The following folks died on this day, June 20.
465 – Wen Cheng Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 440)
656 – Uthman ibn Affan, Arabian caliph (b. 577)
840 – Louis the Pious, Frankish emperor (b. 778)
930 – Hucbald, Frankish monk and music theorist
1176 – Mikhail of Vladimir, Russian prince
1351 – Margareta Ebner, German nun and mystic (b. 1291)
1405 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1343)
1597 – Willem Barentsz, Dutch cartographer and explorer (b. 1550)
1605 – Feodor II of Russia (b. 1589)
1668 – Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (b. 1620)
1776 – Benjamin Huntsman, English businessman (b. 1704)
1787 – Carl Friedrich Abel, German viol player and composer (b. 1723)
1800 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician and academic (b. 1719)
1810 – Axel von Fersen the Younger, Swedish general and politician (b. 1755)
1815 – Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1820 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (b. 1770)
1837 – William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1840 – Pierre Claude François Daunou, French historian and politician (b. 1761)
1847 – Juan Larrea, Argentinian captain and politician (b. 1782)
1929 – Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
1958 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1965 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
1996 – Jim Ellison, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
2001 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
2011 – Ryan Dunn, American television personality (b. 1977)
2012 – Andrew Sarris, American critic (b. 1928)
2014 – Jim Bamber, English cartoonist (b. 1948)
2015 – Bob Barry Jr., American sportscaster (b. 1956)
2015 – Miriam Schapiro, Canadian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
