Famous Deaths for 20th April 2023

1164 – Victor IV [Ottaviano Montecello], Italian antipope (1159-64), dies
1900 – Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter, dies at 68
1956 – Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist and composer (Stabat mater), dies at 59
1965 – Dick Wessel, American actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie), dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday
1968 – Marion Weeks, American silent film actress, and Ziegfield Follies singer and dancer, dies of stroke at 81
1991 – Sean O’Faolain [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple), dies at 91
1995 – Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1995 – Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician and writer (The New Class), dies at 83
2014 – Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, American boxer (famous murder conviction overturned after 19 years imprisonment), dies of prostate cancer at 76
2018 – Allan B. Swift, American broadcast journalist and politician (US Representative for Washington (D), 1979-95), dies at 82

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