Notable people who died on June 20 include: Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei (born 440), Louis the Pious, Hucbald, Adalbert, Mikhail of Vladimir.

Notable Deaths on June 20

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Angelo Niculescu, Romanian footballer and manager (born 1921)

62 people 465 – 2024

June 20 has seen 62 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 465 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2015 — Angelo Niculescu

Romanian footballer and manager (born 1921)

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He is best remembered in Romania for being the national team's coach during the 1970 World Cup

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Using these tactics, Niculescu qualified Romania for a World Cup after more than 30 years and secured a notable win against Czechoslovakia.

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Angelo Niculescu was a Romanian football player and manager

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Niculescu is also credited with inventing the "temporizare" ("delaying") tactics

Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei (born 440)

Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei ( 魏文成帝), Han name Tuoba Jun (拓跋濬), Xianbei name Wulei (烏雷), was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. He became emperor aged 12 in the aftermath of the eunuch Zong…

465

Louis the Pious

Carolingian emperor (born 778)

Louis the Pious, also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only surviving son of Charlemagne and…

840

Hucbald

Frankish monk and music theorist

Hucbald was a Benedictine monk active as a music theorist, poet, composer, teacher, and hagiographer. He was long associated with Saint-Amand Abbey, so is often known as Hucbald of St Amand. Deeply influenced by…

930

Adalbert

archbishop of Magdeburg

Adalbert of Magdeburg, sometimes incorrectly shortened to "Albert", known as the Apostle of the Slavs, was the first Archbishop of Magdeburg and a successful missionary to the Polabian Slavs to the east of what was…

981

Mikhail of Vladimir

Russian prince

Mikhalko (Mikhail) Yuryevich was Grand Prince of Vladimir in 1174, and from 1175 to 1176. He was a son of Yuri Dolgoruky.

1176

Margareta Ebner

German nun and mystic (born 1291)

Margareta Ebner was a German professed religious from the Dominican Nuns. Ebner – from 1311 – experienced a series of spiritual visions in which Jesus Christ gave her messages which she recorded in letters and a journal…

1351

Willem Barentsz

Dutch cartographer and explorer (born 1550)

Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer.

1597

Feodor II of Russia (born 1589)

Feodor II Borisovich Godunov was Tsar of all Russia from April to June 1605, during the Time of Troubles.

1605

Heinrich Roth

German missionary and scholar (born 1620)

Heinrich Roth, also known as Henricus Rodius or Henrique Roa, was a German missionary and pioneering Sanskrit scholar.

1668

Benjamin Huntsman

English businessman (born 1704)

Benjamin Huntsman was an English inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel.

1776

Carl Friedrich Abel

German viol player and composer (born 1723)

Carl Friedrich Abel was a German composer of the Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument. He was director of music at the Dresden court…

1787

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner

German mathematician and academic (born 1719)

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a mathematician and epigrammatist from the Holy Roman Empire.

1800

Axel von Fersen the Younger

Swedish general and politician (born 1755)

Hans Axel von Fersen, also known as Axel von Fersen the Younger and as Axel de Fersen in France, was a Swedish count, military officer, courtier, ambassador, Marshal and Lord of the Realm. He gained international renown…

1810

Guillaume Philibert Duhesme

French general (born 1766)

Guillaume Philibert, 1st Count Duhesme was a French Army officer, politician and writer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was a commander of the Imperial Guard, Governor of Catalonia and a…

1815

Manuel Belgrano

Argentinian general, economist, and politician (born 1770)

Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano, usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He took part in the Argentine…

1820

William IV of the United Kingdom (born 1765)

William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming…

1837

Pierre Claude François Daunou

French historian and politician (born 1761)

Pierre Claude François Daunou was a French statesman of the French Revolution and Empire. An author and historian, he served as the nation's archivist under both the Empire and the Restoration, contributed a volume to…

1840

Juan Larrea

Argentinian captain and politician (born 1782)

Juan Larrea was a Spanish businessman and politician in Buenos Aires during the early nineteenth century. He headed a military unit during the second British invasion of the River Plate, and worked at the Buenos Aires…

1847

Hijikata Toshizō

Japanese commander (born 1835)

Hijikata Toshizō was a Japanese swordsman of the Bakumatsu period and Vice-Commander of the Shinsengumi. As Vice-Commander, he served the Tokugawa Shogunate and co-led his group in its resistance against the imperial…

1869

Jules de Goncourt

French historian and author (born 1830)

Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil of a stroke brought on by syphilis.

1870

Élie Frédéric Forey

French general (born 1804)

Élie Frédéric Forey was a Marshal of France.

1872

Joseph Meek

American police officer and politician (born 1810)

Joseph Lafayette Meek was an American pioneer, mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the fur trade before…

1875

John Neal

American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist (born 1793)

John Neal was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and…

1876

Johannes Zukertort

Polish-English chess player (born 1842)

Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which…

1888

John Clayton Adams

English painter (born 1840)

John Clayton Adams or J. Clayton Adams was an English landscape artist.

1906

Friedrich Martens

Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (born 1845)

Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens, was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of international law. He represented Russia at…

1909

Josef Breuer

Austrian physician and psychologist (born 1842)

Josef Breuer was an Austrian physician who made discoveries in neurophysiology, and whose work during the 1880s with his patient Bertha Pappenheim, known as Anna O., led to the development of the "cathartic method" for…

1925

Emmanouil Benakis

Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (born 1843)

Emmanouil Benakis was a Greek merchant and politician, considered a national benefactor of Greece.

1929

Bruno Frank

German author, poet, and playwright (born 1878)

Bruno Frank was a German author, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and humanist.

