Famous Deaths Happened In December - 20

0069  Death of Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered on this day in history.   

0217  On December - 20 death of pope Zephyrinus   

0860  Death of King Ethelbald of Wessex on December - 20.   

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

1022  Death of Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) on December - 20.   

1073  Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies on December - 20.   

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  Death of Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician on December - 20.   

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

1590  Death of Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510) on this day in history.   

1632  On this day in history death of nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed   

1676  On December - 20 john Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76   

1679  Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 on December - 20.   

1722  Death of Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) on December - 20.   

1723  On December - 20 death of augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)   

1740  Death of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675) on December - 20.   

1749  Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies on this day in history.   

1768  Death of Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) on this day in history.   

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  On December - 20 david Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66   

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

1815  On this day in history giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75   

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

1821  Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 on December - 20.   

1856  Death of Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) on this day in history.   

1862  Death of Robert Knox on December - 20.   

1875  Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 on December - 20.   

1876  Death of Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US on this day in history.   

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

1909  Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 on December - 20.   

1916  On December - 20 manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68   

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1494  On this day in history birth of oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)   

1537  On this day in history birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1539  Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer was born on December - 20.   

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

1579  On this day in history birth of john Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)   

1594  Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer was born on this day in history.   

1606  Christoph Schultze, composer was born on December - 20.   

1626  On this day in history birth of veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)