October 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
• 1139 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
• 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
• 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
• 1640 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
• 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
• 1713 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
• 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
• 1842 – Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
• 1865 – Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (b. 1821)
• 1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish composer (b. 1808)
• 1890 – Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
• 1900 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
• 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
• 1910 – David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
• 1926 – Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
• 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
• 1940 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (b. 1885)
• 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (b. 1916)
• 1964 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 – Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
• 1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
• 1977 – Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:

• Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
• Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
• Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)

• 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1983 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
• 1983 – Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
• 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
• 1989 – Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1990 – Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (b. 1926)
• 1993 – Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
• 2002 – Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Miodrag Petrović, Serbian actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
• 2005 – Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
• 2006 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2007 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine) (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)