Famous people died in 20 May

Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor

Robin Gibb was a British singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group Bee Gees

Stephen Jay Gould was a famous paleontologist and one of the most read science writers of his times

Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and for the United States in the American Revolutionary War

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard was a renowned German physicist

Clara Wieck Schumann was a distinguished German musician and composer of the Romantic era

Christopher Columbus was an explorer, navigator and colonizer who initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World

John Clare was an English poet, often referred to as a ‘Peasant poet’, considered to be one of the most important 19th century poets

Gary Coleman was an American actor and comedian who is known for brilliant performance in the American sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes'

Read on to know about the life, childhood, profile and contributions of the famous British economist and Nobel Laureate John Richard Hicks.