Famous Deaths In March - 20

0687  On March - 20 death of st. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).  

0842  Alfonso II the Chaste, king of Asturia (791-842), dies on March - 20.  

1191  On March - 20 clement III, [Paolo Scolari], Pope (1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies  

1239  Death of Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) on March - 20.  

1351  On this day in history mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies  

1393  Death of Johannes Nepomucenus, [Jan Nepomucky], Czech saint, killed on this day in history.  

1413  On March - 20 death of king Henry IV of England (b. 1367)  

1415  Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England (1399-1413), dies at 45 on March - 20.  

1501  Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1531  On March - 20 death of sicke Freerks/Frericx, [Cutter], Dutch anabaptist, beheaded  

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1549  Death of Thomas Seymour of Sudely, English Lord Admiral, beheaded on this day in history.  

1568  On this day in history albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia, dies at 77  

1586  On March - 20 death of richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)  

1617  On March - 20 franciscus Aguilon, physicist/theologist/mathematician, dies at 50  

1619  On this day in history matthias II, Holy Roman Catholic emperor (1611-19), dies  

1646  Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1673  On March - 20 death of augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)  

1703  On this day in history johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies  

1730  On this day in history death of adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)  

1732  Death of Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681) on this day in history.  

1746  On March - 20 death of nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)  

1751  Frederick Louis, English prince of Wales/son of George I, dies on March - 20.  

1757  Johann Paul Kunzen, composer, dies at 60 on March - 20.  

1767  Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 on this day in history.  

1780  Death of Sir Benjamin Truman on March - 20.  

1793  On March - 20 death of william Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)  

1804  On March - 20 ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47  

1812  On March - 20 jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemian pianist/composer, dies at 52  

1835  On March - 20 death of louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)  

1848  On March - 20 abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27  

1855  Death of Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788) on March - 20.  

1865  Death of Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833) on this day in history.  

1866  Rikard Nordraak, composer, dies at 23 on this day in history.  

1871  On this day in history antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56  

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1469  Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) was born on this day in history.  

1477  On March - 20 birth of jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527)  

1502  On this day in history birth of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)  

1634  Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets) was born on March - 20.  

1644  On March - 20 birth of ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709)  

1680  On this day in history birth of baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer (Stabat mater)  

1725  Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) was born on March - 20.  

1728  On March - 20 birth of franciscus L Kersteman, Dutch lawyer/astrologist