History Deaths on December 20

Roy O. Disney, American banker and businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)

#Roy_O._Disney

Arthur Morgan, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Queensland (b. 1856)

#Arthur_Morgan_(Queensland_politician)

Moss Hart, American director and playwright (b. 1904)

#Moss_Hart

André Jolivet, French guitarist and composer (b. 1905)

#André_Jolivet

John Steinbeck, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

#John_Steinbeck

Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general and politician (b. 1850)

#Hans_Hartwig_von_Beseler

Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (b. 1499)

#Katharina_von_Bora

Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919)

#Victor_Merzhanov

Lucien Petit-Breton, French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882)

#Lucien_Petit-Breton

Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)

#Louis,_Dauphin_of_France_(son_of_Louis_XV)

Igor Severyanin, Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887)

#Igor_Severyanin

Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)

#Francesco_Bentivegna

Earle Page, Australian soldier and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)

#Earle_Page

Ramón Carrillo, Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906)

#Ramón_Carrillo

Stefan Dušan, emperor of Serbia (b. 1308)

#Stefan_Dušan

Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1835)

#Philip_Fysh

Eric Campbell, British actor (b. 1879)

#Eric_Campbell_(actor)

Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510)

#Ambroise_Paré

Zephyrinus, pope of the Catholic Church

#Pope_Zephyrinus

Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)

#Carlo_Innocenzo_Frugoni

Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)

#Carl_Sagan

Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1885)

#Enrico_Mizzi

Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)

#Erich_Ludendorff

Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 8th President of France (b. 1838)

#Émile_Loubet

Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)

#Dimitris_Rontiris

Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)

#Richard_J._Daley

Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)

#Albert_Van_Vlierberghe

Adolfo Orsi, Italian businessman (b. 1888)

#Adolfo_Orsi

Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580)

#Jean_Jannon

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)

#Léopold_Sédar_Senghor

Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (b. 1925)

#Robert_Mulligan

Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)

#Bobby_Darin

Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976-84) (b. 1908)

#Dmitry_Ustinov

Peter of Moscow, Russian metropolitan bishop

#Saint_Peter_of_Moscow

Margaret of Provence, French queen (b. 1221)

#Margaret_of_Provence

John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)

#John_Bell_(farmer)

Alfonso III, king of Asturias

#Alfonso_III_of_Asturias

Juhan Simm, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885)

#Juhan_Simm

Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)

#Dean_Rusk

Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929)

#Per-Ingvar_Brånemark

W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)

#W._Edwards_Deming

R. A. Bevan, English advertiser (b. 1901)

#R._A._Bevan

Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)

#Denise_Levertov

Arnold Stang, American actor (b. 1918)

#Arnold_Stang

George C. Magoun, American businessman (b. 1840)

#George_C._Magoun

Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791)

#Robert_Knox

Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)

#Brittany_Murphy

Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)

#Riccardo_Freda

Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)

#Hank_Snow

Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)

#Kangxi_Emperor

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (b. 1863)

#Linton_Hope

John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915)

#John_Freeman_(British_politician)

Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)

#Sacagawea

Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)

#Raoul_Bott

Annie Armstrong, American missionary (b. 1850)

#Annie_Armstrong

Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1882)

#Martin_O'Meara

Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)

#Richard_Boyle,_2nd_Viscount_Shannon

Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and race car driver (b. 1912)

#Igor_Troubetzkoy

Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)

#Arthur_Rubinstein

Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th President of the Government of Spain (b. 1904; assassinated)

#Luis_Carrero_Blanco

Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930)

Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929)

Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929)

Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)

K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914)

James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)

Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)

Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929)

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)

Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)

Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)

Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)

Sam Rabin, English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903)

Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)

Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)

Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933)

Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (b. 1896)

James Hilton, English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900)

Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894)

Matilda Howell, American archer (b. 1859)

Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)

Upendrakishore Ray, Indian painter and composer (b. 1863)

Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)

Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)

Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)

Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (b. 1506)

John I, duke of Bavaria (b. 1329)

Fujiwara no Kanemichi, Japanese statesman (b. 925)

Æthelbald, king of Wessex (b. 834)