Famous Deaths In December - 20

0069  Death of Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered on December - 20.   

0217  Death of Pope Zephyrinus on this day in history.   

0860  Death of King Ethelbald of Wessex on this day in history.   

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

1022  On December - 20 death of elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996)   

1073  On December - 20 domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies   

1355  On December - 20 stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies   

1494  Death of Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet on December - 20.   

1524  Death of Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician on this day in history.   

1539  Death of Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer on this day in history.   

1590  On this day in history death of ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)   

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  Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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

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  On this day in history pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies   

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

1783  On this day in history antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54   

1793  On December - 20 joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54   

1798  Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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 December - 20.   

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

1856  On this day in history death of francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)   

1862  On this day in history death of robert Knox   

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 December - 20.   

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

1916  Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 on December - 20.   

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1494  Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555) was born on December - 20.   

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

1539  On this day in history birth of paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer   

1566  On this day in history birth of edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)   

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

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

1606  Christoph Schultze, composer was born on this day in history.   

1626  Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692) was born on this day in history.