On This Day — June 20
3990 noted people were born and 1826 died on June 20 in our archive, including Carlo Matteucci, David Kazhdan and Frederick Hopkins.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on June 20
Carlo Matteucci
1811 – 1868
David Kazhdan
b. 1946
Frederick Hopkins
1861 – 1947
Adriano Ossicini
1920 – 2019
Akira Mikazuki
1921 – 2010
Alícia Romero Llano
b. 1976
Brian Barder
1934 – 2017
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
1858 – 1944
Christophe Gomart
b. 1960
Dan Sperber
b. 1942
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
1929 – 2013
Edith Windsor
1929 – 2017
Elena Zlenko
b. 1967
Ethella Chupryk
1964 – 2019
Heinz Krekeler
1906 – 2003
Henri Bernstein
1876 – 1953
Huda Zoghbi
b. 1954
Josef Václav Myslbek
1848 – 1922
José Viñals Íñiguez
b. 1954
Karlheinz Brandenburg
b. 1954
Keith Rayner
1943 – 2015
Lapo Pistelli
b. 1964
Markus Fierz
1912 – 2006
Mary L. Good
1931 – 2019
Masataka Taketsuru
1894 – 1979
Mateusz Morawiecki
b. 1968
Monique Cerisier-ben Guiga
1942 – 2021
Naraphon Chan-o-cha
b. 1954
Nicole Kidman
b. 1967
Paul Gilbert
b. 1951
Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
1760 – 1842
Tim McCarthy
b. 1949
Wojciech Roszkowski
b. 1947
Adam Ferguson
1723 – 1816
Alex Yam
b. 1981
Alexander Andries Maramis
1897 – 1977
Alexander Nekrasov
b. 1963
Alexander Schallenberg
b. 1969
Alexandra Navrotsky
b. 1943
Alfred Darbyshire
1839 – 1908
Allan Bell
b. 1947
Andrew McFarlane
b. 1954
Andrew Nikolić
b. 1961
André Watts
1946 – 2023
Antonio de Benavides y Fernández de Navarrete
1807 – 1884
Aron Simis
b. 1942
Aurel Baranga
1913 – 1979
Barnett Janner
1892 – 1982
Ben Brode
b. 1982
Benjamin Helm Bristow
1832 – 1896
Boris Pash
1900 – 1995
Brandon Lewis
b. 1971
Brian Duffy
b. 1953
Carola Miró
1965 – 2024
Casey Plett
b. 1987
Charles Adler, Jr.
1899 – 1980
Charles Schmidt
1812 – 1895
Chen Jintao
1871 – 1939
Cheng Zihua
1905 – 1991
Chester Borrows
1957 – 2023
Claire Tomalin
b. 1933
David Galenson
b. 1951
David Josiah Brewer
1837 – 1910
Dieter Mann
1941 – 2022
Dorota Kolak
b. 1957
Droupadi Murmu
b. 1958
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane
1920 – 1969
Elena Yampolskaya
b. 1971
Enrico Morozzo Della Rocca
1807 – 1897
Errol Flynn
1909 – 1959
Esko Valtaoja
b. 1951
Eugène Deloncle
1890 – 1944
Gabriel Barkay
1944 – 2026
George Carse
1880 – 1950
George Edmund Street
1824 – 1881
Georges Lemoine
1934 – 2025
Godfridus Johannes Hoogewerff
1884 – 1963
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
b. 1949
Guillaume Vuilletet
b. 1967
Gérard Collomb
1947 – 2023
Han Seong-sook
b. 1967
Harold Caballeros
b. 1956
Heather Williams
b. 1977
Heinrich August Wrisberg
1739 – 1808
Heinrich von Brentano
1904 – 1964
Henry L. Whitfield
1868 – 1927
Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
1900 – 1976
Ina Zhupa
b. 1987
Isabella Abbott
1919 – 2010
Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov
1794 – 1855
Jacques Offenbach
1819 – 1880
James Alexander Lindsay
1856 – 1931
James Buchli
b. 1945
Jason Robert Brown
b. 1970
Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac
1778 – 1832
Jean-Christophe Parisot
1967 – 2020
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
