Famous Deaths Happened In December - 20

0069  Death of Aulus Vitellius, Roman commandant of Rhine & 7th emperor, murdered on December - 20.   

0217  On December - 20 death of pope Zephyrinus   

0860  Death of King Ethelbald of Wessex on December - 20.   

0910  Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturias, dies on December - 20.   

1022  Death of Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (b. 996) on this day in history.   

1073  On December - 20 domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies   

1355  On December - 20 stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies   

1494  Death of Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet on December - 20.   

1524  On December - 20 death of thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician   

1539  On this day in history death of johannes Lupi, Flemish composer   

1590  On this day in history death of ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)   

1632  On this day in history death of nicolas Antoine, French cath pastor who converted to Judaism, executed   

1676  John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 on December - 20.   

1679  Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1722  On this day in history death of kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654)   

1723  Death of Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (b. 1652) on December - 20.   

1740  On December - 20 death of richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (b. 1675)   

1749  On this day in history pakubuwono II, susuhunan of Mataram Java, dies   

1768  On this day in history death of carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (b. 1692)   

1783  Antonio Francisco Jawer Jose Soler, Sp composer (Fandango), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1793  Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1798  Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1799  David Traugott Nicolai, composer, dies at 66 on December - 20.   

1812  Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies on December - 20.   

1815  On this day in history giovanni Meli, Sicilian poet (Buccolica), dies at 75   

1819  Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1821  Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1856  Death of Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820) on this day in history.   

1862  Death of Robert Knox on December - 20.   

1875  Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75 on December - 20.   

1876  Death of Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US on December - 20.   

1903  On this day in history gavriil Musicescu, composer, dies at 56   

1909  On December - 20 benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79   

1916  Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68 on December - 20.   

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1494  On this day in history birth of oronce Finé, French mathematician (d. 1555)   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on December - 20.   

1539  Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer was born on this day in history.   

1566  Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612) was born on December - 20.   

1579  John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized) was born on this day in history.   

1594  Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer was born on December - 20.   

1606  On December - 20 birth of christoph Schultze, composer   

1626  On December - 20 birth of veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)