July 20 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 940 – Ibn Muqla, Abbasid vizier and calligrapher (b. 885)
  • 985 – Antipope Boniface VII (b. 930)
  • 1031 – Robert II of France (b. 972)
  • 1156 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
  • 1160 – Peter Lombard, French theologian (b. 1096)
  • 1320 – Oshin, King of Armenia (b. 1282)
  • 1351 – Margareta Ebner, German nun (b. 1291)
  • 1387 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1356)
  • 1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (b. 1374)
  • 1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler (b. 1400)
  • 1454 – John II of Castile (b. 1405)
  • 1524 – Claude of France (b. 1499)
  • 1616 – Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier (b. 1550)
  • 1704 – Peregrine White, English-American farmer and soldier (b. 1620)
  • 1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
  • 1816 – Gavrila 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 (b. 1835)
  • 1908 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (b. 1881)
  • 1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
  • 1923 – Pancho Villa, Mexican general (b. 1878)
  • 1926 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, Soviet politician (b. 1877)
  • 1927 – Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
  • 1928 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
  • 1932 – René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
  • 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
  • 1941 – Lew Fields, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1867)
  • 1944 – Ludwig Beck, German general, part of 20 July plot (b. 1880)
  • 1944 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
  • 1945 – Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
  • 1951 – Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
  • 1951 – William, German Crown Prince (b. 1882)
  • 1953 – Dumarsais Estimé, Haitian politician, 33rd President of Haiti (b. 1900)
  • 1953 – Jan Struther, English author (b. 1901)
  • 1955 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1869)
  • 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, English politician (b. 1913)
  • 1972 – Geeta Dutt, Indian singer (b. 1930)
  • 1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
  • 1973 – Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
  • 1976 – Joseph Rochefort, American navy officer and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
  • 1977 – Gary Kellgren, American music producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
  • 1981 – Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
  • 1982 – Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
  • 1983 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
  • 1987 – Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 1989 – Forrest H. Anderson, American politician and judge, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)
  • 1990 – Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police chief (b. 1907)
  • 1993 – Vince Foster, American lawyer, Deputy White House Counsel (b. 1945)
  • 1998 – June Byers, American wrestler (b. 1922)
  • 1999 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
  • 2000 – Gregory Hill American writer (b. 1941)
  • 2001 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian activist (b. 1978)
  • 2003 – Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
  • 2004 – Lala Mara, Fijian politician (b. 1931)
  • 2004 – Scott Andrew Mink, American convicted murderer (b. 1963)
  • 2005 – James Doohan, Canadian actor (b. 1920)
  • 2005 – Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)
  • 2005 – Kayo Hatta, American director (b. 1958)
  • 2006 – Ted Grant, South African-English theorist, writer, and activist (b. 1913)
  • 2006 – Gérard Oury, French director and producer (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Tammy Faye Messner, American talk show host, singer, and author (b. 1942)
  • 2008 – Artie Traum, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1943)
  • 2009 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots) (b. 1957)
  • 2009 – Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist (b. 1922)
  • 2011 – Lucian Freud, German-English painter (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Alastair Burnet, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson, English politician (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Jack Davis, American hurdler (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Goldie Rogers, Canadian wrestler (b. 1950)
  • 2012 – Hisham Ikhtiyar, Syrian military officer (b. 1941)
  • 2012 – Sherman Pendergarst, American mixed martial artist (b. 1966)
  • 2012 – José Hermano Saraiva, Portuguese historian and jurist (b. 1919)
  • 2012 – Simon Ward, English actor (b. 1941)

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