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Deaths on February 20

1054 : Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies
1194 : Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies
1431 : Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies
1569 : Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50
1595 : Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41
1626 : John Dowland, composer, dies
1628 : Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1656 : James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76
1667 : David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies
1707 : Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies
1731 : Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50
1737 : Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
1746 : Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68
1773 : Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia/Duke of Savoy (CE III), dies at 71
1786 : Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70
1788 : Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
1790 : Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48
1809 : Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76
1810 : Andreas Hofer, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42
1810 : Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57
1817 : Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
1845 : Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57
1848 : [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj, dies at 29
1851 : Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
1855 : Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies
1860 : Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69
1892 : Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
1895 : Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77
1904 : Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83
1907 : [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
1910 : Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
1911 : Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56
1911 : Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
1916 : 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
1936 : John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67
1937 : "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies
1942 : Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76
1946 : Hugh Allen, musician, dies
1951 : Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80
1958 : Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper), dies at 75
1959 : Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose at 38
1960 : Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies
1961 : Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67
1961 : Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78
1962 : Halliwell Hobbes, dies at 64
1964 : R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (S Africa 1927-28), dies
1966 : Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), dies at 80
1968 : Anthony Asquith, dies
1969 : Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85
1969 : Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66
1970 : Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86
1972 : Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69
1972 : Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love & Hisses), dies at 74
1973 : Brigitte Reimann, writer, dies at 39
1973 : Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80
1973 : Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector), dies at 60
1974 : David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85
1975 : Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
1975 : Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
1975 : Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
1976 : Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies
1978 : Vitorino Nem‚sio, Portuguese author (Presen‡a), dies at 76
1980 : Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore, dies at 96
1983 : James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at 37 in ski accident
1983 : Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33
1984 : Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61
1985 : Clarence Nash, voice (Donald Duck), dies at 80 of leukemia, in Calif
1986 : Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88
1986 : Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD), dies at 58
1987 : Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
1992 : Andrew Schenck, conducter, dies of melanoma at 51
1992 : Dick York, actor (Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63
1992 : Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66
1993 : Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies
1994 : Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52
1994 : Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil), dies at 49
1995 : John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88
1995 : Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
1996 : Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83
1996 : Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer, dies at 69
1996 : Toru Takemitsu, composer, dies at 65
1996 : Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63

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