July 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 985 – Pope Boniface VII
• 1031 – King Robert II of France (b. 972)
• 1156 – Emperor Toba of Japan (b. 1103)
• 1160 – Peter Lombard, French theologian
• 1320 – King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)
• 1351 – Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)
• 1387 – Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (b. 1356)
• 1398 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, English noble (b. 1374)
• 1453 – Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
• 1454 – King John II of Castile (b. 1405)
• 1524 – Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)
• 1616 – Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier
• 1704 – Peregrine White, first English child born to the Pilgrims in the New World (b. 1620)
• 1752 – Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)
• 1816 – Gavrila Romanovich 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)
• 1922 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
• 1923 – Francisco "Pancho" Villa, Mexican rebel (b. 1878)
• 1926 – Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, Soviet law enforcement official (b. 1877)
• 1927 – King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)
• 1928 – Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet (b. 1896)
• 1932 – René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
• 1937 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)
• 1941 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
• 1944 – Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)
• 1944 – Ludwig Beck, German colonel general, part of July 20 Plot (b. 1880)
• 1945 – Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
• 1951 – Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, German prince (b. 1882)
• 1953 – Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)
• 1953 – Jan Struther, British 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)
• 1973 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)
• 1973 – Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
• 1976 – Joseph Rochefort, American Naval officer and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
• 1977 – Gary Kellgren, American music producer (b. 1939)
• 1982 – Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)
• 1983 – Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Herbert Jenkins, American law enforcement official (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)
• 1998 – June Byers, American professional wrestler (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2000 – Gregory Hill American writer (b. 1941)
• 2001 – Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (b. 1978)
• 2003 – Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess (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 film director (b. 1958)
• 2006 – Ted Grant, British Trotskyist (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Gérard Oury, French filmmaker (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist (b. 1942)
• 2008 – Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Mark Rosenzweig, American brain researcher (b. 1922)