Famous Deaths In December - 20

0069  On December - 20 death of aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered   

0217  Death of Pope Zephyrinus on this day in history.   

0860  On December - 20 death of king Ethelbald of Wessex   

0910  On December - 20 alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies   

1022  On this day in history death of elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)   

1073  On this day in history domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies   

1355  Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies on December - 20.   

1494  On this day in history death of matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet   

1524  On this day in history death of thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician   

1539  On December - 20 death of johannes Lupi, Flemish composer   

1590  Death of Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510) on December - 20.   

1632  Death of Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed on December - 20.   

1676  John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 on December - 20.   

1679  On December - 20 johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75   

1722  On December - 20 death of kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)   

1723  Death of Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652) on December - 20.   

1740  Death of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675) on this day in history.   

1749  Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies on December - 20.   

1768  Death of Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) on December - 20.   

1783  On December - 20 antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54   

1793  Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1798  Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 on December - 20.   

1799  David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 on December - 20.   

1812  On December - 20 sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies   

1815  Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1819  Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1821  On December - 20 gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75   

1856  Death of Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) on December - 20.   

1862  On December - 20 death of robert Knox   

1875  On December - 20 michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75   

1876  Death of Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US on December - 20.   

1903  Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1909  On December - 20 benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79   

1916  Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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1494  On December - 20 birth of oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)   

1537  On December - 20 birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1539  On December - 20 birth of paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer   

1566  Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612) was born on this day in history.   

1579  On December - 20 birth of john Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)   

1594  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer   

1606  On December - 20 birth of christoph Schultze, composer   

1626  Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692) was born on December - 20.