Famous Deaths In December - 20

0069  On December - 20 death of aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered  

0217  On December - 20 death of pope Zephyrinus  

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

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  On this day in history domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies  

1355  Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies on December - 20.  

1494  On this day in history death of matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet  

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

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

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

1632  On this day in history death of nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed  

1676  John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 on December - 20.  

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

1722  Death of Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) on December - 20.  

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

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

1749  Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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 December - 20 giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75  

1819  On this day in history louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50  

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

1856  Death of Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) on this day in history.  

1862  Death of Robert Knox on December - 20.  

1875  On December - 20 michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75  

1876  On December - 20 death of hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US  

1903  Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

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 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  On this day in history birth of paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer  

1566  On this day in history birth of edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612)  

1579  On this day in history 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 December - 20.