Notable Deaths on August 20th
August 20th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
535 |
Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick |
984 |
John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies |
1153 |
Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies |
1384 |
Geert Groote, Dutch founder of the Brethren of the Common Life, dies at 43 |
1538 |
Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake |
1572 |
Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) |
1580 |
Jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506) |
1632 |
Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 |
1639 |
Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 |
1643 |
Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher, killed in Native American uprising (b. 1591) |
1648 |
Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65 |
1672 |
Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49 |
1672 |
Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched |
1679 |
Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 |
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) |
1799 |
Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37 |
1804 |
Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition |
1811 |
Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729) |
1813 |
Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74 |
1823 |
Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83 |
1825 |
Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68 |
1825 |
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753) |
1854 |
Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 |
1854 |
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling, Hölderlin-Comics |
1856 |
Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80 |
1864 |
Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies |
1864 |
John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24 |
1885 |
Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42 |
1887 |
Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) |
1887 |
Jules Laforgue, Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) |
1890 |
Frederick H. Hedge, Shenandoah |
1908 |
Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64 |
1910 |
Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64 |
1912 |
William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies |
1912 |
William Booth, General and Staff Leaving Strand Hall |
1914 |
Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies |
1914 |
Pope Pius X, His Holiness, the Late Pope Pius X, and the Vatican |
1915 |
Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61 |
1915 |
William H. West, The Dream Seekers |
1917 |
JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies |
1919 |
Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies |
1919 |
Greg MacGregor, England cricketer (b. 1869) |
1920 |
Salvador Rosich, El fusilamiento de Dorrego |
1925 |
Jakob Christoph Heer, Eternal Love |
1925 |
Erzsi B. Marton, Farsangi mámor |
1930 |
Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies |
1931 |
Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64 |
1932 |
Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87 |
1932 |
Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59 |
1932 |
Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60 |
1932 |
Peter Lang, Pete Tries the Stage |
1932 |
Paul Keller, Sohn ohne Heimat |
1935 |
Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56 |
1935 |
Leo Donnelly, Broadway Gossip No. 3 |
1935 |
Otakar Ostrcil, Poupe |
1935 |
Laura Mogensen, Paustians Uhr |
1935 |
Edith Roberts, The Age of Innocence |
1936 |
Hjalmar V. Pohjanheimo, Sunnuntaimetsästäjät |
1938 |
Edward O'Neill, The Mirage |
1940 |
Leon Trotsky, The Assassination of Trotsky |
1941 |
R. Henderson Bland, From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of Nazareth |
1942 |
Walter Serner, The Tigress |
1942 |
Rudolph Spielmann, Chess Fever |
1942 |
Manfred Voss, Der Fremdenlegionär |
1943 |
Charles Schwanenflügel, Fristerinden |
1944 |
Alberto Quintero Álvarez, The Balloon of Cantoya |
1944 |
George A. McDaniel, Two Kinds of Love |
1944 |
Hans Fischinger, Dance of the Colors |
1945 |
A Roda Roda, writer, dies at 73 |
1945 |
Roda-Roda, Der falsche Feldmarschall |
1946 |
Rags Ragland, Anchors Aweigh |
1946 |
