Notable Deaths on May 20th
May 20th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
685 |
King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645) |
1277 |
John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Portuguese Pope (1276-77), dies. (b. 1215) |
1285 |
John II of Jerusalem, King of Cyprus (b. 1259) |
1444 |
Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63 |
1449 |
Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies |
1471 |
Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies |
1503 |
Lorenzo de Medici, Italian patron (b. 1463) |
1506 |
Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55 |
1509 |
Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45 |
1550 |
Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun (b. 1510) |
1597 |
Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle |
1622 |
Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies |
1648 |
Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies |
1650 |
Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44 |
1669 |
Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies |
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) |
1751 |
Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38 |
1782 |
Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68 |
1782 |
Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82 |
1782 |
William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701) |
1793 |
Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist (b. 1720) |
1795 |
Ignác Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded |
1825 |
Papaflessas, Greek priest and government official (b. 1788) |
1834 |
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies |
1834 |
Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies |
1841 |
Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies |
1847 |
Mary Lamb, writer, dies |
1864 |
John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 |
1873 |
Sir George-Étienne Cartier, French-Canadian statesman (b. 1814) |
1875 |
Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58 |
1876 |
Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old |
1876 |
Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies |
1880 |
Eugene LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at 76 |
1883 |
William Chambers, author/publisher, dies |
1888 |
Christian Molbech, Heart of an Actress |
1896 |
Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76 |
1896 |
Clara Schumann, Management |
1900 |
Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80 |
1909 |
Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859) |
1910 |
Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88 |
1911 |
E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies |
1917 |
Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850) |
1917 |
Valentine Fleming, Scottish politician (b. 1887) |
1919 |
Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies |
1923 |
Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies |
1926 |
Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for England 1892), dies |
1926 |
Harry Leighton, The Dragon |
1929 |
Adolf Lindfors, Rautakylän vanha parooni |
1932 |
William Shepherd Benson, Victory |
1932 |
Emilie Melville, The White Sister |
1932 |
Bubber Miley, The Cotton Club |
1935 |
Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68 |
1935 |
Ivans, De man op den achtergrond |
1935 |
Robert Ellis, The Return of Chandu |
1936 |
Nick Cogley, Bangville Police |
1939 |
Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59 |
1940 |
Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies |
1940 |
Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies |
1940 |
Francis Palmer Tilton, The Dark Angel |
1940 |
Sibyl Harris, All This, and Heaven Too |
1940 |
Verner von Heidenstam, Father Bom |
1941 |
Veda Buckland, The Right to Love |
1941 |
Fred Behrle, Bill Peter's Kid |
1942 |
Sasa Dobrovolná, Syn hor |
1943 |
S. Hillkowitz, Que Viva Mexico |
1944 |
Vincent Rose, The Aviator |
1945 |
Robert Newhard, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1946 |
Jacob Ellehammer, Danish inventor (b. 1871) |
1946 |
Emil Frey, Heimat lebenslänglich |
1947 |
Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862) |
1948 |
Heinz Stieda, Hamlet |
1949 |
Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890) |
1949 |
George Christie, Sowers and Reapers |
1949 |
Frank Testera, Modern Times |
1952 |
Constance Byström, Modärna fruar |
1952 |
Evelyn Dockson, The Valley of Decision |
1952 |
Harry D. Brown, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1954 |
S. Taryan, Gikor |
1954 |
Hans von Wolzogen, Sprengbagger 1010 |
1955 |
Anna Svierkier, Day of Wrath |
1955 |
Aleksey Vatulya, Conquest of Peter the Great |
1956 |
Andre Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies |
1956 |
Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies |
1956 |
André Charlot, Summer Storm |
1956 |
Max Beerbohm, Nobody Said Anything |
1956 |
Harry Stewart, Fie, Fie, Fifi |
1957 |
James Dunne, The Skating Master |
1957 |
Penrhyn Stanlaws, Singed Wings |
1957 |
Harry D. Kerr, The Wedding March |
1957 |
David Thompson, An Elusive Diamond |
1959 |
Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60 |
1959 |
Cecil Brunner, The Noose |
1960 |
Paul Clark, Boy Meets Girl |
1961 |
Josef "Pips" Priller, German fighter ace (b. 1915) |
1961 |
Josef Priller, The Longest Day |
1961 |
Will Dugal, Heart of Stone |
1963 |
Gene Holland, Song of the South |
1964 |
Douglas Parkhirst, Early Frost |
1965 |
Evgeniy Ivanov-Barkov, Under Sunny Skies |
1968 |
Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies |
1968 |
Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91 |
1969 |
Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64 |
1969 |
Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69 |
1971 |
Waldo Williams, Welsh poet (b. 1904) |
1972 |
Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78 |
1972 |
Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75 |
1973 |
Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945) |
1973 |
Salomon Hedberg, Barnen från Frostmofjället |
1974 |
Tristan Rawson, Away in a Manger |
1974 |
Dennis Quinn, The Case of the Resolute Reformer |
1975 |
Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72 |
1975 |
Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62 |
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" |
1980 |
Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies |
1980 |
Walter Tasca, Encruzilhada |
1981 |
Noboru Nakamura, Portrait of Chieko |
1982 |
Frank A. Richards, Buck Privates Come Home |
1982 |
Baby Early Gorman, The Gift of the Fairies |
1983 |
Harry Keaton, Three Pairs of Stockings |
1983 |
Albert Johannes, Murderers Among Us |
1983 |
Roger Lucchesi, Song of the Clouds |
1984 |
Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72 |
1984 |
Laurence Schwab Jr., Curtain Call |
1984 |
Oscar Schisgall, The Man I Married |
1984 |
Peter Bull, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
1985 |
George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46 |
1985 |
Ben Hall, Algiers |
1985 |
George Memmoli, Rocky |
1986 |
Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78 |
1986 |
Willem Pee, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83 |
1986 |
Károly Szigeti, Electra, My Love |
1986 |
Verna Kornman, Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm |
1986 |
Helen Taussig, |
1986 |
Stephen Carr, Little Old New York |
1986 |
Fritz Moegle, Lulu |
1987 |
Otto Carlmar, Fools in the Mountains |
1987 |
George Shibata, Pork Chop Hill |
1988 |
Dick Jacobs, Matinee |
1988 |
Robert Noe, Jigsaw |
1988 |
László Somogyi, Úri muri |
1988 |
Agustín De Figueroa, Sortilegio |
1988 |
Tom Lewis, Cause for Alarm! |
1989 |
Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70 |
1989 |
Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42 |
1989 |
John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies |
1989 |
Gilda Radner, Haunted Honeymoon |
1989 |
Erzsébet Galgóczi, Another Way |
1989 |
Peter Evans, Arthur |
1989 |
James Z. Flaster, Bye Bye Birdie |
1989 |
Anton Diffring, Fahrenheit 451 |
1989 |
Lyn Murray, To Catch a Thief |
1989 |
Esko Vettenranta, The Stranger |
1989 |
Pavel Jurácek, Daisies |
1990 |
Gilbert Wilson, You're the One |
1990 |
Peter Rabe, The Joker's Last Laugh |
1991 |
Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65 |
