Anniversaries 20 April
Birth
![Ja'far al-Sadiq photo]()
Muslim religious person
702–765
![Rose of Lima photo]()
Peruvian colonist and Dominican saint
1586–1617
![William Bartram photo]()
American naturalist
1739–1823
![Nathaniel Emmons photo]()
American clergy
1745–1840
![Napoleon III photo]()
French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonap…
1808–1873
![James David Forbes photo]()
Scottish physicist and glaciologist
1809–1868
![Dinah Craik photo]()
English novelist and poet
1826–1887
![Adolf Hitler photo]()
Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi …
1889–1945
![Maurice Duplessis photo]()
former Premier of Quebec
1890–1959
![Joan Miró photo]()
Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
1893–1983
![Harold Lloyd photo]()
American film actor and producer
1893–1971
![Stanley Marcus photo]()
American businessman
1905–2002
![Alvin M. Weinberg photo]()
American nuclear physicist
1915–2006
![Israel Epstein photo]()
Chinese politician
1915–2005
![John Paul Stevens photo]()
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
1920–2019
![Frances Ames photo]()
South African physician
1920–2002
![Robert Byrne photo]()
American chess player and writer
1928–2013
![Antony Jay photo]()
British screenwriter
1930–2016
![George Takei photo]()
American actor and author
1937
![Gro Harlem Brundtland photo]()
Norwegian politician
1939
![Grace Coddington photo]()
former model and the creative director of American Vogue ma…
1941
![Edie Sedgwick photo]()
Socialite, actress, model
1943–1971
![Steve Erickson photo]()
novelist, essayist, film critic
1950
![Sebastian Faulks photo]()
British journalist and novelist
1953
![Myles Munroe photo]()
Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister
1954–2014
![Richard Kemp photo]()
British Army officer
1959
![Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves photo]()
Roman Catholic clergyman
1959
![Hsiao Chia-chi photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1961
![Gianfranco Gallone photo]()
Italian Catholic Archbishop
1963
![David Chalmers photo]()
Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist
1966
![Paula White photo]()
American television evangelist
1966
![Felix Baumgartner photo]()
Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper
1969
![Atifete Jahjaga photo]()
politician from Kosovo
1975
![Killer Mike photo]()
Rapper and occasional actor from Atlanta, Georgia
1975
![Arin Paul photo]()
Indian film director
1980
![Cameron Duncan photo]()
New Zealand filmmaker
1986–2003
Death
![James Morris III photo]()
American writer
1752–1820
![William Mountford photo]()
English Unitarian preacher and author
1816–1885
![William Burges photo]()
English architect
1827–1881
![Rose Scott photo]()
Australian suffragist
1847–1925
![Bram Stoker photo]()
Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for…
1847–1912
![Giuseppe Peano photo]()
Italian mathematician
1858–1932
![Mitsumasa Yonai photo]()
Prime Minister of Japan
1880–1948
![Archibald Macleish photo]()
American poet and Librarian of Congress
1892–1982
![Milton Mayer photo]()
American journalist
1908–1986
![Richard Proenneke photo]()
American hermit
1916–2003
![Paul Celan photo]()
Romanian poet and translator
1920–1970
![Benny Hill photo]()
English comedian and actor
1924–1992
![John Freely photo]()
American physicist
1926–2017
![Lawrence Hogan photo]()
Maryland politician
1928–2017
![Alistair MacLeod photo]()
Canadian author and professor of English
1936–2014
![Howard Phillips (politician) photo]()
American politician
1941–2013
![Joe Armstrong photo]()
British computer scientist
1950–2019
![Victoria Wood photo]()
British comedian
1953–2016
![Rachel Scott photo]()
American murder victim
1981–1999
