Page 2: Famous Deaths Happened In February - 20

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

1855  On February - 20 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  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  Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 on February - 20.   

1904  On February - 20 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83   

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  On this day in history death of boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered   

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

1916  On February - 20 klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71   

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

1936  John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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 February - 20.   

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

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

1951  On February - 20 howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80   

1958  On this day in history 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 February - 20.   

1961  On this day in history otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67   

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

1963  Death of Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914) on this day in history.   

1964  R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (S Africa 1927-28), dies on February - 20.   

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 February - 20.   

1968  On this day in history anthony Asquith, dies   

1969  On February - 20 ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85   

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

1972  Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69 on February - 20.   

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 this day in history.   

1507  On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

1632  On this day in history 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  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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

1745  On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer