Famous Deaths on 20 May

Famous Deaths on 20 May

1277 - Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
1285 - John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259)
1444 - Saint Bernardino of Siena, Italian Franciscan missionary (b. 1380)
1503 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463)
1506 - Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
1550 - Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510)
1622 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1604)
1648 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
1677 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)
1713 - Thomas Sprat, English writer (b. 1635)
1717 - John Trevor, British statesman (b. 1637)
1722 - Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist (b. 1669)
1732 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
1782 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1793 - Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720)
1825 - Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788)
1834 - Gilbert du Motier, French statesman (b. 1757)
1841 - Joseph Blanco White, British theologian (b. 1775)
1873 - Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814)
1896 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
1909 - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
1917 - Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887)
1917 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
1940 - Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1946 - Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871)
1947 - Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)
1956 - Max Beerbohm, English theater critic (b. 1872)
1961 - Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915)
1971 - Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904)
1973 - Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
1975 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (b. 1903)
1976 - Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
1976 - Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party, and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz "disappeared"
1989 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
1989 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
1992 - Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1996 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (b. 1919)
2000 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
2000 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
2001 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920)
2002 - Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941)
2005 - Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913)
2005 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918)
2007 - Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
2008 - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
685 - King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)