October 20
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Art and culture
Births
- 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
- 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
- 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer
- 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
Deaths
- 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
- 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
- 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
- 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
- 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
- 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
- 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
- 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
- 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla (b. 1821)
- 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
- 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
- 1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
- 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
- 1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
- 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
- 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
- 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
- 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- 1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
- 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
- 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
- Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
- Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
- Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
- 1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor
- 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
- 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
- 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
- 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
- 1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
- 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
- 1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
- 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
- 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
- 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
- 2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
- 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
- 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
Notes
Arthur Rimbaud
Alphonse Allais
Richard Francis Burton
Elodie Lauten
Charleville-Mézières
Wet Dream Film Festival
Slavko Vorkapich
Jean-Pierre Melville
Charles Ives
John Dewey
Jean-Michel Folon
Snoop Dogg
Marnix Gijsen
Elfriede Jelinek
Danny Boyle
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