What happened on November 20 ?

870 - King Edmund of East Anglia

1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)

1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier

1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer

1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio

1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)

1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)

1651 - Miko?aj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)

1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)

1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave

1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)

1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)

1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)

1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)

1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)

1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)

1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)

1936 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish activist and politician (b. 1903)

1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)

1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)

1960 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)

1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)

1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)

1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)

1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)

1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)

2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)

2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)

2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)

2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)

2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (b. 1923)

2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General in Istanbul (truck bomb) (b. 1944)

2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)

2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)

2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955

2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician, Section 25 (b. 1962)

2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)

2005 - James King, American tenor (b. 1925)