Died On February 20th
Discover the most famous people who died on February 20. The list includes people like Frederick Douglass, Hunter S. Thompson, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Robert Peary. Famous personalities featured on this list, include journalists, political leaders, soldiers and actors and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Canada & France and many more countries.
Frederick DouglassAmerican
American orator
Hunter S. ThompsonAmerican
Journalist and Author
Chester W. NimitzAmerican
Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in
Sandra DeeAmerican
Film Actress
Dick YorkAmerican
Actor
Walter WinchellAmerican
Journalist, Radio Personality
Alice Roosevelt LongworthAmerican
Writer
Joseph II, Holy Roman EmperorHungarian
Holy Roman Emperor
Ferruccio LamborghiniItalian
Founder of Automobili Lamborghini
Alexander HaigAmerican
Former United States Secretary of State
Kathryn KuhlmanAmerican
Evangelist
Robert PearyAmerican
Explorer
Percy GraingerAustralian, American
Musician, Composer, arranger and pianist
John DowlandBritish
Singer, Lutenist and Composer
P.G.T. BeauregardAmerican
Army General
Henri MoissanFrench
Chemist
René CassinFrench
French Jurist
Maria Goeppert-MayerAmerican
Physicist
P. G. T. BeauregardAmerican
Military personnel, Artilleryman, Inventor,
Gene SiskelAmerican
Journalist, Television presenter, Film critic
Dave Van RonkAmerican
Guitarist, Singer, Jazz musician, Trade unionist
Max SchreckGerman
Actor
Curt GowdyAmerican
Sportscaster
Yaroslav the WiseUkrainian
Prince
Sarah KaneBritish
Playwright, Writer
Robert BoltBritish
Actor, Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer
Toru TakemitsuJapanese
Composer
Chester NimitzAmerican
Admiral
Oswald AveryCanadian
Biologist, Physician, Geneticist
Pope Martin VItalian
Pope
Maurice BlanchotFrench
Philosopher, Writer, Journalist, Literary critic
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John, King of DenmarkDanish
King
Habibullah KhanAfghan
Politician
Paul MarcinkusAmerican
Archbishop
Joseph Banks RhineAmerican
Botanist
Damdin SükhbaatarMongolian
Army Leader
WashakieAmerican
tribal chief
Charles Emmanuel III of SardiniaItalian
Duke
Laura BassiItalian
Italian physicist, Academic
Andreas HoferItalian
Tirolean leader
Percy CoxBritish
General
Garrick UtleyAmerican
Television Journalist
Tancred, King of SicilyItalian
King
Paul KaneCanadian
Painter, Writer
Vitaly ChurkinRussian
Diplomat, Politician, Child actor, Interpreter
A. J. CassonCanadian
Painter
Eugene Robert BlackSouth Georgia
American financier
F. Albert CottonAmerican
Chemist
Eugène ScribeFrench
French dramatist
Ernest AnsermetSwiss
Conductor
Francesco Saverio NittiItalian
Prime Minister, Economist
René DubosFrench, American
Microbiologist
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount LakeBritish
General
Leone Sextus TollemacheBritish
Joseph HumePolitician
Laurence HousmanBritish
Playwright
Charles KnowltonAmerican
Physician
Klas Pontus ArnoldsonSwedish
Politician, Journalist, Writer, Non-fiction writer
Isidor PhilippFrench, Hungarian
Pianist
Matthew MurrayBritish
Engineer
Willie ThrowerAmerican
American football player
Jim WoodsAmerican
Sportscaster
Peter MondaviAmerican
Winemaker
Carl-Henning PedersenDanish
Painter
Fernando CardenalNicaraguan
Theologian
Jaap BakemaDutch
Architect
David BergerAmerican
Lawyer
Kothainayaki AmmalIndian
Heinrich BarkhausenGerman
Physicist
Charles Rockwell LanmanAmerican
Scholar
David S. McKayAmerican
Astrobiology
Henry LivingsBritish
Playwright
Hermann Franz Moritz KoppGerman
Chemist
John FultonAmerican
Bullfighter
Marie DumesnilFrench
Actress
René JeannelFrench
Entomologist
Hugh AllenBritish
Musician
Kobayashi TakijiJapanese
Author
A.M. KleinCanadian, Ukrainian
Poet
Nicholas BaconBritish
Politician
Harold ChristensenAmerican
Choreographer
Sir Leonard WoolleyBritish
Archaeologist
Henry Percy, 1st earl of NorthumberlandBritish
Admirals
Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-HadiMalaysian
Malaysian writer