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Deaths on December 20

xxxx : Alnso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies
xxxx : Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered
1073 : Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1355 : Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
1590 : Ambroise Par‚, French surgeon, dies at 80
1632 : Nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed
1676 : John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76
1679 : Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
1738 : Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56
1749 : Pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies
1783 : Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54
1793 : Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54
1798 : Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72
1799 : David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66
1812 : Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
1815 : Giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75
1819 : Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50
1821 : Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
1875 : Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1876 : Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1903 : Gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56
1909 : Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79
1916 : Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68
1916 : William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70
1929 : Emile Loubet, French premier (1892)/president (1899-1906), dies at 90
1936 : Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
1937 : Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72
1939 : Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
1942 : Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
1944 : Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at 70
1945 : Charles Eady, cricketer (Tasmanian player for Aust 1896-1901), dies
1947 : St-Georges de Bouch‚lier, Fr author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71
1948 : C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
1948 : Ladha Ramji, cricketer (bro of Amar Singh, Test Ind 1933-34), dies
1954 : Emilis Melngailis, composer, dies at 80
1954 : James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54
1961 : Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
1962 : Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer, dies at 68
1962 : Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer, dies at 75
1963 : Paul Constantinescu, composer, dies at 54
1965 : Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist, dies at 73
1968 : Bax Brod, composer, dies at 84
1968 : John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66
1968 : Max Brod, writer, dies at 84
1971 : Roy O Disney, Brother of Walt, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 78
1972 : Gnter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 65
1973 : Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies of heart failure at 37
1973 : Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain (1973), assassinated by ETA
1974 : Andr‚ Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at 69
1975 : Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
1975 : William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
1976 : Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
1976 : Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80
1982 : Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
1988 : Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
1989 : Audrey Christie, actress (Splendor in the Grass), dies at 77
1991 : Andries D Copier, Dutch glass designer (Guild glass), dies
1991 : Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything That Lives & Grows), dies
1991 : Helene Heigh, actress (Undercover Woman, Teen Age Thunder), dies at 86
1991 : Sam Rabin, speaker of house, dies at 88
1991 : Stephen Birnbaum, US tourism writer, dies at 54
1991 : Thomas Newman, actor/composer (Cape Fear), dies of heart attack at 60
1991 : Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67
1993 : Moses Gunn, actor (Shaft), dies at 64
1993 : Sam Wanamaker, actor (Pvt Benjamin), dies from cancer at 74
1993 : W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
1994 : Dean Rusk, US Sect of State (1961-69), dies at 85
1994 : J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at 75
1995 : John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90
1995 : Madge Sinclair, actress (Star Trek IV, Conrack, Convoy), dies at 55
1996 : Amata Kabua, Pres of Marshall Islands (1979-96), dies
1996 : Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62
1996 : Roger Peacock), writer, dies at 76
1997 : Dawn Steel, film maker (When Harry Met Sally), dies at 51
1997 : Denise Levertov, poet, dies at 74
1997 : Vincent Ciccone, inventor (Blow-Pops candy), dies at 81

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