Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In February - 20

1844  On this day in history birth of joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)   

1848  On February - 20 birth of edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)   

1850  Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931) was born on this day in history.   

1852  On February - 20 birth of nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)   

1854  On this day in history birth of louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)   

1861  On this day in history birth of nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist   

1866  Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936) was born on February - 20.   

1867  On this day in history birth of louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)   

1870  On February - 20 birth of pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)   

1874  On February - 20 birth of mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star   

1876  Fyodor Akimenko, composer was born on this day in history.   

1880  Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923) was born on this day in history.   

1881  On this day in history birth of pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)   

1883  On this day in history birth of shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)   

1886  Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) was born on February - 20.   

1887  On February - 20 birth of david McKinley Williams, composer   

1887  Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel) was born on February - 20.   

1888  Georges Bernanos, France, novelist (Diary of a Country Priest) was born on February - 20.   

1888  On this day in history birth of marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher   

1889  On this day in history birth of levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer   

1893  Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) was born on this day in history.   

1893  Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993) was born on February - 20.   

1895  Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping) was born on February - 20.   

1896  Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist was born on February - 20.   

1897  On February - 20 birth of ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)   

1898  Enzo Ferrari, Italy, sportscar manufacturer (Ferrari) was born on February - 20.   

1899  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI NY, founder (Pan Am Airways) was born on this day in history.   

1899  On February - 20 birth of leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)   

1900  Antonio Veretti, composer was born on this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history birth of graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer   

1900  Jean Negulesco was born on this day in history.   

1901  On this day in history birth of ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)   

1901  On February - 20 birth of cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)   

1901  On this day in history birth of henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist   

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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 February - 20 yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies   

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

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

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

1431  Martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.