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December 20 Deaths in History - December 20 Birthdays - December 20 Events
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December 20, 2002 George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 December 20, 1999 Hank Snow, Canadian Musician December 20, 1998 Adelaide Hawley Cumming, Betty Crocker, dies at 93 December 20, 1997 Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51 December 20, 1997 Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74 December 20, 1997 Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81 December 20, 1996 Amata Kabua, President of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies December 20, 1996 Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 December 20, 1996 Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76 December 20, 1995 John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 December 20, 1995 Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55 December 20, 1994 Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State (1961-69), dies at 85 December 20, 1994 J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75 December 20, 1993 Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64 December 20, 1993 Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74 December 20, 1993 W Edwards Deming, U.S. economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93 December 20, 1991 Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies December 20, 1991 Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives and Grows), dies December 20, 1991 Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86 December 20, 1991 Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88 December 20, 1991 Stephen Birnbaum, U.S. tourism writer, dies at 54 December 20, 1991 Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60 December 20, 1991 Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67 December 20, 1989 Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77 December 20, 1988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 December 20, 1982 Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95 December 20, 1976 Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74 December 20, 1976 Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80 December 20, 1976 Richard J. Daley, American Politician December 20, 1975 Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76 December 20, 1975 William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61 December 20, 1974 Andre Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69 December 20, 1973 Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37 December 20, 1973 Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA December 20, 1972 Gunter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65 December 20, 1971 Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78 December 20, 1968 Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84 December 20, 1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 December 20, 1968 Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 December 20, 1965 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73 December 20, 1963 Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54 December 20, 1962 Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68 December 20, 1962 Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75 December 20, 1961 Moss Heart, U.S. dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57 December 20, 1954 Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80 December 20, 1954 James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 December 20, 1948 C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85 December 20, 1947 St-Georges de Bouchelier, Fr author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 December 20, 1944 Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70 December 20, 1942 Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63 December 20, 1939 Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide December 20, 1937 Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72 December 20, 1936 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid December 20, 1929 Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90 December 20, 1916 Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 December 20, 1916 William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70 December 20, 1909 Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 December 20, 1903 Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 December 20, 1876 Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US December 20, 1875 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 December 20, 1821 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 December 20, 1819 Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 December 20, 1815 Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 December 20, 1812 Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis and Clark, dies December 20, 1799 David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 December 20, 1798 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 December 20, 1793 Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 December 20, 1783 Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 December 20, 1749 Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies December 20, 1738 Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 December 20, 1679 Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 December 20, 1676 John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 December 20, 1632 Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed December 20, 1590 Ambroise Pare, French surgeon, dies at 80 December 20, 1355 Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies December 20, 1073 Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies December 20, 910 Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies December 20, 69 Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine and 7th emperor, murdered |