Famous Deaths Happened 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 December - 20.   

0860  On this day in history death of king Ethelbald of Wessex   

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 this day in history.   

1073  Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies on this day in history.   

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

1494  Death of Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet on this day in history.   

1524  On December - 20 death of thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician   

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

1590  On December - 20 death of ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)   

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

1676  On this day in history john Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76   

1679  Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 on December - 20.   

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

1723  On this day in history death of augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652)   

1740  Death of Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675) on December - 20.   

1749  On December - 20 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  On this day in history joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54   

1798  Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 on December - 20.   

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 December - 20 giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75   

1819  Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1821  Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1856  Death of Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) on December - 20.   

1862  Death of Robert Knox on this day in history.   

1875  On this day in history michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75   

1876  Death of Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US on December - 20.   

1903  On this day in history gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56   

1909  Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79 on December - 20.   

1916  Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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1494  Oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555) was born on December - 20.   

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

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

1566  Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612) was born on December - 20.   

1579  On December - 20 birth of john Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)   

1594  On December - 20 birth of giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer   

1606  Christoph Schultze, composer was born on December - 20.   

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