Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In February - 20

1851  On February - 20 josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81   

1855  On this day in history joseph Hume, social reformer, dies   

1860  On this day in history henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69   

1871  Death of Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810) on February - 20.   

1892  On this day in history hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74   

1893  Death of P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818) on February - 20.   

1895  On this day in history frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77   

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on February - 20.   

1905  On this day in history death of jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain   

1907  [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1910  Death of Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on February - 20.   

1911  On February - 20 alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56   

1916  Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1920  On this day in history robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63   

1936  John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 on February - 20.   

1937  "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies on this day in history.   

1941  Death of La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894) on February - 20.   

1942  Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1946  On this day in history hugh Allen, musician, dies   

1951  Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1958  On February - 20 thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75   

1959  Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38 on this day in history.   

1960  Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies on this day in history.   

1961  Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67 on February - 20.   

1962  Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1963  Death of Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) on February - 20.   

1964  On February - 20 r T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (S Africa 1927-28), dies   

1965  Death of Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880) on this day in history.   

1966  Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies   

1969  Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85 on February - 20.   

1970  On this day in history albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86   

1972  Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1973  Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39 on this day in history.   

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1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.   

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.