Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 20-Aug

Died on This Day (20-Aug)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Richard Booth	Richard George William Pitt Booth was a British bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling.	Welsh bookseller	80	1
	Jerry Lewis	Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian nicknamed "The King of Comedy" and widely known for his "kid" and "idiot" persona of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.	American comedian	91	3
	Melody Patterson	Melody Patricia Patterson was an American actress known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s television series F Troop and for her role as Ellie in the cult horror film Blood and Lace .	American actress	66	5
	Phyllis Diller	Phyllis Ada Diller was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist, best known for her eccentric stage persona, self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.	American actress	95	8
	Conny Mus	Coenraad Willem "Conny" Mus was a Dutch journalist, known as a correspondent for RTL Nieuws in Israel and the Middle East.	Dutch journalist	59	10
	Mitch Halpern	Mitchell Howard Halpern was an American boxing referee who officiated some of the sport's biggest matches.	Boxing Referee	33	20
	Wolfgang Gröbner	Wolfgang Gröbner was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry.	Austrian mathematician	81	40
	Hildo Krop	Hildebrand Lucien Krop was a prolific Dutch sculptor and furniture designer, widely known as the city sculptor of Amsterdam, where his work is well represented.	Dutch sculptor	86	50
	Frank L. Smith	Frank Leslie Smith was an Illinois politician.	American politician	82	70
	Herbert Hall Turner	Herbert Hall Turner FRS was a British astronomer and seismologist.	British scientist	69	90

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Uri Avnery	Uri Avnery was an Israeli writer, politician, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.	Israeli writer	94	2
	Brian Rix	Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including Dry Rot, Simple Spymen and One for the Pot.	British actor and activist	92	4
	Elmore Leonard	Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.	Novelist, screenwriter	87	7
	Chal Port	Chalmers "Chal" Port was a college baseball coach at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.	American baseball coach	80	9
	Fred Hoyle	Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.	English astronomer, writer	86	19
	Hugo Pratt	Ugo Eugenio Prat, better known as Hugo Pratt , was an Italian comic book creator who was known for combining strong storytelling with extensive historical research on works such as Corto Maltese.	Comic creator	68	25
	Adolf Dymsza	Adolf Dymsza was a Polish comedy actor of both the pre-World War II and post-war eras.	Polish actor	75	45
	Víctor Domingo Silva	Víctor Domingo Silva Endeiza was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer.	Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer	78	60
	Alexander Roda Roda	Alexander Roda Roda was an Austrian writer.	Austrian writer	73	75
	Herbert Edward Ryle	Sir Herbert Edward Ryle was an English Old Testament scholar and Anglican bishop, successively serving as the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Winchester and the Dean of Westminster.	British bishop	69	95