Notable Deaths on February 20

Q: Who died on February 20?

Notable people who died on February 20 include: Leo of Catania, Theodora, Yaroslav the Wise, Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (born c. 1080), Conan IV.

Q: What is Katie Hall known for?

Katie Hall, American educator and politician (born 1938)

95 people 789 – 2025

February 20 has seen 95 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 789 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2012 — Katie Hall

American educator and politician (born 1938)

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When Hall was sworn into federal office on November 2, 1982, she became the first black woman from Indiana to serve in the U.S

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Hall represented Indiana's 1st Congressional District in the final months of the 97th Congress and an entire two-year term in the 98th Congress from 1983 to 1985

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House in 1983 to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday after previous efforts had failed

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3706 to establish the third Monday in January as a federal holiday in King's honor was introduced in July 1983 and passed in the House on August 2, 1983

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President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law on November 2, 1983.

Leo of Catania

saint and bishop of Catania (born 709)

Saint Leo of Catania, also known as the Thaumaturgus, or St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily, was the fifteenth bishop of Catania, famed also for his love and care toward the poor. His feast day occurs on 20 February, the…

789

Theodora

Byzantine empress

Theodora was a humble Greek woman who became Byzantine empress consort by marriage to Romanos I Lekapenos.

922

Yaroslav the Wise

grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kyiv (born 978)

Yaroslav I Vladimirovich, better known as Yaroslav the Wise, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1019 until his death in 1054. He was also earlier Prince of Novgorod from 1010 to 1034 and Prince of Rostov from 987 to 1010,…

1054

Saint Wulfric of Haselbury (born c. 1080)

Wulfric of Haselbury was an anchorite and miracle worker in Wiltshire and Somerset, England, frequently visited by King Stephen. His feast day is 20 February.

1154

Conan IV

Duke of Brittany (born 1138)

Conan IV, called the Young, was the Duke of Brittany from 1156 to 1166. He was the son of Bertha, Duchess of Brittany, and her first husband, Alan, Earl of Richmond. Conan IV was his father's heir as Earl of Richmond…

1171

Tancred

King of Sicily (born 1138)

Tancred was King of Sicily from 1189 to 1194. He was born in Lecce, an illegitimate son of Roger III, Duke of Apulia by his mistress Emma, a daughter of Achard II, Count of Lecce. He is often referred to as Tancred of…

1194

Al-Musta'sim

Iraqi caliph (born 1213)

Abu Ahmad Abdallah ibn al-Mustansir bi'llah, better known by his regnal title Al-Mustaʿṣim bi-llāh, was the 37th and last caliph from the Abbasid dynasty ruling from Baghdad. He held the title from 1242 until his death…

1258

Henry Percy

1st Earl of Northumberland, English politician, Earl Marshal of England (born 1341)

Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Baron Percy, titular King of Mann, KG, Lord Marshal, was an English statesman and a leading political figure during the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV. One of the most…

1408

Pope Martin V (born 1368)

Pope Martin V, born Oddone Colonna, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 November 1417 to his death in February 1431. His election effectively ended the Western Schism of 1378–1417.…

1431

Lazar Branković

Despot of Serbia

Lazar Branković was Despot of Serbia from 1456 to 1458. He was the third son of Despot Đurađ Branković and his wife, Eirene Kantakouzene. He died without sons, and was succeeded by his elder brother, Despot Stefan…

1458

King John of Denmark

Norway, and Sweden (born 1455)

Hans, or sometimes called John was a Scandinavian monarch who ruled under the Kalmar Union. He was King of Denmark from 1482 to 1513, King of Norway from 1483 to 1513, and King of Sweden from 1497 to 1501. Additionally,…

1513

Tecun Uman

Mayan ruler (born 1500)

Tecun Uman was one of the last rulers of the K'iche' Maya people, in the Highlands of what is now Guatemala. According to the Kaqchikel annals, he was slain by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado while waging battle…

1524

Nicholas Bacon

English politician (born 1509)

Sir Nicholas Bacon was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.

1579

Philip William

Prince of Orange (born 1554)

Philip William, Prince of Orange was the eldest son of William the Silent by his first wife Anna van Egmont. He became Prince of Orange in 1584 and Knight of the Golden Fleece in 1599.

1618

John Dowland

English lute player and composer (born 1563)

John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe", "Now o now I…

1626

Tobias Mayer

German astronomer and academic (born 1723)

Tobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.

