Anniversaries 20 June
Birth
![Scipio Africanus photo]()
Roman general in the Second Punic War
-235–-183 BC
![Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale photo]()
Scottish Jacobite politician
1653–1695
![Nicholas Rowe photo]()
English poet, dramatist
1674–1718
![Adam Ferguson photo]()
Scottish philosopher and historian
1723–1816
![Joseph Martin Kraus photo]()
German composer
1756–1792
![Theobald Wolfe Tone photo]()
Irish politician
1763–1798
![Samson Raphael Hirsch photo]()
Jewish theologian, germany 19th century
1808–1888
![Christian von Ehrenfels photo]()
Austrian philosopher
1859–1932
![Lillian Hellman photo]()
American dramatist and screenwriter
1905–1984
![Errol Flynn photo]()
Australian actor
1909–1959
![Eric Dolphy photo]()
American jazz musician
1928–1964
![Jean-Marie Le Pen photo]()
French right-wing and nationalist politician
1928
![Martin Landau photo]()
American actor and acting coach
1928–2017
![Edgar Bronfman, Sr. photo]()
Canadian-American businessman
1929–2013
![Edith Windsor photo]()
American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at I…
1929–2017
![Michael E. Gerber photo]()
American business writer
1936
![Eugen Drewermann photo]()
German psychologist and theologian
1940
![Brian Wilson photo]()
American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer
1942
![Xanana Gusmão photo]()
former President and Prime Minister of East Timor
1946
![Lionel Richie photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and a…
1949
![Nouri al-Maliki photo]()
Prime Minister of Iraq
1950
![John Goodman photo]()
American actor, voice artist, and comedian
1952
![Robert Crais photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter
1953
![E. Lynn Harris photo]()
Novelist, memoirist
1955–2009
![Mark Milley photo]()
senior United States Army officer
1958
![Michael Landon Jr. photo]()
American television director
1964
![Nicole Kidman photo]()
Australian-American actress and film producer
1967
![Robert Rodriguez photo]()
American film director and producer
1968
![Mateusz Morawiecki photo]()
Prime Minister of Poland
1968
![Eric Schmitt photo]()
American politician, lawyer
1975
![Frank Lampard photo]()
English association football player
1978
![Example (musician) photo]()
English rapper and singer
1982
![Darko Miličić photo]()
Serbian basketball player
1985
Death
![Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès photo]()
French ''abbé'' ad statesman
1748–1836
![William IV of the United Kingdom photo]()
King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and…
1765–1837
![Albert Mackey photo]()
U.S. writer on freemasonry
1807–1881
![Joseph Meek photo]()
American mountain man, pioneer of the Oregon Country, polit…
1810–1875
![Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka photo]()
painter from Hungary
1853–1919
![Clara Zetkin photo]()
German politician
1857–1933
![Voltairine de Cleyre photo]()
American anarchist writer and feminist
1866–1912
![Bernard Baruch photo]()
American businessman
1870–1965
![Georges Lemaître photo]()
Belgian scientist and priest
1894–1966
![Wilhelm Busch (pastor) photo]()
German pastor and writer
1897–1966
![Clifton Fadiman photo]()
American editor
1904–1999
![Erwin Chargaff photo]()
Ukrinian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States
1905–2002
![Emil M. Cioran photo]()
Romanian philosopher and essayist
1911–1995
![Tom Burns photo]()
British sociologist
1913–2001
![I. Bernard Cohen photo]()
American historian of science
1914–2003
![Jack Kilby photo]()
American electrical engineer
1923–2005
![Robert Gilpin photo]()
Political scientist
1930–2018
![Jay Miner photo]()
American electrical engineer
1932–1994
![Isla Dewar photo]()
Scottish novelist who died in 2021
1946–2021
