December 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 217 – Pope Zephyrinus
• 860 – King Ethelbald of Wessex (b. 834)
• 910 – Alfonso III of Leon (b. 848)
• 1022 – Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)
• 1355 – Tsar Stefan Dušan of Serbia (b. 1308)
• 1494 – Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (b. 1434)
• 1524 – Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician (b. 1460)
• 1539 – Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)
• 1590 – Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
• 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)
• 1765 – Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV; father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X (b. 1729)
• 1768 – Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)
• 1783 – Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1729)
• 1786 – Hannah Ocuish, Native American convicted murderer (b. 1774)
• 1812 – Sacagawea, Native American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (b. 1788)
• 1856 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
• 1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)
• 1915 – Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (b. 1863)
• 1917 – Lucien Petit-Breton, French racing cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1921 – Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850)
• 1927 – Roshan Singh, Indian nationalist (date of birth unknown)
• 1929 – Émile Loubet, French statesman (b. 1838)
• 1935 – Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
• 1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
• 1938 – Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)
• 1941 – Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (b. 1887)
• 1954 – James Hilton, British author (b. 1900)
• 1956 – Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist (b. 1906)
• 1961 – Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
• 1961 – Earle Page, Australian politician (b. 1880)
• 1968 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 – Roy O. Disney, American entertainment industry executive (b. 1893)
• 1973 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
• 1974 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Richard J. Daley, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born American pianist (b. 1887)
• 1984 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1946)
• 1986 – Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
• 1988 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television executive (b. 1908)
• 1989 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Simone Beck, French chef (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
• 1994 – Dean Rusk, American diplomat (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)
• 1997 – Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
• 1998 – C. P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Hank Snow, Canadian singer (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladeshi statesman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese politician (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Bernard King, Australian chef and television personality (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber
• 2006 – Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer (b. 1970)
• 2006 – Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Piergiorgio Welby, Italian poet and activist (b.1945)
• 2007 – Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (b. 1990)
• 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)
• 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)