1762

Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan

French geophysicist and astronomer (born 1678)

Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan was a French natural philosopher (physicist), born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later…

1771

Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (born 1701)

Charles Emmanuel III was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from his father's abdication on 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three…

1773

Laura Bassi

Italian physicist and scholar (born 1711)

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti was an Italian physicist and academic. Recognized and depicted as "Minerva", she was the first woman to have a doctorate in science, and the second woman in the world to earn the…

1778

Joseph II

Holy Roman Emperor (born 1741)

Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from 18 August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 29 November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and…

1790

Lachlan McIntosh

Scottish-American general and politician (born 1725)

Lachlan McIntosh was a Scottish American military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. In a 1777 duel, he fatally shot Button Gwinnett, who had signed the Declaration of…

1806

Andreas Hofer

Tyrolean rebel leader (born 1767)

Andreas Hofer was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover who became the leader of the 1809 Tyrolean Rebellion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. Hofer, besides that, led troops in the battles of Bergisel during the…

1810

Valentín Canalizo

Mexican general and politician. 14th President (1843–1844) (born 1794)

José Valentín Raimundo Canalizo Bocadillo, was a Mexican general and statesman who served twice as interim president during the Centralist Republic of Mexico and was later made Minister of War during the Mexican…

1850

William Wallace Lincoln

American son of Abraham Lincoln (born 1850)

William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the third son of U.S. President Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Willie was named after Mary's brother-in-law, Dr. William Smith Wallace. He died of typhoid fever at the White House,…

1862

Paul Kane

Irish-Canadian painter (born 1810)

Paul Kane was an Irish-born Canadian painter whose paintings and especially field sketches were known as one of the first visual documents of Western indigenous life.

1871

P. G. T. Beauregard

American general (born 1818)

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard was an American military officer known for being the Confederate general who started the American Civil War at the battle of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Today, he is commonly…

1893

Frederick Douglass

American author and activist (born c. 1818)

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most important leader of the movement for African-American civil rights in the 19th century.

1895

Washakie

American tribal leader (born 1798)

Washakie was a prominent leader of the Shoshone people during the mid-19th century. He was first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper…

1900

Henri Moissan

French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds. Among his other contributions, Moissan discovered…

1907

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1844)

Klas Pontus Arnoldson was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 with Fredrik Bajer. He was a founding member of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration…

1916

Jacinta Marto

Portuguese saint (born 1910)

Francisco de Jesus Marto and Jacinta de Jesus Marto were siblings from Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima, Portugal, who, with their cousin Lúcia dos Santos (1907–2005), reportedly witnessed three apparitions of the…

1920

Robert Peary

American admiral and explorer (born 1856)

Robert Edwin Peary was an American explorer and officer in the United States Navy who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was long credited as being the discoverer of the…

1920

Takiji Kobayashi

Japanese writer (born 1903)

Takiji Kobayashi was a Japanese writer of proletarian literature. He is best known for his short novel Kani Kōsen, or Crab Cannery Ship, published in 1929. It tells the story of the hard life of cannery workers,…

1933

Max Schreck

German actor (born 1879)

Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922).

1936

Viktor Gutić

Croatian fascist official (born 1901)

Viktor Gutić was the Ustaše commissioner for Banja Luka and the Grand Prefect of Pokuplje in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), an Axis puppet state during World War II. He was responsible for the persecution of…

1947

Sadri Maksudi Arsal

Turkish scholar and politician (born 1878)

Sadri Maksudi Arsal was one of the leading figures in the national awakening of Tatars in Russia during the early 1900s. He worked as a writer, lawyer, politician, professor, lecturer, researcher of Turkic languages and…

1957

Percy Grainger

Australian-American pianist and composer (born 1882)

Percy Aldridge Grainger was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a…

1961

Jacob Gade

Danish violinist and composer (born 1879)

Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, Jalousie.

1963

Michał Waszyński

Polish film director and producer (born 1904)

Michał Waszyński was first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later a producer of major American films, mainly in Spain. Known for his elegance and impeccable manners, he was known by his acquaintances as…

1965

Chester W. Nimitz

American admiral (born 1885)

Chester William Nimitz was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas,…

1966

Anthony Asquith

English director and screenwriter (born 1902)

Anthony Asquith was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films…

1968

Ernest Ansermet

Swiss conductor (born 1883)

Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.