1916 – 1973
Jean-Marie Le Pen
1928 – 2025
Jeremy Monteiro
b. 1960
Joan Kirner
1938 – 2015
Johannes Friedrich
1948 – 2025
John A. Costello
1891 – 1976
John Charles Day
1826 – 1908
John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute
1881 – 1947
John Denniston
1845 – 1919
John G. Gunderson
1942 – 2019
John Vallance
b. 1958
Josef Clemens
b. 1947
Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
1940 – 2020
Joseph Autran
1813 – 1877
Joseph Martin Kraus
1756 – 1792
Josh Babarinde
b. 1993
Julian E. Levi
1900 – 1982
June Raine
b. 1952
Karin Yrvin
b. 1970
Karl Pajusalu
b. 1963
Katarzyna Łaniewska
1933 – 2020
Kim Solez
b. 1946
LaMonica McIver
b. 1986
Lai Shyh-bao
b. 1951
Lars Vilks
1946 – 2021
Lee S. Dreyfus
1926 – 2008
Leon Wachholz
1867 – 1942
Lord Frederick Campbell
1729 – 1816
Lucien Goldmann
1913 – 1970
Léon Bonnat
1833 – 1922
Magdalena Abakanowicz
1930 – 2017
Marian Lupu
b. 1966
Mark A. Milley
b. 1958
María Inés Obaldía
b. 1959
Michael Putney
1946 – 2014
Michel-Jean Borch
1753 – 1810
Misha Verbitsky
b. 1969
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
1914 – 2024
Nathalie Etoké
b. 1977
Neil Trudinger
b. 1942
Nellie Grace Ibbott
1889 – 1970
Niccolò Giani
1909 – 1941
Nigel Kalton
1946 – 2010
Nikolay Drozdov
b. 1937
Noam Nisan
b. 1961
Othenio Abel
1875 – 1946
Paul Muldoon
b. 1951
Pauline Newman
b. 1927
Peter Mitchell Grant
b. 1944
Phil English
b. 1956
Piotr Nurowski
1945 – 2010
Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy
b. 1969
Rainer Barzel
1924 – 2006
Ran Cohen
b. 1937
Rechavam Ze'evi
1926 – 2001
Richard Bushman
b. 1931
Richard I. Neal
1942 – 2022
Robert A. McDonald
b. 1953
Robert Killick-Kendrick
1929 – 2011
Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
1867 – 1940
Robert Satanowski
1918 – 1997
Ruben Mirzakhanyan
b. 1959
Sergey Vakhrukov
b. 1958
Sergio Balanzino
1934 – 2018
Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet
1887 – 1948
Stefano Jacini
1826 – 1891
Stephen Frears
b. 1941
Sven Koopmans
b. 1973
Svetozar Cvetković
b. 1958
Takayoshi Yoshioka
1909 – 1984
Takutai Tarsh Kemp
1975 – 2025
Theodor Reye
1838 – 1919
Thomas A. Cropper
b. 1959
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
1771 – 1820
Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart
1856 – 1920
Thomas Wilford
1870 – 1939
Tor Nørretranders
b. 1955
Valeriy Skrug
b. 1963
Vicki O'Halloran
b. 1964
Vladimir Korenev
1940 – 2021
Vladimir Pechyony
b. 1949
Vladko Maček
1879 – 1964
Walter C. Willett
b. 1945
Walter Clarke Buchanan
1838 – 1924
Weston Ochse
b. 1965
William Canniff
1830 – 1910
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth
1731 – 1801
William Montagu Manning
1811 – 1895
Zia Mohyeddin
1931 – 2023
Zülfü Livaneli
b. 1946
Ahmad Hasan Dani
1920 – 2009
Ahmed ibn Bitour
b. 1946
Albrecht Brandi
1914 – 1966
Alejandra Gils Carbó
b. 1958
Aleksandar Cincar-Marković
1889 – 1948
Aleksander Fredro
1793 – 1876
Aleksander Lasik
b. 1953
Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev
1841 – 1910
Alexander Winton
1860 – 1932
Alfred Loewy
1873 – 1935
Aliheydar Garayev
1896 – 1938
Alisan Porter
b. 1981
Allie Quigley
b. 1986
Altan Öymen
1932 – 2025
… and 3,790 more
Died on June 20
