Notable Deaths on December 20th
December 20th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
217 |
Pope Zephyrinus |
860 |
King Ethelbald of Wessex |
910 |
Alfonso III the Great, King of Leon, Galicia and Asturias, dies |
1022 |
Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) |
1073 |
Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies |
1355 |
Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies |
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) |
1632 |
Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed |
1676 |
John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 |
1679 |
Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 |
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) |
1749 |
Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies |
1768 |
Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) |
1783 |
Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 |
1793 |
Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 |
1798 |
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 |
1799 |
David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 |
1812 |
Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies |
1815 |
Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 |
1819 |
Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 |
1821 |
Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 |
1856 |
Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) |
1862 |
Robert Knox Scottish surgeon, anatomist and zoologist |
1875 |
Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 |
1876 |
Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US |
1903 |
Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 |
1909 |
Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 |
1916 |
Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 |
1916 |
William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 |
1917 |
Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (b. 1882) |
1917 |
Eric Campbell, The Immigrant |
1921 |
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850) |
1927 |
Courtice Pounds, The Broken Melody |
1929 |
Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 |
1929 |
Emile Loubet, Arrival and Departure of President Loubet |
1930 |
Samuel N. Niblack, Barnaby Lee |
1934 |
Frank Beal, The Inside of the White Slave Traffic |
1935 |
Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882) |
1935 |
André Dubosc, L'argent des pauvres |
1935 |
Will Haggar Jr., The Maid of Cefn Ydfa |
1935 |
Nicholas Brierley, Ned Kelly and His Gang |
1936 |
Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid |
1937 |
Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 |
1937 |
Erich Ludendorff, |
1938 |
Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (b. 1850) |
1939 |
Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide |
1941 |
Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887) |
1942 |
Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63 |
1942 |
Jean Gilbert, Die keusche Susanne |
1943 |
Yuri Tynyanov, Shinel |
1944 |
Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70 |
1944 |
Fritz Pfeffer, |
1944 |
David Howard, A Bit of Jade |
1944 |
Johnny Marvin, Shooting High |
1944 |
Merna Kennedy, The Circus |
1945 |
Charles Eady, cricketer (Tasmanian player for Aust 1896-1901), dies |
1946 |
Garland Finney, Jammin' the Blues |
1947 |
Luigi Chiarelli, Fireworks |
1947 |
Loulou Hégoburu, Coeurs perdus |
1948 |
C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85 |
1948 |
Ladha Ramji, cricketer (bro of Amar Singh, Test Ind 1933-34), dies |
1948 |
C. Aubrey Smith, Rebecca |
1948 |
Julie Lampe, Troll-Elgen |
1949 |
Royal Raymond, Powder River Gunfire |
1949 |
John Webb Dillon, The Veteran Mounted Police Horse |
1949 |
L.A. Blaisdell, Shoulder Arms |
1952 |
Heinrich Lilienfein, Der Stier von Olivera |
1952 |
Ivan Olbracht, Golet v údolí |
1952 |
Charles A. Post, Back Stage |
1953 |
Henry Horatio Dixon, Irish Biologist (cohesion-tension theory in plants), dies at 84 |
1954 |
Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80 |
1954 |
James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 |
1954 |
James Hilton, Mrs. Miniver |
1955 |
Gretchen Lederer, The Silent Lady |
1955 |
Jerome Hester, Words and Music |
1955 |
Ralph E. Dyar, A Voice in the Dark |
1956 |
Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (b. 1906) |
1957 |
Emil Pirchan, Der zeugende Tod |
1957 |
F.S. Colby, Shoulder Arms |
1957 |
Walter Page, Policy Man |
1958 |
Elisabeth Risdon, The Roaring Twenties |
1958 |
James Westheimer, Adolf Armstarke |
1960 |
Edwin Styles, The Dam Busters |
1961 |
