August 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 535 – Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick
• 917 – Constantine Lips, Byzantine Admiral
• 984 – Pope John XIV
• 1384 – Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life (b. 1340)
• 1572 – Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502)
• 1580 – Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)
• 1611 – Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
• 1639 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld, German poet (b. 1597)
• 1643 – Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)
• 1648 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
• 1672 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1625)
• 1672 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (b. 1623)
• 1680 – William Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)
• 1701 – Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)
• 1707 – Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
• 1773 – Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)
• 1811 – Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
• 1823 – Pope Pius VII (b. 1740)
• 1825 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
• 1854 – Shiranui Dakuemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 8^th Yokozuna (b. 1801)
• 1887 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
• 1904 – René Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (b. 1846)
• 1912 – William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
• 1914 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835)
• 1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 – Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 – Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869)
• 1930 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer (b. 1851)
• 1961 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 – Jonathan Myrick Daniels, American activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 – Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
• 1980 – Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
• 1982 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
• 1986 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923)
• 1989 – George Adamson, India-born English game warden and lion expert (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Rio Reiser, German rock musician and singer (b. 1950)
• 1997 – Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Léon Dion, French-Canadian political scientist (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981)
• 2005 – Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Cpl Bryan Budd VC, British soldier (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Larry Hartsell, American martial artist, bodyguard, trainer, student of Bruce Lee and Dan Inosanto (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Ed "Too Tall" Freeman, former U.S. Army helicopter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (b. 1940)