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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of June 0451 | EVENT | 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. |
| 20th of June 1214 | EVENT | The University of Oxford receives its charter. |
| 20th of June 1631 | EVENT | The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates. |
| 20th of June 1652 | EVENT | Tarhoncu Ahmet Pasa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire, served until 21 March 1653. |
| 20th of June 1685 | EVENT | Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater. |
| 20th of June 1756 | EVENT | A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta. |
| 20th of June 1782 | EVENT | The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. |
| 20th of June 1787 | EVENT | Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States. |
| 20th of June 1789 | EVENT | Deputies of the French Third Estate take the Tennis Court Oath. |
| 20th of June 1791 | EVENT | King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during The French Revolution. |
| 20th of June 1819 | EVENT | The U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail. |
| 20th of June 1837 | EVENT | Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. |
| 20th of June 1840 | EVENT | Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. |
| 20th of June 1862 | EVENT | Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated. |
| 20th of June 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state. |
| 20th of June 1877 | EVENT | Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| 20th of June 1893 | EVENT | Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother. |
| 20th of June 1919 | EVENT | 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. |
| 20th of June 1944 | EVENT | 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". |
| 20th of June 1944 | EVENT | Continuation war: Soviet Union demands for an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg : Petrozavodsk Offensive. Finnish government declines the demand. |
| 20th of June 1948 | EVENT | Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut. |
| 20th of June 1956 | EVENT | A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people. |
| 20th of June 1959 | EVENT | A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. |
| 20th of June 1960 | EVENT | Independence of Mali and Senegal. |
| 20th of June 1963 | EVENT | The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| 20th of June 1973 | EVENT | Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured. |
| 20th of June 1979 | EVENT | 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 sparked international outcry of the regime. |
| 20th of June 1982 | EVENT | The Argentine base (Corbeta Uruguay) on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War. |
| 20th of June 1990 | EVENT | Asteroid Eureka is discovered. |
| 20th of June 1991 | EVENT | The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
| 20th of June 2003 | EVENT | The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida. |
| 30th of November -0001 | BIRTHDAY | George Hickes, English minister and scholar (d. 1715) |
| 20th of June 1005 | BIRTHDAY | Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036) |
| 20th of June 1389 | BIRTHDAY | John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435) |
| 20th of June 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan (d. 1494) |
| 20th of June 1485 | BIRTHDAY | Astorre III Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1502) |
| 20th of June 1566 | BIRTHDAY | King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland (d. 1632) |
| 20th of June 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652) |
| 20th of June 1634 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (d. 1675) |
| 20th of June 1647 | BIRTHDAY | John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691) |
| 20th of June 1699 | BIRTHDAY | William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737) |
| 20th of June 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776) |
| 20th of June 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808) |
| 20th of June 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816) |
| 20th of June 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Washington, sister of George Washington (d. 1797) |
| 20th of June 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1786) |
| 20th of June 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832) |
| 20th of June 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792) |
| 20th of June 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Hubner, German entomologist (d. 1826) |
| 20th of June 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot (d. 1798) |
| 20th of June 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840) |
| 20th of June 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820) |
| 20th of June 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann von Boyen, German army officer (d. 1848) |
| 20th of June 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French politician (d. 1832) |
| 20th of June 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859) |
| 20th of June 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878) |
| 20th of June 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888) |
| 20th of June 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Autran, French poet (d. 1877) |
| 20th of June 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880) |
| 20th of June 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Richard Lodge, English historian (d. 1936) |
| 20th of June 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932) |
| 20th of June 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937) |
| 20th of June 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947) |
| 20th of June 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Praga, Italian playwright (d. 1929) |
| 20th of June 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Dufrenoy, French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943) |
| 20th of June 1872 | BIRTHDAY | George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948) |
| 20th of June 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald Punnett, British geneticist (d. 1967) |
| 20th of June 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Heinrich Schultz, German psychiatrist, psychotherapist (d. 1970) |
| 20th of June 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Gawronski, Polish scholar (d. 1927) |
| 20th of June 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Schwitters, German painter and writer (d. 1948) |
| 20th of June 1889 | BIRTHDAY | John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951) |
| 20th of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976) |
| 20th of June 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951) |
| 20th of June 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Zaisser, German politician (d. 1958) |
| 20th of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Hall, American chemist (d. 1971) |
| 20th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (d. 1982) |
| 20th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973) |
| 20th of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (d. 1943) |
| 20th of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984) |
| 20th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998) |
| 20th of June 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Werber, American baseball player (d. 2009) |
| 20th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959) |
| 20th of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Patrick, American actress (d. 1980) |
| 20th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004) |
