Famous Deaths Happened 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 December - 20.   

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

1022  Death of Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) on this day in history.   

1073  Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies on December - 20.   

1355  Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies on this day in history.   

1494  On December - 20 death of matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet   

1524  On this day in history death of thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician   

1539  Death of Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer on December - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1676  On December - 20 john Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76   

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

1722  On this day in history death of kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)   

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

1740  On this day in history death of richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)   

1749  On December - 20 pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies   

1768  Death of Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692) on December - 20.   

1783  Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 on December - 20.   

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

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history 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  On December - 20 michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75   

1876  On this day in history death of hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US   

1903  Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 on December - 20.   

1909  On this day in history benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79   

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

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1494  On this day in history birth of oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on December - 20.   

1539  Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer was born on December - 20.   

1566  On December - 20 birth of edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)   

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

1594  Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer was born on this day in history.   

1606  On this day in history birth of christoph Schultze, composer   

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