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.

1900s

1906: Death of Paul Cézanne.

1910s

1910: Deaths of Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain.
1918: Death of Gavrilo Princip.

1930s

1937: Deaths of George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel.
1939: Death of Sigmund Freud.

1940s

1941: Death of Rabindranath Tagore.
1944: Death of Edvard Munch.
1945: Deaths of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Anne Frank.
1948: Death of Babe Ruth.
1949: Death of Charles Ponzi

1950s

1952: Deaths of George VI and Eva Perón.
1953: Death of Joseph Stalin.

1960s

1969: Death of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1970s

1970: Deaths of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin.
1972: Deaths of Jackie Robinson.
1973: Deaths of Pablo Picasso and Bruce Lee.
1975: Deaths of Francisco Franco, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
1976: Deaths of Mao Zedong and Kazi Nazrul Islam.
1977: Deaths of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Bing Crosby, Joan Crawford, and Groucho Marx.
1979: Death of John Wayne.

1980s

1980: Deaths of Bon Scott, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, and Peter Sellers.
1981: Deaths of Bob Marley, Natalie Wood, and Jack Albertson.
1982: Deaths of John Belushi and Grace Kelly
1984: Deaths of Yuri Andropov, Andy Kaufman, and Richard Burton.
1985: Deaths of Konstantin Chernenko, Rock Hudson, Ricky Nelson, and Margaret Hamilton.
1986: Death of 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 Emperor Hirohito, Salvador Dalí, Bette Davis, and Mel Blanc.

1990s

1990: Death of Jim Henson.
1991: Deaths of Freddie Mercury, Dr. Seuss, Redd Foxx, and Michael Landon.
1993: Deaths of Audrey Hepburn, River Phoenix, Andre the Giant, and Vincent Price.
1994: Deaths of Richard Nixon, John Candy, and Ayrton Senna.
1995: Deaths of Dean Martin, Jerry Garcia, Ginger Rogers, and Lana Turner
1996: Deaths of Gene Kelly and George Burns.
1997: Deaths of Chris Farley, Mother Teresa, and John Denver.
1998: Deaths of Frank Sinatra, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry.
1999: Deaths of John F. Kennedy, Jr., Owen Hart, Stanley Kubrick, DeForest Kelley, Oliver Reed, and George C. Scott.

2000s

2000: Deaths of Charles Schulz, Alec Guinness, Jim Varney, Walter Matthau, Tom Landry, and Steve Allen.

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