Anniversaries 20 November

Birth

Tipu Sultan12

Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore 1750–1799

Thomas Chatterton14

English poet, forger 1752–1770

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky1

Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin 1792–1856

Wilfrid Laurier2

7th prime minister of Canada 1841–1919

Josiah Royce2

United States philosopher 1855–1916

Selma Lagerlöf3

Swedish female writer 1858–1940

Kenesaw Mountain Landis1

American judge and baseball commissioner 1866–1944

Arthur Guiterman6

United States writer 1871–1943

Norman Thomas15

American Presbyterian minister and socialist 1884–1968

Edwin Hubble7

American astronomer 1889–1953

Hovhannes Bagramyan7

Soviet military commander 1897–1982

Alistair Cooke13

British journalist and broadcaster 1908–2004

Pauli Murray3

American writer, activist and lawyer 1910–1985

Hu Yaobang2

former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China 1915–1989

Leonard Jimmie Savage3

American mathematician 1917–1971

Lucilla Andrews1

British romance novelist 1919–2006

Jim Garrison8

American judge 1921–1992

Satish Chandra2

an Indian historian 1922–2017

Nadine Gordimer57

South african Nobel-winning writer 1923–2014

Benoît Mandelbrot56

Polish-born, French and American mathematician 1924–2010

Robert F. Kennedy72

American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy 1925–1968

Don DeLillo101

American novelist, playwright and essayist 1936

Wendy Doniger25

American Indologist 1940

Joe Biden187

47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 20… 1942

John Hung Shan-chuan1

Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei 1943

Samuel E. Wright2

American actor 1946

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow3

primate of the Russian Orthodox Church 1946

John R. Bolton16

American lawyer and diplomat 1948

Donita K. Paul15

American writer 1950

Rodger Bumpass3

American character actor and voice actor 1951

Ray Ozzie1

American businessman 1955

Peter Cain8

figure skater 1958

Orlando Figes1

British historian 1959

Allen Chastanet1

Saint Lucian businessman and politician 1960

Ming-Na Wen4

Macau-born American actress 1963

Doug Ford5

26th Premier of Ontario 1964

Smita Nair Jain7

Indian Author, screenwriter and playback singer 1969

Davey Havok18

American singer 1975

Dmitri Bulykin7

Russian association football player 1979

Oliver Sykes2

British musician 1986

Sukirti Kandpal20

Indian actress 1987

Jia Tolentino3

American writer and editor 1988

Ricardo P. Lloyd1

British actor 1993

Suraj Sani18

Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist 1996

Death

John Harington (writer)4

English courtier and author 1560–1612

Abraham Davenport4

American politician 1715–1789

Cesare Beccaria2

jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy 1738–1794

Farkas Bolyai2

Hungarian mathematician 1775–1856

Henry Francis Lyte5

Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet 1793–1847

Bartholomew Dowling2

Irish poet 1823–1863

Herrick Johnson14

American clergyman 1832–1913

Augustine Birrell11

British politician 1850–1933

Edwin Grant Conklin4

American biologist and zoologist 1863–1952

Benedetto Croce3

Italian writer, philosopher, politician 1866–1952

Gertrude Breslau Hunt6

1869–1952

Willem de Sitter44

Dutch cosmologist 1872–1934

Giorgio de Chirico23

Italian artist 1888–1978

Francisco Franco14

Spanish general and dictator 1892–1975

Buenaventura Durruti15

Spanish anarchist 1896–1936

José Antonio Primo de Rivera2

Spanish noble and politician 1903–1936

Alan Barth3

American journalist 1906–1979

Muriel Dowding, Baroness Dowding3

British noble 1908–1993

Faiz Ahmad Faiz3

Punjabi poet 1911–1984

Ian Smith24

Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919–2007

Kalle Päätalo1

Finnish novelist 1919–2000

June Vincent8

actress 1920–2008

Leonardo Sciascia1

Italian writer 1921–1989

Allan Sherman2

American comedian 1924–1973

Aaron Klug2

British chemist and biophysicist 1926–2018

William Trevor3

Irish writer 1928–2016

Chalmers Johnson1

American political scientist 1931–2010

Sylvia Browne6

American author 1936–2013

Shelagh Delaney2

English playwright 1938–2011