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February 20 Deaths in History - February 20 Birthdays - February 20 Events
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February 20, 2001 Rosemary De Camp, actress, dies at 90 February 20, 1999 Gene Siskel, critic, Siskel and Ebert and the Movies, dies at 53 February 20, 1996 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83 February 20, 1996 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69 February 20, 1996 Toru Takemitsu, composer, dies at 65 February 20, 1996 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63 February 20, 1995 John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88 February 20, 1995 Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend February 20, 1994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52 February 20, 1994 Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49 February 20, 1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies February 20, 1992 Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51 February 20, 1992 Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63 February 20, 1992 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66 February 20, 1991 Eugene Forsey, Canadian Politician February 20, 1987 Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80 February 20, 1986 Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88 February 20, 1986 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58 February 20, 1985 Clarence Nash, voice (Donald Duck), dies at 80 of leukemia, in California February 20, 1984 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61 February 20, 1983 James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident February 20, 1983 Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33 February 20, 1980 Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96 February 20, 1978 Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author (Presenea), dies at 76 February 20, 1976 Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies February 20, 1975 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76 February 20, 1975 Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88 February 20, 1975 Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61 February 20, 1974 David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85 February 20, 1973 Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39 February 20, 1973 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80 February 20, 1973 Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at 60 February 20, 1972 Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69 February 20, 1972 Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love and Hisses), dies at 74 February 20, 1970 Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86 February 20, 1970 Albert Wolff, Dutch Musician February 20, 1969 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85 February 20, 1969 Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66 February 20, 1968 Anthony Asquith, dies February 20, 1966 Chester W. Nimitz, U.S. Admiral (WW II), dies at 80 February 20, 1966 Chester W. Nimitz, American Soldier February 20, 1964 R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies February 20, 1962 Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 February 20, 1961 Otto E. Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67 February 20, 1961 Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78 February 20, 1960 Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies February 20, 1959 Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38 February 20, 1958 Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75 February 20, 1951 Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80 February 20, 1946 Hugh Allen, musician, dies February 20, 1942 Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76 February 20, 1937 "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies February 20, 1936 John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 February 20, 1920 Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 February 20, 1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 February 20, 1911 Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 February 20, 1911 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76 February 20, 1910 Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered February 20, 1907 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 February 20, 1904 Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 February 20, 1895 Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 February 20, 1892 Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 February 20, 1860 Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 February 20, 1855 Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies February 20, 1851 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81 February 20, 1848 [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29 February 20, 1845 Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57 February 20, 1817 Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27 February 20, 1810 Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 February 20, 1810 Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57 February 20, 1809 Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76 February 20, 1790 Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48 February 20, 1788 Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68 February 20, 1786 Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70 February 20, 1773 Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71 February 20, 1746 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68 February 20, 1737 Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies February 20, 1731 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50 February 20, 1707 Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies February 20, 1667 David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies February 20, 1656 James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76 February 20, 1628 Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63 February 20, 1626 John Dowland, composer, dies February 20, 1595 Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41 February 20, 1569 Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50 February 20, 1431 Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies February 20, 1194 Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies February 20, 1054 Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies |