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Famous People Who Died in July 1920

  • Jul 2 William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer, dies at 74
  • Jul 3 William Crawford Gorgas, American physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
  • Jul 5 John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies
  • Jul 5 Max Klinger, German graphic artist, painter and sculptor (Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove), dies at 63
  • Jul 10 Eugénie de Montijo, Emperor of France (1853-71), dies at 94
  • Jul 10 Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
  • Jul 10 John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
  • Jul 22 William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)
  • Jul 23 Conrad Kohrs, German-born cattle rancher in Montana, dies at 84
  • Jul 24 Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer whose novels were often made into films (Hubertus Castle) dies at 65
  • Jul 26 Carlos Troyer, American composer, dies at 83