June 20th
Holidays and Festivals
World Refugee Day (International)
Day of the National Flag (Argentina)
Martyrs' Day (Eritrea)
Litha/Yule * (see below)
Early Summer Solstice * (see below)
Flag Day (Argentina) * CLICK HERE
West Virginia Day (West Virginia)
World Refugee Day
World Juggling Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
International Surfing Day (on June 21st during leap years)
Go Skateboarding Day
Vinegar Day
Christian Feast Day of Adalbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg
* Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 10 – 23 (11of14) (2010)
* Meltdown Festival London, UK June 11 - 20 (10of10) (2010)
* North by Northeast Music Festival Toronto, Canada June 16 - 20 (5of5) (2010)
* Midsummer Celebrations of Finland Finland - June - (2-2)
* Litha / Midsummer celebrations in the northern hemisphere, Yule in the southern hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
* Earliest date for the summer solstice : On leap years, this day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere
Fête de la Avoine Translation: Oat Day (French Republican) The Second day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"To Alcohol... a liquid good for preserving almost anything except secrets."
- Gideon Wurdz, from the foolish dictionary.
Drink of The Day
Caucasian Nipple
1 oz. White Sambuca
1/2 oz. Irish Cream Liqueur
Put sambuca in a shot glass, layer in the Irish cream.
Wine of The Day
Heritage Station (2007) Estate
Style - Cabernet Franc
Outer Coastal Plain
$30
Beer of The Day
Steep Trail Amber Ale
Brewer - Black Diamond Brewing Co. Concord, CA
Style - Extra Special Bitter
Joke of The Day
A lawyer and a blonde are sitting next to each other at the bar. The lawyer leans over to her and asks if she would like to play a fun game. The blonde, drunk and dozing, just wants to take a nap, so she politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks.
The lawyer persists and explains that the game is really easy and a lot of fun. He explains: "I ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and visa-versa."
Again, she politely declines and tries to get some sleep.
The lawyer, now somewhat agitated, says, "Okay, if you don't know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $50" figuring that since she is a blonde that he will easily win the match.
This catches the blonde's attention and, figuring that there will be no end to this torment unless she plays, she agrees to the game.
The lawyer asks the first question: "What's the distance from the earth to the moon?"
The blonde doesn't say a word, reaches into her purse, pulls out a five-dollar bill and hands it to the lawyer.
Now, it's the blonde's turn. She asks the lawyer: "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?"
The lawyer looks at her with a puzzled look.
He takes out his laptop computer and searches all his references. He taps into the digital cellphone via infra-red wireless connection to his modem port and searches the Net and the Library of Congress. Frustrated, he sends E-mail to all his co-workers, friends, clients, and suppliers that he knows. And then some. All to no avail. After over an hour, he wakes the blonde and hands her $50. The blonde politely takes the $50 and turns away to get back to sleep.
The lawyer, who is more than a little miffed, wakes the blonde and asks, "Well, so what IS the answer?"
Without a word, the blonde reaches into her purse, hands the lawyer $5, and goes back to sleep.
Quote of The Day
"Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"
- Robin Williams
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $15
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son, Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Universal Father's Week, Third Full Week in June
Consumer Awareness Week, Third Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Third Full Week in June
National Health Care Risk Management Week, Third Work Week in June
Meet A Mate Week, Third Full Week in June
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Old Time Fiddlers Week (Weiser, Idaho), Third Full Week in June
Historical Events on June 20th
451 Battle of Chalons, Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1212 French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1214 The University of Oxford receives its charter.
1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1530 German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1631 The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1633 Charter for Maryland is given to Lord Cecil Baltimore
1652 Tarhoncu Ahmet Pasa appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire, served until 21 March 1653.
1656 Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1685 Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth declares himself King of England at Bridgwater.
1756 India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army. A British garrison (146 soldiers) is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta, most die.
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States as it's symbol.
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 (for a new constitution).
1791 King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes, caught trying to escape during The French Revolution.
1819 The 320 ton U.S. vessel SS Savannah arrives at Liverpool, United Kingdom. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross any ocean, the Atlantic, although most of the journey is made under sail.
1825 Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1826 Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 succeeds to the British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1862 Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 American Civil War, West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
1863 Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1864 Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA
1864 Battle of Petersburgs VA in trenches
1864 Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia
1866 Italy declares war on Austria
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1877 Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1888 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
1893 Lizzie Borden is acquitted for the murders of her father and stepmother in New Bedford Mass.
1895 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 Canal of Smock official opens
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1907 1st Portland Rose festival
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12, NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1914 46th Belmont, Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1915 German offensive in Argonnes
1919 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1919 German government of Scheideman resigns
1919 Treaty of Versailles, Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1930 65th British Golf Open, Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1931 Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1932 A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
1936 Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 Germans round up Jews in Amsterdam
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)
1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1944 Soviet Union demands for an unconditional surrender from Finland during the beginning of partially successful Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. Finnish government declines the demand, Continuation war.
1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 US troops occupy Biak
1944 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”, World War II.
1946 NYC transit begins using PA system Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1947 Pres Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
1948 Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1948 Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1956 A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Asbury Park, New Jersey, killing 74 people.
1956 At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1958 NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1959 A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
1960 12nd Emmy Awards, Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1960 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown in 5 for heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1960 Independence of Mali and Senegal.
1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 The so-called "red telephone" or "Hot Line" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1964 64th US Golf Open, Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD
1965 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1966 66th US Golf Open, Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France
1969 White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
1970 "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 British government of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1971 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1973 Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
1973 Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
1973 Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1973 SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1976 76th US Golf Open, Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga
1976 Carl Fugate, Starkweather accomplice, paroled
1976 Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 River Country opens
1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli government
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton
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 sparked international outcry of the regime.
1980 "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1980 California Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1981 Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
1981 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1982 82nd US Golf Open, Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1982 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1982 Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1983 83rd US Golf Open, Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA
1983 NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1984 Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1984 Oakland A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime
1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1987 Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
1988 Haiti's general assembly dissolves
1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities
1988 WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio
1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1990 Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
1991 The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1992 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles)
1993 47th NBA Championship, Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1993 93rd US Golf Open, Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1994 Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
1994 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
1994 OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
1995 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1999 99th US Golf Open, at Pinehurst CC NJ
2003 The WikiMedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
2012 A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising
2012 Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500
2013 Miami heat defeat San Antonio Spurs to win the 67th NBA Championship 4-3, LeBron James is named NBA finals MVP for the second straight year
2015 1000 humanoid robots named "Pepper" sell out in under a minute ($1,600 each) in Japan, according to its creator SoftBank Robotics Corp
2015 Heat wave peaks in southern Pakistan, goes on to kill about 2,000 people from dehydration and heat stroke
2016 China's super computer tally overtakes the US, Chinese 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight is world's No. 1
2016 Rome elects its first female Mayorm and its youngest at 37, Virginia Raggi - the Five Star Movement
Born on June 20th
(236 BC) Scipio Africanus, Roman statesman and general of the Second Punic War (d. 183 BC)
1005 Ali az-Zahir, caliph (d. 1036)
1389 John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (d. 1435)
1469 Gian Galeazzo Sforza, duke of Milan (d. 1494)
1485 Astorre III Manfredi, lord of Faenza (d. 1502)
1566 Sigismund III, King of Poland and Sweden (d. 1632)
1583 Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1652)
1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician
1634 Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75) (d. 1675)
1642 George Hickes, English minister and scholar (Old German Philology) (d. 1715)
1647 John George III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91) (d. 1691)
1674 Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1694 Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1699 William Gustav of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1737)
1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor (d. 1776)
1723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1816)
1723 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (d. 1808)
1730 Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1733 Betty Washington, sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
1737 Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1786)
1743 Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns
1754 Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832)
1756 Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (d. 1792)
1761 Jacob Hübner, German entomologist (d. 1826)
1763 Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist (d. 1798)
1770 Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840)
1771 Hermann von Boyen, German army officer (d. 1848)
1771 Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)
1778 Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French politician (d. 1832)
1786 Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (d. 1859)
1796 Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Italian cardinal (d. 1878)
1808 Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1813 Joseph Autran, French poet (d. 1877)
1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (Tales of Hoffmann) (d. 1880)
1823 Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1862)
1824 George E Street, British (?) architect
1824 John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1907)
1833 Leon-J-F Bonnat, painter
1852 Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88)
1855 Sir Richard Lodge, English historian (d. 1936)
1858 Charles W. Chesnutt, American writer (d. 1932)
1858 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1860 Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach (d. 1937)
1861 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1861 Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (d. 1947)
1862 Marco Praga, Italian playwright (d. 1929)
1864 Worm Pander, sculptor
1866 Ivans (Jacob van Schevichaven), Dutch lawyer and detective writer
1866 Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
1868 Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1870 Georges Dufrénoy, French post-impressionnist painter (d. 1943)
1872 George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
1875 Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
1875 Reginald Punnett, British geneticist (d. 1967)
1883 Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1883 Jules Verstraete (Julien G the Graef), actor (Driestuiversopera)
1883 Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
1885 Andrzej Gawronski, Polish scholar (d. 1927)
1887 Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
1887 Kurt Schwitters, German dada-artist (collages) and writer (d. 1948)
1889 John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (d. 1951)
1891 Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951)
1891 John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976)
1892 S M Tretjakow, writer
1893 Wilhelm Zaisser, German politician (d. 1958)
1894 George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1894 Lloyd A Hall, American chemist, pioneer in food chemistry (d. 1971)
1896 Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
1897 Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23)
1897 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973)
1899 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1899 Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (WW II) (d. 1943)
1900 Ernest White, composer
1901 Iri Maruki, artist
1903 Glenna Collett Vare, RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1904 Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1905 Lillian Hellman, American playwright (d. 1984)
1906 Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1906 Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1907 Jimmy Driftwood, American songwriter and musician (d. 1998)
1907 Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1908 Billy Werber, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1909 Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)
1909 Errol Flynn, Australian actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood) (d. 1959)
1909 Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1911 Gail Patrick, American actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy) (d. 1980)
1911 Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1912 Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004)
1914 Friedrich Zipp, composer
1915 Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2002)
1915 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball) (d. 1994)
1916 Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
1916 Johnny Morris, British children's presenter and actor (Once in a Lifetime) (d. 1999)
1916 William Balchin, geographer
1917 Igor Smialowski, Polish actor (d. 2006)
1918 George Lynch, American auto racer (d. 1997)
1918 Zoltán Sztáray, Hungarian writer
1919 Bruce Gordon, London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1919 Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1920 Hans Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater
1920 Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1921 Byron Farwell, American military historian (d. 1999)
1923 Bjørn Watt-Boolsen, Danish actor (d. 1998)
1923 Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
1924 Audie Murphy, American Medal of Honor recipient, most decorated American WW II hero, and actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly) (d. 1971)
1924 Chet Atkins, American guitar player (Me & My Guitar) and producer (d. 2001)
1924 Fritz Koenig, German sculptor
1924 Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister
1925 Doris J Hart, St Louis Mo, tennis player (Wimbledon 1951)
1926 Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
1927 John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928 David Mitchell, British MP
1928 Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician (d. 1964)
1928 Jean-Marie Le Pen, French politician (National Front party)
1928 Martin Landau, Bkln, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1928 Robert Satanowski, composer
1929 Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Hayd/Mozart/Schubert)
1930 Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
1930 John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)
1930 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Polish artist
1930 Paul Pender, American boxer
1930 Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
1931 Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1931 James Tolkan, American actor (Weekend War, Leap of Faith)
1931 Martin Landau, American actor
1931 Olympia Dukakis, American actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