| 20th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002) |
| 20th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Young, British film director (d. 1994) |
| 20th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Morris, British children's presenter (d. 1999) |
| 20th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973) |
| 20th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Smia?owski, Polish actor (d. 2006) |
| 20th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997) |
| 20th of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Sztaray, Hungarian writer |
| 20th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater |
| 20th of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Farwell, American military historian (d. 1999) |
| 20th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bj?rn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor (d. 1998) |
| 20th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Chet Atkins, American guitar player and producer (d. 2001) |
| 20th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Koenig, German sculptor |
| 20th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Audie Murphy, American Medal of Honor recipient and actor (d. 1971) |
| 20th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964) |
| 20th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Landau, American actor |
| 20th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician |
| 20th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pender, American boxer (d. 2003) |
| 20th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist |
| 20th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | James Tolkan, American actor |
| 20th of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Olympia Dukakis, American actress |
| 20th of June 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet (d. 1994) |
| 20th of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Aiello, American actor |
| 20th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Craig, English actress |
| 20th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Vizbor, Russian poet (d. 1984) |
| 20th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rossana Podesta, Italian actress |
| 20th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Len Dawson, American football player |
| 20th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Knox, American gun rights activist (d. 2005) |
| 20th of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002) |
| 20th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Keller, American pop singer and songwriter |
| 20th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mickie Most, British record producer (d. 2003) |
| 20th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998) |
| 20th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Eugen Drewermann, German theologian |
| 20th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Mahoney, English actor |
| 20th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Frears, English film director |
| 20th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut |
| 20th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) |
| 20th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Cheryl Holdridge, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 20th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | David Roper, English actor |
| 20th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Murray, Canadian singer |
| 20th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Vila, American television host |
| 20th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Xanana Gusmao, President of East Timor |
| 20th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Watts, American pianist |
| 20th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Vilks, Swedish artist |
| 20th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals) |
| 20th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Candy Clark, American actress |
| 20th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity |
| 20th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist |
| 20th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru |
| 20th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass guitarist (Bay City Rollers) |
| 20th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores) |
| 20th of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq |
| 20th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet |
| 20th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Simon, American businessman and politician |
| 20th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tress MacNeille, American voice actress |
| 20th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Gotera, American poet |
| 20th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | John Goodman, American actor |
| 20th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Vikram Seth, Indian poet |
| 20th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Riley, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 20th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrich Muhe, German actor (d. 2007) |
| 20th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Ramirez, Mexican tennis player |
| 20th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Rampf, German F1 technical director (BMW, Sauber) |
| 20th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Anthony, American musician (Van Halen) |
| 20th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003) |
| 20th of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Lamb, South African born English cricketer |
| 20th of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Reid, English former footballer |
| 20th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Koko B. Ware, American professional wrestler |
| 20th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Hornaday, American racecar driver |
| 20th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Wagner, American actor |
| 20th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran) |
| 20th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Amir Derakh, American musician (Orgy) |
| 20th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Don West, American professional wrestling announcer |
| 20th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Silke Moller, German track and field athlete |
| 20th of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer |
| 20th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress |
| 20th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Fontamillas, American musician (Switchfoot) |
| 20th of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rodriguez, American film director |
| 20th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | MaliVai Washington, American tennis player |
| 20th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician |
| 20th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Paige, American actor |
| 20th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco |
| 20th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Nahles, German politician |
| 20th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Woodcock, American computer games analyst |
| 20th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Kronfeld, New Zealander rugby union footballer |
| 20th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Rogers, American basketball player |
| 20th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Lucas, American actor |
| 20th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jeordie White, American musician (Marilyn Manson) |
| 20th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer |
| 20th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bako, American baseball player |
