Famous Birthdays In February - 20
Friday, 06 December 2019
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 February - 20 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 this day in history birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 On February - 20 birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer
1745 On February - 20 birth of henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1751 On February - 20 birth of johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
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 this day in history.
1770 On February - 20 birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer
1779 On this day in history birth of augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
1784 On February - 20 birth of adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1791 Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen) was born on this day in history.
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 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer was born on this day in history.
1803 On February - 20 birth of friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer
1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer was born on this day in history.
1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist was born on this day in history.
1809 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on February - 20.
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 this day in history.
1819 On this day in history birth of alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 was born on February - 20.
1827 On February - 20 birth of edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 On February - 20 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 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)