Gabriel Bertrand
1867 – 1962
Anna Seile
1939 – 2019
Axel von Fersen the Younger
1755 – 1810
Carlo Somigliana
1860 – 1955
Charles David Keeling
1928 – 2005
Clifton Fadiman
1904 – 1999
Dante Caputo
1943 – 2018
Dmitri Ivanovsky
1864 – 1920
Francis Graham-Smith
1923 – 2025
Georges Lemaître
1894 – 1966
Habib Abdullayev
1912 – 1962
He Zehui
1914 – 2011
Hitoshi Ashida
1887 – 1959
I. Bernard Cohen
1914 – 2003
Ivar Giæver
1929 – 2025
John Colenso
1814 – 1883
Kristian Erslev
1852 – 1930
Markus Fierz
1912 – 2006
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
1858 – 1945
Sture Allén
1928 – 2022
Thalia Gouma-Peterson
1933 – 2001
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
1719 – 1800
Alexander Abrosimov
1948 – 2011
Alexander Hilferding
1831 – 1872
Anatoly Lysenko
1937 – 2021
Andrew Sarris
1928 – 2012
Andrzej Mularczyk
1930 – 2024
Archibald Pellow Marshall
1899 – 1966
Bill Hendon
1944 – 2018
Bill Stewart
1941 – 1979
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker
1828 – 1895
Dawson Bates
1876 – 1949
Diomidis Kyriakos
1811 – 1869
Edmond Canaple
1797 – 1876
Elson Floyd
1956 – 2015
Emil Cioran
1911 – 1995
Fedir Shvets
1882 – 1940
Floris Takens
1940 – 2010
François Delapierre
1970 – 2015
François Georges-Picot
1870 – 1951
Félix Vicq-d'Azyr
1748 – 1794
George Vernadsky
1887 – 1973
Gerda Höjer
1893 – 1974
Halyna Hnatyuk
1927 – 2016
Henri de Man
1885 – 1953
Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood
1893 – 1967
Icilio Guareschi
1847 – 1918
Ivan Grishin
1901 – 1951
Ivan Ivanov
1891 – 1965
Jack Kilby
1923 – 2005
James Crafts
1839 – 1917
James M. Bardeen
1939 – 2022
Japetus Steenstrup
1813 – 1897
Jean Zay
1904 – 1944
Jeremy Belknap
1744 – 1798
John Wesley Emerson
1832 – 1899
Kamal Lohani
1934 – 2020
Karl Joseph von Firmian
1716 – 1782
Kotcherlakota Rangadhama Rao
1898 – 1972
Kurt Alder
1902 – 1958
Kōsaku Yosida
1909 – 1990
LeRoy Neiman
1921 – 2012
Lothar Gall
1936 – 2024
Ludwig Gattermann
1860 – 1920
Margaret Jane Benson
1859 – 1936
Marie-Adolphe Carnot
1839 – 1920
Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev
1832 – 1908
Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Petrov
1840 – 1921
Otto Steinhäusl
1879 – 1940
Paddy Blanchfield
1911 – 1980
Pavle Radić
1880 – 1928
Pierre Claude François Daunou
1761 – 1840
Regimantas Adomaitis
1937 – 2022
Richard Daintree
1832 – 1878
Robert S. Neuman
1926 – 2015
Tom Burns
1913 – 2001
Ursov Igor
1927 – 2002
Vasily Kuznetsov
1894 – 1964
Vladimír Dlouhý
1958 – 2010
Wilhelm Hallwachs
1859 – 1922
Wilhelm Wahlforss
1891 – 1969
William Brantley Aycock
1915 – 2015
William Schull
1922 – 2017
Wálter Guevara
1912 – 1996
Yury Sablin
1897 – 1937
Yves Lacoste
1929 – 2026
Zhang Shenfu
1893 – 1986
Élie Frédéric Forey
1804 – 1872
Akihiro Miwa
1935 – 2026
Alexander Forrest
1849 – 1901
Alexander Ivanovich Chernyshev
1786 – 1857
Alfred Mongy
1840 – 1914
Andreu Nin
1892 – 1937
Andrew W. Hockenhull
1877 – 1974
Andronik
1870 – 1918
Angier Louis Goodwin
1881 – 1975
Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
1854 – 1923
Anne Tabachnick
1927 – 1995
Antoine de Créqui Canaples
1531 – 1574
Archibald Fisken
1897 – 1970
Arthur Caesar
1892 – 1953
Augustin-Marie d'Aboville
