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.
In the Northern Hemisphere , the Summer solstice sometimes occurs on this date, while the Winter solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere .
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 .
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.
1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
1948 – Toast of the Town , later The Ed Sullivan Show , makes its television debut.
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 – 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.
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.
1991 – The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
2001 – Andrea Yates , in an attempt to save her young children from Satan , drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston , Texas .
2003 – The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida .
1005 – Ali az-Zahir , Egyptian caliph (d. 1036)
1389 – John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , English politician (d. 1435)
1469 – Gian Galeazzo Sforza , Italian husband of Isabella of Naples (d. 1494)
1485 – Astorre III Manfredi , Italian lord (d. 1502)
1566 – Sigismund III Vasa , Polish 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)
1723 – Theophilus Lindsey , English minister and theologian (d. 1808)
1733 – Betty Washington Lewis , American sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
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 general (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 lawyer and author (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)
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)
1876 – Romuald Joubé , French actor (d. 1949)
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)
1909 – Errol Flynn , Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1959)
1910 – Josephine Johnson , American author and poet (d. 1990)
1911 – Gail Patrick , American actress and singer (d. 1980)
1912 – Anthony Buckeridge , English author (d. 2004)
1912 – Jack Torrance , American shot putter and football player (d. 1969)
1914 – Zelda , Israeli poet and educator (d. 1984)
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 – Danny Cedrone , American guitarist and bandleader (d. 1954)
1920 – Thomas Jefferson , American trumpet player
1921 – Byron Farwell , American historian and author (d. 1999)
1923 – Peter Gay , German-American historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1923 – Jerzy Nowak , Polish actor and educator (d. 2013)
1923 – Bjørn Watt-Boolsen , Danish actor (d. 1998)
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 and producer
1931 – James Tolkan , American actor and director
1932 – Robert Rozhdestvensky , Russian poet and author (d. 1994)
1933 – Danny Aiello , American actor, singer, and producer
1933 – Claire Tomalin , English journalist and author
1934 – Wendy Craig , English actress and screenwriter
1934 – Rossana Podestà , Libyan-Italian actress (d. 2013)
1934 – Yuri Vizbor , Russian poet and actor (d. 1984)
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 (The Coasters ) (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)
1938 – Mickie Most , English singer and producer (d. 2003)
1939 – Michael Buckley , English civil servant
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-American actor
1941 – Stephen Frears , English actor, director, and producer
1941 – Dieter Mann , German actor
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 (The Beach Boys and California Music )
1944 – Cheryl Holdridge , American actress (d. 2009)
1944 – John McCook , American actor
1944 – David Roper , English actor
1945 – Anne Murray , Canadian singer and guitarist
1946 – Tony Aitken , English actor
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 – Lars Vilks , Swedish sculptor and academic
1946 – Joseph Waeckerle , American physician and diplomat
1946 – André Watts , American pianist and educator
1947 – Dolores "LaLa" Brooks , American-English singer-songwriter (The Crystals )
1947 – Candy Clark , American actress
1947 – Josef Clemens , German bishop
1947 – Ivo Milazzo , Italian illustrator
1948 – Cirilo Flores , American bishop (d. 2014)
1948 – Ludwig Scotty , Nauruan politician, 10th President of Nauru
1949 – Alan Longmuir , Scottish bass player, songwriter, and actor (Bay City Rollers )
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 voice actress, singer, and radio host
1951 – Sheila McLean , Scottish scholar and academic
1951 – Paul Muldoon , Irish poet and academic
1951 – Bill Simon , American businessman and politician
1952 – John Goodman , American actor, singer, and producer
1952 – Vince Gotera , American poet and critic
1952 – Gordon Marshall , English sociologist and academic
1952 – Larry Riley , American actor and singer (d. 1992)
1952 – Vikram Seth , Indian author and poet
1953 – Robert Crais , American author and screenwriter
1953 – Ulrich Mühe , German actor (d. 2007)
1953 – Raúl Ramírez , Mexican tennis player
1953 – Willy Rampf , German engineer
1954 – Michael Anthony , American bass player (Van Halen and Chickenfoot )
1954 – Allan Lamb , South African-English cricketer and sportscaster
1954 – Miles O'Keeffe , American actor
