Famous Deaths on 20 Apr

Famous Deaths on 20 Apr

1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
1643 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa
1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
1945 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899)
1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
1989 - Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
1991 - Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
1991 - Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)
1999 - Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
2006 - Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
2007 - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
2007 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
2008 - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)