June 20

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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. 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).

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer solstice sometimes occurs on this date, while the Winter solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Events

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.

1248 – The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.

1620 – The Battle of Höchst in 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.

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.

1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.

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.

1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.

1941 – The United States Army Air Corps is deprecated to being the American training and logistics section of what is known until 1947 as the United States Army Air Forces, just two days before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

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.

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 176km, 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.

1954 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 104 is adopted.

1956 – A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.

1956 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 115 is adopted.

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 – The so-called "red telephone" link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-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 – Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.

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 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Births

1005 – Ali az-Zahir, Egyptian caliph (d. 1036)

1389 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, English politician (d. 1435)

1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke of Milan (d. 1494)

1485 – Astorre III Manfredi, Italian lord (d. 1502)

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)

1699 – William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737)

1717 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor and painter (d. 1776)

1723 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)

1737 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1786)

1754 – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (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)

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)

1890 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (d. 1964)

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)

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 – Johnny Morris, Welsh-English television host (d. 1999)

1917 – Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1994)

1917 – Igor Śmiałowski, Russian-Polish actor (d. 2006)

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

1921 – Byron Farwell, American historian and author (d. 1999)

1921 – Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player

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

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

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)

1930 – Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor and academic

1930 – Paul Pender, American boxer and firefighter (d. 2003)

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

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 – Neal Knox, American activist and author (d. 2005)

1935 – Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (d. 1971)

1936 – Billy Guy, American singer (d. 2002)

1936 – Enn Vetemaa, Estonian author and screenwriter

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)

1939 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)

1939 – Budge Rogers, English rugby player and manager

1940 – Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian

1941 – Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer

1941 – Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut

1942 – Andrew Graham, English economist and academic

1942 – Richard I. Neal, American general

1942 – Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist

1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer

1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist

1946 – Xanana Gusmão, Timorese soldier and politician, 1st President of East Timor

1946 – Nigel Kalton, English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)

1946 – David Kazhdan, Russian-Israeli mathematician and academic

1946 – Bob Vila, American television host

1946 – Joseph Waeckerle, American physician and diplomat

1946 – André Watts, American pianist and educator

1948 – Cirilo Flores, American bishop (d. 2014)

1948 – Ludwig Scotty, Nauruan politician, 10th President of Nauru

1949 – Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass player and songwriter

1949 – Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Commodores)

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 – Vince Gotera, American poet and critic

1952 – Gordon Marshall, English sociologist and academic

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 – Michael Anthony, American bass player

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 – Simon Bryant, English air marshal

1956 – Peter Reid, English footballer and manager

1957 – Koko B. Ware, American wrestler

1958 – Ron Hornaday, Jr., American race car driver

1959 – Louise Bessette, Canadian pianist

1960 – Philip M. Parker, American economist and author

1960 – John Taylor, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor

1962 – Alex Di Gregorio, Italian cartoonist

1963 – Kirk Baptiste, American sprinter

1963 – Amir Derakh, American guitarist

1963 – Don West, American sportscaster

1964 – Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer

1964 – Silke Möller, German runner

1966 – Boaz Yakin, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1967 – Jerome Fontamillas, American singer and guitarist

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 – Peter Paige, American actor, director, and screenwriter

1969 – Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician and academic

1969 – MaliVai Washington, American tennis player and sportscaster

1970 – Jason Robert Brown, American playwright and composer

1970 – Andrea Nahles, German politician, German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs

1970 – Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher

1971 – Josh Kronfeld, New Zealand rugby player

1971 – Brandon Lewis, English lawyer and politician

1971 – Josh Lucas, American actor

1971 – Rodney Rogers, American basketball player and coach

1971 – Jeordie White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bass player

1972 – Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer

1972 – Paul Bako, American baseball player

1972 – Juan Castro, Mexican baseball player and manager

1972 – Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricketer

1973 – Maria Filippov, Bulgarian ice skater

1973 – Chino Moreno, American singer-songwriter

1974 – Attila Czene, Hungarian swimmer and politician

1974 – Lenin M. Sivam, Sri Lankan-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter

1974 – Uğur Taner, Turkish swimmer

1975 – Joan Balcells, Spanish tennis player

1975 – Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer

1976 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer

1976 – Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player

1976 – Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player and coach

1977 – Gordan Giriček, Croatian basketball player

1977 – Nerijus Vasiliauskas, Lithuanian footballer

1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer

1978 – Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer

1978 – Bobby Seay, American baseball player

1979 – Charlotte Hatherley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1979 – Charles Howell III, American golfer

1979 – Elis Meetua, Estonian footballer

1979 – Cael Sanderson, American wrestler and coach

1980 – Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby player

1980 – Tony Lovato, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1980 – Franco Semioli, Italian footballer

1980 – Fabian Wegmann, German cyclist

1981 – Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer

1981 – Brede Hangeland, Norwegian footballer

1982 – Aleksei Berezutski, Russian footballer

1982 – Vasili Berezutski, Russian footballer

1983 – Josh Childress, American basketball player

1983 – Masashi Mikami, Japanese actor

1983 – Darren Sproles, American football player

1984 – Hassan Adams, American basketball player

1984 – Neetu Chandra, Indian actress and martial artist

1984 – Dennis Malura, German footballer

1985 – Saki Aibu, Japanese actress

1985 – Matt Flynn, American football player

1985 – Kai Hesse, German footballer

1985 – Halil Savran, German footballer

1986 – Dreama Walker, American actress

1987 – Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player

1987 – Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer

1987 – Joseph Ebuya, Kenyan runner

1989 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor

1989 – Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer

1989 – Terrelle Pryor, American football player

1990 – DeQuan Jones, American basketball player

1991 – Rick ten Voorde, Dutch footballer

1995 – Carol Zhao, Canadian tennis player

1996 – Sam Bennett, Canadian ice hockey player

1996 – Michael Dal Colle, Canadian ice hockey player

1999 – Yui Mizuno, Japanese singer

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)

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)

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)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Adalbert of Magdeburg

Blessed Margareta Ebner

Florentina

John of Matera

Pope Silverius

June 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the National Flag (Argentina)

Earliest date for the summer solstice in the Northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern hemisphere, and its related observance:

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)

International Surfing Day (on or near Summer solstice)

Litha / Midsummer celebrations in the northern hemisphere, Yule in the southern hemisphere.

Gas Sector Day (Azerbaijan)

Martyrs' Day (Eritrea)

West Virginia Day (West Virginia)

World Refugee Day (International)

References

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