What happened on March 20 ?

1191 - Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)

1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights

1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)

1568 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)

1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)

1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)

1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)

1727 O.S. - Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist (b. 1642)

1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)

1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)

1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)

1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)

1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)

1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)

1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)

1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)

1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)

1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)

1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)

1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)

1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)

1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b. 1859)

1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)

1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)

1934 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)

1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)

1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)

1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)

1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American journalist, comedian, and actor (b. 1946)

1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)

2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)

2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)

2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)

2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (b. 1912)