1931 Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor (Oxford University)
1932 Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz) (d. 1994)
1933 Brett Halsey, Santa Ana California, actress (Paul-Follow the Sun)
1933 Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor
1933 Danny Aiello, American actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1933 Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)
1933 Jean Boiteux, France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934 Brian Barder, British high commissar (Australia)
1934 Cornel Taranu, composer
1934 Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
1934 Wendy Craig, English actress (Joseph Andrews)
1934 Yuri Vizbor, Russian poet (d. 1984)
1935 Anthony Pilkington, CEO (Pilkington Pic)
1935 Len Dawson, American football player
1935 Neal Knox, American gun rights activist (d. 2005)
1936 Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002)
1936 Bobby Nunn, rocker (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936 Leon Hughes, rocker
1937 Jerry Keller, American pop singer and songwriter (If Ever I See You Again)
1938 Mickie Most, British record producer (d. 2003)
1938 Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer
1939 Budge Rogers, British rugby player
1939 R(amakant) B Desai, Indian cricketer (d. 1998)
1940 Eugen Drewermann, German theologian
1940 John Mahoney, English actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
1941 Stephen Frears, English film director (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons)
1941 Ulf D Merbold, German physicist and astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
1942 Brian Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1943 Andy Etchebarren, baseball catcher (Balt Orioles)
1944 Cheryl Holdridge, American actress
1944 Dave Nelson, baseball player
1944 David Roper, English actor
1944 Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
1945 Anne Murray, Canadian singer
1945 David S Monson, (Rep-R-UT, 1985)
1945 James F Buchli, New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1945 John McCook, Ventura Cal, actor (Codename: Firefox, Bold & Beautiful)
1945 (Morna) Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
1946 Andre Watts, German-American concert pianist (Oberon)
1946 Bob Vila, American television host
1946 Duchess of Gloucester
1946 Lars Vilks, Swedish artist
1946 Xanana Gusmão, President of East Timor
1947 Candy Clark, American actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
1947 David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo)
1947 Dolores Brooks, American singer (the Crystals)
1947 Ivo Milazzo, Italian comic book artist
1947 John Forbes, horse trainer
1947 Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
1948 Joey Molland, rocker
1948 Ludwig Scotty, President of Nauru
1948 Nigel Morris, rocker (Isotope)
1949 Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1949 Bob Andrews, England, rock keyboardist/vocalist
1949 Lionel Richie, American musician (The Commodores)
1949 Paul Shaw, Collingwood Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1950 Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq
1951 Bill Simon, American businessman and politician
1951 Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet
1951 Peter Gordon, composer
1951 Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
1952 Jayne Thobois, Noblesville IN, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-56th)
1952 John Goodman, American actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona)
1952 Larry Riley, American actor (Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing) (d. 1992)
1952 Vikram Seth, Indian poet
1952 Vince Gotera, American poet
1953 Alan Longmuir, Scottish Musician (Bay City Rollers)
1953 Brian J Duffy, Boston, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92)
1953 Raúl Ramírez, Mexican tennis player
1953 Ulrich Mühe, German actor (d. 2007)
1953 Willy Rampf, German F1 technical director (BMW Sauber)
1954 Alan (Joseph) Lamb, South African born English cricketer (Northampton)
1954 Ilan Ramon, Israeli combat pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
1954 Michael Anthony, American musician, bassist and singer (Van Halen)
1956 Peter Reid, English footballer
1957 Butch Patrick, Inglewood California, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
1957 Koko B. Ware, American professional wrestler
1958 Chuck Wagner, American actor (Automan)
1958 Dickie Thon, baseball player
1958 Kelly Johnson (Bernadette), Edmonton, London, guitarist (Girlschool), (d. 2007)
1958 Ron Hornaday, American racecar driver
1960 Donna Mayhew, Taylor Penn, javelin thrower
1960 Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
1960 (Nigel) John Taylor, English musician, bassist (Duran Duran)
1961 Gary Varsho, baseball player
1961 Karin Enke, Dresden German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1963 Amir Derakh, American musician (Orgy)
1963 Don West, American professional wrestling announcer
1963 Kirk Baptiste, Beaumont Tx, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1963 Matt Anger, Walnut Creek Cal, tennis star
1964 Najee Mustafaa, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1964 Paul David Goydos, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1994 BC Open-7th)
1964 Pierfrancesco Chili, Italian motorcycle racer
1964 Silke Möller, German track and field athlete
1965 Michael Landon Jr, Encino California, actor (Bonanza The Return)
1967 Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1967 Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
1967 Pat Jablonski, Toledo, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 Fred McAfee, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 Garry Howe, WLAF nose tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 Gary Speed, Welsh footballer
1968 Mike McCarthy, Bkln NY, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-88, 96)
1968 Robert Rodriguez, American film director
1969 Gerald Dixon, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 MaliVai Washington, American tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 Misha Verbitsky, Russian mathematician
1969 Peter Paige, American actor
1970 Andrea Nahles, German politician
1970 Bruce Woodcock, American computer games analyst
1970 Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
1970 Shay-Oren Smadja, Israel, men's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1971 Jeordie White, American musician (Marilyn Manson)
1971 Josh Kronfeld, New Zealander rugby union footballer
1971 Josh Lucas, American actor
1971 Rodney Rogers, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1971 William Gaines, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1972 Alexis Alexoudis, Greek footballer
1972 Jo Roberts, WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Jozef Stumpel, Nitra CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Boston)
1972 Juan Castro, Sinaloa Mexico, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1972 Martin Keino, Nyeri Kenya, 1.5k runner
1972 Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996)
1972 Paul Bako, American baseball player
1973 Chino Moreno, American musician (Deftones)
1974 Attila Czene, Hungarian swimmer