1969

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

Maria Goeppert Mayer was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner. One half of the prize was awarded jointly to Goeppert Mayer and…

1972

Walter Winchell

American journalist and actor (born 1897)

Walter Winchell was an American syndicated newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator. Originally a vaudeville performer, Winchell began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic and columnist for…

1972

René Cassin

French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

René Samuel Cassin was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

1976

Kathryn Kuhlman

healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (born 1907)

Kathryn Kuhlman was an American Christian evangelist, preacher and minister who was referred to by the press as a faith healer.

1976

Nicolas de Gunzburg

French-American banker and publisher (born 1904)

Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg, also known as Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, was a French-born magazine editor and socialite. He became an editor at several American publications, including Town & Country, Vogue, and…

1981

Wayne Boring

American illustrator (born 1905)

Wayne Boring was an American comic book artist best known for his work on Superman from the late 1940s to 1950s. He occasionally used the pseudonym Jack Harmon.

1987

A. J. Casson

Canadian painter (born 1898)

Alfred Joseph Casson was a member of the Canadian group of artists known as the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 at the invitation of Franklin Carmichael, replacing Frank Johnston. Casson is best known for…

1992

Barbara Lüdemann

German politician (born 1922)

Barbara Lüdemann was a German teacher and politician who served in the Bundestag from 1973 until 1976. A member of the Free Democratic Party from Hesse, she became a prominent figure in German family policy, especially…

1992

Dick York

American actor (born 1928)

Richard Allen York was an American actor. He was the first actor to play Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He played teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960).

1992

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (born 1916)

Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.

1993

Ernest L. Massad

American general (born 1908)

Ernest Louis "Iron Mike" Massad was a college football star, major general of the U.S. Army, and successful oilman.

1993

Solomon Asch

American psychologist and academic (born 1907)

Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish-American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He conducted seminal research on impression formation, prestige suggestion,…

1996

Audrey Munson

American model (born 1891)

Audrey Marie Munson was an American artist's model and film actress, considered to be "America's first supermodel." In her time, she was variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the "Exposition…

1996

Toru Takemitsu

Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (born 1930)

Tōru Takemitsu was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for his subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining…

1996

Sarah Kane

English playwright (born 1971)

Sarah Kane was an English playwright. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic…

1999

Gene Siskel

American journalist and critic (born 1946)

Eugene Kal Siskel was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune who co-hosted a movie review television series alongside colleague Roger Ebert.

1999

Rosemary DeCamp

American actress (born 1910)

Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress.

2001

Donella Meadows

American environmentalist, author, and academic (born 1941)

Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.

2001

Mushaf Ali Mir

Pakistani air marshal (born 1947)

Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir was an influential statesman and a four-star rank air officer who served as the ninth Chief of Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), appointed on 20 November 2000 until his…

2003

Maurice Blanchot

French philosopher and author (born 1907)

Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post-structuralist…

2003

Orville Freeman

American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota (born 1918)

Orville Lothrop Freeman was an American politician who served as the 29th governor of Minnesota from 1955 to 1961, and as the U.S. secretary of agriculture from 1961 to 1969 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon…

2003

Sandra Dee

American actress (born 1942)

Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a child model, working first in commercials and then film in her teenage years. Best known for her portrayal of ingénues, Dee earned a Golden Globe Award as…

2005

Josef Holeček

Czech canoeist (born 1921)

Josef Holeček was a Czech sprint canoeist who competed for Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won gold medals in the C-1 1000 m event in both 1948 and 1952.

2005

John Raitt

American actor and singer (born 1917)

John Emmet Raitt was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theatre. His most notable role was Billy Bigelow in the original Broadway cast of Carousel.

2005

Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author (born 1937)

Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the…

2005

Curt Gowdy

American sportscaster (born 1919)

Curtis Edward Gowdy was an American sportscaster. He called Boston Red Sox games on radio and TV for 15 years, and then covered many nationally televised sporting events, primarily for NBC Sports and ABC Sports in the…

2006

Lucjan Wolanowski

Polish journalist and author (born 1920)

Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski, pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; (L.W.); lu; Lu; (lw); WOL., was a Polish journalist, writer and traveller.

