Famous Personalities Born In February - 20
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
1494 Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) was born on February - 20.
1507 On this day in history birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
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 On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 On this day in history birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 Johann Peter Salomon, composer was born on this day in history.
1745 Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) was born on February - 20.
1751 On this day in history birth of johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1752 On this day in history birth of charles Broche, composer
1753 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815) was born on February - 20.
1757 On February - 20 birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer was born on February - 20.
1770 On February - 20 birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer
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 this day in history birth of william Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1796 On February - 20 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 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer was born on February - 20.
1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer was born on February - 20.
1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist was born on February - 20.
1809 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on February - 20.
1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 was born on this day in history.
1816 Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer was born on this day in history.
1819 On this day in history birth of alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
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 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 On this day in history 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)