Famous Deaths In August - 20

0535  Death of Mochta of Louth, disciple of St. Patrick on August - 20.   

0984  On August - 20 john XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies   

1153  Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies on August - 20.   

1384  On August - 20 geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies   

1538  Death of Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake on this day in history.   

1572  Death of Miguel López de Legazpi, Spanish conquistador (b. 1502) on this day in history.   

1580  On this day in history death of jeronymo Osorio, Portuguese historian (b. 1506)   

1632  Death of Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38 on this day in history.   

1639  Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 on August - 20.   

1643  On August - 20 death of anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (b. 1591)   

1648  On August - 20 edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65   

1672  On August - 20 death of cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49   

1679  Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60 on August - 20.   

1680  On August - 20 death of william Bedloe, English informer (b. 1650)   

1701  On August - 20 death of charles Sedley, English playwright (b. 1639)   

1707  Death of Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627) on this day in history.   

1773  Death of Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (b. 1701) on this day in history.   

1799  On this day in history johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37   

1804  On August - 20 death of charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition   

1811  Death of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729) on this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74   

1823  On this day in history pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83   

1825  Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68 on August - 20.   

1854  Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1856  On this day in history philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80   

1864  On this day in history daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies   

1885  Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42 on August - 20.   

1887  Death of Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) on August - 20.   

1908  Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64 on August - 20.   

1910  Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64 on August - 20.   

1912  William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies on August - 20.   

1914  On August - 20 pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies   

1915  Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61 on this day in history.   

1917  JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies on August - 20.   

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1517  On August - 20 birth of antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)   

1526  On this day in history birth of peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)   

1561  Jacopo Peri, composer was born on August - 20.   

1625  On August - 20 birth of thomas Corneille, French playwright   

1632  On August - 20 birth of louis Bourdaloue, French Jesuit preacher (d. 1704)   

1637  On this day in history birth of cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam   

1665  On this day in history birth of bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)   

1666  On August - 20 birth of alphonse d' Eve, composer