October 20 Deaths |
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| October 20th, 2007 (October 20 2007) | Death | Max McGee, American football player (born in 1932) | |
| October 20th, 2007 (October 20 2007) | Death | Paul Raven, British bass-player (Killing Joke, Ministry) (born in 1961) | |
| October 20th, 2006 (October 20 2006) | Death | Jane Wyatt, American actress (born in 1910) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Shirley Horn, American singer (born in 1934) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (born in 1941) | |
| October 20th, 2005 (October 20 2005) | Death | Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (born in 1940) | |
| October 20th, 2004 (October 20 2004) | Death | Anthony Hecht, American poet (born in 1923) | |
| October 20th, 2004 (October 20 2004) | Death | Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (born in 1934) | |
| October 20th, 2003 (October 20 2003) | Death | Jack Elam, American actor (born in 1918) | |
| October 20th, 2003 (October 20 2003) | Death | Miodrag Petrovic, Serbian actor (born in 1924) | |
| October 20th, 2002 (October 20 2002) | Death | Barbara Berjer, American actress (born in 1920) | |
| October 20th, 2002 (October 20 2002) | Death | Bernard Fresson, French actor (born in 1931) | |
| October 20th, 2001 (October 20 2001) | Death | Ted Ammon, American financier (born in 1949) | |
| October 20th, 1999 (October 20 1999) | Death | Calvin Griffith, Former owner of Washington Senators (born in 1911) | |
| October 20th, 1995 (October 20 1995) | Death | Christopher Stone, American actor (born in 1942) | |
| October 20th, 1994 (October 20 1994) | Death | Burt Lancaster, American actor (born in 1913) | |
| October 20th, 1993 (October 20 1993) | Death | Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (born in 1909) | |
| October 20th, 1992 (October 20 1992) | Death | Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (born in 1926) | |
| October 20th, 1990 (October 20 1990) | Death | Joel McCrea, American actor (born in 1905) | |
| October 20th, 1989 (October 20 1989) | Death | Anthony Quayle, English actor (born in 1913) | Anthony Quayle Quotes |
| October 20th, 1988 (October 20 1988) | Death | Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (born in 1922) | |
| October 20th, 1987 (October 20 1987) | Death | Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (born in 1903) | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Death | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1896) | |
| October 20th, 1984 (October 20 1984) | Death | Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1902) | Paul Dirac Quotes |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Death | Peter Dudley, British actor | |
| October 20th, 1983 (October 20 1983) | Death | Yves Theriault, French Canadian author (born in 1915) | |
| October 20th, 1972 (October 20 1972) | Death | Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (born in 1885) | |
| October 20th, 1968 (October 20 1968) | Death | Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (born in 1896) | |
| October 20th, 1967 (October 20 1967) | Death | Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (born in 1878) | |
| October 20th, 1964 (October 20 1964) | Death | Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (born in 1874) | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| October 20th, 1953 (October 20 1953) | Death | Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (born in 1916) | |
| October 20th, 1940 (October 20 1940) | Death | Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect (born in 1885) | |
| October 20th, 1936 (October 20 1936) | Death | Anne Sullivan, American teacher (born in 1866) | |
| October 20th, 1935 (October 20 1935) | Death | Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1863) | |
| October 20th, 1926 (October 20 1926) | Death | Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (born in 1855) | |
| October 20th, 1910 (October 20 1910) | Death | David B. Hill, Governor of New York (born in 1843) | |
| October 20th, 1907 (October 20 1907) | Death | Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834) | |
| October 20th, 1900 (October 20 1900) | Death | Naim Frasheri, Albanian poet (born in 1846) | |
| October 20th, 1890 (October 20 1890) | Death | Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (born in 1821) | |
| October 20th, 1865 (October 20 1865) | Death | Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerrilla (born in 1821) | |
| October 20th, 1842 (October 20 1842) | Death | Grace Darling, English heroine (born in 1815) | |
| October 20th, 1740 (October 20 1740) | Death | Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1685) | Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Quotes |
| October 20th, 1713 (October 20 1713) | Death | Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (born in 1652) | |
| October 20th, 1652 (October 20 1652) | Death | Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (born in 1611) | |
| October 20th, 1640 (October 20 1640) | Death | John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (born in 1585) | |
| October 20th, 1631 (October 20 1631) | Death | Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (born in 1550) | |
| October 20th, 1570 (October 20 1570) | Death | Joao de Barros, Portuguese historian (born in 1496) | |
| October 20th, 1139 (October 20 1139) | Death | Henry X, Duke of Bavaria | |
| October 20th, 0460 (October 20 0460) | Death | Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress | |
