May 20th
169 Notable deaths
Arthur Erickson
Canadian architect and urban planner.
Born June 14th, 1924 in Vancouver. [ref]
Died May 20th, 2009 at 84 years old in Vancouver. [ref]
Jean-Pierre Rampal
French flutist.
Born January 7th, 1922 in Marseille.
Died May 20th, 2000 at 78 years old in Paris (heart failure).
Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou
Politician and priest from greece (1891-1949).
Born January 1st, 1890 in Dorvitsa.
Died May 20th, 1949 at 59 years old in Athens.
Bill Gold
American graphic designer.
Born January 3rd, 1921 in New York City.
Died May 20th, 2018 at 97 years old in Greenwich (Alzheimer's disease).
Jarno Saarinen
Finnish motorcycle racer (1945-1973).
Born December 11th, 1945 in Turku.
Died May 20th, 1973 at 27 years old in Monza Circuit (falling, struck by vehicle).
Tetsuzō Iwamoto
Japanese flying ace.
Born June 15th, 1916 in Japan.
Died May 20th, 1955 at 38 years old in Masuda (sepsis).
Gilbert Murray
Anglo-australian scholar (1866-1957).
Born January 2nd, 1866 in Sydney.
Died May 20th, 1957 at 91 years old in Oxford.
Jean Daniélou
French jesuit theologian and cardinal (1905–1974).
Born May 14th, 1905 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. [ref]
Died May 20th, 1974 at 69 years old in Paris, 17th arrondissement of Paris (myocardial infarction). [ref]
John David Jackson
American theoretical physicist and textbook author (1925–2016).
Born January 19th, 1925 in London.
Died May 20th, 2016 at 91 years old in Lansing.
Bruno Bräuer
German general (1893-1947).
Born February 4th, 1893 in Stanisławów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship.
Died May 20th, 1947 at 54 years old in Chaidari (ballistic trauma).
Deaths 51 to 60 of 169
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner