Anniversaries 20 November
Birth
![Tipu Sultan photo]()
Ruler of the Sultanate of Mysore
1750–1799
![Thomas Chatterton photo]()
English poet, forger
1752–1770
![Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky photo]()
Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin
1792–1856
![Wilfrid Laurier photo]()
7th prime minister of Canada
1841–1919
![Josiah Royce photo]()
United States philosopher
1855–1916
![Selma Lagerlöf photo]()
Swedish female writer
1858–1940
![Kenesaw Mountain Landis photo]()
American judge and baseball commissioner
1866–1944
![Arthur Guiterman photo]()
United States writer
1871–1943
![Norman Thomas photo]()
American Presbyterian minister and socialist
1884–1968
![Edwin Hubble photo]()
American astronomer
1889–1953
![Hovhannes Bagramyan photo]()
Soviet military commander
1897–1982
![Alistair Cooke photo]()
British journalist and broadcaster
1908–2004
![Pauli Murray photo]()
American writer, activist and lawyer
1910–1985
![Hu Yaobang photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1915–1989
![Leonard Jimmie Savage photo]()
American mathematician
1917–1971
![Lucilla Andrews photo]()
British romance novelist
1919–2006
![Satish Chandra photo]()
an Indian historian
1922–2017
![Nadine Gordimer photo]()
South african Nobel-winning writer
1923–2014
![Benoît Mandelbrot photo]()
Polish-born, French and American mathematician
1924–2010
![Robert F. Kennedy photo]()
American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
1925–1968
![Don DeLillo photo]()
American novelist, playwright and essayist
1936
![Joe Biden photo]()
47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 20…
1942
![John Hung Shan-chuan photo]()
Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taipei
1943
![Patriarch Kirill of Moscow photo]()
primate of the Russian Orthodox Church
1946
![John R. Bolton photo]()
American lawyer and diplomat
1948
![Rodger Bumpass photo]()
American character actor and voice actor
1951
![Ray Ozzie photo]()
American businessman
1955
![Allen Chastanet photo]()
Saint Lucian businessman and politician
1960
![Ming-Na Wen photo]()
Macau-born American actress
1963
![Doug Ford photo]()
26th Premier of Ontario
1964
![Smita Nair Jain photo]()
Indian Author, screenwriter and playback singer
1969
![Dmitri Bulykin photo]()
Russian association football player
1979
![Jia Tolentino photo]()
American writer and editor
1988
![Suraj Sani photo]()
Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist
1996
Death
![John Harington (writer) photo]()
English courtier and author
1560–1612
![Abraham Davenport photo]()
American politician
1715–1789
![Cesare Beccaria photo]()
jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy
1738–1794
![Farkas Bolyai photo]()
Hungarian mathematician
1775–1856
![Henry Francis Lyte photo]()
Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet
1793–1847
![Herrick Johnson photo]()
American clergyman
1832–1913
![Augustine Birrell photo]()
British politician
1850–1933
![Edwin Grant Conklin photo]()
American biologist and zoologist
1863–1952
![Benedetto Croce photo]()
Italian writer, philosopher, politician
1866–1952
![Willem de Sitter photo]()
Dutch cosmologist
1872–1934
![Francisco Franco photo]()
Spanish general and dictator
1892–1975
![Buenaventura Durruti photo]()
Spanish anarchist
1896–1936
![José Antonio Primo de Rivera photo]()
Spanish noble and politician
1903–1936
![Alan Barth photo]()
American journalist
1906–1979
![Ian Smith photo]()
Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1919–2007
![Kalle Päätalo photo]()
Finnish novelist
1919–2000
![Allan Sherman photo]()
American comedian
1924–1973
![Aaron Klug photo]()
British chemist and biophysicist
1926–2018
![Chalmers Johnson photo]()
American political scientist
1931–2010
![Sylvia Browne photo]()
American author
1936–2013
![Shelagh Delaney photo]()
English playwright
1938–2011
