Famous Deaths In April - 20

1164  Victor IV, [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies on April - 20.  

1176  Death of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130) on this day in history.  

1314  On April - 20 clement V, [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon, dies  

1317  On this day in history agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies  

1521  On April - 20 death of zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)  

1534  On April - 20 elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, dies  

1558  On April - 20 death of johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)  

1632  Death of Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake on this day in history.  

1643  On April - 20 christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75  

1662  On this day in history gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies  

1695  On this day in history georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63  

1703  Death of Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632) on this day in history.  

1759  Death of Georg Friedrich Handel, buried in Westminster Abbey on April - 20.  

1765  On this day in history death of abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)  

1768  Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1769  On April - 20 death of pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered  

1786  On April - 20 john Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer, dies at 21  

1812  George Clinton, 4th US VP, dies at 73 1st VP to, die in office on this day in history.  

1820  On this day in history arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies  

1821  Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1831  On April - 20 death of john Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)  

1836  Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75 on April - 20.  

1839  Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies on April - 20.  

1869  Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1872  Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja), dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1873  Death of William Tite, English architect (b. 1798) on this day in history.  

1874  On April - 20 death of alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)  

1887  Death of Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826) on April - 20.  

1899  On this day in history death of joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)  

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on this day in history.  

1906  On April - 20 australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26  

1908  On this day in history henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85  

1912  On this day in history bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64  

1918  On this day in history reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies  

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on this day in history.  

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on this day in history.  

1494  John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister was born on April - 20.  

1586  On this day in history birth of saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)  

1592  On April - 20 birth of john Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author  

1594  On this day in history birth of matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer  

1633  Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) was born on April - 20.  

1646  Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704) was born on this day in history.