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Events on Thursday 20 August 1914 1
1835 – 1914Pope Pius X (1835-1914)Died 20 August 1914, aged 79Born Giuseppe Sarto, Pius X reigned as Pope from 1903 and was known for promoting frequent Communion and opposing theological modernism. He died shortly after the outbreak of the war he had tried to avert. He was later canonized in 1954.