Famous Personalities Born In February - 20

1494  On this day in history birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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

1523  Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers) was born on February - 20.   

1632  On this day in history birth of thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)   

1633  On February - 20 birth of jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher   

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1734  On February - 20 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  Charles Broche, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1757  John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834) was born on this day in history.   

1763  Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer was born on February - 20.   

1770  On this day in history birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer   

1779  Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington was born on this day in history.   

1784  On February - 20 birth of adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher   

1791  On February - 20 birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)   

1794  William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) was born on February - 20.   

1796  Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician was born on February - 20.   

1802  On this day in history birth of charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer   

1803  On this day in history birth of friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer   

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  Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 was born on this day in history.   

1816  On February - 20 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  Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 was born on this day in history.   

1835  On this day in history birth of allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist   

1838  On this day in history birth of james Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864   

1839  Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908) was born on this day in history.   

1844  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics) was born on February - 20.   

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0702  On this day in history death of k'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)   

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 February - 20.   

1194  On February - 20 tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies   

1258  On February - 20 death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad   

1408  On February - 20 death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies