Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

Famous Deaths on 20 Dec

1022 - Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
1355 - Stefan Dušan, Serb king and tsar (b. 1308)
1494 - Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
1524 - Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician
1539 - Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer
1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)
1723 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)
1740 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
1768 - Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
1783 - Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
1812 - Sacagawea, American Shoshone explorer
1856 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1862 - Robert Knox
1917 - Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882)
1921 - Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
1929 - Émile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838)
1935 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1938 - Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850)
1941 - Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
1954 - James Hilton, British author (b. 1900)
1956 - Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906)
1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
1961 - Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1903)
1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
1976 - Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902)
1981 - Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (b. 1887)
1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
1986 - Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
1988 - Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908)
1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
1991 - Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
1991 - Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
1994 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
1996 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
1997 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
1997 - Denise Levertov, English-born poet (b. 1923)
1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
1998 - Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910)
1998 - Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
1999 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
1999 - Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)
2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906)
2005 - Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
2006 - Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer
2007 - Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
217 - Pope Zephyrinus
860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex
910 - Alfonso III of Leon