| 20th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones) |
| 20th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Attila Czene, Hungarian swimmer |
| 20th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tuta, Brazilian footballer |
| 20th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Zitka, Czech footballer |
| 20th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player |
| 20th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Fontamillas, American musician (Switchfoot) |
| 20th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player |
| 20th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer |
| 20th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gordan Giricek, Croatian basketball player |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | LaVar Arrington, American football player |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Lampard, English footballer |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Quinton Jackson, American mixed martial artist |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Seay, American baseball player |
| 20th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Birbiglia, comedian |
| 20th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash) |
| 20th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Howell III, American professional golfer |
| 20th of June 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cael Sanderson, American olympic freestyle wrestler |
| 20th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist |
| 20th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Semioli, Italian footballer |
| 20th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby union footballer |
| 20th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarrist (Mest) |
| 20th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer |
| 20th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Angerfist, Dutch musician |
| 20th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksei Berezutski, Russian footballer |
| 20th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Vasili Berezutski, Russian footballer |
| 20th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | George Forsyth, Peruvian footballer |
| 20th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Example (rapper), British rapper |
| 20th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Sproles, American football player |
| 20th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Childress, American basketball player |
| 20th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress |
| 20th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Malura, German footballer |
| 20th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Flynn, American football player |
| 20th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer |
| 20th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Darko Milicic, Serbian basketball player |
| 20th of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Halil Savran, German footballer |
| 20th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carsten Ball, Australian tennis player |
| 20th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress |
| 20th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor |
| 20th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Pastore, Argentine footballer |
| 20th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Terrelle Pryor, American football player |
| 20th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Rick ten Voorde, nederlandese soccer player |
| 20th of June 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Lark, Russian-born American actress |
| 20th of June 0451 | DEATH | Theodorid, King of the Visigoths |
| 20th of June 0840 | DEATH | Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (Born 778) |
| 20th of June 0885 | DEATH | Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (Born 841) |
| 20th of June 1176 | DEATH | Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince |
| 20th of June 1597 | DEATH | Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator (Born 1550) |
| 20th of June 1605 | DEATH | Feodor II of Russia, tsar of Russia (Born 1589) |
| 20th of June 1668 | DEATH | Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (Born 1620) |
| 20th of June 1776 | DEATH | Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (Born 1704) |
| 20th of June 1787 | DEATH | Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (Born 1723) |
| 20th of June 1800 | DEATH | Abraham Gotthelf Kastner, German mathematician (Born 1719) |
| 20th of June 1810 | DEATH | Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (Born 1755) |
| 20th of June 1820 | DEATH | Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (Born 1770) |
| 20th of June 1837 | DEATH | William IV of the United Kingdom (Born 1765) |
| 20th of June 1840 | DEATH | Pierre Claude Francois Daunou, French statesman and historian (Born 1761) |
| 20th of June 1869 | DEATH | Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (Born 1835) |
| 20th of June 1870 | DEATH | Jules de Goncourt, French writer (Born 1830) |
| 20th of June 1872 | DEATH | Elie Frederic Forey, French general (Born 1804) |
| 20th of June 1888 | DEATH | Johannes Zukertort, German-Polish-Jewish chess master (Born 1842) |
| 20th of June 1906 | DEATH | John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (Born 1840) |
| 20th of June 1925 | DEATH | Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (Born 1842) |
| 20th of June 1929 | DEATH | Emmanuel Benakis, Greek merchant and politician (Born 1843) |
| 20th of June 1945 | DEATH | Bruno Frank, German author (Born 1878) |
| 20th of June 1945 | DEATH | Luis Fernando de Orleans y Borbon, Spanish prince (Born 1888) |
| 20th of June 1947 | DEATH | Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (Born 1906) |
| 20th of June 1952 | DEATH | Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (Born 1898) |
| 20th of June 1958 | DEATH | Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 20th of June 1963 | DEATH | Raphael Salem, Greek mathematician (Born 1898) |
| 20th of June 1965 | DEATH | Bernard Baruch, American presidential advisor and financier (Born 1870) |
| 20th of June 1972 | DEATH | Howard Johnson, American businessman, originator of restaurant chain (Born 1897) |
| 20th of June 1974 | DEATH | Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (Born 1912) |
| 20th of June 1976 | DEATH | Lou Klein, American baseball player (Born 1918) |
| 20th of June 1978 | DEATH | Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (Born 1913) |
| 20th of June 1984 | DEATH | Estelle Winwood, English actress (Born 1883) |
| 20th of June 1995 | DEATH | Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (Born 1911) |
| 20th of June 1996 | DEATH | Jim Ellison, singer/guitarist for (Material Issue) (Born 1964) |
| 20th of June 1997 | DEATH | Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (Born 1938) |
| 20th of June 1998 | DEATH | Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (Born 1942) |
| 20th of June 1999 | DEATH | Clifton Fadiman, American author (Born 1902) |
| 20th of June 2002 | DEATH | Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (Born 1905) |
| 20th of June 2002 | DEATH | Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (Born 1916) |
| 20th of June 2003 | DEATH | Bob Stump, American politician (Born 1927) |
| 20th of June 2005 | DEATH | Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (Born 1923) |
| 20th of June 2005 | DEATH | Larry Collins, American writer (Born 1929) |
| 20th of June 2006 | DEATH | Billy Johnson, American baseball player (Born 1918) |
| 20th of June 2007 | DEATH | Trevor Henry, New Zealand justice (Born 1902) |
| 20th of June 2010 | DEATH | Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (Born 1916) |