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March 20, 1997 Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67 March 20, 1996 Alan Ridout, composer, dies at 61 March 20, 1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 March 20, 1996 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71 March 20, 1995 Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32 March 20, 1995 Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88 March 20, 1995 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 March 20, 1994 Lewis Grizzard, American Writer March 20, 1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 March 20, 1993 Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3 March 20, 1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 March 20, 1992 Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82 March 20, 1992 Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67 March 20, 1991 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 March 20, 1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90 March 20, 1990 Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60 March 20, 1990 Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete March 20, 1988 Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75 March 20, 1987 Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure March 20, 1982 Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at 52 March 20, 1976 Michael Goodliffe, actor (Gorgon, 7th Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61 March 20, 1974 Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62 March 20, 1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe, Black U.S. advocate in Virg, dies at 83 March 20, 1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 March 20, 1972 Jan Engelman, Dutch poet/art critic (At the Front), dies at 71 March 20, 1972 Marilyn Maxwell, actress (Grace-Bus Stop), dies at 50 March 20, 1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies March 20, 1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam March 20, 1964 Brendan Behan, Irish writer/poet, dies at 41 March 20, 1964 Jean Rogister, composer, dies at 84 March 20, 1963 Karl Otten, writer, dies at 73 March 20, 1962 Andrew E Douglass, Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings), dies March 20, 1962 C Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist (Power Elite), dies at 45 March 20, 1953 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60 March 20, 1951 Jan Ingenhoven, composer, dies at 74 March 20, 1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning, composer, dies at 60 March 20, 1950 Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59 March 20, 1945 Alfred Douglas, English Poet March 20, 1944 Felix Woyrsch, composer, dies at 83 March 20, 1942 Theodoro Valcarcel, composer, dies at 41 March 20, 1941 D A van den Bosch, anti-nazi clergyman (Amersfoort Camp), dies March 20, 1934 A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont, Dutch queen, dies at 76 March 20, 1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR March 20, 1933 Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal March 20, 1929 Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France (WW I), dies at 77 March 20, 1928 Fred Rogers, childrens show (Mr Rogers Neighborhood) March 20, 1925 George N Curzon, British Foreign minister (1919-22), dies at 66 March 20, 1925 Lord Curzon, British Statesman March 20, 1920 Venustiano Carranza, president Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60 March 20, 1913 Christian Barnekow, composer, dies at 75 March 20, 1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies March 20, 1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux, composer, dies at 75 March 20, 1910 Felix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89 March 20, 1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln, becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution March 20, 1898 Luis Pales Matos, Puerto Rican poet (Tuntun the paso y griferia), dies March 20, 1894 Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian freedom fighter/president (1849), dies at 91 March 20, 1892 Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41 March 20, 1891 Lawrence Barrett, American Actor March 20, 1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73 March 20, 1878 Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist March 20, 1875 John Mitchel, Irish Journalist March 20, 1874 Hans Christian Lumbye, composer, dies at 63 March 20, 1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer, dies at 52 March 20, 1871 Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56 March 20, 1870 Thomas Erskine, Scottish Theologian March 20, 1866 Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23 March 20, 1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27 March 20, 1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52 March 20, 1804 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47 March 20, 1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 March 20, 1757 Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 March 20, 1751 Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies March 20, 1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84 March 20, 1727 Isaac Newton, English Mathematician March 20, 1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies March 20, 1646 Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 March 20, 1619 Matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies March 20, 1617 Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50 March 20, 1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77 March 20, 1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded March 20, 1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded March 20, 1501 Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72 March 20, 1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 March 20, 1393 Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed March 20, 1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies March 20, 1191 Clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies March 20, 842 Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies |