Famous Personalities Born In February - 20

1494  Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on this day in history.   

1507  On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)   

1523  On February - 20 birth of jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)   

1632  Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories) was born on February - 20.   

1633  Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher was born on February - 20.   

1656  On this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

1734  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer was born on February - 20.   

1745  Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.   

1745  Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) was born on this day in history.   

1751  Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) was born on February - 20.   

1752  Charles Broche, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history birth of adalbert Gyrowetz, composer   

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

1779  On this day in history birth of augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington   

1784  On this day in history birth of adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher   

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

1794  On February - 20 birth of william Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)   

1796  On this day in history birth of eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician   

1802  On February - 20 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  Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on this day in history.   

1809  On February - 20 birth of henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889   

1816  Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer was born on February - 20.   

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  On February - 20 birth of edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912   

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

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 this day in history.   

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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 this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

1154  On this day in history death of saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett   

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

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 this day in history death of henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)   

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