Famous Deaths on 20th June

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Deaths 1 - 88 of 88

451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
537 - Saint Silverius, and Pope till deposed in March 537, starves to death in exile
840 - Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
885 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
1585 - Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1597 - Willem Barentsz/Barents, Dutch navigator. Barents Sea named after him
1649 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1751 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1833 - Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 - Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1842 - Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1846 - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 - Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1876 - Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
1883 - Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1888 - Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1890 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1906 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 - Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1917 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1922 - Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 - Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1933 - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1940 - Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1941 - Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 - Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
1947 - Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1948 - George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1950 - Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1953 - Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1959 - Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1960 - Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1960 - Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57
1963 - Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 - Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1963 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1964 - Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1965 - Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1972 - Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 - Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1975 - Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1976 - Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1977 - Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1978 - Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1980 - Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 - Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 - Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 - Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 - Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1994 - Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 - Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 - Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1995 - Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
1995 - Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1996 - Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 - Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 - Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 - Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1997 - Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 - Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59
1998 - Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
1999 - Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902)
2002 - Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (b. 1905)
2002 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (b. 1916)
2003 - Bob Stump, American politician (b. 1927)
Engineer Jack Kilby (2005) 2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, dies at 81
2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)
2006 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2007 - Trevor Henry, New Zealand Justice (b. 1902)
2010 - Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (b. 1916)
2011 - Ryan Dunn, American actor (b. 1977)
2012 - LeRoy Neiman, American painter, dies at 91