Died On October 20th
Discover the most famous people who died on October 20. The list includes people like Muammar Gaddafi, Herbert Hoover, Burt Lancaster, Eugene V. Debs, Paul Dirac. Famous personalities featured on this list, include political leaders, composers, actors and diplomats and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Japan & Libya and many more countries.
Muammar Gaddafi07 June 1942, Libyan
Herbert Hoover10 August 1874, American
31st U.S. President
Burt Lancaster02 November 1913, American
Actor
Paul Dirac08 August 1902, British
Physicist
Eugene V. Debs05 November 1855, American
Union Leader
Anne Sullivan14 April 1866, American
American Teacher, Instructor
Diana Churchill11 July 1909, British
Winston Churchill's Daughter
Michael Massee01 September 1952, American
Actor
Richard Francis Burton19 March 1821, British
Translator
Oscar de la Renta22 July 1932, American
Fashion Designer
Cassie Gaines09 January 1948, American
Singer
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
Arthur Henderson13 September 1863, British
Politician
Lawrence Klein14 September 1920, American
Economist
Carl Ferdinand Cori05 December 1896, Czech, American
Biochemist
E. Donnall Thomas15 March 1920, American
Physician
Junko Tabei22 September 1939, Japanese
Explorer, Mountaineer
Ronnie Van Zant15 January 1948, American
Singer, Singer-songwriter, Musician, Composer,
Gary Plauche10 November 1945, American
Murderers
Joel McCrea05 November 1905, American
Actor
Jane Wyatt12 August 1910, American
actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor01 October 1685, Austrian, Spanish, Hungarian
Emperor
Steve Gaines14 September 1949, American
Musician
Ari Up17 January 1962, German, British
Musician
Anthony Quayle07 September 1913, British
Stage actor, Film actor, Writer
Bob Guccione17 December 1930, American
Photographer, Film producer, Screenwriter
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
Shigeru Yoshida22 September 1878, Japanese
Politician, Diplomat
Sergei Bondarchuk25 September 1920, Ukrainian, Russian
Actor, Film director, Screenwriter
Muhammad Gaddafi19 June 1942, Libyan
politician
Farooq Leghari29 May 1940, Pakistani
Diplomat, Politician
Lydia Maria Child11 February 1802, American
Novelist, Poet, Journalist, Writer
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Muammar al-Gaddafi07 June 1942, Libyan
Former Prime Minister of Libya
Harlow Shapley02 November 1885, American
Astronomer
Michael Meacher04 November 1939, British
Politician
Pope Urban III1120 AD, Italian
Pope
Philip Schaff01 January 1819, Swiss, American
Church historian, Translator, Theologian,
Anthony Hecht16 January 1923, American
Poet, Writer
Shlomo Carlebach14 January 1925, German
Paul Raven16 January 1961, British
bassist, guitarist
Ali ibn Hussayn04 January 0659, Saudi Arabian
Imam
Moatassem-Billah Gaddafi18 December 1974, Libyan
Musō Soseki1275 AD, Japanese
politician, poet