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In the year 1920
146 Notable deaths
Anders Zorn
Swedish painter and engraver (1860-1920).
Born February 18th, 1860 in Mora, Mora Parish. [ref]
Died August 22nd, 1920 at 60 years old in Mora, Mora Parish. [ref]
Jeanne Hébuterne
French painter (1898–1920).
Born April 6th, 1898 in Meaux. [ref]
Died January 26th, 1920 at 21 years old in Paris (falling).
Terence MacSwiney
Irish playwright, author and nationalist politician (1879-1920).
Born March 28th, 1879 in Cork.
Died October 25th, 1920 at 41 years old in HM Prison Brixton (starvation).
Otto Gross
Austrian psychoanalyst.
Born March 17th, 1877 in Gniebing-Weißenbach. [ref]
Died February 13th, 1920 at 42 years old in Berlin (hunger). [ref]
Dmitri Ivanovsky
Russian virologist (1864-1920).
Born November 9th, 1864 in Gdov.
Died June 20th, 1920 at 55 years old in Rostov-on-Don.
Olive Schreiner
South african author and pacifist (1855-1920).
Born March 24th, 1855 in Cape Colony. [ref]
Died December 11th, 1920 at 65 years old in Cape Town.
Inessa Armand
French communist politician, editor.
Born May 8th, 1874 in Paris. [ref]
Died September 24th, 1920 at 46 years old in Nalchik (cholera). [ref]
Svetozar Boroević
Austro-hungarian field marshal.
Born December 13th, 1856 in Mečenčani.
Died May 23rd, 1920 at 63 years old in Klagenfurt.
Joseph Trumpeldor
Russian world war i veteran.
Born December 3rd, 1880 in Pyatigorsk.
Died March 1st, 1920 at 39 years old in Tel Hai (ballistic trauma). [ref]
Eleanor H. Porter
American novelist.
Born December 19th, 1868 in Littleton.
Died May 21st, 1920 at 51 years old in Cambridge.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. William Saroyan