Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 20-Jan

Died on This Day (20-Jan)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Paul Bocuse	Paul Bocuse was a French chef based in paris who was known for the high quality of his food A student of Eugénie Brazier, he was one of the most prominent chefs associated with the nouvelle cuisine, which is less opulent and calorific than the traditional cuisine classique, and stresses the importance of fresh ingredients of the highest quality.	French chef	91	2
	Lord Weidenfeld	George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, was a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist.	British publisher, philanthropist, and columnist	96	4
	Claudio Abbado	Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation.	Conductor	80	6
	Bruce Gordon	Bruce Gordon was an American actor best known for playing gangster Frank Nitti in the ABC television series The Untouchables.	American actor	94	9
	Per Borten	was a Norwegian politician from the Centre Party and Prime Minister of Norway from 1965 to 1971.	Norwegian politician	91	15
	Franklin E. Sigler	Private First Class Franklin Earl Sigler was an American Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Iwo Jima campaign – a one-man assault on a Japanese gun position which had been holding up the advance of his company for several days, and for annihilating the enemy gun crew with hand grenades.	US Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient	70	25
	Gillis William Long	Gillis William Long was an American politician and lawyer who served as a U.	Recipient of the Purple Heart medal	61	35
	Richard Malik	Richard Malik was a German international footballer.	Association footballer	35	75
	Benjamin F. Martin	Benjamin Franklin Martin was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and West Virginia.	American politician	66	125
	Charles Yorke	Charles Yorke PC was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.	British politician	47	250

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Emma Tennant	Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was a British novelist and editor known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, which is often imbued with fantasy or magic.	British novelist and editor	79	3
	Ricardo dos Santos	Ricardo dos Santos was a Brazilian surfer. Dos Santos reached the quarterfinals at the 2012 Billabong Pro event in Tahiti in defeating among others Kelly Slater.	Brazilian surfer	24	5
	Etta James	Jamesetta Hawkins , known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.	American blues, soul, rhythm-and-blues	73	8
	Abraham Sutzkever	Abraham Sutzkever was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. The New York Times wrote that Sutzkever was "the greatest poet of the Holocaust.	Israeli poet	96	10
	Ron Herbel	Ronald Samuel Herbel was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in 331 games, all but 79 in relief, for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, New York Mets and Atlanta Braves.	American baseball player	62	20
	Barbara Stanwyck	Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress, model, and dancer.	American actress, model, and dancer	82	30
	George M. Humphrey	George Magoffin Humphrey was an American lawyer, businessman and banker.	American politician	79	50
	Mato Celestin Medović	Mato Celestin Medović was a Croatian painter. Best known for his large paintings depicting historical scenes, and his series of colourful landscapes and seascapes of his native Dalmatia, Medović is one of the earliest modern Croatian painters.	Croatian painter	62	100
	George Seymour	Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour was a Royal Navy officer.	Royal Navy admiral of the fleet	82	150
	Giovanni Maria Lancisi	Giovanni Maria Lancisi was an Italian physician, epidemiologist and anatomist who made a correlation between the presence of mosquitoes and the prevalence of malaria.	Italian physician	65	300