Died on This Day (20-Nov)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Fred Cox | Frederick William Cox was an American professional football player who was a kicker for 15 seasons in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings. | American football player | 80 | 1 |
William Trevor | William Trevor Cox KBE , known by his pen name William Trevor, was an Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer. | Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer | 88 | 4 | |
![]() |
Joseph Paul Franklin | Joseph Paul Franklin was an American white supremacist and serial killer who engaged in a murder spree spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s. | American serial killer | 63 | 7 |
![]() |
Dorothy Morris | Dorothy Ruth Morris was an American film and television actress known for her "girl next door" persona. | American film and television actress | 89 | 9 |
![]() |
Harry Lawton | Harry Wilson Lawton was an American writer, journalist, editor and historian who wrote several books about Native Americans in California. | American journalist | 77 | 15 |
![]() |
David Dacko | David Dacko was a Central African politician who served as the first president of the Central African Republic from 14 August 1960 to 1 January 1966, and 3rd President from 21 September 1979 to 1 September 1981. | Prime Minister of the Central African Republic | 73 | 17 |
![]() |
Kalle Päätalo | Kaarlo Alvar Päätalo was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. | Finnish novelist | 81 | 20 |
![]() |
Jerzy Ziętek | Jerzy Jan Antoni Zietek was a Polish politician and general. | Polish general and politician | 84 | 35 |
![]() |
Francisco Franco | Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo. | Dictator and head of state of Spain | 82 | 45 |
![]() |
Francis William Aston | Francis William Aston FRS was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. | British chemist | 68 | 75 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
Aaron Klug | Sir Aaron Klug OM FRS FMedSci HonFRMS was a British biophysicist and chemist. | British chemist and biophysicist | 92 | 2 |
Peter Dimmock | Peter Harold Dimmock, CVO, CBE was a British sports broadcaster and senior television executive during the formative years of the medium in the 1950s. | British sports broadcaster | 94 | 5 | |
![]() |
David C. Copley | David C. Copley was an American publishing heir, on the board of the Copley Press for over thirty years, becoming president and owner, as well as publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune. | American publisher | 60 | 8 |
![]() |
Rob Lytle | Robert William "Rob" Lytle was an American football player. | American football player | 56 | 10 |
![]() |
Celso Furtado | Celso Monteiro Furtado was a Brazilian economist and one of the most distinguished intellectuals of his country during the 20th century. | Brazilian politician | 84 | 16 |
![]() |
Borko Temelkovski | Borko Temelkovski was a Macedonian politician and communist leader born in Prilep, Yugoslavia. | Macedonian politician | 81 | 19 |
![]() |
Sergei Grinkov | Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov was a Russian pair skater. | Ice Skater | 28 | 25 |
![]() |
John McEwen | Sir John McEwen, GCMG, CH was an Australian politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Australia, holding office from 1967 to 1968 in a caretaker capacity after the disappearance of Harold Holt. | Prime Minister of Australia | 80 | 40 |
![]() |
Francis Bowditch Wilby | Francis Bowditch Wilby was a major general in the United States Army who served as the 39th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. | American army general | 82 | 55 |
![]() |
Jesse Collings | Jesse Collings PC was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform. | British politician | 88 | 100 |