June 20th
139 Notable deaths
Sándor Kányádi
Hungarian poet and translator (1929-2018).
Born May 10th, 1929 in Porumbeni. [ref]
Died June 20th, 2018 at 89 years old in Budapest.
Sergei Mylnikov
Russian ice hockey player.
Born October 6th, 1958 in Chelyabinsk.
Died June 20th, 2017 at 58 years old in Moscow (heart failure). [ref]
Regimantas Adomaitis
Actor.
Born January 31st, 1937 in Šiauliai.
Died June 20th, 2022 at 85 years old in Vilnius.
Markus Fierz
Swiss physicist (1912-2006).
Born June 20th, 1912 in Basel.
Died June 20th, 2006 at 94 years old in Küsnacht.
Rong Guotuan
Chinese table tennis player (1937-1968).
Born August 10th, 1937 in British Hong Kong.
Died June 20th, 1968 at 30 years old in Beijing (hanging).
Angelo Niculescu
Romanian footballer and manager (1921-2015).
Born October 1st, 1921 in Craiova.
Died June 20th, 2015 at 93 years old in Bucharest.
Wilhelm Busch
German protestant pastor and writer (1897-1966).
Born March 27th, 1897 in Elberfeld.
Died June 20th, 1966 at 69 years old in Lübeck.
George Loane Tucker
American film director, actor and screenwriter.
Born June 12th, 1880 in Chicago.
Died June 20th, 1921 at 41 years old in Los Angeles (disease).
Francis Graham-Smith
British astronomer.
Born April 25th, 1923 in Lancashire.
Died June 20th, 2025 at 102 years old [ref]
Deaths 81 to 90 of 139
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore