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July 20 Deaths in History - July 20 Birthdays - July 20 Events
July 20, 1999 Sandra Gould, actress, Bewitched, dies at 73
July 20, 1997 Linda Stirling, B movie actress, dies at 75
July 20, 1996 Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier, dies at 70
July 20, 1996 Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77
July 20, 1995 Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82
July 20, 1995 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer, dies at 85
July 20, 1994 Kim II Sung, President of North-Korea (1948-94), buried
July 20, 1994 Paul Delvaux, Belgian surrealistisch painter, dies at 96
July 20, 1994 Reginald Hall, endocrinologist, dies at 83
July 20, 1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79
July 20, 1991 Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86
July 20, 1990 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
July 20, 1989 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies
July 20, 1989 Mary Treen, actress (Career, Rock-a-bye Baby), dies at 71
July 20, 1987 Richard Egan, actor (Big Cube, Amsterdam Kill), dies at 63
July 20, 1986 Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74
July 20, 1984 Gail Kubik, U.S. composer (Gerald McBoing Boing), dies at 69
July 20, 1984 Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
July 20, 1983 Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59
July 20, 1979 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian
July 20, 1977 Carter De Haven, actor (Courage, Great Dictator), dies at 90
July 20, 1977 F G Junger, writer, dies
July 20, 1974 Allen Jenkins, actor (Fugitive from a Chain Gang), dies at 74
July 20, 1973 Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
July 20, 1969 Roy Hamilton, rocker, dies at 40
July 20, 1968 Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies
July 20, 1966 Julien Carette, dies of burns at 68
July 20, 1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
July 20, 1962 George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86
July 20, 1959 Harry Fox II, dies at 77
July 20, 1959 William D. Leahy, American Soldier
July 20, 1958 Franklin Pangborn, dies at 69
July 20, 1957 Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
July 20, 1954 Blair Moody, (Sen-Mich), dies at 52
July 20, 1951 Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Jordan's King (1946-51), killed in Jerusalem
July 20, 1951 Mustafa Shuqri Ashu, tailor/murderer of king Abdullah, shot to death
July 20, 1945 Paul Valery, French poet (Le cimetiere Marin, Mon Faust), dies at 73
July 20, 1944 Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71
July 20, 1944 Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing
July 20, 1944 Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, count/German antifascist colonel, dies
July 20, 1944 Friedrich Olbricht, German general (July 20th plotter), executed
July 20, 1944 Heinz Burns, German 1936 Olympics gold, dies in bombing
July 20, 1944 Korten, chef gen of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion
July 20, 1944 Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies
July 20, 1944 Mertz, German colonel (July 20th plotter), executed
July 20, 1944 Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies
July 20, 1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds
July 20, 1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed
July 20, 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier
July 20, 1942 Patric Cobb, British sea officer, dies in battle
July 20, 1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide
July 20, 1939 Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies
July 20, 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Ital engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies
July 20, 1936 Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer, dies at 75
July 20, 1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies
July 20, 1927 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
July 20, 1923 Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
July 20, 1914 Leo van Gheluwe, composer, dies at 76
July 20, 1908 Federico Chueca, composer, dies at 62
July 20, 1903 Leo XIII, [Vincenzo G Pecci], Pope (1878-1903), dies at 93
July 20, 1898 Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86
July 20, 1897 Jean Ingelow, English Poet
July 20, 1888 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies
July 20, 1881 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh, dies
July 20, 1875 Francis Bond Head, Canadian Statesman
July 20, 1868 Antoine Prumier, composer, dies at 75
July 20, 1868 Jan Bedrich Kittl, composer, dies at 62
July 20, 1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide
July 20, 1866 G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
July 20, 1859 Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Fantasy), dies
July 20, 1825 Joseph-Denis Doche, composer, dies at 58
July 20, 1824 Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies
July 20, 1819 John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
July 20, 1808 Francois-Hippolyte Barthelemon, composer, dies at 66
July 20, 1766 Isabelle Farnese, queen of Spain, dies
July 20, 1762 Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
July 20, 1752 John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85
July 20, 1732 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer, dies at 51
July 20, 1636 John Oldham, trader in Massachusetts, murdered by indians
July 20, 1613 Heinrich Julius, [von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel], duke, dies
July 20, 1609 Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69
July 20, 1607 Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48
July 20, 1597 Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Netherlands publisher, dies
July 20, 1573 Lancelot of Brederode, water beggar, beheaded
July 20, 1454 Johan II, King of Castilie, dies at 49
July 20, 1322 Frederik II van Sierck, bishop of Utrecht (1317-22), dies
July 20, 1031 Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies
July 20, 833 Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63



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