What happened on June 20 ?

451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths

840 - Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)

1597 - Willem Barentsz, Dutch navigator

1668 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620)

1776 - Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and manufacturer (b. 1704)

1787 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (b. 1723)

1800 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)

1820 - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)

1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)

1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)

1869 - Toshizou Hijikata, Shinsengumi vice-commander (b. 1835)

1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)

1906 - John Clayton Adams, British Landscape Artist (b. 1840)

1925 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (b. 1842)

1945 - Bruno Frank, German author (b. 1878)

1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (whacked) (b. 1906)

1952 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)

1958 - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1972 - Howard Deering Johnson, founder of Howard Johnson's (b. 1897)

1978 - Mark Robson, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1913)

1993 - Vince Foster, Deputy White House Counsel (suicide) (b. 1945)

1995 - Emil Cioran, Romanian-born French philosopher and essayist (b. 1911)

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, U.S. Congressman from Arizona (b. 1927)

2005 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1923)

2005 - Larry Collins, American writer (b. 1929)