Deaths on 20 April
2000s
Hugo Gatti
2025
Argentine footballer (1944–2025)
Antonio Cantafora
2024
Italian film and television actor (1944–2024)
Andrew Davis (conductor)
2024
English conductor (1944–2024)
Roman Gabriel
2024
American football player (1940–2024)
Lourdes Portillo
2024
Mexican film director (1943–2024)
Gavin Millar
2022
Scottish critic, film director, and television presenter (1938–2022)
Idriss Déby
2021
Leader of Chad from 1990 to 2021
Monte Hellman
2021
American film director, producer and editor (1929–2021)
Les McKeown
2021
Scottish pop singer (1955–2021)
Avicii
2018
Swedish DJ and music producer (1989–2018)
Victoria Wood
2016
British comedian (1953–2016)
Neville Wran
2014
Australian politician (1926–2014)
Bert Weedon
2012
English guitarist (1920–2012)
Tim Hetherington
2011
British photojournalist
Dorothy Height
2010
American activist (1912–2010)
Monica Lovinescu
2008
Romanian essayist
Andrew Hill (pianist)
2007
American jazz pianist and composer (1931–2007)
Michael Fu Tieshan
2007
Chinese Roman Catholic bishop
Fumio Niwa
2005
Japanese writer (1904–2005)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
2004
French singer-songwriter (1956–2004)
Bernard Katz
2003
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)
Alan Dale (singer)
2002
American singer (1925–2002)
Giuseppe Sinopoli
2001
Italian musician (1946–2001)
1900s
Rick Rude
1999
American professional wrestler (1958–1999)
Rachel Scott
1999
American murder victim (1981–1999)
Cassie Bernall
1999
Columbine High School massacre victim (1981–1999)
Trần Văn Trà
1996
North Vietnamese commander
Milovan Djilas
1995
Yugoslav politician (1911–1995)
Cantinflas
1993
Mexican actor and filmmaker (1911–1993)
Marjorie Gestring
1992
American diver
Benny Hill
1992
English comedy actor (1924–1992)
Steve Marriott
1991
English guitarist and singer (1947–1991)
Don Siegel
1991
American film director (1912–1991)
Sibte Hassan
1986
Archibald MacLeish
1982
American poet and 9th Librarian of Congress (1892–1982)
M. Canagaratnam
1980
Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament
Lord Richard Cecil
1978
British soldier & journalist (1948–1978)
Vjekoslav Luburić
1969
Croatian Ustaše official (1914–1969)
Rudolph Dirks
1968
American cartoonist
Léo-Paul Desrosiers
1967
Canadian writer and journalist (1896–1967)
Ivanoe Bonomi
1951
Prime Minister of Italy (1921–1922; 1944–1945)
Christian X
1947
King of Denmark (1912–1947) and Iceland (1918–1944)
Mae Busch
1946
Australian-born American actress (1891–1946)
Erwin Bumke
1945
German Nazi politician
Elmer Gedeon
1944
American baseball player (1917–1944)
Jüri Jaakson
1942
Estonian statesman (1870–1942)
John Cameron (footballer, born 1872)
1935
Scottish footballer and manager
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
1935
British fashion designer and Titanic survivor (1863–1935)
Giuseppe Peano
1932
Italian mathematician and glottologist (1858–1932)
Cosmo Duff-Gordon
1931
Scottish landowner and sportsman (1862–1931)
Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862)
1929
Prussian prince and admiral
Enrique Simonet
1927
Spanish painter (1866–1927)
Jussi Merinen
1918
Finnish politician (1873–1918)
K. Ferdinand Braun
1918
German applied physicist (1850–1918)
Bram Stoker
1912
Irish author (1847–1912)
Joaquim de Sousa Andrade
1902
Brazilian poet (1833–1902)
1800s
Joseph Wolf
1899
German natural history artist (1820–1899)
Mohamed Sherif Pasha
1887
Prime Minister of Egypt (1879, 1881–1882, 1882–1884)
Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville
1886
William Burges
1881
English Gothic revival architect and designer (1827–1881)
Alexander H. Bailey
1874
American politician and judge
William Tite
1873
English architect (1798–1873)
John Abernethy (surgeon)
1831
English surgeon (1764–1831)
Before 1800
Pontiac (Odawa leader)
1769
18th century Native American war chief
Lancelot Addison
1703
English writer and clergyman (1632–1703)
Christoph Demantius
1643
German composer
Johannes Bugenhagen
1558
German Lutheran theologian and pastor (1485–1558)
Elizabeth Barton
1534
16th-century English Catholic nun and martyr
Zhengde Emperor
1521
Emperor of China from 1505 to 1521
Maria of Looz-Heinsberg
1502
Dutch noble lady (1424–1502)
Gersonides
1344
Medieval Jewish philosopher
Simon Rinalducci
1322
Pope Clement V
1314
Head of the Catholic Church from 1305 to 1314
Hōjō Tokimune
1284
Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan
Güyük Khan
1248
Khagan of the Mongol Empire from 1246 to 1248
Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1176
Anglo-Norman lord in Ireland (c. 1130–1176)
Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)
1164
Italian cardinal (1095–1164)
Peter Bartholomew
1099
French soldier and mystic (died 1099)
AD 888
888
Calendar year
Cædwalla
689
King of Wessex from 685 to 688