Moss Hart, American dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57 |
1961 |
Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) |
1961 |
Herbert Grün, Lucija |
1961 |
Moss Hart, You Can't Take It With You |
1962 |
Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68 |
1962 |
Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75 |
1963 |
Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54 |
1963 |
Gustaw Morcinek, Czarne diamenty |
1965 |
Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 |
1968 |
Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 |
1968 |
John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), dies at 66 |
1968 |
Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 |
1971 |
Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78 |
1973 |
Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37 |
1973 |
Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA |
1973 |
Käthe von Nagy, Ave Maria |
1974 |
Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 |
1975 |
Vincent Lopez, orchestra leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 |
1975 |
William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 |
1976 |
Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 |
1976 |
Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80 |
1976 |
Walter Fitzgerald, Treasure Island |
1976 |
Ned Washington, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
1978 |
Valborg Neuchs, Lucky Journey |
1978 |
Ole Wisborg, Daddy, Darling |
1978 |
Dmitri Pokras, Traktoristy |
1979 |
Benny Davis, Edward Scissorhands |
1979 |
Italo Cremona, Carmela |
1979 |
Cliff Nordberg, Mary Poppins |
1980 |
Dagmar Olsson, Johan på Snippen tar hem spelet |
1980 |
Alice Barlow, Blood on the Sun |
1980 |
Ben Sharpsteen, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1980 |
Minoru Shibuya, The Unbalanced Wheel |
1981 |
Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899) |
1981 |
Abigail Maia, O Conde de Luxemburgo |
1982 |
Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95 |
1982 |
Artur Rubinstein, The Truman Show |
1982 |
Jane Arden, Separation |
1982 |
Vinicio Sofia, Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora! |
1983 |
John Vivyan, Imitation of Life |
1983 |
Husik Muradyan, Namus |
1983 |
Gwen Berryman, Gwen Berryman |
1983 |
Bill Brandt, Shadows from Light |
1984 |
Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946) |
1984 |
Dmitriy Ustinov, SF-katsaus 20 |
1984 |
Murl Deusing, The Vanishing Prairie |
1985 |
Elaine Baker, Henry's Social Splash |
1986 |
Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959) |
1986 |
Rossella Como, 8½ |
1986 |
Ranko Bradic, Bokseri idu u raj |
1986 |
Alicia Urueta, Ora sí tenemos que ganar |
1986 |
Alicia Urreta, Isle of the Snake People |
1986 |
Zoltán Greguss, A palacsintás király |
1986 |
Sonia Lancelotti, Cala a Boca, Etelvina |
1986 |
Penny Kunard, There's No Witch Like an Old Witch |
1987 |
Beta Ponicanová, Vlcie diery |
1987 |
Marianne Molander, Trots |
1987 |
Arkadi Rajkin, Lyudi i manekeny |
1987 |
Robert Blankshine, Coming Apart |
1988 |
Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 |
1988 |
Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer (b. 1908) |
1988 |
Roger Goupillières, Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine |
1988 |
Louis W. Kellman, School Daze |
1988 |
William H. O'Docharty, The Terror of Tiny Town |
1988 |
Max Robinson, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir |
1989 |
Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77 |
1989 |
Irina Radchenko, Dark Is the Night |
1989 |
Hector Camerlynck, The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short |
1989 |
Kurt Böhme, Elektra |
1990 |
Albert Mertz, Hjertetyven |
1990 |
Ben-Ghou-Bey, Forbidden Paris |
1990 |
Andrea Dunbar, Rita, Sue and Bob Too! |
1990 |
Stephen Southard, Jaws: The Revenge |
1991 |
Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies |
1991 |
Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies |
1991 |
Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 |
1991 |
Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 |
1991 |
Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54 |
1991 |
Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 |
1991 |
Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 |
1991 |
Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904) |
1991 |
Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942) |
1991 |
Simone Beck, |
1991 |
Helene Heigh, Monsieur Verdoux |
1991 |
Walter Chiari, Bellissima |
1992 |
Chanel Price, The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning |
1992 |
