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Who died on 20 October?
Celebrities who died on 20 October
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James Randi
Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent

Jerry Pinkney
African American children's book illustrator and writer

Burt Lancaster
American film actor

Jacques Copeau
French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist

Merle Travis
American country/Western singer-songwriter and musician

Aquilino Pimentel, Jr.
Filipino politician, 2000-2001 President of the Senate of the Philippines

Harold Drew
American college football coach, college basketball coach

Wim Kok
Dutch trade unionist and politician

Irina Skobtseva
Soviet and Russian actress

Andjar Asmara
Indonesian journalist, film director, and dramatist

Ronnie Van Zant
American singer and songwriter

Mecha Ortiz
actress

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist

Eva Ibbotson
British children's writer

Joel McCrea
American actor

Don Cohan
sailor

Jane Wyatt
American actress

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
Canadian architect

Sergei Bondarchuk
Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, and actor

Gilberto Aceves Navarro
Mexican artist

Werner Krauss
actor

Mary Chase
American writer

Jack Elam
American film actor

Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III
American politician

Ari Up
German punk rock singer

Shirley Horn
American singer

Anthony Quayle
English actor and director

Michael Massee
American actor

Derryl Cousins
former baseball umpire from the United States

Ron Masak
American actor

Zheng Xiaosong
Chinese politician and diplomat

Max McGee
American football player

Mel Harder
American baseball player and coach

Hal Lahar
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator

Dahn Ben-Amotz
Israeli writer

Yuriy Tyutyunnyk
Ukrainian general

Dariusz Gnatowski
Polish actor

Paul Raven
musician

Cory Wells
American singer

Patrick Wymark
English, stage, film, and television actor

Hans Haselböck
Austrian composer and musician

John Michelosen
American football player and coach

Bud Flanagan
music hall comedy double act

Sue Lloyd
English model and actress

Eric Cooper
baseball umpire from the United States

Federico Luppi
Argentine actor

Chuck Hiller
American baseball player

Slavko Vorkapić
American filmmaker and film editor