Deaths of the 20th century

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This is the list of people whose death was a major event in the 20th century. More deaths can be found via links to the individual year pages, or see lists of deaths by year.

1900s

• 1900: Death of Oscar Wilde.
• 1901: Death of Queen Victoria.
• 1905: Death of Jules Verne.
• 1906: Death of Paul Cézanne.
• 1908: Death of Grover Cleveland.

1910s

• 1910: Deaths of Leo Tolstoy, Florence Nightingale, and Mark Twain.
• 1912: Death of Bram Stoker.
• 1918: Death of Gavrilo Princip.
• 1919: Death of Theodore Roosevelt.

1920s

• 1922: Death of Alexander Graham Bell.
• 1924: Deaths of Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson.
• 1926: Deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Harry Houdini, and Annie Oakley.
• 1929: Death of Wyatt Earp.

1930s

• 1930: Deaths of William Howard Taft, Arthur Conan Doyle.
• 1931: Death of Thomas Edison.
• 1933: Death of Calvin Coolidge.
• 1934: Deaths of Marie Curie, John Dillinger.
• 1936: Death of Rudyard Kipling.
• 1937: Deaths of George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel.
• 1939: Deaths of Sigmund Freud, Douglas Fairbanks.

1940s

• 1940: Deaths of Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• 1941: Deaths of Virginia Woolf, Rabindranath Tagore.
• 1943: Death of Nikola Tesla.
• 1944: Death of Edvard Munch.
• 1945: Deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
• 1946: Death of H. G. Wells.
• 1947: Deaths of Al Capone, Henry Ford.
• 1948: Deaths of Mahatma Gandhi, Babe Ruth.
• 1949: Death of Charles Ponzi

1950s

• 1950: Death of George Orwell.
• 1952: Deaths of George VI, Eva Perón.
• 1953: Deaths of Hank Williams, Joseph Stalin.
• 1954: Deaths of Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, and Henri Matisse.
• 1955: Deaths of Albert Einstein, Carmen Miranda, and James Dean.
• 1957: Death of Humphrey Bogart.
• 1958: Death of Tyrone Power.
• 1959: Deaths of Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Billie Holiday.

1960s

• 1960: Death of Clark Gable.
• 1961: Deaths of Gary Cooper, Ernest Hemingway.
• 1962: Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Niels Bohr.
• 1963: Death of John F. Kennedy.
• 1964: Deaths of Alan Ladd, Douglas MacArthur, and Herbert Hoover.
• 1965: Deaths of T. S. Eliot, Winston Churchill, and Malcolm X.
• 1966: Deaths of Buster Keaton, Montgomery Clift, and Walt Disney.
• 1967: Deaths of Spencer Tracy, Brian Epstein, and Che Guevara.
• 1968: Deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and John Steinbeck.
• 1969: Deaths of Boris Karloff, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ho Chi Minh.

1970s

• 1970: Deaths of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jimi Hendrix, and Charles de Gaulle.
• 1971: Deaths of Jim Morrison, Louis Armstrong, and Nikita Khrushchev.
• 1972: Deaths of J. Edgar Hoover, Jackie Robinson, and Harry S. Truman.
• 1973: Deaths of Lyndon B. Johnson, Pablo Picasso, Betty Grable, and Bruce Lee.
• 1974: Deaths of Juan Perón, Charles Lindbergh.
• 1975: Deaths of Francisco Franco, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Mujibur Rahman.
• 1976: Deaths of Agatha Christie, Howard Hughes, and Mao Zedong.
• 1977: Deaths of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, and Joan Crawford.
• 1978: Deaths of Jack L. Warner, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul I.
• 1979: Deaths of Sid Vicious, Mary Pickford, and John Wayne.

1980s

• 1980: Deaths of Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, and Peter Sellers.
• 1981: Deaths of Bob Marley, Natalie Wood, and Jack Albertson.
• 1982: Deaths of John Belushi, Henry Fonda, and Grace Kelly.
• 1983: Deaths of Tennessee Williams, David Niven.
• 1984: Deaths of Yuri Andropov, Andy Kaufman, and Truman Capote.
• 1985: Deaths of Konstantin Chernenko, Orson Welles, and Rock Hudson.
• 1986: Deaths of James Cagney, Harold Macmillan, and Cary Grant.
• 1987: Deaths of Andy Warhol, Fred Astaire, and Rita Hayworth.
• 1988: Deaths of Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, and Roy Orbison.
• 1989: Deaths of Hirohito, Salvador Dalí, and Mel Blanc.

1990s

• 1990: Deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Leonard Bernstein, and Jim Henson.
• 1991: Deaths of Gene Roddenberry, Freddie Mercury, and Dr. Seuss.
• 1992: Deaths of Isaac Asimov, Benny Hill, and Peyo.
• 1993: Deaths of Audrey Hepburn, André the Giant, and Pablo Escobar.
• 1994: Deaths of Richard Nixon, John Candy, and Kurt Cobain.
• 1995: Deaths of Dean Martin, Jerry Garcia, Ginger Rogers, and Lana Turner.
• Deaths in 1996: Gene Kelly, Ella Fitzgerald, and George Burns.
• Deaths in 1997: Princess Diana, Chris Farley, and Mother Teresa.
• Deaths in 1998: Frank Sinatra, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry.
• Deaths in 1999: Owen Hart, Stanley Kubrick, and Joe DiMaggio.

2000s

• Deaths in 2000: Charles M. Schulz, Tom Landry, and Steve Allen.

See also

• Lists of deaths by year
• Deaths of the 21st century
• Timeline of the 20th century

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