Steve Ross, Schindler's List |
1992 |
Peter Brocco, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1992 |
Károly Vogt, Episode #1.1 |
1993 |
Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64 |
1993 |
Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74 |
1993 |
W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 |
1993 |
Konstantin Karelskikh, Idealnyy muzh |
1993 |
Alex Taifer, In Search of Anna |
1993 |
Werner Troegner, Sein dunkler Punkt |
1993 |
Henrikas Kurauskas, Julius Janonis |
1993 |
Emil Tzanev, Like What I Was |
1993 |
Ted Allan, Bride of the Monster |
1993 |
Ruth Langdon, Her Bohemian Party |
1993 |
Wylie Draper, The Jacksons: An American Dream |
1993 |
Abner J. Greshler, At War with the Army |
1994 |
Dean Rusk, US Sect of State (1961-69), dies at 85 |
1994 |
J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75 |
1994 |
Dick Campbell, Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist |
1994 |
Dean Rusk, The Ten Thousand Day War |
1995 |
John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 |
1995 |
Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55 |
1995 |
Madge Sinclair, The Lion King |
1995 |
Pedro de Urdimalas, Ustedes, los ricos |
1995 |
Lee Gusta, Let's Kill All the Lawyers |
1995 |
Mary Dean, Lords of Dogtown |
1996 |
Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies |
1996 |
Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 |
1996 |
Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76 |
1996 |
Carl Sagan, Contact |
1996 |
Raymond Paul, Bonnie and Clyde |
1997 |
Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51 |
1997 |
Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 |
1997 |
Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 |
1997 |
Dawn Steel, City of Angels |
1997 |
Jûzô Itami, Tampopo |
1997 |
Turnley Walker, 5 Steps to Danger |
1997 |
Bosiljka Boci, Bezanje |
1998 |
Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1910) |
1998 |
Chester P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915) |
1998 |
John English, Birmingham '64 |
1998 |
Irene Hervey, Play Misty for Me |
1999 |
Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914) |
1999 |
Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909) |
1999 |
Manuel Berenguer, King of Kings |
1999 |
Riccardo Freda, Theodora, Slave Empress |
1999 |
Giorgio Ansoldi, La muta di Portici |
1999 |
Irving Rapper, Now, Voyager |
1999 |
Steve Vignari, Casino |
1999 |
Hank Snow, The Slaughter Rule |
1999 |
James Wainwright, Joe Kidd |
1999 |
Peter Garey, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop |
1999 |
Imre Eck, Pikkuporvarin seitsemän kuolemansyntiä |
2000 |
Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. 1920) |
2000 |
Miel Saan, Confessions of an Opium Eater |
2000 |
Mickey Mantle Jr., 61* |
2000 |
Landon Arnett, Around the World in Eighty Days |
2000 |
Trude Forsher, Elvis & June: A Love Story |
2000 |
Richard Hazard, Airplane II: The Sequel |
2001 |
Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912) |
2001 |
Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906) |
2001 |
Foster Brooks, Cannonball Run II |
2001 |
Jerzy Rosolowski, Kwiecien w Portugalii |
2001 |
Stephen F. Kesten, Conan the Destroyer |
2001 |
Leopold Senghor, Samba et Leuk le lièvre |
2001 |
Joan Wheeler, Radio Scout |
2001 |
Kôji Nanbara, Branded to Kill |
2001 |
Walter Joachim, Wilfrid Pelletier, chef d'orchestre et éducateur |
2001 |
Edward Evans, 10 Rillington Place |
2002 |
Jack W. Schoengarth, V |
2002 |
Bernard King, Fat Pizza |
2002 |
Yuri Vorontsov, Ty u menya odna |
2002 |
Sonny Carson, The Education of Sonny Carson |
2002 |
Sylvia Liggett, Thousands Cheer |
2002 |
Joanne Campbell, Alphabet Castle |
2002 |
John Walvoord, For Those Who Remain |
2003 |
Ray Crowe, Hoosiers |
2003 |
Mike Dana, Killer's Kiss |
2003 |
Scott Destefano, Home Improvement |
2003 |
Grigore Grigoriu, Queen of the Gypsies |
2003 |
Charles Randolph Grean, Gangster Squad |
2004 |
Howard Feuer, The Silence of the Lambs |
2004 |
Tony Van Bridge, Judge |
2004 |
Jack Newfield, JFK, Hoffa and the Mob |
2004 |
Geoffrey Harris, Episode #1.2 |
2004 |
Ondrej Polomský, Pacho, hybsky zbojnik |
2004 |
Arlon Ober, Child's Play |
2004 |
William J. Fisher, Young Guns II |
2004 |
Alexander Marshac, Ancient Astronomers |
2004 |
Liliane Maigné, Le Corbeau: The Raven |
2005 |
Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber |
2005 |
Argentina Brunetti, General Hospital |
2005 |
Andrzej Jurczak, Zagubione uczucia |
2005 |
Billy E. Hughes, Ole Rex |
2006 |
Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer |
2006 |
Jana Sheridan, Private Gold 88: The Click, Remote Sex Control |
