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June 20, 2005 Jack Kilby, American Scientist June 20, 2002 Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71 June 20, 2000 Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor June 20, 1999 Clifton Fadiman, "writer, host", helped to start the Book-of-the-mon Club, dies at 95 June 20, 1997 Lawrence Payton, singer, The Four Tops, dies at 59 June 20, 1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64 June 20, 1996 Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89 June 20, 1996 Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96 June 20, 1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65 June 20, 1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies June 20, 1995 Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84 June 20, 1995 Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84 June 20, 1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91 June 20, 1994 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78 June 20, 1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84 June 20, 1994 Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70 June 20, 1994 Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71 June 20, 1990 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension June 20, 1986 Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71 June 20, 1984 Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99 June 20, 1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30 June 20, 1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68 June 20, 1978 Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66 June 20, 1978 Mark Robson, Canadian Director June 20, 1977 Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68 June 20, 1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68 June 20, 1972 Horst Salomon, writer, dies June 20, 1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 June 20, 1966 Georges Lemaatre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71 June 20, 1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41 June 20, 1965 Bernard Baruch, American Businessman June 20, 1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 June 20, 1963 Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott and Costello), dies at 52 June 20, 1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs June 20, 1963 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64 June 20, 1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80 June 20, 1960 Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57 June 20, 1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71 June 20, 1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies June 20, 1958 Herbert Bayard Swope, American Editor June 20, 1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67 June 20, 1948 George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61 June 20, 1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal June 20, 1945 Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58 June 20, 1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies June 20, 1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29 June 20, 1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies June 20, 1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72 June 20, 1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85 June 20, 1922 Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54 June 20, 1917 James Mason Crafts, U.S. chemist, dies at 78 June 20, 1915 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies June 20, 1904 Anthony F A Sandys, (British) painter, dies June 20, 1890 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63 June 20, 1888 Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66 June 20, 1888 John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 June 20, 1883 Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64 June 20, 1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, President Mexico, dies at 79 June 20, 1870 Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39 June 20, 1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, U.S. Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43? June 20, 1846 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67 June 20, 1842 Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60 June 20, 1837 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89 June 20, 1837 William IV, King of England, dies June 20, 1833 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44 June 20, 1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 June 20, 1751 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56 June 20, 1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies June 20, 1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen and Bereneil), dies June 20, 1585 Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52 June 20, 840 Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies |