Anniversaries 20 January

Birth

Susanna Wesley1

Mother of Methodism 1669–1742

Richard Henry Lee4

American statesman 1732–1794

Charles Alexandre de Calonne1

French statesman 1734–1802

André-Marie Ampère3

French physicist and mathematician 1775–1836

John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly14

English Whig politician and judge 1802–1874

Nathaniel Parker Willis7

American magazine writer, editor, and publisher 1806–1867

Piet Joubert7

Boer politician and general 1834–1900

Richard Le Gallienne5

British writer 1866–1947

F. Matthias Alexander2

Australian actor 1869–1955

Bertram Ramsay1

Royal Navy admiral 1883–1945

Yevgeny Zamyatin34

Russian author 1884–1937

Beatrice Kaufman1

American writer and playwright 1895–1945

George Burns22

American comedian, actor, and writer 1896–1996

Clarice Cliff1

English ceramic artist 1899–1972

Kevin Barry6

18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed … 1902–1920

Aristotle Onassis9

Greek shipping magnate 1906–1975

W. Cleon Skousen68

ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-b… 1913–2006

Federico Fellini36

Italian filmmaker 1920–1993

Koichi Tohei43

Japanese aikidoka 1920–2011

Herbert Fingarette2

Philosopher 1921–2018

Qurratulain Hyder1

Urdu author 1927–2007

Buzz Aldrin3

American astronaut 1930

Tom Baker42

English actor 1934

Abdullah Ensour6

prime minister of Jordan 1939

Susan Vreeland1

US author 1946–2017

Samm-Art Williams1

American playwright and screenwriter 1946

David Lynch68

American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, mus… 1946

Natan Sharansky7

Israeli politician 1948

Göran Persson9

Swedish politician, Swedish Social Democratic Party, thirty… 1949

Edward Hirsch11

1950

Nikola Eterović1

Croatian Roman Catholic archbishop 1951

Filipe Neri Ferrão2

seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies 1953

Jeffrey Epstein6

American financier, science and education philanthropist an… 1953–2019

Bill Maher141

American stand-up comedian 1956

Cristina Lizardo2

Dominican Republic academic 1959

R. A. Salvatore13

American writer 1959

Tami Hoag3

American writer 1959

Will Wright3

American video game designer and entrepreneur 1960

Karin Housley2

American politician 1964

Fareed Zakaria4

Indian-American journalist and author 1964

Heather Small2

British vocalist 1965

Rainn Wilson2

actor 1966

Stacey Dash2

American actress 1967

Kellyanne Conway8

American strategist and pollster 1967

Marie Fabien Raharilamboniaina1

1968

Questlove3

American rapper, multi-instrumentalist and journalist from … 1971

Nikki Haley4

US ambassador to the United Nations 1972

Queen Mathilde of Belgium2

Belgian royal 1973

Diana Peterfreund12

American writer 1979

Lucinda Creighton1

Irish politician 1980

Yasser Elshantaf4

Palestinian Entrepreneur 1983

Death

David Garrick11

English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer 1717–1779

Christoph Martin Wieland5

German writer, poet and publisher 1733–1813

Harriet Auber2

British poet, hymnwriter 1773–1862

Bettina von Arnim1

German writer 1785–1859

Nathaniel Parker Willis7

American magazine writer, editor, and publisher 1806–1867

Jean-François Millet12

French painter 1814–1875

Aubrey Thomas de Vere4

Irish poet and critic 1814–1902

John Ruskin133

English writer and art critic 1819–1900

Dmitri Mendeleev7

Russian chemist and inventor 1834–1907

Agnes Mary Clerke4

British astronomer 1842–1907

George V of the United Kingdom19

King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and E… 1865–1936

Robinson Jeffers59

American poet 1887–1962

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan9

Indian independence activist 1890–1988

Edmund Blunden5

English poet, author and literary critic 1896–1974

Mohammad Mujeeb2

1902–1985

Gilbert Highet7

British academic 1906–1978

Barbara Stanwyck4

American actress 1907–1990

Anatol Rapoport45

Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911–2007

Craig Claiborne2

Journalist and book author 1920–2000

Audrey Hepburn21

British actress 1929–1993

Reynolds Price1

American writer 1933–2011

Curt Flood4

baseball player 1938–1997

Edgar Froese5

German musician and founder of Tangerine Dream 1944–2015

Ed Yourdon7

American software engineer and pioneer in the software engi… 1944–2016