2006 |
Andrew Spielman, Mummy on a Mission |
2006 |
Yukio Aoshima, Futari de hitori |
2006 |
Francis Koon, Thunder Road |
2006 |
Anne Rogers Clark, Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary |
2006 |
John Bishop, Drop Zone |
2006 |
Ma Ji, Jin tian wo xiu xi |
2006 |
Sharon 'Mae' West, Angel |
2007 |
Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990) |
2007 |
Tommy Byrne, Game 7 |
2007 |
Arabella Churchill, The Churchills |
2007 |
José Luis Pecker, Las diez de últimas |
2007 |
Antonio Basurto, Passione |
2007 |
Natalie Norwick, The Conscience of the King |
2007 |
Christian Bourgois, Romance |
2007 |
Billy Daydoge, Wagons East |
2007 |
Tokuzô Tanaka, New Tale of Zatoichi |
2007 |
Lydia Mendoza, Crazy Heart |
2007 |
Kazumi Tanaka, Akira |
2007 |
Gar Campbell, Fright Night Part 2 |
2007 |
Philip Freund, Eine Tote soll ermordet werden |
2007 |
Jeanne Carmen, Golfing with Demaret |
2008 |
Olga Lepeshinskaya, Kontsert frontu |
2008 |
Dorothy Sarnoff, Episode #2.8 |
2008 |
Adrian Mitchell, Man Friday |
2008 |
Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird |
2008 |
Kathy Wetherell, Outback Jack |
2008 |
Øystein Langeland, Kierlighed uden strømper |
2008 |
Danny Lester, Days of Thunder |
2009 |
Jack Hixon, English football talent scout (b. 1921) |
2009 |
Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977) |
2009 |
Arnold Stang, American comic actor (b. 1918) |
2009 |
Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian comedienne and actress (b. 1954) |
2009 |
Arnold Stang, Hercules in New York |
2009 |
Aleksandr Koznov, Priklyucheniya Kventina Dorvarda, strelka korolevskoy gvardii |
2009 |
Ned Hockman, Stark Fear |
2009 |
Ioannis Moralis, Yannis Moralis, Painter |
2009 |
James Gurley, Monterey Pop |
2009 |
Leonid Nitsenko, Zolushka v sapogakh |
2009 |
Tadeo Villalba, Patton |
2009 |
Lester Rodney, Joe Louis: America's Hero... Betrayed |
2009 |
Brittany Murphy, 8 Mile |
2010 |
Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (b. 1949) |
2010 |
Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (b. 1945) |
2010 |
James R. Mann, American attorney and politician (b. 1920) |
2010 |
Jean-Pierre LeLoir, The Miles Davis Story |
2010 |
Jacqueline Courtney, One Life to Live |
2010 |
Alena Ambrová, When the Stars Were Red |
2010 |
Steve Landesberg, Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
2010 |
Brian Hanrahan, Fall of the Wall |
2010 |
Vitali Bazin, Schaste Nikifora Bubnova |
2010 |
Patricia Thompson, |
2010 |
Donna Atwood, The Case of the Renegade Refugee |
2010 |
John Alldis, The Wakefield Shepherd's Play |
2010 |
Maurizio Marchesi, Bambole, non c'è una lira! |
2010 |
Robert Destain, The Big Restaurant |
2010 |
Wolfgang Kudrnofsky, Der Rabe |
2011 |
Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic, Neka druga zena |
2011 |
Stephen Douglass, Case of the Barefoot Girl |
2011 |
Yoshimitsu Morita, The Family Game |
2011 |
Madalena Sotto, The Balcony of the Nightingales |
2011 |
Sean Bonniwell, The Other Side of Madness |
2011 |
Leopold Unger, Cien. Wspomnienie o Jerzym Giedroyciu |
2012 |
Jimmy McCracklin, American pianist, dies from diabetes and hypertension at 91 |
2012 |
Tob de Bordes, Flodder |
2012 |
Italia Vaniglio, The Titbit |
2012 |
David Fetzer, Must Come Down |
2012 |
Jimmy McCracklin, It's Kind of a Funny Story |
2012 |
Matthew Kinne, Don't Give Up the Ship: The Tale of a Boy and a Boat |
2012 |
Telma Reston, Os sete Gatinhos |
2012 |
Gordon Cotler, Arabesque |
2012 |
Bronislav Krizan, David Sandel's Last Shot |
2012 |
Larry L. King, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas |
2013 |
Kenneth Wolger, The Mechanic |
2013 |
Reginaldo Rossi, Brazil Avenue |
2013 |
Nelly Omar, Canto de amor |
2013 |
Gyula Maár, Töredék |
2014 |
John Freeman, Professor Jung |
2014 |
Bob Bardo, Passions |
2014 |
Chip Young, Concrete Cowboys |
2014 |
Carlo Maria Pensa, Whisky a mezzogiorno |
2014 |
Vadim Dorofeev, A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries |
2014 |
Larry Auerbach, Another World |
2014 |
Lois Jewell, Bread and Circuses |
2014 |
Derek Rencher, Romeo and Juliet |
2015 |
The Times racing correspondent Alan Lee dies aged 61 |
2015 |
Jimmy Carter's grandson, Jeremy Carter, dies at 28 |
2016 |
UK's first openly gay rabbi, Lionel Blue, dies aged 86 |
2016 |
Oman's Quran Calligrapher Dies Aged 56 |
2017 |
Former senator Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen dies at age 97 |
2017 |
Disgraced US Cardinal Bernard Law dies aged 86 |
2017 |
'Scooby-Doo' voice actress Heather North dies, aged 71 |
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