November 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 811 – Li Fan, Chinese statesman (b. 754)
• 855 – Theoktistos, Byzantine chief minister
• 869 – Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841)
• 1022 – Bernward of Hildesheim, English bishop (b. 960)
• 1314 – Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1240)
• 1316 – John I of France (b. 1316)
• 1437 – Thomas Langley, English bishop (b. 1363)
• 1518 – Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (b. 1458)
• 1518 – Pierre de la Rue, Flemish composer (b. 1452)
• 1529 – Karl von Miltitz, German pope (b. 1490)
• 1591 – Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
• 1612 – John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
• 1651 – Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
• 1662 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (b. 1614)
• 1695 – Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655)
• 1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
• 1737 – Caroline of Ansbach (b. 1683)
• 1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal, diplomat, and poet (b. 1661)
• 1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
• 1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
• 1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian scientist (b. 1726)
• 1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• 1898 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817)
• 1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (b. 1828)
• 1922 – Peter Ratican, American soccer player (b. 1887)
• 1925 – Alexandra of Denmark (b. 1844)
• 1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish activist (b. 1896)
• 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1938 – Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese author (b. 1895)
• 1938 – Maud of Wales (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (b. 1864)
• 1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)
• 1951 – Adolf Spinnler, Swiss gymnast (b. 1879)
• 1951 – Thomas Quinlan, English businessman (b. 1881)
• 1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American aircraft designer (b. 1879)
• 1957 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter (b. 1875)
• 1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
• 1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist (b. 1898)
• 1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 – Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
• 1980 – John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (b. 1911)
• 1994 – John Lucarotti, English-Canadian screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
• 1995 – Robie Macauley, American author and critic (b. 1919)
• 1997 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1998 – Galina Starovoytova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
• 1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)
• 2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960)
• 2003 – Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
• 2003 – David Dacko, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923)
• 2003 – Roger Short, English diplomat (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
• 2004 – David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
• 2004 – Jenny Ross, English singer (Section 25) (b. 1962)
• 2005 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
• 2005 – James King, American tenor (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Robert Altman, American director (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
• 2006 – Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Bennie Gonzales, American architect, designed the Heard Museum (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Laurie Bembenek, American murderer (b. 1958)
• 2010 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar and (b. 1931)
• 2010 – Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, Filipino bishop (b. 1920)
• 2012 – David C. Copley, American businessman (b. 1952)
• 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – David O'Brien Martin, American politician (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Mike Ryan, Irish-American soccer player and coach (b. 1935)