Paul Leyssac, Arise, My Love |
1947 |
Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79 |
1948 |
David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65 |
1949 |
Estelle Short, There Is No Place Like Home |
1952 |
Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies |
1952 |
Gusztáv Pártos, Lonesome |
1952 |
Henry Mortimer, Her Great Price |
1953 |
Harold Clandenning, Tarzan and the Huntress |
1956 |
William Lally, The Super Snooper |
1957 |
Kazimiera Horbowska, Zlota maska |
1957 |
Jack O'Neil, Otto the Hero |
1958 |
Joe Novak, The Vanishing Legion |
1959 |
Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82 |
1959 |
Edith Blythe, |
1959 |
Maceo Bruce Sheffield, Lady Luck |
1960 |
Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68 |
1961 |
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82 |
1961 |
Gwen Lee, Laugh, Clown, Laugh |
1962 |
Charles Maxwell, Charlie Chan at the Opera |
1962 |
J. Frank Holliday, The Strong Man |
1963 |
Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879) |
1964 |
Mary Elizabeth Forbes, A Child in Judgment |
1967 |
Walter Krueger, Universal Newsreel |
1968 |
Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69 |
1970 |
Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86 |
1971 |
Rashid Minhas, Pakistani Air Force pilot (b. 1951) |
1974 |
Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62 |
1976 |
Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69 |
1978 |
Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51 |
1978 |
Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86 |
1978 |
Helge Norél, Red Meadows |
1980 |
Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91 |
1980 |
Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938) |
1980 |
Yuri Lavrov, Bolshaya zhizn |
1980 |
Sherman A. Harris, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold |
1980 |
Joe Dassin, The Darjeeling Limited |
1980 |
Naemi Briese, Summer with Monika |
1982 |
Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53 |
1982 |
Libuse Freslová, Vlcí jáma |
1982 |
Ulla Jacobsson, Zulu |
1982 |
Václav Voska, Mord in Frankfurt |
1982 |
James M. Walters Sr., The Blue Dahlia |
1982 |
Edward Ludwig, The Fighting Seabees |
1983 |
Kerwin Duinmeijer, Dutch of Antillean descent, murdered by in a racially motivated attack at 15 |
1983 |
Gerhard von Graevenitz, The Film of the Authority |
1983 |
Emil Martonffi, Egy bolond százat csinál |
1983 |
Karin Haage, Graaf Foto en de Fotograaf |
1984 |
Aleksandr Ivanov, Zhurnal politsatiry No. 2 |
1985 |
Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists |
1986 |
Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76 |
1986 |
Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63 |
1986 |
Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71 |
1986 |
Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (b. 1923) |
1986 |
Milton Acorn, In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet |
1986 |
Barbara Bartay, One Spooky Night |
1986 |
Henry Adams, God's Little Acre |
1986 |
Donn Bennett, The Big Idea |
1986 |
Edward Howell, Careful, He Might Hear You |
1986 |
Walter Brooke, The Graduate |
1987 |
Winifred Bryson, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1987 |
Filip Jánský, Riders in the Sky |
1988 |
Ken Knox, The Giant Gila Monster |
1988 |
Roger Briaucourt, Mr. Hulot's Holiday |
1988 |
Milorad Spasojevic, Mount of Lament |
1988 |
Chris Gittins, Fresh as Paint |
1988 |
Leon McAuliffe, Wyoming Hurricane |
1989 |
Henry Brock, The Big Broad |
1989 |
Erling Dalsborg, We Are All Demons |
1989 |
H.B. Halicki, Gone in Sixty Seconds |
1989 |
Kitty Menendez, |
1989 |
Joseph LaShelle, The Apartment |
1989 |
Jose Menendez, |
1989 |
José Menéndez, Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw |
1989 |
George Adamson, Christian the Lion |
1990 |
Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies |
1990 |
Tim Barrett, The Mummy's Shroud |
1990 |
Safiye Filiz, Hak asiklari |
1990 |
Rudi Gellesch, Das große Spiel |
1991 |
Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86 |
1991 |
Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90 |
1991 |
Herbert Ferber, Masters of Modern Sculpture Part III: The New World |
1991 |
Don Henderson, The Stringybark Massacre |
1991 |
Irving A. Feinberg, The City on the Edge of Forever |
1991 |
Leonore Gershwin, Porgy and Bess |
