Famous Deaths on 20 Jul

Famous Deaths on 20 Jul

1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)
1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian
1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)
1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)
1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)
1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)
1866 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826)
1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)
1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)
1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835)
1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)
1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
1928 - Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
1932 - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)
1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1956 - James Alexander Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)
1969 - Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
1970 - Iain Macleod, Conservative Party Politician and Chancellor of Exchequer at time of his death (b. 1913)
1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
1973 - Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
1977 - Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
1987 - Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
1998 - June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
2000 - Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (b. 1941)
2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)
2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)
2006 - Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
2006 - Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
2007 - Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
2008 - Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
985 - Pope Boniface VII