June 20
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Events
- 1837 - Queen Victoria's accession to the throne, start of the Victorian Era
- 1948 - Pierre Schaeffer Concert de bruits was given its first performance on Parisian radio.
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Births
- 1615 - Salvator Rosa (according to some sources), Italian painter, important to the development of the Gothic novel (d. 1673)
- 1743 - Anna Laetitia Aikin British writer and author of two essays on the gothic sensibility (d. 1825)
- 1819 - Jacques Offenbach, French composer, creator of "La vie Parisienne" (d. 1880)
- 1887 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter and Dada artist (d. 1948)
- 1913 - Aimé Césaire, Martiniquen poet and politician of the Négritude movement
- 1923 - Peter Gay, Jewish American historian of the social history of ideas (d. 2015)
- 1941 - Stephen Frears, English film director
- 1956 - Anton Fier, American composer and drummer (d. 2022)
- 1967 - Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
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Deaths
- 1870 - Jules de Goncourt, French writer (b. 1830)
- 1995 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
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