About the day » Monday June 20, 1955Calender converter

• Rene Maarten Christiaan Kaan, Heiloo († 1982)
• Marie Helène Dijkhuis († 1998)
• Jacob Hopman, Bunschoten, Utrecht, Netherlands († 1956)
• Michael Joseph Nealon, Richmond Heights, St Louis, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1955)
• Cornelis van Ommeren († 1997)
• Gerritdina Hendrika Vloedgraven, Deventer {OV} († 1956)
• Henry Martin Haentjens Dekker († 2011)
• Gelske Saakje Maaike (Gellie) Docter, Leeuwarden († 1965)
• Paulus Jacobus Rip, Rotterdam († 2013)
• Carla Marie Hubbell, Coos Bay, Coos, Oregon, United States († 1996)

• Antje Wiebes Leistra (63), Doezum
• Antje de Boer (82), Heemskerk
• Alice Catherine Murrell Greene "Katie" (92)
• Barta Huisman (75), Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Liebes van der Ploeg (95)
• Adrianus Demmers (56), Rotterdam
• Antonius Johannes VAN GESTEL (64)
• ALEIDA GEERTRUIDA MOSTERT (72), ROTTERDAM
• Alfred R Hutchins (72), Caddo, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Jan Hendrik Rensink (53), Almelo

• 1952 » John Goodman, American actor
• 1952 » Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
• 1953 » Raúl Ramírez, Mexican tennis player
• 1953 » Robert Crais, American author and screenwriter
• 1953 » Willy Rampf, German engineer
• 1954 » Allan Lamb, South African-English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1954 » Ilan Ramon, Israeli colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 2003)
• 1955 » E. Lynn Harris, American author († 2009)
• 1956 » Peter Reid, English footballer and manager
• 1956 » Sohn Suk-hee, South Korean newscaster

• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Mark Robson, Canadian-American director and producer (b. 1913)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Margaretha
13. Marianne
14. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
• August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
• November 23 » The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.

The temperature on June 20, 1955 was between 14.3 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.