) ·
1893 – Wilhelm Zaisser, German soldier and
politician (d. 1958) ·
1894 – Lloyd Hall, American chemist and academic
(d. 1971) ·
1896 – Wilfrid Pelletier,
Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1982) ·
1897 – Elisabeth Hauptmann,
German author and playwright (d. 1973) ·
1899 – Jean Moulin, French soldier and engineer (d.
1943) ·
1903 – Sam Rabin,
English wrestler, sculptor, and singer (d. 1991) ·
1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright and
screenwriter (d. 1984) ·
1906 – Bob King,
American high jumper and obstetrician (d. 1965) ·
1907 – Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter
and banjo player (d. 1998) ·
1908 – Billy Werber, American baseball player (d.
2009) ·
1908
– Gus Schilling,
American actor (d. 1957) ·
1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor (d.
1959) ·
1910 – Josephine Johnson,
American author and poet (d. 1990) ·
1911 – Gail Patrick, American actress (d. 1980) ·
1912 – Anthony Buckeridge,
English author (d. 2004) ·
1912
– Jack Torrance,
American shot putter and football player (d. 1969) ·
1914 – Gordon Juckes, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1994) ·
1914
– Muazzez
İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist and academic ·
1915 – Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and
coach (d. 2002) ·
1915
– Terence Young,
Chinese-English director and screenwriter (d. 1994) ·
1916 – Jean-Jacques
Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (d.
1973) ·
1916
– T. Texas Tyler,
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972) ·
1917 – Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish
mathematician and academic (d. 1994) ·
1918 – George Lynch,
American race car driver (d. 1997) ·
1918
– Zoltán Sztáray,
Hungarian-American author (d. 2011) ·
1920 – Geoffrey Baker, English Field
Marshal and Chief
of the General Staff of the British Army (d. 1980) ·
1920
– Danny Cedrone,
American guitarist and bandleader (d. 1954) ·
1920
– Thomas
Jefferson, American trumpet player (d. 1986) ·
1921 – Byron Farwell, American historian and author
(d. 1999) ·
1921
– Pancho Segura,
Ecuadorian tennis player (d. 2017) ·
1923 – Peter Gay, German-American historian,
author, and academic (d. 2015) ·
1923
– Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor and educator (d.
2013) ·
1924 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 2001) ·
1924
– Fritz Koenig,
German sculptor and academic, designed The Sphere (d. 2017) ·
1925 – Doris Hart, American tennis player and
educator (d. 2015) ·
1925
– Audie Murphy,
American lieutenant and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971) ·
1926 – Rehavam Ze'evi, Israeli general and
politician, 9th Israeli
Minister of Tourism (d. 2001) ·
1927 – Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet and activist
(d. 2014) ·
1928 – Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, flute
player, and composer (d. 1964) ·
1928
– Martin Landau,
American actor and producer (d. 2017) ·
1928
– Jean-Marie Le Pen,
French intelligence officer and politician ·
1928
– Asrat Woldeyes,
Ethiopian surgeon and educator (d. 1999) ·
1929 – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.,
Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
1929
– Anne Weale, English journalist and author
(d. 2007) ·
1929
– Edith Windsor,
American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activist (d.
2017) ·
1930 – Magdalena
Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor and academic (d. 2017) ·
1930
– John Waine, English bishop ·
1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress ·
1931
– James Tolkan,
American actor and director ·
1932 – Robert
Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (d. 1994) ·
1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019) ·
1933
– Claire Tomalin,
English journalist and author ·
1934 – Wendy Craig, English actress ·
1935 – Jim Barker,
American politician (d. 2005) ·
1935
– Len Dawson, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1935
– Armando Picchi,
Italian footballer and coach (d. 1971) ·
1936 – Billy Guy, American singer (d. 2002) ·
1936
– Enn Vetemaa, Estonian author and
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1937 – Stafford Dean, English actor and singer ·
1937
– Jerry Keller,
American singer-songwriter ·
1938 – Joan Kirner, Australian educator and
politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (d.
2015) ·
1938
– Mickie Most, English music producer (d.
