Famous Birthdays In February - 20

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)  

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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)  

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0702  Death of K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635) on this day in history.  

1054  On this day in history yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies  

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

1171  On February - 20 death of conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)  

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

1258  On this day in history death of al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad  

1408  Death of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342) on this day in history.  

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