Anniversaries 20 February
Birth
![William Prescott photo]()
Continental army soldier
1726–1795
![Angelina Grimké photo]()
American abolitionist and feminist
1805–1879
![William Allen Butler photo]()
American lawyer
1825–1902
![Joshua Slocum photo]()
American navigator and maritime writer
1844–1909
![Ludwig Boltzmann photo]()
Austrian physicist
1844–1906
![Edward Jenks photo]()
British legal scholar
1861–1939
![Takuboku Ishikawa photo]()
Japanese writer
1886–1912
![Vincent Massey photo]()
Governor General of Canada
1887–1967
![Henri de Lubac photo]()
Jesuit theologian and cardinal
1896–1991
![Ansel Adams photo]()
American photographer and environmentalist
1902–1984
![Ben Klassen photo]()
American engineer, author and politician
1918–1993
![Gloria Vanderbilt photo]()
American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and wri…
1924–2019
![Richard Matheson photo]()
American fiction writer
1926–2013
![Ken Olsen photo]()
American engineer and businessman
1926–2011
![Sidney Poitier photo]()
American-born Bahamian actor, film director, author, and di…
1927
![Leandro Díaz photo]()
Colombian musician
1928–2013
![Ellen Gilchrist photo]()
Fiction writer, poet
1935
![Phil Esposito photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1942
![Mitch McConnell photo]()
US Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader
1942
![James C. Nelson photo]()
Montana Supreme Court Justice
1944–2006
![George Smoot photo]()
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
1945
![John C. Maxwell photo]()
American author, speaker and pastor
1947
![Ivana Trump photo]()
Czech model and entrepreneur
1949
![Gordon Brown photo]()
British Labour Party politician
1951
![Mikhail Khodaryonok photo]()
Colonel of the Russian Armed Forces
1954
![Ian Brown photo]()
English musician and singer of The Stone Roses
1963
![Charles Barkley photo]()
American basketball player
1963
![Kurt Cobain photo]()
American musician and artist
1967–1994
![Jason Blum photo]()
American film producer
1969
![K-os photo]()
Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
1972
![Trevor Noah photo]()
South African comedian
1984
![Rihanna photo]()
Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress
1988
![Hidilyn Diaz photo]()
Filipino Olympic weightlifter, Philippines' first Olympic G…
1991
Death
![Elizabeth Rowe photo]()
poet and writer
1674–1737
![Frederick Douglass photo]()
American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1818–1895
![Francesco Saverio Nitti photo]()
Italian economist and political figure
1868–1953
![Helen Diner photo]()
Austrian writer and historian
1874–1948
![Percy Grainger photo]()
Australian composer, arranger and pianist
1882–1961
![Alice Roosevelt Longworth photo]()
American writer and prominent socialite
1884–1980
![Chester W. Nimitz photo]()
United States Navy fleet admiral
1885–1966
![Walter Winchell photo]()
American gossip journalist
1897–1972
![Derek Jackson photo]()
British physicist
1906–1982
![Maurice Blanchot photo]()
French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
1907–2003
![Solomon Asch photo]()
American psychologist
1907–1996
![Ferruccio Lamborghini photo]()
Italian industrialist
1916–1993
![Alexander Haig photo]()
former U.S. States Secretary of State and U.S. Army general
1924–2010
![Hunter S. Thompson photo]()
American journalist and author
1937–2005
![Munir Butt photo]()
British diplomat
1940–2015
![Donella Meadows photo]()
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
1941–2001
![Marcella Althaus-Reid photo]()
Argentine theologian
1952–2009
![Sarah Kane photo]()
playwright from England
1971–1999
