April 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
• 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
• 1521 – Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
• 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (b. 1506)
• 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
• 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
• 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English chaplain (b. 1632)
• 1769 – Chief Pontiac, Ottawa leader (b. 1720)
• 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
• 1873 – William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
• 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
• 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
• 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
• 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão (b. 1833)
• 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
• 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
• 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer, landowner and survivor of RMS Titanic (b. 1862)
• 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
• 1935 – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (b. 1863)
• 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
• 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
• 1947 – Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
• 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician and statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist (b. 1896)
• 1969 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian general and war criminal (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
• 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
• 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and pilot (b. 1945)
• 1991 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Small Faces and Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
• 1991 – Don Siegel, American director (b. 1912)
• 1992 – Benny Hill, English comedian (b. 1924)
• 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
• 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, English bookseller, son of A. A. Milne (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Cassie Bernall, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
• 1999 – Eric Harris, American student who committed the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
• 1999 – Dylan Klebold, American student who committed the Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
• 1999 – Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre and inspiration for Rachel's Challenge (b. 1981)
• 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
• 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 2003 – Bernard Katz, German biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
• 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Andrew Hill, American bandleader, composer, and pianist (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
• 2007 – Fred Fish, American computer programmer (b. 1952)
• 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (Chopper City Boyz) (b. 1976)
• 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, critic, and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
• 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Tim Hetherington, British-American photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
• 2011 – Gerard Smith, American musician (Tv on the Radio) (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, Mexican army general
• 2012 – Matt Branam, American academic, 14th president of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (b. 1954)
• 2012 – George Cowan, American chemist, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, British politician and campaigner for disabled rights (b. 1922)