On This Day — November 20

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

1792 – 1856

Akbar Ali Khan

1899 – 1994

Alan Bible

1909 – 1988

Arieh Warshel

b. 1940

Charles Joseph Mathieu Lambrechts

1753 – 1825

David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home

1943 – 2022

Dmitrii Sintsov

1867 – 1946

Ediz Hun

b. 1940

Edvard Westermarck

1862 – 1939

Erich Leo Lehmann

1917 – 2009

Franz Miklosich

1813 – 1891

Gennady Onishchenko

b. 1950

Glenn H. Stevens

b. 1953

Jadwiga Rotnicka

b. 1943

James Bertram Collip

1892 – 1965

Jean-François de La Harpe

1739 – 1803

Joe Biden

b. 1942

John Bolton

b. 1948

Jon David Erickson

b. 1969

Karl von Frisch

1886 – 1982

Marie Phisalix

1861 – 1946

Naoki Inose

b. 1946

Per Wästberg

b. 1933

Ramón Castillo

1873 – 1944

Ray Ozzie

b. 1955

Roger Watson

b. 1955

Rohit Jivanlal Parikh

b. 1936

Rosalind Gibson

b. 1940

Rémi Mathis

b. 1982

Serhiy Katsuba

b. 1978

Sir James Wylie

1768 – 1854

Søren Pind

b. 1969

Terri Attwood

b. 1959

Thalia Gouma-Peterson

1933 – 2001

Theodore McKeldin

1900 – 1974

Timothy Gowers

b. 1963

Tri Rismaharini

b. 1961

Vincent Fean

b. 1952

Vyacheslav Timchenko

b. 1955

Yang Sung-chul

b. 1939

Ajai Singh

1934 – 2023

Alan Aderem

b. 1953

Alejandro Navarro

b. 1958

Aleksey Batalov

1928 – 2017

Alistair Cooke

1908 – 2004

Amy J. St. Eve

b. 1965

Anatole Klyosov

b. 1946

Anatoly Glushenkov

1942 – 2018

Anders Josef Europaeus

1797 – 1870

Andy Clark

b. 1957

Antony Jameson

1943 – 2026

Archibald Pellow Marshall

1899 – 1966

Arthur Goldberger

1930 – 2009

Auguste Tessier

1853 – 1938

Barbara Hendricks

b. 1948

Benoit Mandelbrot

1924 – 2010

Beryl Wayne Sprinkel

1923 – 2009

Bruno Bracalente

b. 1949

Carl Berner

1841 – 1918

Charles Bettelheim

1913 – 2006

Charles E. Osgood

1916 – 1991

Charlie Cook

b. 1953

Chingiz Farzaliyev

b. 1943

Christopher de Hamel

b. 1950

Colville Young

b. 1932

Daniel Ernst Jablonski

1660 – 1741

Deborah Eisenberg

b. 1945

E. Ethelbert Miller

b. 1950

Edmund of Abingdon

1174 – 1240

Edwin Hubble

1889 – 1953

Emilio Pucci

1914 – 1992

Feliks Młynarski

1884 – 1972

Ferjan Ormeling Jr.

