Deaths on 20 February
2000s
David Boren
2025
American lawyer and politician (1941–2025)
Jerry Butler
2025
American soul singer and songwriter (1939–2025)
Peter Jason
2025
American actor (1944–2025)
Andreas Brehme
2024
German footballer (1960–2024)
Yoko Yamamoto
2024
Japanese actress (1942–2024)
Nurul Haque Miah
2021
Professor at Dhaka College (1944–2021)
Mauro Bellugi
2021
Italian footballer (1950–2021)
Joaquim Pina Moura
2020
Portuguese politician (1952–2020)
Vitaly Churkin
2017
Russian diplomat (1952–2017)
Mildred Dresselhaus
2017
American physicist and nanotechnologist (1930–2017)
Steve Hewlett (journalist)
2017
British journalist (1958-2017)
Fernando Cardenal
2016
Nicaraguan Jesuit and theologian (1934–2016)
Govind Pansare
2015
Indian political activist and writer (1933–2015)
Henry Segerstrom
2015
American entrepreneur and philanthropist (1923–2015)
John C. Willke
2015
American anti-abortion activist (1925–2015)
Rafael Addiego Bruno
2014
Uruguayan jurist and political figure (1923–2014)
Walter D. Ehlers
2014
United States Army soldier
Garrick Utley
2014
American television journalist (1939–2014)
Kenji Eno
2013
Japanese musician and video game designer (1970–2013)
David S. McKay
2013
American planetary geologist (1936–2013)
Antonio Roma
2013
Argentine footballer (1932–2013)
Knut Torbjørn Eggen
2012
Norwegian footballer and coach (1960–2012)
Katie Hall (American politician)
2012
American politician (1938–2012)
Alexander Haig
2010
American politician (1924–2010)
Larry H. Miller
2009
American businessman (1944–2009)
Emily Perry (English actress)
2008
English actress (1907–2008)
Curt Gowdy
2006
American sportscaster (1919–2006)
Lucjan Wolanowski
2006
Polish writer
Sandra Dee
2005
American actress and model (1942–2005)
Josef Holeček (canoeist)
2005
John Raitt
2005
American actor and singer (1917–2005)
Hunter S. Thompson
2005
American journalist and author (1937–2005)
Mushaf Ali Mir
2003
Pakistani Air Chief Marshal (1947-2003)
Maurice Blanchot
2003
French writer
Orville Freeman
2003
American politician (1918–2003)
Rosemary DeCamp
2001
American actress (1910–2001)
Donella Meadows
2001
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
1900s
Sarah Kane
1999
English playwright (1971–1999)
Gene Siskel
1999
American film critic (1946–1999)
Solomon Asch
1996
Polish-American psychologist (1907–1996)
Audrey Munson
1996
American model and actress (1891–1996)
Tōru Takemitsu
1996
Japanese composer and writer (1930–1996)
Ferruccio Lamborghini
1993
Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993)
Ernest L. Massad
1993
United States Army general
A. J. Casson
1992
Canadian painter in the Group of Seven (1898–1992)
Barbara Lüdemann
1992
German politician (1922–1992)
Dick York
1992
American actor (1928–1992)
Wayne Boring
1987
American comic book artist
Nicolas de Gunzburg
1981
French-American editor (1904–1981)
René Cassin
1976
French jurist and Nobel laureate
Kathryn Kuhlman
1976
American evangelist (1907–1976)
Maria Goeppert Mayer
1972
German–American theoretical physicist (1906–1972)
Walter Winchell
1972
American gossip reporter (1897–1972)
Ernest Ansermet
1969
Swiss conductor (1883–1969)
Anthony Asquith
1968
English film director (1902–1968)
Chester W. Nimitz
1966
American naval officer (1885–1966)
Michał Waszyński
1965
Polish-American film director and producer (1904–1965)
Jacob Gade
1963
Danish musician (1879–1963)
Percy Grainger
1961
Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist (1882–1961)
Sadri Maksudi Arsal
1957
Tatar politician
Viktor Gutić
1947
Croatian fascist official (1901–1947)
Max Schreck
1936
German actor (1879–1936)
Takiji Kobayashi
1933
Japanese writer
Francisco and Jacinta Marto
1920
Portuguese visionaries and Catholic saints
Robert Peary
1920
American explorer (1856–1920)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1916
Swedish author, journalist, politician and committed pacifist
Henri Moissan
1907
French chemist and pharmacist (1852–1907)
Washakie
1900
Eastern Shoshone chief
1800s
Frederick Douglass
1895
American abolitionist (1818–1895)
P. G. T. Beauregard
1893
Confederate States Army general (1818–1893)
Paul Kane
1871
Canadian painter (1810–1871)
William Wallace Lincoln
1862
Third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln (1850–1862)
Valentín Canalizo
1850
President of Mexico from 1843 to 1844
Andreas Hofer
1810
Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot
Lachlan McIntosh
1806
American general (1725–1806)
Before 1800
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
1790
Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790
Laura Bassi
1778
Italian physicist and academic (1711–1778)
Charles Emmanuel III
1773
King of Sardinia from 1730 to 1773
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
1771
18th-century French geophysicist, astronomer, and chronobiologist
Tobias Mayer
1762
18th-century German astronomer (1723–1762)
John Dowland
1626
English composer and lutenist (1563–1626)
Philip William, Prince of Orange
1618
Prince of Orange from 1584 to 1618
Nicholas Bacon (Lord Keeper)
1579
English politician (1510–1579)
Tecun Uman
1524
Mayan emperor of Guatemala (1500-1524)
Hans, King of Denmark
1513
Scandinavian king under the Kalmar Union (1455–1513)
Lazar Branković
1458
Despot of Serbia from 1456 to 1458
Pope Martin V
1431
Head of the Catholic Church from 1417 to 1431
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
1408
English noble (1341–1408)
Al-Musta'sim
1258
37th and last Abbasid Caliph (r. 1242–1258)
Tancred, King of Sicily
1194
King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194
Conan IV, Duke of Brittany
1171
Duke of Brittany from 1156 to 1166
Wulfric of Haselbury
1154
Anchorite and saint
Yaroslav the Wise
1054
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 to 1054
Theodora (wife of Romanos I)
922
Byzantine empress from 920 to 922
Leo of Catania
789
Catholic saint and 15th bishop of Catania