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Famous Birthdays In February - 20
Sunday, 19 May 2013
1494 Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1507 On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) Share it »
1523 On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) Share it »
1632 On this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) Share it »
1633 On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher Share it »
1656 Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history. Share it »
1734 On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer Share it »
1745 On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer Share it »
1745 Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1751 Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1752 On this day in history birth of charles Broche, composer Share it »
1753 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1757 On this day in history birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834) Share it »
1763 On this day in history birth of adalbert Gyrowetz, composer Share it »
1770 On this day in history birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer Share it »
1779 On this day in history birth of augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington Share it »
1784 On this day in history birth of adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher Share it »
1791 On this day in history birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) Share it »
1794 On this day in history birth of william Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) Share it »
1796 On this day in history birth of eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician Share it »
1802 On this day in history birth of charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer Share it »
1803 On this day in history birth of friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer Share it »
1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer was born on this day in history. Share it »
1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist was born on this day in history. Share it »
1809 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on this day in history. Share it »
1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 was born on this day in history. Share it »
1816 On this day in history birth of josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer Share it »
1819 On this day in history birth of alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882) Share it »
1820 On this day in history birth of mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 Share it »
1827 On this day in history birth of edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 Share it »
1835 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist was born on this day in history. Share it »
1838 On this day in history birth of james Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 Share it »
1839 Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908) was born on this day in history. Share it »
1844 On this day in history birth of ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics) Share it »
