October 20 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 460 – Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine wife of Theodosius II (b. 401)
  • 1139 – Henry X, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1108)
  • 1570 – João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
  • 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
  • 1640 – John Ball, English clergyman (b. 1585)
  • 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish poet and playwright (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, American guerrilla (b. 1821)
  • 1870 – Michael William Balfe, Irish composer (b. 1808)
  • 1890 – Richard Francis Burton, English geographer and explorer (b. 1821)
  • 1900 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
  • 1907 – Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
  • 1910 – David B. Hill, American politician, 29th Governor of New York (b. 1843)
  • 1913 – William Clark, American archer
  • 1926 – Eugene V. Debs, American politician (b. 1855)
  • 1935 – Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
  • 1936 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
  • 1940 – Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
  • 1947 – Gilbert Bougnol, French fencer (b. 1866)
  • 1953 – Werner Baumbach, German pilot (b. 1916)
  • 1957 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (b. 1890)
  • 1964 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
  • 1967 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
  • 1968 – Bud Flanagan, English singer (b. 1896)
  • 1972 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
  • 1977 – Cassie Gaines, American singer (The Honkettes) (b. 1948)
  • 1977 – Steve Gaines, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Detroit (b. 1949)
  • 1977 – Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1948)
  • 1978 – Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
  • 1983 – Peter Dudley, English actor (b. 1935)
  • 1983 – Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
  • 1984 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
  • 1984 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
  • 1987 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
  • 1988 – Sheila Scott, English pilot (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, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1911)
  • 1999 – Jack Lynch, Irish politician (b. 1917)
  • 2001 – Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (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 and pianist (b. 1934)
  • 2005 – Endon Mahmood, Malaysian wife of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (b. 1941)
  • 2005 – Eva Švankmajerová, Czech painter and poet (b. 1940)
  • 2006 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
  • 2007 – Max McGee, American football player (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Paul Raven, English bass player (Killing Joke, Prong, Ministry, Society 1, Godflesh, and Zilch) (b. 1961)
  • 2008 – Gene Hickerson, American football player (b. 1935)
  • 2010 – Bob Guccione, American publisher, founded Penthouse magazine (b. 1930)
  • 2010 – Parthasarathy Sharma, Indian cricketer (b. 1948)
  • 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan army officer (b. 1977)
  • 2011 – Tone Pavček, Slovenian poet (b. 1928)
  • 2011 – Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, Libyan minister of defence (b. 1942)
  • 2012 – Oli Ahad, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Jaouad Akaddar, Moroccan footballer (b. 1984)
  • 2012 – Przemysław Gintrowski, Polish poet and composer (b. 1951)
  • 2012 – Paul Kurtz, American academic (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – Daniel Enele Kwanairara, Solomon Islands politician (b. 1947)
  • 2012 – E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Raymond Watson, American businessman (b. 1926)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)