2006

Emily Perry

English actress and dancer (born 1907)

Patricia Emily Perry was an English actress and dancer. Born in Torquay, Devon, she was best known for her recurring role as Madge Allsop, Dame Edna Everage's long-suffering, silent "bridesmaid" from Palmerston North,…

2008

Larry H. Miller

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1944)

Larry H. Miller was an American businessman. He owned the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Utah Jazz and the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team. Miller and his companies, now known as the Larry H.…

2009

Alexander Haig

American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State (born 1924)

Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was an American politician who served as the 59th United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and previously as White House chief of staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and…

2010

Knut Torbjørn Eggen

Norwegian footballer and manager (born 1960)

Knut Torbjørn Eggen was a Norwegian football coach and player, famous for his time in Rosenborg as a player, and Moss and Fredrikstad as a coach. He was the son of Norway's most successful football coach, Nils Arne…

2012

Kenji Eno

Japanese game designer and composer (born 1970)

Kenji Eno was a Japanese musician and video game designer. He gained a reputation as a maverick during the mid-1990s for creating unorthodox games like Real Sound and is perhaps best remembered today for his rebellious…

2013

David S. McKay

American biochemist and geologist (born 1936)

David Stewart McKay was the chief scientist for Astrobiology at the Johnson Space Center. During the Apollo program, McKay provided geology training to the first men to walk on the Moon in the late 1960s. McKay was the…

2013

Antonio Roma

Argentinian footballer (born 1932)

Antonio Roma was an Argentine footballer who played as a goalkeeper, notably for Boca Juniors.

2013

Rafael Addiego Bruno

Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (born 1923)

Rafael Addiego Bruno was a Uruguayan jurist and political figure.

2014

Walter D. Ehlers

American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1921)

Walter David Ehlers was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the US armed forces' highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.

2014

Garrick Utley

American journalist (born 1939)

Clifton Garrick Utley was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war…

2014

Govind Pansare

Indian author and activist (born 1933)

Govind Pansare was a left-wing Indian politician of the Communist Party Of India (CPI). He authored the Marathi language biography of 17th century ruler Shivaji, Shivaji Kon Hota. He and his wife were attacked on 16…

2015

Henry Segerstrom

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1923)

Henry Thomas Segerstrom was an American philanthropist, entrepreneur, cultural leader, and patron of the arts. Managing Partner of C.J. Segerstrom & Sons, he was the founding chairman of the Orange County Performing…

2015

John C. Willke

American physician, author, and activist (born 1925)

John Charles Willke was an American author, physician, and anti-abortion activist. He served as president of National Right to Life and, along with his wife Barbara, authored a number of books on abortion and human…

2015

Fernando Cardenal

Nicaraguan priest and politician (born 1934)

Fernando Cardenal Martínez was a Nicaraguan Jesuit and liberation theologian.

2016

Vitaly Churkin

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations (born 1952)

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin was a Russian diplomat. He served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017. Previously he was Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign…

2017

Mildred Dresselhaus

American physicist (born 1930)

Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, known as the "Queen of Carbon Science", was an American physicist, materials scientist, and nanotechnologist. She was an Institute Professor and professor of both physics and electrical…

2017

Steve Hewlett

British journalist (born 1958)

Stephen Edward Hewlett was a British print, radio and TV journalist, and visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford.

2017

Joaquim Pina Moura

Portuguese Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP (born 1952)

Joaquim Pina Moura was a Portuguese politician and economist. He was a member of the Socialist Party.

2020

Nurul Haque Miah

Bangladeshi professor and writer (born 1944)

Muhammad Nurul Haque Miah was a professor at Dhaka College and the head of its Department of Chemistry. He is renowned for writing high school and degree textbooks.

2021

Mauro Bellugi

Italian footballer (born 1950)

Mauro Bellugi was an Italian footballer who played as a defender.

2021

Andreas Brehme

German footballer (born 1960)

Andreas "Andi" Brehme was a German professional football player and coach. At international level, he is best known for scoring the winning goal for Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup final against Argentina from an…

2024

Yoko Yamamoto

Japanese actress (born 1942)

Yoko Yamamoto was a Japanese actress represented by Kabushikigaisha Sanyō Kikaku. Yamamoto was born on March 17, 1942, and died on February 20, 2024, at the age of 81.

2024

David Boren

American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma (born 1941)

David Lyle Boren was an American lawyer and politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and three terms in the United States Senate from 1979…

2025

Jerry Butler

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1939)

Jerry Butler Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and politician. He was the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group the Impressions, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

2025

Peter Jason

American actor (born 1944)

Peter Edward Ostling, better known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He often played military personnel, law enforcement agents, and authority figures in both films and television series.

2025

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Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Wikipedia →

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Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services. Wikipedia →

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