1945

Bugsy Siegel

American mobster (born 1906)

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Along with his childhood friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, Siegel was influential within the…

1947

Luigi Fagioli

Italian race car driver (born 1898)

Luigi Cristiano Fagioli was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Grand Prix motor racing from 1928 to 1949, and Formula One from 1950 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Abruzzi Robber", Fagioli won the 1951 French Grand Prix…

1952

Kurt Alder

German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)

Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

1958

Raphaël Salem

Greek-French mathematician and academic (born 1898)

Raphaël Salem was a Greek mathematician after whom the Salem numbers and Salem–Spencer sets are named, and whose widow founded the Salem Prize.

1963

Bernard Baruch

American financier and politician (born 1870)

Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier and statesman.

1965

Georges Lemaître

Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (born 1894)

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, and mathematician who made major contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. He was the first to argue that the recession of…

1966

Bishnu Prasad Rabha

Indian artist, painter, actor, dancer, writer, music composer and politician (born 1909)

Bishnu Prasad Rabha was an Indian cultural figure from Assam, known for his contributions in the fields of music, dance, painting, literature as well as political activism. As an advocate of people's cultural movement,…

1969

Horace Lindrum

Australian snooker player (born 1912)

Horace Lindrum was an Australian professional player of snooker and English billiards. Lindrum won the 1952 World Snooker Championship defeating New Zealander Clark McConachy. The tournament is disputed, as it had only…

1974

Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain

Haitian anthropologist (born 1898)

Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was the first woman Haitian anthropologist. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain was a student of Bronisław Malinowski who worked in 1949 with Alfred Métraux, and participated in a UNESCO project in Haiti.…

1975

Mark Robson

Canadian-American director and producer (born 1913)

Mark Robson was a Canadian-American film director, producer, and editor. Robson began his 45-year career in Hollywood as a film editor. He later began working as a director and producer. He directed 34 films during his…

1978

Estelle Winwood

English actress (born 1883)

Estelle Winwood was an English actress who moved to the United States mid-career and became celebrated for her wit and longevity, starring in film and TV roles until her nineties.

1984

Emil Cioran

Romanian-French philosopher and educator (born 1911)

Emil Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. His works…

1995

Cahit Külebi

Turkish poet and author (born 1917)

Cahit Külebi was a leading Turkish poet and author. He has an important place in contemporary Turkish poetry due to his attachment to folk poetry traditions. His poetry is enriched with simple yet ironic language,…

1997

Clifton Fadiman

American game show host, author, and critic (born 1902)

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.

1999

Erwin Chargaff

Austrian-American biochemist and academic (born 1905)

Erwin Chargaff was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist, writer, and professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school. A Bucovinian Jew who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime,…

2002

Tinus Osendarp

Dutch runner (born 1916)

Martinus Bernardus "Tinus" Osendarp was a Dutch sprint runner.

2002

Jim Bacon

Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (born 1950)

James Alexander Bacon, AC was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Tasmania from 1998 to 2004.

2004

Larry Collins

American journalist, historian, and author (born 1929)

John Lawrence Collins Jr. was an American writer and historian.

2005

Jack Kilby

American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electronics engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958.…

2005

Roberto Rosato

Italian footballer (born 1943)

Roberto Rosato was an Italian footballer, who played as a defender.

2010

Harry B. Whittington

English palaeontologist and academic (born 1916)

Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are largely responsible for the concept of…

2010

Ryan Dunn

American television personality (born 1977)

Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American stunt performer, television personality, and actor. He was one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and its film franchise.

2011

Judy Agnew

Second Lady of the United States. (born 1921)

Elinor Isabel "Judy" Agnew was the second lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973. She was the wife of the 39th vice president of the United States, Spiro Agnew, who had previously served as Governor of Maryland and…

2012

LeRoy Neiman

American painter (born 1921)

LeRoy Neiman was an American artist known for his brilliantly colored, expressionist paintings and screenprints of athletes, musicians, and sporting events.

2012

Heinrich IV

Prince Reuss of Köstritz (born 1919)

Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss was the head of the German formerly princely House of Reuss.

2012

Andrew Sarris

American critic (born 1928)

Andrew Sarris was an American film critic. He was a leading proponent of the auteur theory of film criticism.

2012

Ingvar Rydell

Swedish footballer (born 1922)

Gustav Ingvar Rydell was a Swedish football forward who played for Malmö FF. He also represented Sweden in the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. and won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Finland.

2013

Miriam Schapiro

Canadian-American painter and sculptor (born 1923)

Miriam "Mimi" Schapiro was a Canadian-born artist based in the United States. She was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and a pioneer of feminist art. She was also considered a leader of the Pattern and Decoration art…

2015

Prodigy

American music artist (born 1974)

Albert Johnson, known professionally as Prodigy, was an American rapper and record producer. He was best known for being one half of the rap duo Mobb Deep along with Havoc, yet Prodigy still had a solo career, regularly…

2017

Caleb Swanigan

American basketball player (born 1997)

Caleb Sylvester Swanigan was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers. He was ranked among the top prep players in…

2022

Donald Sutherland

Canadian actor and producer (born 1935)

Donald McNichol Sutherland was a Canadian actor. With a career spanning six decades, he received numerous accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards as well as a BAFTA Award nomination.…

2024

Taylor Wily

American actor, sumo wrestler and mixed martial artist (born 1968)

Taylor Tuli Wily was an American actor, sumo wrestler and mixed martial artist. He competed in UFC where he was billed as Teila Tuli and also competed in sumo wrestling. As an actor, he was known for his recurring role…

2024

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Angelo Niculescu — Romanian footballer and manager

FeaturedAngelo Niculescu

Death year2015

Known forHe is best remembered in Romania for being the national team's coach during the 1970 World Cup

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