Famous people died in 20 December

Erich Ludendorff was a well-known German General

Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin was an English biophysicist and a physiologist who received the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963

Leopold Sedar Senghor became the first President of the Republic of Senegal after his nation gained independence from the colonial regime

Adrian Mitchell was an English literary figure associated with the ‘anti-bomb’ movement

Britanny Murphy was a well-known American actress and singer

Debbie Reynolds was a renowned American actress, singer and humanitarian

John Steinbeck was a celebrated American writer famous for his novel, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmology expert and author