Famous Deaths In August - 20

0535  On this day in history death of mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick  

0984  On August - 20 john XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies  

1153  On this day in history bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies  

1384  On August - 20 geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies  

1538  On this day in history death of aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake  

1572  Death of Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) on August - 20.  

1580  On August - 20 death of jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)  

1632  Death of Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 on this day in history.  

1639  Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 on this day in history.  

1643  Death of Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591) on August - 20.  

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1648  Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1672  Death of Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49 on this day in history.  

1679  Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1680  On this day in history death of william Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)  

1701  Death of Charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639) on August - 20.  

1707  Death of Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627) on this day in history.  

1773  On this day in history death of enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701)  

1799  On this day in history johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37  

1804  Death of Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition on this day in history.  

1811  Death of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729) on this day in history.  

1813  On this day in history jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74  

1823  Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1825  On this day in history richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68  

1854  Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1856  On August - 20 philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80  

1864  On this day in history daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies  

1885  Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42 on this day in history.  

1887  On this day in history death of jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)  

1908  On this day in history louis Varney, composer, dies at 64  

1910  Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64 on August - 20.  

1912  On this day in history william Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies  

1914  Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies on this day in history.  

1915  Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61 on August - 20.  

1917  JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies on this day in history.  

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1517  Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75) was born on August - 20.  

1526  Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum) was born on August - 20.  

1561  On August - 20 birth of jacopo Peri, composer  

1625  Thomas Corneille, French playwright was born on this day in history.  

1632  Louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704) was born on this day in history.  

1637  On August - 20 birth of cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam  

1665  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed) was born on this day in history.  

1666  On August - 20 birth of alphonse d' Eve, composer