1974 Jami Ferrell, Munncie Indiana, playmate (Jan 1997)
1974 Tuta, Brazilian footballer
1975 Daniel Zítka, Czech footballer
1975 Francois Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 Maurice Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1976 Carlos Lee, Panamanian baseball player
1976 Jerome Fontamillas, Filipino-American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
1976 Rob Mackowiak, American baseball player
1977 Gordan Giricek, Croatian basketball player
1978 Bobby Seay, American baseball player
1978 Frank Lampard, English footballer
1978 Jan-Paul Saeijs, Dutch footballer
1978 LaVar Arrington, American football player
1978 Mike Birbiglia, Comedian
1978 Quinton Jackson, American Mixed Martial Artist
1979 Cael Sanderson, American olympic freestyle wrestler
1979 Charles Howell III, American professional golfer
1979 Charlotte Hatherley, English guitarist (Ash)
1979 Lani Billard, Canadian actress
1979 Sydne Vogel, Anchorage Alaska, figure skater (1996 NW Pac Sr champ)
1980 Carlo Festuccia, Italian rugby union footballer
1980 Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist
1980 Franco Semioli, Italian footballer
1980 Tony Lovato, American singer and guitarrist (Mest)
1981 Angerfist, Dutch musician
1981 Ardian Gashi, Albanian-Norwegian footballer
1982 Aleksei Berezutski, Russian footballer
1982 George Forsyth, Peruvian footballer
1982 Vasili Berezutski, Russian footballer
1983 Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
1983 Darren Sproles, American football player
1983 Josh Childress, American basketball player
1985 Darko Milicic, Serbian basketball player
1985 Souleymane Mamam, Togolese footballer
1987 Carsten Ball, Professional Australian Tennis Player
1988 Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress
1989 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
1989 Terrelle Pryor, American football player
1992 James Waite, UK Banger Racing Driver
1997 Maria Lark, Russian-born American actress
Died on June 20th
451 Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
840 Louis de Vrome, the Pious, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)
885 Bernard Plantapilosa, Count of Auvergne (b. 841)
1176 Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince
1585 Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae)
1597 Willem Barents, Dutch navigator (discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil) (b. 1550)
1605 Feodor II of Russia, tsar of Russia (b. 1589)
1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author
1668 Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)
1751 Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41)
1776 Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)
1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, viola player (b. 1723)
1800 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1810 Count Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish statesman (b. 1755)
1820 Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
1833 Philip Knapton, composer
1837 Giovanni Furno, composer
1837 William IV, King of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1840 Pierre Claude François Daunou, French statesman and historian (b. 1761)
1842 Michael Umlauf, composer
1846 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam
1869 Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)
1870 Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
1872 Elie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico
1883 Olivier Gloux (Gustave Aimard), French world explorer
1888 Cesare Dominiceti, composer
1888 Johannes H Zukertort, German-Polish-Jewish chess master (b. 1842)
1890 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer
1906 John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1915 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
1917 James Mason Crafts, US chemist
1922 Vittorio Monti, composer
1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer
1925 Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)
1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer
1929 Emmanuel Benakis, Greek merchant and politician (b. 1843)
1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist
1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle
1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)
1945 Luís Fernando de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish prince (b. 1888)
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, American organized crime figure, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal (b. 1906)
1948 George Frederick Boyle, composer
1950 Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular)
1952 Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party)
1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel laureate 1950) (b. 1902)
1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician
1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl)
1960 Walter Dehmel, writer
1963 Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello)
1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed (last Wash state execution in 25 yrs)
1963 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1963 Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (b. 1898)
1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth)
1965 Bernard Baruch, American politician (b. 1870)
1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1972 Horst Salomon, writer
1972 Howard Johnson, American businessman, originator of restaurant chain (b. 1897)
1974 Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker and billiards player (b. 1912)
1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer
1976 Lou Klein, American baseball player (b. 1918)
1977 Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak)
1978 Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House)
1978 Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)
1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer
1984 Estelle Winwood, English actress (Miracle on 34th Street) (b. 1883)
1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House)
1986 Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen)
1990 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy)
1994 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician
1994 Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist
1994 Louis Benjamin, showman
1995 Dennis Gomm, musician
1995 Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher (b. 1911)
1995 Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist
1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash
1996 Irving Krick, meteorologist
1996 Jim Ellison, Singer/Guitarist for the band Material Issue (b. 1964)
1996 Joseph Green, film maker
1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer
1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979)
1997 Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock)
1997 Lawrence Payton, American singer (The Four Tops) (b. 1938)
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)
2005 Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (b. 1923)
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
2015 Nazar Singh, British great-grandfather, believed to be Europe's oldest man, dies at 111
2016 Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)