#DailyNews #GK #DICE #Nov20 #Deaths Deaths • 811 – Li Fan, Chinese politician (b. 754) • 855 – Theoktistos, Byzantine chief minister • 869 – Edmund the Martyr, English king (b. 841) • 1022 – Bernward of Hildesheim, English bishop and saint (b. 960) • 1314 – Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (b. 1240) • 1316 – John I of France (b. 1316) • 1437 – Thomas Langley, English bishop (b. 1363) • 1518 – Marmaduke Constable, English courtier and soldier (b. 1458) • 1518 – Pierre de la Rue, Flemish singer-songwriter (b. 1452) • 1529 – Karl von Miltitz, German pope (b. 1490) • 1591 – Christopher Hatton, English academic and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1540) • 1612 – John Harington, English courtier and author (b. 1561) • 1651 – Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595) • 1662 – Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (b. 1614) • 1695 – Zumbi, Brazilian king (b. 1655) • 1704 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and painter (b. 1646) • 1737 – Caroline of Ansbach (b. 1683) • 1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French cardinal and poet (b. 1661) • 1758 – Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694) • 1764 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician and theorist (b. 1690) • 1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian priest, zoologist, and mathematician (b. 1726) • 1856 – Farkas Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775) • 1864 – Albert Newsam, American painter and illustrator (b. 1809) • 1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1829) • 1898 – Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer (b. 1817) • 1908 – Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1868) • 1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. 1828) • 1922 – Peter Ratican, American soccer player (b. 1887) • 1925 – Alexandra of Denmark (b. 1844) • 1934 – Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872) • 1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish activist (b. 1896) • 1936 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903) • 1938 – Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese author (b. 1895) • 1938 – Maud of Wales (b. 1869) • 1941 – Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1901) • 1943 – Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (b. 1864) • 1945 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) • 1950 – Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866) • 1951 – Adolf Spinnler, Swiss gymnast (b. 1879) • 1951 – Thomas Quinlan, English businessman (b. 1881) • 1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and aircraft designer, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879) • 1957 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1875) • 1965 – Johannes Kaiv, Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1897) • 1973 – Allan Sherman, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1924) • 1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892) • 1976 – Trofim Lysenko, Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (b. 1898) • 1978 – Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1888) • 1978 – Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian soldier and poet (b. 1890) • 1980 – John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) • 1983 – Marcel Dalio, French actor and playwright (b. 1900) • 1984 – Kristian Djurhuus, Faroese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1895) • 1984 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Pakistani journalist and poet (b. 1911) • 1992 – Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920) • 1994 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930) • 1994 – John Lucarotti, English-Canadian screenwriter (b. 1926) • 1995 – Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967) • 1995 – Robie Macauley, American author and critic (b. 1919) • 1997 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926) • 1998 – Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946) • 1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908) • 2000 – Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958) • 2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919) • 2003 – Robert Addie, English actor (b. 1960) • 2003 – Loris Azzaro, Tunisian-French fashion designer (b. 1933) • 2003 – David Dacko, African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930) • 2003 – Eugene Kleiner, American businessman, co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (b. 1923) • 2003 – Roger Short, English diplomat (b. 1944) • 2003 – Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920) • 2003 – Kerem Yılmazer, Turkish actor and singer (b. 1945) • 2004 – David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955) • 2004 – Jenny Ross, English singer-songwriter (Section 25) (b. 1962) • 2005 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (b. 1931) • 2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1928) • 2005 – James King, American tenor (b. 1925) • 2005 – Chris Whitley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960) • 2006 – Robert Altman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925) • 2006 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950) • 2006 – Donald Hamilton, American author (b. 1916) • 2006 – Andre Waters, American football player and coach (b. 1962) • 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919) • 2008 – Bennie Gonzales, American architect, designed the Heard Museum (b. 1924) • 2008 – Sven Inge, Swedish painter (b. 1935) • 2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer and author (b. 1925) • 2010 – Laurie Bembenek, American murderer (b. 1958) • 2010 – Roxana Briban, Romanian soprano (b. 1971) • 2010 – Chalmers Johnson, American author and scholar (b. 1931) • 2010 – Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954) • 2010 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932) • 2012 – Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1975) • 2012 – Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, Filipino bishop (b. 1920) • 2012 – David C. Copley, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1952) • 2012 – William Grut, Swedish pentathlete (b. 1914) • 2012 – Ivan Kušan, Croatian author (b. 1933) • 2012 – David OBrien Martin, American soldier and politician (b. 1944) • 2012 – Flora Martirosian, Armenian singer (b. 1957) • 2013 – Pavel Bobek, Czech singer (b. 1937) • 2013 – Sylvia Browne, American psychic and author (b. 1936) • 2013 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer (b. 1950) • 2013 – Dan Gerrity, American actor (b. 1953) • 2013 – Peter Griffiths, English politician (b. 1928) • 2013 – Dieter Hildebrandt, Polish-German actor and screenwriter (b. 1927) • 2013 – Frank Lauterbur, American football player and coach (b. 1925) • 2013 – Oleg Minko, Ukrainian painter and educator (b. 1938) • 2013 – Klaus Praefcke, German chemist and academic (b. 1933)
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