1991 |
Silvij Kobal, A Cormoran |
1991 |
Julian Orbon, The Damned United |
1991 |
Terence Baker, The Hireling |
1992 |
Roger Keith Coleman, American convict |
1992 |
Guy Singer, Leonard Cohen: Live in London |
1993 |
Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77 |
1993 |
Kauko Laurikainen, Sissit |
1994 |
Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79 |
1994 |
Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83 |
1994 |
Vivien John, artist, dies at 79 |
1994 |
Dorothy Neumann, The Terror |
1994 |
Michael Cruz, Mean Creek |
1994 |
Ingrid Hafner, Five to One |
1994 |
Jerry Devine, Damaged Hearts |
1994 |
Bartine Burkett, Her Ambition |
1994 |
Jack L. Richards, The Beast Within |
1994 |
Mike Westenskow, Teenage Bonnie and Klepto Clyde |
1995 |
Ingrid Bergman, Fanny and Alexander |
1995 |
Munawar Sultana, Pheray |
1995 |
Ulysses Kay, The Quiet One |
1995 |
Jakob Hermann, The Woolen Stocking Peddler |
1995 |
Milan Mach, Adéla jeste nevecerela |
1996 |
Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65 |
1996 |
George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96 |
1996 |
Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37 |
1996 |
Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies |
1996 |
John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76 |
1996 |
Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70 |
1996 |
Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 |
1996 |
Dean Harens, General Hospital |
1996 |
Willi Daume, Olympia - Olympia |
1996 |
Eric Davidson, The Dave Allen Show |
1996 |
Edgard Franco, Na Violência do Sexo |
1996 |
Jean-Jacques Delbo, The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse |
1996 |
Jon Pertwee, The Five Doctors |
1997 |
Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies |
1997 |
Roland Amstutz, I as in Icarus |
1997 |
John Rawlins, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror |
1998 |
Ricardo Franco, Lucky Star |
1998 |
Montie Montana, The Circle of Death |
1998 |
Santiago Álvarez, 79 primaveras |
1998 |
Ernest Sarracino, The Hudsucker Proxy |
1998 |
Wolf Mankowitz, Casino Royale |
1999 |
Christine Cabanne, The Flying Deuces |
1999 |
William Alfred, Hogan's Goat |
1999 |
Roberto Talice, The Cat |
1999 |
Tôru Yuri, After Life |
2000 |
Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922) |
2000 |
Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970) |
2000 |
Michael Farrell, The Grasscutter |
2000 |
Juliusz Grabowski, Petla |
2000 |
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jean-Pierre Rampal |
2000 |
Edward Bernds, Return of the Fly |
2000 |
Malik Sealy, Eddie |
2001 |
Renato Carosone, Italian musician (b. 1920) |
2001 |
Christopher Gorman, Heartbreak Ridge |
2001 |
Lionel Decker, Ed Wood |
2001 |
Renato Carosone, Raging Bull |
2002 |
Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (b. 1941) |
2002 |
Sidney Fine, Lady and the Tramp |
2002 |
Sándor Kónya, Büdingen |
2002 |
Attila Tyll, Utazás a holdba |
2002 |
Danny O'Neil, Stars on Parade |
2002 |
Stephen Jay Gould, Lisa the Skeptic |
2002 |
Jerry Dunphy, Independence Day |
2002 |
Jesús de Armas, El cowboy |
2003 |
Howard 'Sandman' Sims, Harlem Nights |
2003 |
Walter Höllerer, Germany Pale Mother |
2003 |
Paul Hagen, Soldaterkammerater |
2003 |
Lou Steenbergen, Koeboe de Koe |
2003 |
John F. Schreyer, Suddenly |
2004 |
Lord Murray of Epping Forest, British labour politician and union leader, dies of emphysema and pneumonia at 82 |
2004 |
David Gould, Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer |
2004 |
Phyllis Yuse, Gaslight |
2004 |
Stanislaw Gronkowski, Zobaczymy sie w niedziele |
2004 |
Claire Wilbur, Score |
2004 |
Gary Ballman, New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles |
2004 |
Len Murray, A Progress Through Politics |
2005 |
Paul Ricoeur, French philosopher (b. 1913) |
2005 |
William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (b. 1918) |
2005 |
Paul Ricoeur, Philosophie et vérité |
2005 |
J.D. Cannon, Cool Hand Luke |
2005 |
Tino Pascali, Chronicle of a Boy Alone |
2005 |
Harriet Medin, The Terminator |
2005 |
Marie E. Johnston, Frank and Ollie |
2006 |
Tommy Watt, The Night We Got the Bird |
2006 |
