Famous Deaths on 20 Feb

Famous Deaths on 20 Feb

1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 - King Tancred of Sicily
1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1790 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
1862 - William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
1905 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
1941 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1965 - Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
1968 - Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1972 - Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
1976 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1981 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1984 - Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
1985 - Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
1992 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1996 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 - Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 - Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 - Larry Davis (criminal)
702 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)