1992 |
Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59 |
1992 |
William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53 |
1992 |
Kathryn Harte, |
1992 |
Jerzy Januszewicz, Zólw |
1993 |
Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80 |
1993 |
Jean Dean, The Pirate |
1993 |
Sydney Arnold, The Crimson Permanent Assurance |
1993 |
Jurica Dijakovic, The Siege |
1993 |
Friedrich Meyer, Erfolg |
1993 |
Nélio Pinheiro, O Jeca e a Freira |
1994 |
Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65 |
1994 |
Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81 |
1994 |
Júlia Osváth, Erkel |
1994 |
Aleksandar Petrovic, I Even Met Happy Gypsies |
1994 |
Odessa Clay, When We Were Kings |
1995 |
Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68 |
1995 |
John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63 |
1995 |
Paul Foster, singer, dies at 75 |
1995 |
Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64 |
1995 |
Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56 |
1995 |
William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76 |
1995 |
Red Rhodes, Nesmith Live |
1995 |
Viktor Dombrovsky, Khovanschina |
1995 |
Giorgio Sciommer, The Visit |
1995 |
Jirí Lír, Amadeus |
1995 |
Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese in Siberia |
1995 |
Mary Ellen Gaines, Donna Summer: From Disco to Diva |
1995 |
Maly Delschaft, The Last Laugh |
1996 |
George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81 |
1996 |
Rio Reiser, rock singer, dies at 46 |
1996 |
Rio Reiser, Der Pott |
1996 |
Michael Tamburro, Die Hard 2 |
1997 |
Norris Bradbury, American physicist (b. 1909) |
1997 |
Ibrahim Seck, Madame Rosa |
1997 |
Bill Mitchell, You Only Live Twice |
1997 |
Leo Jaffe, Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker |
1997 |
William Humphrey, Home from the Hill |
1998 |
Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915) |
1998 |
António Assunção, The House of the Spirits |
1998 |
Norman Symonds, The Taming of the Shrew |
1998 |
Hayde Chikly, The Girl from Carthage |
1998 |
Ewa Zdzieszynska, W domu |
1998 |
Eddie Shipstad, The Ice Follies of 1939 |
1998 |
Kazimierz Dziewanowski, Droga na zachód |
1999 |
Johannes Claerbout, Held |
1999 |
Bobby Sheehan, Blues Traveler: Live - Thinnest of Air |
1999 |
Margaret Wright, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter |
2000 |
David Hood, Criminal Law |
2000 |
Mitch Halpern, Play It to the Bone |
2000 |
Silvio Francesco, Episode #1.8 |
2000 |
Lillie Claus, Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. |
2000 |
Becky Klabin, Tempo de Viver |
2000 |
Patti Zimmitti, Good Will Hunting |
2000 |
Christopher Burkott, Good Advice |
2001 |
Sir Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915) |
2001 |
Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925) |
2001 |
Lasse Aaltio, Mallorcalainen rapsodia |
2001 |
Fred Hoyle, A for Andromeda |
2001 |
Luiz Carlos Vinhas, Roleta Russa |
2001 |
Kim Stanley, The Right Stuff |
2001 |
Barnett Shaw, Mars Needs Women |
2001 |
Walter Reed, Seven Men from Now |
2001 |
Kikue Môri, Ugetsu |
2002 |
John Willett, Baal |
2002 |
Christopher Columbus, Moon Over Harlem |
2002 |
Ross Sturlin, Night of the Blood Beast |
2002 |
Rod Allin, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom |
2003 |
Andrew Ray, The Mudlark |
2003 |
Buck Henshaw, Black Widow |
2003 |
César Alvarez Blanco, La burrerita de Ypacaraí |
2003 |
Jack Konzal, The Cycle Savages |
2003 |
Brianne Murphy, Square Pegs |
2004 |
Leslie Shepard, Service for Southend |
2004 |
Elberta Hunter, Red Headed Stranger |
2004 |
María Antonieta Pons, La hija del penal |
2004 |
Hilda Allen, Falling in Love Again |
2005 |
Thomas Herrion, American football player (b. 1981) |
2005 |
Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970) |
2005 |
Clifford Williams, The Comedy of Errors |
2005 |
Jenõ Korcsmáros, Devictus Vincit |
2005 |
Robert Allen, If Looks Could Kill |
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 (Afghanistan) (b. 1977) |
2006 |
Alexander Cushing, Episode #5.4 |
2006 |
Giuseppe Moccia, Il soldato di ventura |
2006 |
Roger Donoghue, On the Waterfront |
2006 |
Claude Blanchard, Music Hall |
2006 |
Tuncer Necmioglu, Law of the Border |
2006 |
Jean Laugier, Romain Kalbris |
2006 |
Joe Rosenthal, Decisive Moments: The Photographs That Made History |
