Famous Birthdays In February - 20

1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.  

1507  Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II) was born on February - 20.  

1523  On this day in history birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)  

1632  On February - 20 birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)  

1633  On this day in history birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher  

1656  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised  

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on this day in history.  

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on February - 20.  

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.  

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1752  On February - 20 birth of charles Broche, composer  

1753  On this day in history birth of louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)  

1757  On this day in history birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)  

1763  On this day in history birth of adalbert Gyrowetz, composer  

1770  Ferdinando Carulli, composer was born on this day in history.  

1779  Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington was born on February - 20.  

1784  On February - 20 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 this day in history 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  On February - 20 birth of charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer  

1803  Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer was born on this day in history.  

1805  On this day in history birth of angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer  

1808  On February - 20 birth of daumier, Marseilles France, artist  

1809  On this day in history birth of albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies  

1809  On this day in history birth of henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889  

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 this day in history birth of mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895  

1827  On this day in history birth of edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912  

1835  Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist was born on February - 20.  

1838  James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born on February - 20.  

1839  On February - 20 birth of benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)  

1844  On this day in history birth of ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics)  

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0702  Death of K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635) on February - 20.  

1054  On February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies  

1154  On February - 20 death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett  

1171  Death of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138) on this day in history.  

1194  Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies on February - 20.  

1258  Death of Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad on this day in history.  

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on February - 20.  

1431  On February - 20 martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies