Deaths of the 20th century

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
*: Death of Oscar Wilde.
*: Death of Queen Victoria.
*: Death of Jules Verne.
*: Death of Paul Cézanne.
*: Death of Grover Cleveland.

1910s
*: Deaths of Leo Tolstoy, Florence Nightingale, and Mark Twain.
*: Death of Bram Stoker.
*: Death of Gavrilo Princip.
*: Death of Theodore Roosevelt.

1920s
*: Death of Alexander Graham Bell.
*: Deaths of Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson.
*: Deaths of Rudolph Valentino, Harry Houdini, and Annie Oakley.
*: Death of Wyatt Earp.

1930s
*: Deaths of William Howard Taft, Arthur Conan Doyle.
*: Death of Thomas Edison.
*: Death of Calvin Coolidge.
*: Deaths of Marie Curie, John Dillinger.
*: Death of Rudyard Kipling.
*: Deaths of George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel.
*: Deaths of Sigmund Freud, Douglas Fairbanks.

1940s
*: Deaths of Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
*: Deaths of Virginia Woolf, Rabindranath Tagore.
*: Death of Nikola Tesla.
*: Death of Edvard Munch.
*: Deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini.
*: Death of H. G. Wells.
*: Deaths of Al Capone, Henry Ford.
*: Deaths of Mahatma Gandhi, Babe Ruth.
*: Death of Charles Ponzi

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

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

1970s
*: Deaths of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jimi Hendrix, and Charles de Gaulle.
*: Deaths of Jim Morrison, Louis Armstrong, and Nikita Khrushchev.
*: Deaths of J. Edgar Hoover, Jackie Robinson, and Harry S. Truman.
*: Deaths of Lyndon B. Johnson, Pablo Picasso, Betty Grable, and Bruce Lee.
*: Deaths of Juan Perón, Charles Lindbergh.
*: Deaths of Francisco Franco, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Mujibur Rahman.
*: Deaths of Agatha Christie, Howard Hughes, and Mao Zedong.
*: Deaths of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, and Joan Crawford.
*: Deaths of Jack L. Warner, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul I.
*: Deaths of Sid Vicious, Mary Pickford, and John Wayne.
1980s
*: Deaths of Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, and Peter Sellers.
*: Deaths of Bob Marley, Natalie Wood, and Jack Albertson.
*: Deaths of John Belushi, Henry Fonda, and Grace Kelly.
*: Deaths of Tennessee Williams, David Niven.
*: Deaths of Yuri Andropov, Andy Kaufman, and Truman Capote.
*: Deaths of Konstantin Chernenko, Orson Welles, and Rock Hudson.
*: Deaths of James Cagney, Harold Macmillan, and Cary Grant.
*: Deaths of Andy Warhol, Fred Astaire, and Rita Hayworth.
*: Deaths of Heather O'Rourke, Judith Barsi, and Roy Orbison.
*: Deaths of Hirohito, Salvador Dalí, and Mel Blanc.

1990s
*: Deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Leonard Bernstein, and Jim Henson.
*: Deaths of Gene Roddenberry, Freddie Mercury, and Dr. Seuss.
*: Deaths of Isaac Asimov, Benny Hill, and Peyo.
*: Deaths of Audrey Hepburn, André the Giant, and Pablo Escobar.
*: Deaths of Richard Nixon, John Candy, and Kurt Cobain.
*: 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.

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