Famous people died on October 20

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Nick Tosches 20

American Journalist

Muammar Gaddafi 77

Libyan Revolutionary

Fethullah Gulen 11

Turkish Activist

Wim Kok 1

Dutch Politician

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 36

Hungarian Psychologist

Rene Burri 3

Swiss Photographer

Oscar de la Renta 24

Dominican Designer

James Randi 18

Canadian-American Entertainer

Paul Kurtz 13

American Professor

Eva Ibbotson 21

Novelist

Anthony Hecht 6

American Poet

Arno Gruen 2

Psychologist

Lawrence Klein 24

American Economist

Peg Bracken 8

American Author

Jack Lynch 4

Irish Statesman

Merle Travis 4

American Musician

Burt Lancaster 24

American Actor

Anthony Quayle 1

British Actor

Joel McCrea 8

American Actor

Paul Dirac 64

British Physicist

Arthur Beer 1

German Astronomer

Harry F. Byrd 2

American Politician

Shigeru Yoshida 9

Japanese Politician

Herbert Hoover 109

American President

Michael Rostovtzeff 2

Ukrainian Historian

Henry L. Stimson 27

American Statesman

Anne Sullivan Macy 28

American Educator

Arthur Henderson 32

British Politician

Eugene V. Debs 122

American Politician

Alexander III of Russia 1

Daniel D. Palmer 13

Canadian Celebrity

Charles Dudley Warner 40

American Journalist

Richard Francis Burton 101

British Explorer

Philip Schaff 23

American Theologian

James Anthony Froude 83

English Historian

Grace Darling 3

English Celebrity

Lydia Maria Child 45

American Abolitionist

Richard Ryan 1

Poet

James Iredell 3

Musō Soseki 1

Poet

Sennacherib 2

See also: Famous people born on October 20