[align=center][img]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/6716/diert7.jpg[/img] [b]Unusual Deaths in 1987[/b] * Dick shawn, a comedian who starred in the 1968 movie the producers, died of a heart attack while portraying a politician. just before he died, he announced, "if elected, i will not lay down on the job,". * R. budd dwyer, a republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, dwyer shot himself in the mouth with a revolver. [b] Natural disasters in 1987[/b] * 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake * Edmonton Tornado * Great Storm of 1987 * Whittier Narrows earthquake [b] People who died on November 20 (various years)[/b] * 2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician * 2006 - Andre Waters, American football player * 2006 - Robert Altman, American film director * 2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician * 2005 - James King, American singer * 2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist * 2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet * 2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) * 2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host * 2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer * 2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor * 2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor * 2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General * 2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur * 2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic * 2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) * 2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer * 2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer * 1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister * 1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician * 1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player * 1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion * 1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer * 1990- Dylan Francis Robert McGurk, Child prodigy * 1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor * 1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia * 1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet * 1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist * 1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) * 1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian * 1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875) * 1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) * 1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer * 1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate * 1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer * 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad. * 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist * 1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist * 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom * 1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist * 1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician * 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer * 1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician * 1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist * 1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician * 1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer * 1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat * 1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain * 1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist * 1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave * 1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands * 1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier * 1612 - John Harington, English writer * 1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician * 1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio * 1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer * 1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier * 1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor * 1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316) * 870 - King Edmund of East Anglia[/align]