What happened on January 20 ?

1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland

1479 - King John II of Aragon (b. 1397)

1568 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator

1612 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)

1666 - Anna of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France and regent (b. 1601)

1707 - Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)

1709 - François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)

1745 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)

1751 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)

1770 - Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)

1779 - David Garrick, English actor (b. 1717)

1810 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)

1819 - King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)

1848 - Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)

1850 - Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)

1873 - The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)

1891 - David Kalakaua, King of Hawaii (b. 1836)

1901 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)

1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)

1920 - Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler (b. 1876)

1936 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)

1944 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)

1962 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887)

1965 - Alan Freed, American disk jockey (b. 1922)

1979 - Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (b. 1925)

1971 - Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)

1973 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)

1983 - Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)

1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)

1988 - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pashtun Nationalist & non-violent freedom fighter (b. 1890)

1990 - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)

1990 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)

1993 - Audrey Hepburn, Anglo-Dutch actress (b. 1929)

1994 - Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (b. 1909)

1996 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. 1927)

1997 - Curt Flood, baseball player (b. 1938)

1998 - Bobo Brazil, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

2003 - Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)

2003 - Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)

2003 - Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)

2004 - Guinn Smith, American athlete (b. 1920)

2005 - Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)

2005 - Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian

2005 - Jan Nowak-Jeziora?ski, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)

2005 - Miriam Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)