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People who died on April 20, 1989 (the exact day you were born)
Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot
Natural disasters in 1989
Hurricane Hugo
Loma Prieta earthquake
1989 Newcastle earthquake
People who died on April 20 (various years)
2007 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop
2007 - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist
2006 - Anna Svidersky (b. April 26, 1988)
2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player
2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist
2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer
2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908) Layne Staley
2002 - Layne Staley , American singer
2002 - Alan Dale, American singer
2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer
1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian
1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler
1999 - Victims of the Columbine High School massacre
1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne
1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor
1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor
1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian
1991 - Don Siegel, American film director
1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer
1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer
1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress
1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach
1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player
1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy
1947 - King Christian X of Denmark
1945 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist
1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author
1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist
1873 - William Tite, English architect
1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman
1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician
1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon
1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa
1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials
1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain
1643 - Christoph Demantius, German composer
1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer
1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China
1314 - Pope Clement V
1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier