Anniversaries 20 January
Birth
![Susanna Wesley photo]()
Mother of Methodism
1669–1742
![Richard Henry Lee photo]()
American statesman
1732–1794
![Charles Alexandre de Calonne photo]()
French statesman
1734–1802
![André-Marie Ampère photo]()
French physicist and mathematician
1775–1836
![John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly photo]()
English Whig politician and judge
1802–1874
![Nathaniel Parker Willis photo]()
American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
1806–1867
![Piet Joubert photo]()
Boer politician and general
1834–1900
![F. Matthias Alexander photo]()
Australian actor
1869–1955
![Bertram Ramsay photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1883–1945
![Beatrice Kaufman photo]()
American writer and playwright
1895–1945
![George Burns photo]()
American comedian, actor, and writer
1896–1996
![Clarice Cliff photo]()
English ceramic artist
1899–1972
![Kevin Barry photo]()
18 year old medical student and Irish republican, executed …
1902–1920
![Aristotle Onassis photo]()
Greek shipping magnate
1906–1975
![W. Cleon Skousen photo]()
ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-b…
1913–2006
![Federico Fellini photo]()
Italian filmmaker
1920–1993
![Koichi Tohei photo]()
Japanese aikidoka
1920–2011
![Abdullah Ensour photo]()
prime minister of Jordan
1939
![Samm-Art Williams photo]()
American playwright and screenwriter
1946
![David Lynch photo]()
American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, mus…
1946
![Göran Persson photo]()
Swedish politician, Swedish Social Democratic Party, thirty…
1949
![Nikola Eterović photo]()
Croatian Roman Catholic archbishop
1951
![Filipe Neri Ferrão photo]()
seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies
1953
![Jeffrey Epstein photo]()
American financier, science and education philanthropist an…
1953–2019
![Bill Maher photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1956
![Cristina Lizardo photo]()
Dominican Republic academic
1959
![Will Wright photo]()
American video game designer and entrepreneur
1960
![Fareed Zakaria photo]()
Indian-American journalist and author
1964
![Kellyanne Conway photo]()
American strategist and pollster
1967
![Questlove photo]()
American rapper, multi-instrumentalist and journalist from …
1971
![Nikki Haley photo]()
US ambassador to the United Nations
1972
![Yasser Elshantaf photo]()
Palestinian Entrepreneur
1983
Death
![David Garrick photo]()
English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
1717–1779
![Christoph Martin Wieland photo]()
German writer, poet and publisher
1733–1813
![Harriet Auber photo]()
British poet, hymnwriter
1773–1862
![Nathaniel Parker Willis photo]()
American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
1806–1867
![Aubrey Thomas de Vere photo]()
Irish poet and critic
1814–1902
![John Ruskin photo]()
English writer and art critic
1819–1900
![Dmitri Mendeleev photo]()
Russian chemist and inventor
1834–1907
![Agnes Mary Clerke photo]()
British astronomer
1842–1907
![George V of the United Kingdom photo]()
King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and E…
1865–1936
![Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan photo]()
Indian independence activist
1890–1988
![Edmund Blunden photo]()
English poet, author and literary critic
1896–1974
![Gilbert Highet photo]()
British academic
1906–1978
![Barbara Stanwyck photo]()
American actress
1907–1990
![Anatol Rapoport photo]()
Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
1911–2007
![Craig Claiborne photo]()
Journalist and book author
1920–2000
![Audrey Hepburn photo]()
British actress
1929–1993
![Reynolds Price photo]()
American writer
1933–2011
![Curt Flood photo]()
baseball player
1938–1997
![Edgar Froese photo]()
German musician and founder of Tangerine Dream
1944–2015
![Ed Yourdon photo]()
American software engineer and pioneer in the software engi…
1944–2016