2006 |
Vashti McCollum, The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today |
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) |
2007 |
Stanislav Mikhin, 977 |
2007 |
Dick Linkroum, Let's Join Joanie |
2007 |
Michael Danzinger, Episode #1.1 |
2007 |
Anatoliy Bobrovskiy, Vozvrashchenie 'Svyatogo Luki' |
2007 |
Leona Helmsley, 1989 |
2007 |
Károly Bécsy, Erózió |
2008 |
Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in 1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921) |
2008 |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American politician (b. 1949) |
2008 |
Gene Upshaw, American football player and union leader (b. 1945) |
2008 |
Pierre-André Boutang, Polanski par Polanski |
2008 |
Delores James, The Doll |
2008 |
Margaret Douglas, Episode dated 17 November 1969 |
2008 |
Eric Longworth, Episode #1.668 |
2008 |
Gene Upshaw, Rebels of Oakland: The A's, the Raiders, the '70s |
2008 |
Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Bradley Whitford |
2008 |
Leopoldo Serran, Four Days in September |
2009 |
Larry Knechtel, American keyboard player and bassist (b. 1940) |
2009 |
Semyon Farada, Formula of Love |
2009 |
Rosalío Solano, Zombie Apocalypse |
2009 |
Ion Sasaran, Return from Hell |
2009 |
Helmi Mareich, Hotel du Commerce |
2009 |
Dudu Topaz, Bubot |
2009 |
Marialise Gumm, Shrimps for a Day |
2009 |
Karla Kuskin, Beyond the Stars: A Space Story |
2009 |
Gordon Woods, Critter Creations |
2009 |
Pieter Lutz, The Lift |
2009 |
Zofia Komeda-Trzcinska, Komeda: A Soundtrack for a Life |
2009 |
Larry Knechtel, Last Summer |
2009 |
Don Lipp, The Big Showdown |
2010 |
Peter D. Gelles, Abandon |
2010 |
Conny Mus, Episode dated 18 April 2001 |
2010 |
Jack Horkheimer, Star Gazers |
2010 |
Stanislav Sokolov, Konets sveta |
2010 |
Gyda Hansen, Pusher |
2010 |
Tiberio Murgia, Big Deal on Madonna Street |
2010 |
Robert Rowland, Casino Royale |
2011 |
Patricia Hardy, The Case of the Haunted Husband |
2011 |
Reza Badiyi, Out of Mind, Out of Sight |
2011 |
John O'Brien, Iron Man |
2012 |
Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress, dies from natural causes at 95 |
2012 |
Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister, dies from liver cancer at 57 |
2012 |
Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister, dies at 96 |
2012 |
Chris Schadrack, The People vs. Larry Flynt |
2012 |
Virginia Dwyer, As the World Turns |
2012 |
Phyllis Diller, A Bug's Life |
2012 |
Avelino Pousa Antelo, Castelao e os irmáns da liberdade |
2012 |
Meles Zenawi, Kampf ums Wasser |
2013 |
Marian McPartland, English-born American Jazz musician, dies at 95 |
2013 |
Elmore Leonard, American author, dies from complications from a stroke at 87 |
2013 |
Ted Post, Magnum Force |
2013 |
Richard G. Heimann, Godspell |
2013 |
Erdinç Dinçer, In Nowhere Land |
2013 |
Ewa Petelska, Czarne skrzydla |
2013 |
Václav Svorc, As Good as Poison |
2013 |
Erik Neutsch, Spur der Steine |
2013 |
Marian McPartland, The Human Stain |
2013 |
Richard Angas, The Yeomen of the Guard |
2013 |
Sathima Bea Benjamin, Abdullah Ibrahim: A Struggle for Love |
2013 |
Elmore Leonard, Jackie Brown |
2013 |
Nina Olkhina, Dostigaev i drugie |
2013 |
Domonique Duffy, Episode dated 30 March 2011 |
2014 |
Buddy MacMaster, The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights |
2014 |
Gert Schaefer, Mia and the Millionaire |
2014 |
Klaus Zapf, Episode #4.10 |
2014 |
B.K.S. Iyengar, Enlighten Up! |
2014 |
Edmund Szoka, Pope John Paul II: Part I/Pope John Paul II: Part II/Jane Fonda: My Life So Far - Part I |
2014 |
Bill Stratton, A Son's Promise |
2014 |
Ken Griffiths, Patagonia |
2014 |
Earl Calloway, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords |
2015 |
Lev Durov, Meshcherskie |
2015 |
Laurent Rossi, Tino Rossi |
2015 |
Lina Morgan, La tonta del bote |
2015 |
Andrei Voynovsky, Chudak iz pyatogo B |
2015 |
Sid Siegel, Two Before Zero |
2015 |
Egon Bahr, Der Tunnel |
2015 |
Melody Patterson, The Cycle Savages |
2015 |
Liz Perle, 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. And Mrs. Kraus |
2015 |
Lars Amble, The Simple-Minded Murderer |
2015 |
Avgust Baltrusaitis, Boba i slon |
2016 |
Rugrats voice actor Jack Riley dies aged 80 |
2017 |
US comedian and activist Dick Gregory dies aged 84 |
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