2003) ·
1939 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998) ·
1939
– Budge Rogers,
English rugby player and manager ·
1940 – Eugen Drewermann, German priest and
theologian ·
1940
– John Mahoney,
English actor (d. 2018) ·
1941 – Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and
producer ·
1941
– Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut ·
1942 – Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and
theorist ·
1942
– Brian Wilson,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist ·
1946 – Xanana Gusmăo, Timorese soldier and
politician, 1st President of East
Timor ·
1946
– David Kazhdan,
Russian-Israeli mathematician and academic ·
1946
– Bob Vila, American television host[6] ·
1946
– André Watts,
American pianist and educator ·
1947 – Dolores
"LaLa" Brooks, American pop singer (The Crystals) ·
1948 – Cirilo Flores, American bishop (d. 2014) ·
1948
– Ludwig Scotty,
Nauruan politician, 10th President of Nauru ·
1949 – Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass player and
songwriter (d. 2018) ·
1949
– Lionel Richie,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor ·
1949
– Gotabaya Rajapaksa,
8th president of Sri Lanka ·
1950 – Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician,
76th Prime Minister of
Iraq ·
1951 – Tress MacNeille, American actress and voice
artist ·
1951
– Sheila McLean,
Scottish scholar and academic ·
1951
– Paul Muldoon,
Irish poet and academic ·
1952 – John Goodman, American actor ·
1952
– Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet ·
1953 – Robert Crais, American author and
screenwriter ·
1953
– Raúl Ramírez,
Mexican tennis player ·
1953
– Willy Rampf, German engineer ·
1954 – Allan Lamb, South African-English cricketer
and sportscaster ·
1954
– Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 2003) ·
1955 – E. Lynn Harris, American author (d. 2009) ·
1956 – Peter Reid, English footballer and manager ·
1956
– Sohn Suk-hee,
South Korean newscaster ·
1958 – Kelly Johnson,
English hard rock guitarist and songwriter (d. 2007) ·
1960 – Philip M. Parker, American economist and
author ·
1960
– John Taylor,
English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor ·
1963 – Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter ·
1963
– Mark Ovenden,
British author and broadcaster ·
1964 – Pierfrancesco Chili,
Italian motorcycle racer ·
1964
– Silke Möller,
German runner ·
1966 – Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-Australian actress ·
1967
– Dan Tyminski,
American singer-songwriter ·
1968 – Robert Rodriguez, American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1969 – Paulo Bento, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1969
– Misha Verbitsky,
Russian mathematician and academic ·
1969
– MaliVai Washington,
American tennis player and sportscaster ·
1970 – Andrea Nahles, German politician, German
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs ·
1970
– Athol Williams,
South African poet and social philosopher ·
1971 – Rodney Rogers, American basketball player
and coach ·
1971
– Jeordie White,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bass player ·
1972 – Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer ·
1973 – Chino Moreno, American singer-songwriter ·
1975 – Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player ·
1975
– Daniel Zítka,
Czech footballer ·
1976 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer ·
1976
– Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player ·
1977 – Gordan Giriček,
Croatian basketball player ·
1977
– Amos Lee, American singer-songwriter ·
1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer ·
1978
– Jan-Paul Saeijs,
Dutch footballer ·
1979 – Charles Howell III,
American golfer ·
1980 – Franco Semioli, Italian footballer ·
1980
– Tika Sumpter,
American actress ·
1980
– Fabian Wegmann,
German cyclist ·
1981 – Brede Hangeland, Norwegian footballer ·
1982 – Aleksei Berezutski,
Russian footballer ·
1982
– Vasili Berezutski,
Russian footballer ·
1982
– Example,
English singer/rapper ·
1983 – Josh Childress, American basketball player ·
1983
– Darren Sproles,
American football player ·
1984 – Hassan Adams, American basketball player ·
1985 – Saki Aibu, Japanese actress ·
1985
– Aurélien Chedjou,
Cameroonian footballer ·
1985
– Matt Flynn, American football player ·
1986 – Dreama Walker, American actress[7] ·
1987 – A-fu,
Taiwanese singer and songwriter ·
1987
– Carsten Ball,
Australian tennis player ·
1987
– Asmir Begović,
Bosnian footballer ·
1987
– Joseph Ebuya,
Kenyan runner ·
1987
– Kierra Sheard,
American gospel singer ·
1989 – Christopher
Mintz-Plasse, American actor[8] ·
1989
– Javier Pastore,
Argentinian footballer ·
1989
– Terrelle Pryor,
American football player ·
1990 – DeQuan Jones, American basketball player ·
1991 – Kalidou Koulibaly,
Senegalese footballer ·
1991
– Rick ten Voorde,
Dutch footballer ·
1993 – Sead Kolašinac,
Bosnian footballer ·
1994 – Leonard
Williams, American football player ·
1995 – Caroline Weir, Scottish footballer[9] ·
1996 – Sam Bennett,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1997 – Bálint Kopasz, Hungarian sprint canoeist[10] Deaths[edit] ·
465 – Emperor
Wencheng of Northern Wei (b. 440) ·
656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Rashidun caliph
(b. 577) ·
840 – Louis the Pious, Carolingian emperor
(b. 778) ·
930 – Hucbald, Frankish monk and music theorist ·
981 – Adalbert,
archbishop of Magdeburg[11] ·
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) ·
1876 – John Neal,
American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist (b. 1793)[12] ·
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) ·
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) ·
1974 – Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player
(b. 1912) ·
1975 – Suzanne
Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)[13] ·
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) ·
1997 – Cahit Külebi, Turkish poet and author (b.
1917) ·
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) ·
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) ·
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 – Judy Agnew, Second
Lady of the United States. (b. 1921)[14] ·
2012
– LeRoy Neiman,
American painter (b. 1921) ·
2012
– Heinrich
IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz (b. 1919) ·
2012
– Andrew Sarris,
American critic (b. 1928) ·
2013 – Ingvar Rydell, Swedish footballer (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and
manager (b. 1921) ·
2015
– Miriam Schapiro,
Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923) ·
2017 – Prodigy, American music artist (b. 1974) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Margareta Ebner o June
20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the National
Flag (Argentina) ·
Earliest
possible date for the summer solstice in the Northern
hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern
hemisphere, and its related observance: o Earliest day on which Day of the
Finnish Flag can fall, while June 26 is the latest;
celebrated on Saturday of Midsummer's Day (Finland) o International
Surfing Day (on or near Summer solstice) o Litha / Midsummer celebrations in the
northern hemisphere, Yule in the southern hemisphere. ·
West Virginia Day (West Virginia) ·
World Refugee Day (International) |
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