Famous Deaths on December 20, Who Died on December 20
Here is a list who died on December 20. Famous deaths for the 20th of December. See which celebrities, musicians, actors, historical figures, scientists and other famous people were died on December 20. Also you can find some answers for the following questions;
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1295 | Margaret of Provence, French queen (b. 1221) |
| 1326 | Peter of Moscow, Russian metropolitan bishop |
| 1340 | John I, duke of Bavaria (b. 1329) |
| 1355 | Stefan Dušan, emperor of Serbia (b. 1308) |
| 1539 | Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506) |
| 1552 | Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499) |
| 1590 | Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510) |
| 1658 | Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580) |
| 1722 | Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654) |
| 1723 | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652) |
| 1740 | Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675) |
| 1765 | Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729) |
| 1768 | Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692) |
| 1783 | Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729) |
| 1812 | Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788) |
| 1820 | John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750) |
| 1856 | Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820) |
| 1862 | Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791) |
| 1880 | Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797) |
| 1893 | George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840) |
| 1915 | Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863) |
| 1916 | Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856) |
| 1917 | Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882) |
| 1919 | Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835) |
| 1920 | Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863) |
| 1921 | Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852) |
| 1927 | Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872) |
| 1929 | Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838) |
| 1937 | Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865) |
| 1938 | Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850) |
| 1939 | Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894) |
| 1941 | Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887) |
| 1950 | Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885) |
| 1954 | James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900) |
| 1956 | Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906) |
| 1959 | Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885) |
| 1961 | Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904) |
| 1968 | John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) |
| 1971 | Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893) |
| 1972 | Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888) |
| 1973 | Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904; assassinated) |
| 1974 | Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (b. 1896) |
| 1976 | Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902) |
| 1981 | Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899) |
| 1982 | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887) |
| 1984 | Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933) |
| 1986 | Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959) |
| 1991 | Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904) |
| 1993 | W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900) |
| 1994 | Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909) |
| 1995 | Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938) |
| 1996 | Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934) |
| 1997 | Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923) |
| 1998 | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| 1999 | Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909) |
| 2001 | Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906) |
| 2005 | Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923) |
| 2006 | Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929) |
| 2008 | Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932) |
| 2009 | Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
| 2010 | James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
| 2011 | Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926) |
| 2012 | Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
| 2013 | Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930) |
| 2014 | Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
| 2020 | Fanny Waterman, British pianist (b. 1920) |
| 2022 | Franco Harris, American football player (b. 1950) |
| 217 | Zephyrinus, pope of the Catholic Church |
| 910 | Alfonso III, king of Asturias |
| 977 | Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Japanese statesman (b. 925) |
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