Famous Deaths Happened 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 April - 20.   

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

1317  Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies on April - 20.   

1521  On this day in history death of zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)   

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

1558  Death of Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) on April - 20.   

1632  On April - 20 death of nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake   

1643  Christoph Demantius, composer, dies at 75 on April - 20.   

1662  Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies on this day in history.   

1695  Georg Caspar Weckler, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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

1759  On this day in history death of georg Friedrich Handel, buried in Westminster Abbey   

1765  Death of Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674) on this day in history.   

1768  Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 on April - 20.   

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  Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies on this day in history.   

1821  On April - 20 franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67   

1831  Death of John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764) on this day in history.   

1836  On this day in history johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal, dies at 75   

1839  On April - 20 giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies   

1869  On this day in history johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer, dies at 72   

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 this day in history.   

1899  Death of Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820) on this day in history.   

1900  Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies on April - 20.   

1906  Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26 on this day in history.   

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

1912  Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1918  Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies on April - 20.   

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0702  Jafar Sadiq, Muslim scholar (d. 765) was born on April - 20.   

1442  Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83) was born on April - 20.   

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

1586  Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.   

1592  On this day in history birth of john Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author   

1594  On April - 20 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.