On This Day — January 20
4441 noted people were born and 2109 died on January 20 in our archive, including Emilian Czyrniański, Manfred von Ardenne and Vladimir Bekhterev.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 20
Emilian Czyrniański
1824 – 1888
Manfred von Ardenne
1907 – 1997
Vladimir Bekhterev
1857 – 1927
Wilhelm Ramsay
1865 – 1928
Abdullah Ensour
b. 1939
Ajit Kumar Doval
b. 1945
Aleksandr Bryksin
b. 1967
André-Marie Ampère
1775 – 1836
Axel Vennersten
1863 – 1948
Barbara Hay
b. 1953
Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro
b. 1944
Chandra Wickramasinghe
b. 1939
Charles Kenneth Leith
1875 – 1956
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
1945 – 2013
Chuichi Date
b. 1939
Dharma Vira
1906 – 2000
Diana Trujillo
b. 1981
Eduard Albert
1841 – 1900
Edward Feigenbaum
b. 1936
Edward Routh
1831 – 1907
Edwin Hewitt
1920 – 1999
Elena Pisareva
b. 1967
Fabián García
1871 – 1948
Fareed Zakaria
b. 1964
Fazle Hussain
b. 1943
Franca Sozzani
1950 – 2016
Göran Persson
b. 1949
Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley
1773 – 1847
Ida Blom
1931 – 2016
Jean Lhermitte
1877 – 1959
Jearl Walker
b. 1945
Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy
1794 – 1878
Kellyanne Conway
b. 1967
Lluis Nicolau d'Olwer
1888 – 1961
Nicholas Saunderson
1682 – 1739
Pablo Hernández de Cos
b. 1971
Robert Christie
1787 – 1856
Serhiy Ryzhuk
b. 1950
Shelley Berkley
b. 1951
Stepan Beril
b. 1951
Suleyman Geremeev
b. 1971
Szolem Mandelbrojt
1899 – 1983
Theodor Inama von Sternegg
1843 – 1908
Tony F. Chan
b. 1952
Vincent Lafforgue
b. 1974
Vladimir Kirillin
1913 – 1999
Vladimir Nikolaevich Semyonov
1874 – 1960
Yoriko Kawaguchi
b. 1941
Agnes Kant
b. 1967
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
b. 1984
Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
1821 – 1886
Alexandru Munteanu
b. 1964
Alu Alkhanov
b. 1957
Alv Jakob Fostervoll
1932 – 2015
Alvina Gyulumyan
b. 1956
Amando de Miguel
1937 – 2023
Anatoli Golovnya
1900 – 1982
Andrey von Budberg
1817 – 1881
Anton Handlirsch
1865 – 1935
Arthur Borton
1814 – 1893
Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
1873 – 1952
Ash Power
b. 1957
Aurélia Bouchez
b. 1960
Bernard Tyson
1959 – 2019
Bill Maher
b. 1956
Bjørn Tore Godal
b. 1945
Bruno Heck
1917 – 1989
Buzz Aldrin
b. 1930
Carla Van Zon
1952 – 2026
Carol Schwartz
b. 1944
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
1734 – 1802
David Baszucki
b. 1963
David Harpp
1937 – 2026
David Lee
b. 1931
David Lynch
1946 – 2025
Davit Lokyan
b. 1958
Dean Phillips
b. 1969
Edward Hirsch
b. 1950
Emiel van Lennep
1915 – 1996
Ernesto Cardenal
1925 – 2020
Eugen Gomringer
1925 – 2025
Eunjoon Kim
b. 1964
Farhat Horchani
b. 1953
Fernando Martins de Mascarenhas
1548 – 1628
Francis Spring
1849 – 1933
Frank B. Weeks
1854 – 1935
Frank Lawrence Owsley
1890 – 1955
Franz Büchner
1895 – 1991
François Wesemael
1954 – 2011
Frederick Osborne
1909 – 1996
Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont
1865 – 1946
Furnifold McLendel Simmons
1854 – 1940
Félix Sanz Roldán
b. 1945
Gennady Kulik
1935 – 2023
Georges Henein
1914 – 1973
Gezina van der Molen
1892 – 1978
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
1915 – 2006
Graham Seton Hutchison
1890 – 1946
Gábor Szegő
1895 – 1985
Günther Maleuda
1931 – 2012
Harold Maxwell-Lefroy
1877 – 1925
Hauwa Ibrahim
b. 1968
Heberto Padilla
1932 – 2000
Henry Fuchs
b. 1948
Henryk Kroll
b. 1949
Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski
1647 – 1706
Huang Ming-hui
b. 1959
Ivan Eismont
b. 1977
Jaime Zipper
1926 – 2011
James Flack Norris
1871 – 1940
Janusz Przymanowski
1922 – 1998
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
1716 – 1795
Jeffrey Epstein
1953 – 2019
Jerry L. Ross
b. 1948
Jiang Menglin
1886 – 1964
Johann Christoph Döderlein
1746 – 1792
John Chadwick
b. 1941
John Kerstens
b. 1965
John L. Allen Jr.
