March 20 - Deaths

Deaths

• 220 – Cao Cao, Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty and King of Wei dies.
• 687 – St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634)
• 1239 – Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. c. 1179)
• 1390 – Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
• 1413 – King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
• 1549 – Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour, widower of Queen Catherine Parr (b. 1508)
• 1568 – Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
• 1586 – Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
• 1619 – Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
• 1673 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
• 1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• 1732 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
• 1746 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
• 1780 – Sir Benjamin Truman – English brewer
• 1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
• 1809 – Mary Bateman, English woman executed for witchcraft, known as the "Yorkshire Witch"
• 1835 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1849 – James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist (b. 1780)
• 1855 – Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
• 1865 – Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
• 1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
• 1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
• 1899 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
• 1916 – Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
• 1918 – Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
• 1925 – Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 – Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
• 1930 – Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 – Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, American assassin of Anton Cermak and attempted assassin of Franklin Roosevelt (b. 1900)
• 1934 – Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
• 1940 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1947 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
• 1958 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (b. 1915)
• 1960 – Léon Sée, French fencer (b. 1877)
• 1964 – Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
• 1965 – Daniel Frank, American athlete (b. 1882)
• 1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1970 – Manolis Chiotis, Greek singer, bouzouki player, and composer (b. 1920)
• 1972 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 – Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1981 – Gerry Bertier, American wheelchair Olympian (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
• 1990 – Maurice Cloche, French film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
• 1997 – V. S. Pritchett, British writer and critic (b. 1900)
• 1997 – Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
• 1998 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Catherine Sauvage, French singer and actress (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Gene Eugene, Canadian singer and actor (Adam Again and Lost Dogs) (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2003 – Sailor Art Thomas, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Raynald Fréchette, Canadian judge and political figure (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, La Düsseldorf, La! Neu?, and Kraftwerk (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Mel Brown, American/Canadian blues guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Harry Carpenter, English television sports commentator (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Stewart Udall, American politician, environmentalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Johnny Pearson, British Composer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)