Famous Birthdays In February - 20

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

1507  On February - 20 birth of gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)  

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

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

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

1656  Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised was born on February - 20.  

1734  On February - 20 birth of franz Ignaz Beck, composer  

1745  On this day in history birth of johann Peter Salomon, composer  

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)  

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

1753  On February - 20 birth of louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)  

1757  On February - 20 birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)  

1763  On February - 20 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 this day in history.  

1784  Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher was born on this day in history.  

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 February - 20 birth of charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer  

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

1805  Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer was born on this day in history.  

1808  Daumier, Marseilles France, artist was born on February - 20.  

1809  On February - 20 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 February - 20.  

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  Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 was born on this day in history.  

1827  Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 was born on this day in history.  

1835  Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist was born on this day in history.  

1838  On February - 20 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  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austria, physicist (statistical mechanics) was born on February - 20.  

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0702  On February - 20 death of k'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)  

1054  Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies on this day in history.  

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

1171  On this day in history death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)  

1194  On this day in history tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies  

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

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

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on February - 20.