1965 – 2026
John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly
1802 – 1874
Jose Sebastian Laboa
1923 – 2002
Joshua Wright
b. 1977
José Balmes
1927 – 2016
Julia Shaw
b. 1987
Julius Wiesner
1838 – 1916
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
1894 – 1982
Jürgen Elsässer
b. 1957
Kaj Birket-Smith
1893 – 1977
Kateryna Vashchuk
b. 1947
Kathryn Thomas
b. 1979
Kati Agócs
b. 1975
Klaus Matthes
1931 – 1998
Kostas Lapavitsas
b. 1961
Krishnam Raju
1940 – 2022
Lasse Rempe
b. 1978
Laurent Grandguillaume
b. 1978
Lauritz Lauritzen
1910 – 1980
Leila Rasima
b. 1987
Leyla Adamyan
b. 1949
Lionel Beffre
b. 1964
Liz Calder
b. 1938
Loïc Bouvard
1929 – 2017
Magomed Tolboyev
b. 1951
Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy
1875 – 1919
Malik Azmani
b. 1976
Manuel da Silva Martins
1927 – 2017
Marcin Romanowski
b. 1976
Margaret Archer
1943 – 2023
Marian Walentynowicz
1896 – 1967
Marisol Peña Torres
b. 1960
Masaki Ōgushi
b. 1966
Max Laserson
1887 – 1951
Mintimer Şäymief
b. 1937
Monique Ryan
b. 1967
Moritz Baier-Lentz
b. 1986
Nam Kyung-pil
b. 1965
Nassimah Dindar
b. 1960
Natan Sharansky
b. 1948
Natasha Walter
b. 1967
Nikki Haley
b. 1972
Norovyn Altankhuyag
b. 1958
Pam Patenaude
b. 1961
Patricia Neal
1926 – 2010
Paul Cambon
1843 – 1924
Peter Tschentscher
b. 1966
Plamen Panayotov
b. 1958
Päivi Setälä
1943 – 2014
Queen Mathilde of Belgium
b. 1973
Raimundo Fernández Villaverde
1848 – 1905
Ramón Xirau
1924 – 2017
Rasim Alguliyev
b. 1958
Ratan Thiyam
1948 – 2025
Renata Pallottini
1931 – 2021
Richard Samuel
b. 1952
Rimas Tuminas
1952 – 2024
Rober Haddeciyan
1926 – 2025
Robert Olen Butler
b. 1945
Roman Starovoyt
b. 1972
Rovshan Rzayev
b. 1962
Roy Welensky
1907 – 1991
Rudolf Bacher
1862 – 1945
Sam Gibbons
1920 – 2012
Sebastian Münster
1488 – 1552
Sebastião da Silveira Cintra
1882 – 1942
Sergey Zhvachkin
b. 1957
Sibnarayan Ray
1921 – 2008
Sir George Wheler
1651 – 1724
Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet
1610 – 1675
Sándor Sík
1889 – 1963
Ulrike Draesner
b. 1962
Ursov Igor
1927 – 2002
Valentín Fuster Carulla
b. 1943
Valeriya Lutkovska
b. 1972
Vitaly Vorotnikov
1926 – 2012
Vladimir Khotinenko
b. 1952
Volodymyr Hroisman
b. 1978
Will Wright
b. 1960
William Embry Wrather
1883 – 1963
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1884 – 1937
Yvonne Loriod
1924 – 2010
… and 4,241 more
Died on January 20
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 – 1907
John Colson
1680 – 1760
Adam Oehlenschläger
1779 – 1850
Adusumilli Srikrishna
1955 – 2013
Alan Musgrave
1940 – 2026
Bertha Phillpotts
1877 – 1932
Claudio Abbado
1933 – 2014
David Bramwell
1942 – 2022
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory
1899 – 1981
Domenico Comparetti
1835 – 1927
Edward Yourdon
1944 – 2016
Ferdinand Mannlicher
1848 – 1904
Frances Lander Spain
1903 – 1999
Francis E. H. Elliot
1851 – 1940
George Gustav Heye
1874 – 1957
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld
1919 – 2016
Giovanni Plana
1781 – 1864
Henry Moseley
1801 – 1872
Jaroslav Kubera