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
1958 – Chuck Wagner , American actor and singer
1959 – Louise Bessette , Canadian pianist
1960 – Philip M. Parker , American economist and author
1960 – John Taylor , English singer-songwriter, bass player, producer and actor (Duran Duran , The Power Station , and Neurotic Outsiders )
1962 – Alex Di Gregorio , Italian cartoonist
1963 – Kirk Baptiste , American sprinter
1963 – Amir Derakh , American guitarist (Orgy , Rough Cutt , Julien-K , and Dead by Sunrise )
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 – Nicole Kidman , Australian-American actress, singer, and producer
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 – Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
1970 – Andrea Nahles , German politician, German Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
1971 – Josh Kronfeld , New Zealand rugby player
1971 – Brandon Lewis , English lawyer and politician
1971 – Josh Lucas , American actor and producer
1971 – Rodney Rogers , American basketball player and coach
1971 – Jeordie White , American singer-songwriter and bass player (Marilyn Manson , Nine Inch Nails , A Perfect Circle , Goon Moon and The Desert Sessions )
1972 – Alexis Alexoudis , Greek footballer
1972 – Paul Bako , American baseball player
1972 – Juan Castro , Mexican baseball player and manager
1972 – Yuval Semo , Israeli actor
1973 – Maria Filippov , Bulgarian ice skater
1973 – Chino Moreno , American singer-songwriter (Deftones , Team Sleep , and Crosses )
1973 – Tom Wlaschiha , German actor
1974 – Tuta , Brazilian footballer
1974 – Attila Czene , Hungarian swimmer and politician
1974 – Lenin M. Sivam , Sri Lankan-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter
1974 – Uğur Taner , Turkish swimmer
1975 – Daniel Zítka , Czech footballer
1976 – Juliano Belletti , Brazilian footballer
1976 – Jerome Fontamillas , American singer and guitarist (Switchfoot , Mortal , and Fold Zandura )
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 – LaVar Arrington , American football player and sportscaster
1978 – Quinton Jackson , American mixed martial artist and actor
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 (Ash , Nightnurse , and Client )
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 (Mest )
1980 – Franco Semioli , Italian footballer
1980 – Fabian Wegmann , German cyclist
1981 – Angerfist , Dutch DJ and producer
1981 – Ardian Gashi , Albanian-Norwegian footballer
1981 – Brede Hangeland , Norwegian footballer
1981 – Alisan Porter , American actress and singer
1981 – Maricar Reyes , Filipino actress and physician
1982 – Example , English singer-songwriter and producer
1982 – Yas , Iranian Rapper
1982 – Aleksei Berezutski , Russian footballer
1982 – Vasili Berezutski , Russian footballer
1982 – George Forsyth , Peruvian footballer
1982 – April Ross , American volleyball player
1983 – Josh Childress , American basketball player
1983 – Masashi Mikami , Japanese actor
1983 – Darren Sproles , American football player
1983 – Cherrie Ying , Taiwanese-Hong Kong actress
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 – Souleymane Mamam , Togolese footballer
1985 – Darko Miličić , Serbian basketball player
1985 – Camille Prats , Filipino actress
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
1992 – Sage the Gemini , American rapper (The HBK Gang )
1995 – Carol Zhao , Canadian tennis player
1996 – Sam Bennett , Canadian ice hockey player
1996 – Michael Dal Colle , Canadian ice hockey player
1998 – Jadin Gould , American actress
1999 – Yui Mizuno , Japanese singer (Sakura Gakuin and Babymetal )
656 – Uthman ibn Affan , Arabian caliph (b. 577)
840 – Louis the Pious , Roman emperor (b. 778)
1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir
1351 – Margareta Ebner , German nun and mystic (b. 1291)
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 – Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón , Spanish son of Infanta Eulalia of Spain (b. 1888)
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-American actress (b. 1883)
1995 – Emil Cioran , Romanian-French philosopher and educator (b. 1911)
1996 – Jim Ellison , American singer-songwriter (Material Issue ) (b. 1964)
1997 – Cahit Külebi , Turkish poet and author (b. 1917)
1997 – Lawrence Payton , American singer-songwriter and producer (Four Tops ) (b. 1938)
1998 – Conrad Schumann , German soldier (b. 1942)
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 (Kool & the Gang ) (b. 1948)
2007 – Trevor Henry , New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1902)
2009 – Neda Agha-Soltan , Iranian student and activist (b. 1982)
2010 – Roberto Rosato , Italian footballer (b. 1943)
2010 – Harry B. Whittington , English palaeontologist and academic (b. 1916)
2011 – Ryan Dunn , American stuntman and actor (b. 1977)
2012 – Judy Agnew , American wife of Spiro Agnew , 29th Second Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
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 Rician-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 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 – William Brantley Aycock , American academic (b. 1915)
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)
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