Famous Birthdays In February - 20

1494  On February - 20 birth of johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)   

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 this day in history.   

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  On February - 20 birth of johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised   

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  Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) was born on this day in history.   

1752  Charles Broche, composer was born on February - 20.   

1753  On this day in history birth of louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)   

1757  On this day in history birth of john 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)   

1763  On this day in history birth of adalbert Gyrowetz, composer   

1770  On February - 20 birth of ferdinando Carulli, composer   

1779  On February - 20 birth of augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington   

1784  Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher was born on February - 20.   

1791  On this day in history birth of carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)   

1794  William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869) was born on this day in history.   

1796  Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician was born on February - 20.   

1802  Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer was born on this day in history.   

1803  On this day in history birth of friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer   

1805  On this day in history birth of angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer   

1808  On February - 20 birth of daumier, Marseilles France, artist   

1809  Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

1827  Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1912 was born on February - 20.   

1835  On February - 20 birth of allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist   

1838  James Barbour Terrill, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 was born on February - 20.   

1839  On February - 20 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)   

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0702  On this day in history death of k'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)   

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

1154  Death of Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett on this day in history.   

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

1194  On this day in history 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 February - 20.   

1431  On this day in history martinus V, [Oddo Colonna], Italian Pope, dies