Famous Deaths In February - 20

1851  Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

1860  Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

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

1892  Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 on February - 20.  

1893  Death of P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818) on this day in history.  

1895  On February - 20 frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77  

1904  Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1905  On February - 20 death of jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain  

1907  On February - 20 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54  

1910  Death of Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered on this day in history.  

1911  Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

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

1920  Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 on February - 20.  

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

1937  On February - 20 "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies  

1941  Death of La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894) on this day in history.  

1942  On this day in history guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76  

1946  Hugh Allen, musician, dies on this day in history.  

1951  On this day in history howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80  

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

1959  On this day in history ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38  

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 February - 20.  

1963  On February - 20 death of ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)  

1964  On this day in history r T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (S Africa 1927-28), dies  

1965  On February - 20 death of fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)  

1966  Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80 on February - 20.  

1968  Anthony Asquith, dies on this day in history.  

1969  On this day in history ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85  

1970  Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

1972  On February - 20 herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69  

1973  Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39 on February - 20.  

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1494  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)  

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  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on this day in history.  

1633  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher  

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

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.  

1745  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer