Actors Who Died on March 20
- 1730 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (Comédie-Française) inspiration for 1849 drama "Adrienne Lecouvreur", dies at 37
- 1947 Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and film director (Ebberöds bank, Med folket för fosterlandet), dies at 62
- 1968 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies at 79
- 1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter, graphic artist and cartoonist, dies at 51
- 1972 Marilyn Maxwell, American actress and entertainer (Champion, The Lemon Drop Kid, East of Sumatra), dies of a heart attack at 50
- 1974 Chet Huntley, American newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
- 1976 Michael Goodliffe, British actor (A Night to Remember, Cromwell, 5th Day of Peace), commits suicide at 61
- 1989 Alan Gifford [John Lennox], American actor (Time Lock, 2001: A Space Odyssey), dies at 78
- 1990 Maurice Cloche, French film director and screenwriter, dies at 82
- 1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
- 1992 Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon, A Little Romance), dies of a heart attack at 67
- 1994 Don Goddard, American news anchor (ABC Evening News, 1958-59), dies at 89
- 1994 Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
- 1995 John Minton [Big John Studd], American pro wrestler (Royal Rumble 1989), dies from liver cancer and Hodgkin's disease at 47
- 1998 Beverley Cross, English playwright and screenwriter (Strip the Willow; Half a Sixpence), dies at 66
- 2000 Gene Eugene [Andrusco], Canadian-American actor, singer-songwriter (Adam Again; Lost Dogs), and record producer, dies of a brain aneurysm at 38
- 2003 Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
- 2005 Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
- 2008 Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
- 2008 Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
- 2012 Mel Parnell, American MLB pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1947-56), coach, and broadcaster, dies from cancer at 89
- 2015 Gregory Walcott, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space, 87th Precinct), dies at 87
- 2015 Jim Berry, American cartoonist (Berry's World), dies at 83
- 2015 Perro Aguayo, Jr., Mexican wrestler (CMLL), dies of cardiac arrest in the ring at 35
- 2018 Katie Boyle [Lady Sander Saunders], Italian born British actress and broadcaster (Eurovision), dies at 91
Assassination
Drug Overdose
Gunshot Wound
Murder
Plane Crash
Suicide