1947 – 2020
John Ruskin
1819 – 1900
Louis Émile Javal
1839 – 1907
Marie Bashir
1930 – 2026
Miriam Rothschild
1908 – 2005
Sidney Barton
1876 – 1946
Thomas Barclay
1853 – 1941
Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug
1822 – 1909
Vicki Lynne Hanson
1951 – 2026
Viktor Pashutin
1845 – 1901
Yves Le Grand
1908 – 1986
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
1890 – 1988
Adam Afzelius
1750 – 1837
Albert von Maybach
1822 – 1904
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
1850 – 1921
Anatol Rapoport
1911 – 2007
Anne Carroll Moore
1871 – 1961
Antonio Francesco Gori
1691 – 1757
Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia
1843 – 1927
Arthur Hobhouse
1886 – 1965
Audrey Hepburn
1929 – 1993
Camille Sée
1847 – 1919
Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick
1911 – 1984
Charles Yorke
1722 – 1770
Christian Friedrich von Glück
1755 – 1831
Christoph Martin Wieland
1733 – 1813
Edmonde Charles-Roux
1920 – 2016
Edmund Blunden
1896 – 1974
Ernst Herzfeld
1879 – 1948
Fernando Martins de Mascarenhas
1548 – 1628
Franz Lachner
1803 – 1890
George Kruck Cherrie
1865 – 1948
George Magoffin Humphrey
1890 – 1970
George Smathers
1913 – 2007
George V
1865 – 1936
Gilbert Highet
1906 – 1978
Gillis William Long
1923 – 1985
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
1654 – 1720
Grace Evelyn Pickford
1902 – 1986
Greger Falk
1910 – 1990
Guillaume-René Meignan
1817 – 1896
Harold Widom
1932 – 2021
Harry Rosenbusch
1836 – 1914
Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner
1900 – 1960
Hermann Eduard von Holst
1841 – 1904
Hitoshi Saito
1961 – 2015
Hugo Moser
1924 – 2007
Ian Shirley
1940 – 2019
Ignacy Chrzanowski
1866 – 1940
Ivan Karabyts
1945 – 2002
J. Hartwell Harrison
1909 – 1984
J. Richard Steadman
1937 – 2023
James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose
1878 – 1954
James McKeen Cattell
1860 – 1944
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
1883 – 1971
Jean Antoine Injalbert
1845 – 1933
Jean-François Pierre Peyron
1744 – 1814
Johannes Gezelius
1615 – 1690
John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
1896 – 1989
John Hay
1816 – 1892
John Ordronaux
1830 – 1908
John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick
1770 – 1859
John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl
1840 – 1917
Joseph Henry Beale
1861 – 1943
Joseph Turner Hutchinson
1850 – 1924
Jumber Lominadze
1930 – 2014
Józef Cyrankiewicz
1911 – 1989
Kadri Prishtina
1878 – 1925
Kalākaua
1836 – 1891
Karl Wilhelm Göttling
1793 – 1869
Kurt Kretschmann
1914 – 2007
Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont
1797 – 1892
Louis Seigner
1903 – 1991
Marek Plura
1970 – 2023
Margaret Lloyd George
1864 – 1941
Margareta Gröwel
1899 – 1979
Mary Watson Whitney
1847 – 1921
Mehdi Bazargan
1907 – 1995
Moshe Gil
1921 – 2014
Mustapha Filali
1921 – 2019
Naděžda Kavalírová
1923 – 2017
Naruhiko Higashikuni
1887 – 1990
Nathan Read
1759 – 1849
Nicholas Higham
1961 – 2024
Oleh Petrov
1960 – 2023
Olivier Guichard
