Famous Deaths In December - 20

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

0217  Death of Pope Zephyrinus on this day in history.  

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

0910  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 December - 20.  

1539  On this day in history death of johannes Lupi, Flemish composer  

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

1632  On December - 20 death of nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed  

1676  John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1679  On December - 20 johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75  

1722  On December - 20 death of kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)  

1723  Death of Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652) on this day in history.  

1740  On December - 20 death of richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)  

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  Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 on December - 20.  

1793  Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

1798  On this day in history cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72  

1799  On this day in history david Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66  

1812  Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies on this day in history.  

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

1819  On December - 20 louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50  

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

1856  On December - 20 death of francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)  

1862  Death of Robert Knox on this day in history.  

1875  Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

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  Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

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

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1494  On December - 20 birth of oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)  

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

1539  On December - 20 birth of paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer  

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

1579  John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized) was born on December - 20.  

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.