Famous Birthdays In February - 20
Monday, 18 March 2024
1494 Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.
1507 On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
1523 Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on this day in history.
1632 On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)
1633 Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on this day in history.
1656 Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.
1734 On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer
1745 Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) was born on February - 20.
1751 Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.
1752 On this day in history birth of charles Broche, composer
1753 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) was born on this day in history.
1757 On February - 20 birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1763 On February - 20 birth of adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1770 On February - 20 birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer
1779 Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington was born on February - 20.
1784 On this day in history birth of adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1791 On this day in history birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
1794 On February - 20 birth of william Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1796 Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician was born on February - 20.
1802 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer was born on February - 20.
1803 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer was born on this day in history.
1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer was born on this day in history.
1808 On February - 20 birth of daumier, Marseilles France, artist
1809 On February - 20 birth of albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 was born on this day in history.
1816 On this day in history birth of josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
1819 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882) was born on February - 20.
1820 On February - 20 birth of mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 was born on February - 20.
1835 On this day in history birth of allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist
1838 James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born on this day in history.
1839 On February - 20 birth of benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1844 On February - 20 birth of ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)