1920 – 2004
Oswald Redlich
1858 – 1944
Peter Gierasch
1940 – 2023
Peter Leopold von Schrenck
1826 – 1894
Rifaat al-Assad
1937 – 2026
Robert Storrie Guthrie
1857 – 1921
Rubens Paiva
1929 – 1971
Shareef Kunjahi
1914 – 2007
Sir William Burrell, 2nd Baronet
1732 – 1796
Stanisław Staszic
1755 – 1826
Tom Birmingham
1949 – 2023
Utsumi Tadakatsu
1843 – 1905
Vahit Melih Halefoğlu
1919 – 2017
Vitalii Khyzhniak
1934 – 2025
Věnceslava Hrdličková
1924 – 2016
Wendell Castle
1932 – 2018
Wilopo
1909 – 1981
Winford Lee Lewis
1878 – 1943
Zénobe Gramme
1826 – 1901
Édouard Chavannes
1865 – 1918
Édouard Marie Heckel
1843 – 1916
Živojin Mišić
1855 – 1921
Abbes Jirari
1937 – 2024
Ada Beveridge
1875 – 1964
Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford
1820 – 1887
Al Hirschfeld
1903 – 2003
Alain Bugat
1948 – 2019
Alan Freed
1921 – 1965
Alec George Horwood
1914 – 1944
Alejandro Ferrant y Fischermans
1843 – 1917
Alessandro Valignano
1539 – 1606
Alexander Chuhaldin
1892 – 1951
Alexander Kiselyov
1838 – 1911
Alexander Rankine
1881 – 1956
Alice Blinn
1889 – 1982
Allen Dorfman
1923 – 1983
Amanullah Asaduzzaman
1942 – 1969
Amílcar Cabral
1924 – 1973
Andrew G. Vajna
1944 – 2019
Andrew Volstead
1859 – 1947
Arthur Farwell
1872 – 1952
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
1840 – 1915
Arthur MacDonald
1919 – 1995
Ashley Clarke
1903 – 1994
Ataúlfo Argenta
1913 – 1958
Austin Amissah
1930 – 2001
Barbara Stanwyck
1907 – 1990
Baron Max Wladimir von Beck
1854 – 1943
Beauchamp Duff
1855 – 1918
Bedia Muvahhit
1896 – 1994
Benjamin F. Martin
1828 – 1895
Bill Sheat
1930 – 2021
Bindeshwari Dubey
1921 – 1993
Bob Minton
1946 – 2010
Bolesław Kontrym
1898 – 1953
Carlos Albán
1844 – 1902
Chang Yung-fa
1927 – 2016
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
1675 – 1721
Charles Delanglade
1870 – 1952
Charles IV of Spain
1748 – 1819
Charles Kirk Clarke
1857 – 1924
Charles Kramer
1879 – 1943
Charles Liteky
1931 – 2017
Charles Montagu Doughty
1843 – 1926
Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester
1656 – 1722
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
1697 – 1745
Choe Thae-bok
1930 – 2024
Christian VIII of Denmark
1786 – 1848
Cleaver Bunton
1902 – 1999
Conrad Cichorius
1863 – 1932
Cornelius F. Kiernan
1917 – 1996
Curt Flood
1938 – 1997
Dante Lavelli
1923 – 2009
David A. Boody
1837 – 1930
David G. Hartwell
1941 – 2016
David H. McConnell
1858 – 1937
Dietrich von Bausznern
1928 – 1980
Dirk van Langen
1898 – 1983
Don Samuelson
1913 – 2000
Douglas Dawson
1854 – 1933
Dudley Mays Hughes
1848 – 1927
Dyce Duckworth
1840 – 1928
Edward J. Brundage
1869 – 1934
Edward Tylor Miller
1895 – 1968
Edwin F. Ganz
1859 – 1946
Egon Schübeler
1927 – 2022
Einar Moxnes
1921 – 2006
Emil Mangelsdorff
1925 – 2022
Emil Viljanen
1874 – 1954
Emperor Rudolf II
1552 – 1612
Enrica Calabresi
1891 – 1944
Erik Glemme
1905 – 1959
Etta James
1938 – 2012
Ferdinand Kronawetter
1838 – 1913
Ferenc Chorin
1842 – 1925
Finn Qvale
1873 – 1955
Firmin van den Bosch
1864 – 1949
… and 1,909 more