Famous Deaths for 20th February 2026

702 – K’inich Kan B’alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
1810 – Johann Friedrich Kranz, German composer, dies at 57
1892 – Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
1959 – Ray McDonald, American stage and screen tap dancer, dies choking on food at 38
1970 – Albert Louis Wolff, French conductor and composer, dies at 86
1984 – Giuseppe Colombo, Italian mathematician and engineer who studied Mercury, known as ‘the grandfather of the flyby’, dies at 63
1992 – Eugene R. Black, American President of World Bank (1953-62), dies at 93
2005 – Tom Willmore, English geometer, dies at 85
2008 – Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2022 – Leo Bersani, American literary critic and scholar known for his writings on the AIDS crisis (Homos), dies at 90

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