Anniversaries 20 June

Birth

Scipio Africanus3

Roman general in the Second Punic War -235–-183 BC

Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale1

Scottish Jacobite politician 1653–1695

Nicholas Rowe7

English poet, dramatist 1674–1718

Adam Ferguson11

Scottish philosopher and historian 1723–1816

Anna Laetitia Barbauld16

English author 1743–1825

Joseph Martin Kraus9

German composer 1756–1792

Theobald Wolfe Tone14

Irish politician 1763–1798

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore1

French poet 1786–1859

Samson Raphael Hirsch4

Jewish theologian, germany 19th century 1808–1888

Harriet Winslow Sewall2

American poet 1819–1889

Christian von Ehrenfels6

Austrian philosopher 1859–1932

Kurt Schwitters32

German artist 1887–1948

Lillian Hellman20

American dramatist and screenwriter 1905–1984

Jimmy Driftwood7

singer 1907–1998

Errol Flynn3

Australian actor 1909–1959

Lilian Jackson Braun5

author 1913–2011

Eric Dolphy1

American jazz musician 1928–1964

Jean-Marie Le Pen6

French right-wing and nationalist politician 1928

Martin Landau3

American actor and acting coach 1928–2017

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.17

Canadian-American businessman 1929–2013

Edith Windsor3

American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at I… 1929–2017

Catherine Aird1

Novelist 1930

Isaac Abella1

physicist 1934–2016

Dan Greenburg2

American writer 1936

Michael E. Gerber7

American business writer 1936

Eugen Drewermann9

German psychologist and theologian 1940

Brian Wilson32

American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer 1942

Anne Murray13

Canadian singer 1945

Xanana Gusmão1

former President and Prime Minister of East Timor 1946

Lionel Richie27

American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and a… 1949

Nouri al-Maliki6

Prime Minister of Iraq 1950

Paul Muldoon4

Irish poet 1951

Vikram Seth12

Indian writer 1952

John Goodman5

American actor, voice artist, and comedian 1952

Robert Crais3

Novelist, screenwriter 1953

E. Lynn Harris2

Novelist, memoirist 1955–2009

Mark Milley1

senior United States Army officer 1958

Karen E. Quinones Miller2

American writer 1958

Michael Landon Jr.1

American television director 1964

Patxi Xabier Lezama Perier1

sculptor and writer 1967

Nicole Kidman10

Australian-American actress and film producer 1967

Robert Rodriguez1

American film director and producer 1968

Mateusz Morawiecki2

Prime Minister of Poland 1968

Josh Lucas2

American actor 1971

Kevin Keck2

American writer 1973

Eric Schmitt3

American politician, lawyer 1975

Frank Lampard7

English association football player 1978

Example (musician)32

English rapper and singer 1982

Darko Miličić8

Serbian basketball player 1985

Death

Ned Ward1

English writer 1667–1731

Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès4

French ''abbé'' ad statesman 1748–1836

William IV of the United Kingdom1

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and… 1765–1837

Albert Mackey4

U.S. writer on freemasonry 1807–1881

Joseph Meek2

American mountain man, pioneer of the Oregon Country, polit… 1810–1875

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka6

painter from Hungary 1853–1919

Clara Zetkin1

German politician 1857–1933

Voltairine de Cleyre78

American anarchist writer and feminist 1866–1912

Bernard Baruch17

American businessman 1870–1965

Georges Lemaître3

Belgian scientist and priest 1894–1966

Wilhelm Busch (pastor)14

German pastor and writer 1897–1966

Clifton Fadiman6

American editor 1904–1999

Erwin Chargaff6

Ukrinian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States 1905–2002

Emil M. Cioran531

Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

Tom Burns8

British sociologist 1913–2001

I. Bernard Cohen9

American historian of science 1914–2003

Jack Kilby1

American electrical engineer 1923–2005

Heinz Isler4

engineer 1926–2009

Robert Gilpin41

Political scientist 1930–2018

Jay Miner1

American electrical engineer 1932–1994

Isla Dewar1

Scottish novelist who died in 2021 1946–2021