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October 20 Deaths in History - October 20 Birthdays - October 20 Events
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October 20, 1996 Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75 October 20, 1996 Mary Tuck, social researcher/civil servant, dies at 68 October 20, 1995 Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47 October 20, 1995 Christopher Stone, actor (Dave-Dallas, Interns), dies at 53 October 20, 1995 Jack Rose, screenwriter, dies at 83 October 20, 1995 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer, dies at 65 October 20, 1994 Burt Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 80 October 20, 1994 Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88 October 20, 1994 Eberhard Feik, German actor (Tatort), dies at 50 October 20, 1994 Ivan Svitak, philosopher, dies at 69 October 20, 1994 Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74 October 20, 1993 James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 October 20, 1993 Maurice Dolbier, U.S. actor and writer (Nowhere near Everest), dies at 81 October 20, 1992 Orton Chirwa, Malawi's lawyer/Justice minister, dies in captivity October 20, 1990 Joel McCrea, actor (Ramrod), dies of pulmonary complications at 84 October 20, 1989 Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76 October 20, 1986 Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in air crash at 53 October 20, 1984 Paul Dirac, British Physicist October 20, 1983 Merle Travis, country singer, dies at 75 October 20, 1977 Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28 October 20, 1972 Harlow Shapley, astronomer (Sun's position in galaxy), dies at 86 October 20, 1970 Patrick Wymark, actor (Skull, Tomb of Ligeia), dies at 44 October 20, 1968 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 October 20, 1964 Herbert Hoover, 31st president of U.S. (1929-33), dies in New York at 90 October 20, 1964 Miles WL Killearn of Killearn, baron/diplomat (Egypt), dies at 84 October 20, 1959 Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75 October 20, 1955 Eino Roiha, composer, dies at 51 October 20, 1954 Willie Shaw, race car driver (Indy 500-1937, 39, 40), dies at 51 October 20, 1952 Basil Radford, actor (Whisky Galore, Dead of Night), dies at 55 October 20, 1950 Henry Lewsis Stimson, U.S. minister of War/gov-gen, dies October 20, 1944 Gabriel Groulez, composer, dies at 65 October 20, 1942 May Robson, actress (Star is Born, Reckless), dies at 84 October 20, 1936 Anne Sullivan, American Educator October 20, 1931 Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68 October 20, 1929 Rudolf Kittel, German theologist, dies at 76 October 20, 1927 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer, dies at 78 October 20, 1926 Eugene V. Debs, American Politician October 20, 1920 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 October 20, 1913 Leander Schlegel, composer, dies at 69 October 20, 1906 William "Buck" Ewing, hall of fame catcher (New York Giants), dies at 67 October 20, 1904 Henry Hiles, composer, dies at 77 October 20, 1900 Charles Dudley Warner, U.S. writer (As We Go), dies at 70 October 20, 1899 Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle October 20, 1882 Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina poet (El arpa perdida), dies at 41 October 20, 1876 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68 October 20, 1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician (calculator), dies at 78 October 20, 1870 Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62 October 20, 1864 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Confederate gen-major, dies at 27 October 20, 1819 Lambert-Franeois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66 October 20, 1794 James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64 October 20, 1765 William August duke of Cumberland, Engl supreme commander, dies at 44 October 20, 1740 Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies October 20, 1676 Christopher Gibbons, composer, dies at 61 October 20, 1525 Joannes Custos, S Netherlands humanist, dies at about 50 October 20, 1438 Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 October 20, 1274 Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies October 20, 1268 Conrad Hohenstaufen, [Conrad van Zwaben], son of Conrad IV, dies October 20, 1268 Konradijn Hohenstaufen, son of Koenraad IV, beheaded in Naples October 20, 1187 Urbanus III, [Umberto Crivelli], Italian Pope (1185-87), dies October 20, 1139 Henry X the Trotse, duke of Bayern (1126-38), dies October 20, 460 Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poet, dies |