What happened on July 20 ?

985 - Pope Boniface VII

1031 - King Robert II of France (b. 972)

1156 - Emperor Toba of Japan (1103)

1160 - Peter Lombard, French theologian

1320 - King Oshin of Armenia (b. 1282)

1351 - Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291)

1387 - Robert IV of Artois, Count of Eu (poisoned) (b. 1356)

1398 - Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)

1453 - Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler

1454 - King John II of Castile (b. 1405)

1524 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (b. 1499)

1616 - Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, English soldier

1704 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1620)

1752 - Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (b. 1667)

1816 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (b. 1743)

1884 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and scientist (b. 1822)

1897 - Jean Ingelow, English poet (b. 1820)

1901 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (b. 1840)

1903 - Pope Leo XIII (b. 1810)

1908 - Demetrius Vikelas, Greek International Olympic Committee president (b. 1835)

1922 - Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)

1923 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1878)

1926 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinskiy, head of the Soviet secret police (b. 1877)

1927 - King Ferdinand of Romania (b. 1865)

1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1874)

1941 - Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)

1944 - Mildred Harris, American actress (b. 1901)

1945 - Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871)

1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)

1951 - Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany (b. 1882)

1953 - Dumarsaid Estime, President of Haiti (b. 1900)

1953 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)

1959 - William D. Leahy, American admiral (b. 1875)

1967 - Albert Lutuli, South African civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1973 - Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1940)

1982 - Okot p'Bitek, Ugandan poet (b. 1931)

1983 - Frank Reynolds, American television news anchor (b. 1923)

1990 - Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)

1991 - Earl Robinson, American singer and composer (b. 1910)

1993 - Vincent Foster Jr., White House deputy counsel (b. 1945)

1997 - John Akii-Bua, Ugandan hurdler (b. 1949)

1999 - Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)

2003 - Nicolas Freeling, English writer (b. 1927)

2004 - Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fiji chieftainess, wife of Kamisese Mara (b. 1931)

2005 - James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (b. 1920)

2005 - Charles Chibitty, World War II Comanche code talker (b. 1921)

2005 - Finn Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1926)

2005 - Kayo Hatta, American film director (b. 1958)

2005 - Alfred Hayes, British-born wrestling announcer (b. 1928)