1776 – 1843
B. D. Rampala
1910 – 1994
Balu Sankaran
1926 – 2012
Basanta Choudhury
1928 – 2000
Beatriz Ramírez de la Fuente
1929 – 2005
Benjamin Stoddert Ewell
1810 – 1894
Bernard Adolph Schriever
1910 – 2005
Bernard Mannes Baruch
1870 – 1965
Bill Daniel
1915 – 2006
Bill Speakman
1927 – 2018
Bjug Harstad
1848 – 1933
Blake Farenthold
1961 – 2025
Bob Stump
1927 – 2003
Cahit Külebi
1917 – 1997
Caleb Swanigan
1997 – 2022
Carl Kaiserling
1869 – 1942
Charles Coffin
1676 – 1749
Clara Zetkin
1857 – 1933
Clarence Frederick Lea
1874 – 1964
Claude Sarraute
1927 – 2023
Constantin Poenaru
1842 – 1912
David Feuerwerker
1912 – 1980
David R Edwards
1964 – 2021
Dawson Turner
1775 – 1858
Dighton Probyn
1833 – 1924
Dominik Połoński
1977 – 2018
Donald Sutherland
1935 – 2024
Dragomir Stojanović
1878 – 1943
Edith Abigail Purer
1895 – 1990
Eduard Ritter von Weber
1870 – 1934
Edward Stuyvesant Bragg
1827 – 1912
Einar Haugen
1906 – 1994
Eldar Salayev
1933 – 2022
Elizabeth Virgil
1903 – 1991
Ema Derossi-Bjelajac
1926 – 2020
Emil Rathenau
1838 – 1915
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
1748 – 1836
Ernest Bour
1913 – 2001
Ernest W. Gibson
1871 – 1940
Ernesto Maceda
1935 – 2016
Erwin Chargaff
1905 – 2002
Eugene W. Caldwell
1870 – 1918
Felipe Tassis de Acuña
1548 – 1620
Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon
1514 – 1561
Francis Needham, 2nd Earl of Kilmorey
1787 – 1880
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe
1813 – 1893
Frank Faubert
1931 – 1999
Frank Joseph Guarini
1924 – 2026
Franklin William Fort
1880 – 1937
François-Auguste Biard
1799 – 1882
Frederick W. Rowe
1863 – 1946
Frederik Schübeler
1815 – 1892
Fritz Schmidt
1903 – 1943
Geoffrey Howard
1877 – 1935
George Brookman
1850 – 1927
George Washington Stephens Sr.
1832 – 1904
Ghazaros Aghayan
1840 – 1911
Gordon Canfield
1898 – 1972
Gordon Shrum
1896 – 1985
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme
1766 – 1815
Gunther Kress
1940 – 2019
H. M. Cassime
1900 – 1986
Harry B. Whittington
1916 – 2010
Helen De Cruz
1978 – 2025
Henri Daniel Rathgeber
1908 – 1995
Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch
1827 – 1900
Howard Mason Gore
1877 – 1947
Hugh Champion de Crespigny
1897 – 1969
Hugh Dean McLellan
1876 – 1953
Hugh Joseph Gaffey
1895 – 1946
Hugh S. Legaré
1797 – 1843
Héctor Ríos Ereñú
1930 – 2017
Ian Clunies Ross
1899 – 1959
Ignatius Cooper Grubb
1841 – 1927
Imre Soós
1930 – 1957
Ina Balin
1937 – 1990
Irene Mambilima
1952 – 2021
Irving P. Krick
1906 – 1996
Isaac Wolfson
1897 – 1991
Ishbel MacDonald
1903 – 1982
J. Arthur Younger
1893 – 1967
Jakob Audorf
1835 – 1898
James Edgar Davis
1889 – 1949
James Frederick Wood
1813 – 1883
James Shaw Hay
1839 – 1924
Janet Lusk
1924 – 1994
Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa
1876 – 1955
Johann Gottlob Böhme
1717 – 1780
John Edward Lloyd
1861 – 1947
John L. DeWitt
1880 – 1962
John Leyburn
1620 – 1702
John Ruggles
1789 – 1874
Jordi Bonet i Armengol
1925 – 2022
Josef Breuer
1842 – 1925
Josef Geitler von Armingen
1870 – 1923
Jovan Hristić
1933 – 2002
Jovan Jovanović - Pižon
1869 – 1939
Jules de Goncourt
1830 – 1870
Junius Marion Futrell
1870 – 1955
… and 1,626 more