Anniversaries 20 April

Birth

Ja'far al-Sadiq30

Muslim religious person 702–765

Rose of Lima1

Peruvian colonist and Dominican saint 1586–1617

William Bartram2

American naturalist 1739–1823

Nathaniel Emmons5

American clergy 1745–1840

Napoleon III2

French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonap… 1808–1873

James David Forbes2

Scottish physicist and glaciologist 1809–1868

Джош Биллингс (Генри Уиллер Шоу)2

1818–1885

Dinah Craik61

English novelist and poet 1826–1887

Odilon Redon2

French painter 1840–1916

Robert Wilson Lynd6

Irish writer 1879–1949

Adolf Hitler265

Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi … 1889–1945

Maurice Duplessis2

former Premier of Quebec 1890–1959

Joan Miró26

Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893–1983

Harold Lloyd6

American film actor and producer 1893–1971

Stanley Marcus1

American businessman 1905–2002

Alvin M. Weinberg3

American nuclear physicist 1915–2006

Israel Epstein1

Chinese politician 1915–2005

John Paul Stevens10

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United… 1920–2019

Frances Ames3

South African physician 1920–2002

Robert Byrne4

American chess player and writer 1928–2013

Antony Jay1

British screenwriter 1930–2016

Pat Roberts2

American politician 1936

George Takei3

American actor and author 1937

Peter S. Beagle10

American writer 1939

Gro Harlem Brundtland6

Norwegian politician 1939

Grace Coddington1

former model and the creative director of American Vogue ma… 1941

Edie Sedgwick53

Socialite, actress, model 1943–1971

Mary Hoffman4

British writer 1945

Andrew Tobias19

American journalist 1947

Jessica Lange2

American actress 1949

Steve Erickson1

novelist, essayist, film critic 1950

Louise Jameson1

English actress 1951

Sebastian Faulks13

British journalist and novelist 1953

Myles Munroe24

Bahamian Evangelical Christian minister 1954–2014

John Grogan11

American journalist 1958

Richard Kemp1

British Army officer 1959

Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves1

Roman Catholic clergyman 1959

Hsiao Chia-chi1

Taiwanese politician 1961

Gianfranco Gallone1

Italian Catholic Archbishop 1963

Rachel Whiteread5

British sculptor 1963

David Chalmers9

Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist 1966

Paula White1

American television evangelist 1966

Heidi Julavits1

Novelist, editor 1968

Felix Baumgartner1

Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper 1969

Julie Powell2

American blogger 1973

Atifete Jahjaga1

politician from Kosovo 1975

Killer Mike2

Rapper and occasional actor from Atlanta, Georgia 1975

David Smith (rower)2

British rower 1978

Arin Paul16

Indian film director 1980

Cameron Duncan5

New Zealand filmmaker 1986–2003

Death

James Morris III2

American writer 1752–1820

William Mountford33

English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

William Burges20

English architect 1827–1881

Rose Scott1

Australian suffragist 1847–1925

Bram Stoker84

Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for… 1847–1912

Giuseppe Peano7

Italian mathematician 1858–1932

Paul Fort1

French Poet 1872–1960

Mitsumasa Yonai6

Prime Minister of Japan 1880–1948

Archibald Macleish12

American poet and Librarian of Congress 1892–1982

Milton Mayer12

American journalist 1908–1986

Richard Proenneke3

American hermit 1916–2003

Paul Celan13

Romanian poet and translator 1920–1970

Benny Hill1

English comedian and actor 1924–1992

John Freely8

American physicist 1926–2017

Lawrence Hogan1

Maryland politician 1928–2017

Alistair MacLeod2

Canadian author and professor of English 1936–2014

Howard Phillips (politician)2

American politician 1941–2013

Joe Armstrong36

British computer scientist 1950–2019

Victoria Wood3

British comedian 1953–2016

Rachel Scott6

American murder victim 1981–1999