Miodrag Jovanovic, Video sam - Video si |
2006 |
Hedwig Hoefmans, Bert & Bertje |
2006 |
Abram S. Ginnes, Ain't We Got Fun |
2006 |
J.W.A. Buyers, Then There Were None |
2006 |
Zoe Rae, The Star Prince |
2006 |
Anna Ciepielewska, Passenger |
2006 |
Sanaa Younes, September 11 |
2006 |
Bennah Burton-Burtt, From Beyond |
2007 |
Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914) |
2007 |
Mario Mazzone, Episode dated 7 October 2005 |
2007 |
Wolfgang Gasser, The Inheritors |
2007 |
William Peters, A Class Divided |
2007 |
Davis Simanis, Three to Dance |
2007 |
Ron Presson, Teenage Bride |
2007 |
Slim DeGrey, Wake in Fright |
2007 |
Pavel Hobl, Fantazie pro levou ruku a lidske svedomi |
2007 |
Ben Weisman, Se7en |
2007 |
Barbie Langmack, Winners Take All |
2007 |
Irv Zeiger, Funny Old Guys |
2007 |
Valentina Leonteva, Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi! |
2008 |
Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944) |
2008 |
Jeff Bodart, Y a pas d'âge pour s'aimer |
2008 |
Margot Boyd, Casualty Ward |
2008 |
Hamilton Jordan, Episode dated 30 October 2005 |
2008 |
Gabriel Byer, Fast Sofa |
2008 |
Gellért Raksányi, Episode #1.320 |
2008 |
Evelyn Moriarty, Movie Movie |
2008 |
Viktor Bortsov, Pokrov Gates |
2008 |
Ullastina Rettig, Frestelse |
2008 |
Joachim Erwin, Episode #1.2651 |
2009 |
Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect (b.1924) |
2009 |
Lucy Gordon, British model and actress (b. 1980) |
2009 |
Ivaylo Dzhambazov, Rezervat za rozovi pelikani |
2009 |
Oleg Yankovskiy, Nostalgia |
2009 |
Lucy Gordon, Spider-Man 3 |
2009 |
Arthur Erickson, Intersection |
2009 |
Randi Lindtner Næss, Den stundesløse |
2009 |
Tito Resendiz, El anillo |
2009 |
Simon Oates, The Terrornauts |
2010 |
Gesang, Bengawan solo |
2011 |
Randy Savage, American Pro-Wrestler (b. 1952) |
2011 |
Jack Totheroh, Chaplin |
2011 |
Steve Rutt, Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night |
2011 |
Noelle Atwood, Jackson Horn |
2011 |
Béla Bugár, Valahol Magyarországon |
2011 |
Randy Savage, Spider-Man |
2011 |
John Schuman, Stake Land |
2011 |
Wally Hooper Jr., Night School |
2011 |
Don Krim, Greed |
2011 |
Donald Krim, Bugs Bunny Superstar |
2012 |
Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60 |
2012 |
Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62 |
2012 |
Christoph Hemrich, Bruderliebe |
2012 |
Sultana Zaman, Joar Elo |
2012 |
Carrie Smith, Black and Blue |
2012 |
Robin Gibb, Good Will Hunting |
2012 |
Howard S. Richmond, John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick |
2012 |
Robert Nix, Lost in Translation |
2012 |
Raul Rojas, Flash of Color, Flash of Death |
2013 |
Harry Schuh, AFL-NFL World Championship Game |
2013 |
Ray Manzarek, The X Files |
2013 |
Laurent Goldztejn, Drôles d'oiseaux |
2013 |
Anders Eliasson, Lilya 4-Ever |
2013 |
Rupert Dilnott-Cooper, Episode #1.4 |
2014 |
Barbara Murray, Passport to Pimlico |
2014 |
Jeff Wood, The Blackness |
2014 |
Prince Rupert Loewenstein, The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon Tour '97-98 |
2014 |
Chris Winder, Angel Without Wings |
2014 |
Andrae Noel, Waters Rising |
2014 |
Arthur Gelb, Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film |
2015 |
Bob Belden, Analyze That |
2015 |
Deborah Latham, Good Night, and Good Luck. |
2015 |
Eileen Gray, Episode dated 24 July 2012 |
2015 |
Steve Snapp, The Officials for Miami losing the 2003 Fiesta Bowl |
2015 |
Andreja Blagojevic, Fiabe metropolitane |
2015 |
Sudha Shivpuri, Outsourced |
2015 |
Jackie Basehart, The Inglorious Bastards |
2015 |
Brian Cubbon, The Dark Department |
2015 |
Mary Ellen Trainor, Die Hard |
2015 |
Jan Prochyra, Fetysz |
2016 |
Marco Pannella, maverick Italian post-war politician, dies aged 86 |
2016 |
Morley Safer, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, dies aged 84 |
2016 |
Novelist and euthanasia advocate Gillian Mears dies aged 51 |
2016 |
Original Beastie Boys' member John Berry dies aged 52 |
2017 |
Bollywood's 'favourite mother' Reema Lagoo dies aged 59 |
2017 |
US war photographer Stanley Greene dies aged 68 |
2018 |
South Korea's LG Group chairman Koo Bon-moo dies at 73 |
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