December 20 Deaths |
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| December 20th, 2007 (December 20 2007) | Death | Nataline Sarkisyan, a seventeen-year-old leukemia patient whose insurer, Cigna HealthCare, refused to pay for treatment. | |
| December 20th, 2006 (December 20 2006) | Death | Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer. Executed. | |
| December 20th, 2005 (December 20 2005) | Death | Maniam Moorthy, member of the first Malaysian team to summit Mount Everest | |
| December 20th, 2001 (December 20 2001) | Death | Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (born in 1912) | |
| December 20th, 2001 (December 20 2001) | Death | Leopold Sedar Senghor, first President of Senegal (born in 1906) | |
| December 20th, 2000 (December 20 2000) | Death | Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (born in 1920) | |
| December 20th, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Death | Hank Snow, Canadian singer (born in 1914) | |
| December 20th, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Death | Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (born in 1909) | |
| December 20th, 1998 (December 20 1998) | Death | Irene Hervey, American actress (born in 1910) | |
| December 20th, 1998 (December 20 1998) | Death | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1916) | |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Denise Levertov, English-born poet (born in 1923) | Denise Levertov Quotes |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (born in 1933) | |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Dawn Steel, American film producer (born in 1946) | |
| December 20th, 1996 (December 20 1996) | Death | Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (born in 1934) | Carl Sagan Quotes |
| December 20th, 1994 (December 20 1994) | Death | Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (born in 1909) | |
| December 20th, 1991 (December 20 1991) | Death | Simone Beck, French chef (born in 1904) | |
| December 20th, 1989 (December 20 1989) | Death | Kurt Bohme, German bass (born in 1908) | |
| December 20th, 1988 (December 20 1988) | Death | Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (born in 1908) | |
| December 20th, 1986 (December 20 1986) | Death | Joe DeSa, baseball player (born in 1959) | |
| December 20th, 1984 (December 20 1984) | Death | Gonzalo Marquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (born in 1946) | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Death | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (born in 1887) | |
| December 20th, 1981 (December 20 1981) | Death | Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (born in 1899) | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Death | Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1902) | Richard J. Daley Quotes |
| December 20th, 1974 (December 20 1974) | Death | Andre Jolivet, French composer (born in 1905) | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Death | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (born in 1903) | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Death | Bobby Darin, American singer (born in 1936) | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Death | John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1902) | John Steinbeck Quotes |
| December 20th, 1961 (December 20 1961) | Death | Moss Hart, American dramatist (born in 1904) | |
| December 20th, 1961 (December 20 1961) | Death | Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1880) | |
| December 20th, 1956 (December 20 1956) | Death | Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (born in 1906) | |
| December 20th, 1954 (December 20 1954) | Death | James Hilton, British author (born in 1900) | |
| December 20th, 1941 (December 20 1941) | Death | Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (born in 1887) | |
| December 20th, 1938 (December 20 1938) | Death | Annie Armstrong, US missionary leader (born in 1850) | |
| December 20th, 1937 (December 20 1937) | Death | Erich Ludendorff, German general (born in 1865) | Erich Ludendorff Quotes |
| December 20th, 1935 (December 20 1935) | Death | Martin O Meara, Australian soldier (born in 1882) | |
| December 20th, 1929 (December 20 1929) | Death | Emile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838) | |
| December 20th, 1921 (December 20 1921) | Death | Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (born in 1850) | |
| December 20th, 1917 (December 20 1917) | Death | Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (born in 1882) | |
| December 20th, 1862 (December 20 1862) | Death | Robert Knox | |
| December 20th, 1856 (December 20 1856) | Death | Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (born in 1820) | |
| December 20th, 1812 (December 20 1812) | Death | Sacagawea, Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Osho Quotes |
| December 20th, 1783 (December 20 1783) | Death | Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (born in 1729) | |
| December 20th, 1768 (December 20 1768) | Death | Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (born in 1692) | |
| December 20th, 1740 (December 20 1740) | Death | Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (born in 1675) | |
| December 20th, 1723 (December 20 1723) | Death | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (born in 1652) | |
| December 20th, 1722 (December 20 1722) | Death | Kangxi Emperor of China (born in 1654) | |
| December 20th, 1590 (December 20 1590) | Death | Ambroise Pare, French physician (born in 1510) | |
| December 20th, 1539 (December 20 1539) | Death | Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer | |
| December 20th, 1524 (December 20 1524) | Death | Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician | |
| December 20th, 1494 (December 20 1494) | Death | Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet | |
| December 20th, 1355 (December 20 1355) | Death | Stefan Dusan, Serb king and tsar (born in circa 1308) | |
| December 20th, 1022 (December 20 1022) | Death | Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (born in 996) | |
| December 20th, 0910 (December 20 0910) | Death | Alfonso III of Leon | |
| December 20th, 0860 (December 20 0860) | Death | King Ethelbald of Wessex | |
| December 20th, 0217 (December 20 0217) | Death | Pope Zephyrinus | |
