About the day » Tuesday June 20, 1871Calender converter

• Adriana Elisabeth Fens, Tilburg,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1871)
• Alfred Marois, St-Gilles-de-Beaurivage, Lotbinière, Québec, Canada († 1954)
• Anna Maria Geertruid Leunissen, Maastricht († 1871)
• Alfred Herbert Oliphant Stewart, Taupiri, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand († 1934)
• Albert HOLLENBERG, Heerhugowaard
• Adriaan Bastiaan de Groot, Hoogblokland († 1871)
• Alewijn Bikker, Leerbroek, Zederik, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne van Tuinen, Jorwerd (gem. Leeuwarden) († 1877)
• Alewijn BIKKER, Leerbroek († 1925)
• Albert H. Savery, Nebraska

• Aantje Arbeider (0), Kampen gemeente Kampen Overijssel
• Arnoldus Knipsadeler (76), Maastricht
• Arie Augustinus van Driel (0), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annegien Derks (32), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alewijn Horden (1), Nieuwland, Gemeente Zederik, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje Cornelia HOOGENBOEZEM (0), Lekkerkerk (Z.-H.), Neth
• Aart Willemsen (0), Putten
• Arend Hendriks Bosma (32), Ooststellingwerf
• Adrianus Johannes van Seters (0), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aleida Margaretha Galesloot (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1860 » Alexander Winton, Scottish-American race car driver and engineer († 1932)
• 1860 » Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach († 1937)
• 1861 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1865 » George Redmayne Murray, English biologist and physician († 1939)
• 1866 » James Burns, English cricketer († 1957)
• 1869 » Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group († 1956)
• 1870 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter and academic († 1943)
• 1872 » George Carpenter, American 5th General of The Salvation Army († 1948)
• 1875 » Reginald Punnett, English geneticist, statistician, and academic († 1967)
• 1882 » Daniel Sawyer, American golfer († 1937)

• 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)
• 1869 » Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese commander (b. 1835)
• 1870 » Jules de Goncourt, French historian and author (b. 1830)
• 1872 » Élie Frédéric Forey, French general (b. 1804)
• 1875 » Joseph Meek, American police officer and politician (b. 1810)
• 1888 » Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player (b. 1842)
• 1906 » John Clayton Adams, English painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 » Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
• March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
• March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
• September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.

The temperature on June 20, 1871 was about 11.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 90%.