1942 – 2025

Florian David Fitz

b. 1974

Franz von John

1815 – 1876

Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst

b. 1959

François Schommer

1850 – 1935

Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg

1875 – 1944

Genova Thaon di Revel

1817 – 1910

George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury

1804 – 1878

Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury

1552 – 1616

Gilles Cantagrel

b. 1937

Goodluck Jonathan

b. 1957

Greg Ballard

b. 1954

Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor

1888 – 1950

H. E. Stokke

1900 – 1977

Haika Grossman

1919 – 1996

Hannu Takkula

b. 1963

Henk Vredeling

1924 – 2007

Holger Hammerich

1845 – 1915

Hong Ihk-pyo

b. 1967

Hu Huanyong

1901 – 1998

Itziar Aretxaga

b. 1965

Ivan Bagramyan

1897 – 1982

Jacques Alexandre Bixio

1808 – 1865

Jane Cooke Wright

1919 – 2013

Jason Mohammad

b. 1975

Jean Boucher

1870 – 1939

Jean-François de Bourgoing

1748 – 1811

Jim McGovern

b. 1959

Johannes Buchmann

b. 1953

John B. McNair

1889 – 1968

John Howard Lindauer II

b. 1937

John Knight

1943 – 1981

John Russell Young

1840 – 1899

Josep Fontana

1931 – 2018

Joseph Cowles Mehaffey

1889 – 1963

Josiah Royce

1855 – 1916

Judith Magre

b. 1926

Judy Woodruff

b. 1946

K. K. Shailaja

b. 1956

Kamo Areyan

b. 1957

Karl Friedrich Eichhorn

1781 – 1854

Kenneth Frampton

b. 1930

Kjell Storvik

b. 1930

Launcelot Henderson

b. 1951

Leland Yee

b. 1948

Li Yuanchao

b. 1950

Louis Delaunay-Belleville

1843 – 1912

Lumír Ondřej Hanuš

b. 1947

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan

b. 1970

Marie Lindqvist

b. 1970

Marileen Dogterom

b. 1967

Martha Vicinus

b. 1939

Matt Blunt

b. 1970

Matthew Cheung

b. 1950

Matthew Mbu

1929 – 2012

Maurice F. Weisner

1917 – 2006

Mikhail Dragomirov

1830 – 1905

Mikhail Ulyanov

1927 – 2007

Monroe W. Hatch Jr.

b. 1933

Nadine Gordimer

1923 – 2014

Ng Ching-fai

b. 1939

Oreste Calleja

b. 1946

Orlando Figes

b. 1959

Otto von Guericke

1602 – 1686

Otto von Habsburg

1912 – 2011

Pablo Bartol

b. 1965

Pauli Murray

1910 – 1985

Peng Liyuan

b. 1962

Percy Cox

1864 – 1937

Peter Gavin Hall

1951 – 2016

Peter Maurer

b. 1956

Philippe Apeloig

b. 1962

Pierre Charles Le Monnier

1715 – 1799

Pierre-Gustave Roze

1812 – 1883

Raffi Hovannisian

b. 1959

Raino Westerholm

1919 – 2017

Raymond Lefèvre

1929 – 2008

Raymond Tshibanda

b. 1950

Rhys Isaac

1937 – 2010

Richard A. Meserve

b. 1944

Risieri Frondizi

1910 – 1983

Robert Byrd

1917 – 2010

Robert C. Robbins

b. 1957

Robert F. Kennedy

1925 – 1968

Ronald Hanson

b. 1976

Ronald S. Weinstein

1938 – 2021

Rudi Vervoort

b. 1958

Selma Lagerlöf

1858 – 1940

Semyon Bagdasarov

b. 1954

Sergei Polunin

b. 1989

Shinagawa Yajirō

1843 – 1900

Shlomo Sternberg

1936 – 2024

Suze Rotolo

1943 – 2011

Taavi Veskimägi

b. 1974

Ted Goertzel

b. 1942

Toivo Särkkä

1890 – 1975

Uladzimier Syamashka

b. 1949

Valery Vostrotin

1952 – 2024

Vera Scherbina

b. 1958

Victor Heintz

1876 – 1968

Walter Norris Congreve

1862 – 1927

Wendy Doniger

b. 1940

Wilfrid Laurier

1841 – 1919

William Coblentz

1873 – 1962

Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer

b. 1979

Xiaolu Guo

b. 1973

Yehuda Glick

b. 1965

Yevfimiy Vasilyevich Putyatin

1803 – 1883

Yigal Meir

b. 1957

Yves Bonnet

b. 1935

Zhou Qifeng

b. 1947

Éric de Cromières

1953 – 2020

Abby Erceg

b. 1989

Abdullah Al-Alayli

1914 – 1996

Abhi Bhattacharya

1921 – 1993

Abraham B. Venable

1758 – 1811

Achille Manara

1827 – 1906

Adamu Ciroma

1934 – 2018

Adrienne A. Jones

b. 1954

Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo

b. 1968

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi

1916 – 2006

Albert Baird Hastings

1895 – 1987

Albert Chong

b. 1958

Albert Hyzler

1916 – 1993

Albert W. Hawkes

1878 – 1971

Alex Epstein

b. 1971

Alexander Paterson

1884 – 1947

Alexander Teterdinko

b. 1983

Aaron Klug

1926 – 2018

Arne Beurling

1905 – 1986

Edward Bagnall Poulton

1856 – 1943

Garrett Birkhoff

1911 – 1996

Nikolay Dollezhal

1899 – 2000

Trofim Lysenko

1898 – 1976

Willem de Sitter

1872 – 1934

Adelaide Sinclair

1900 – 1982

Amintore Fanfani

1908 – 1999

Ancel Keys

1904 – 2004

Antonio Ambrosetti

1944 – 2020

Edwin Hall

1855 – 1938

Francis William Aston

1877 – 1945

Galina Starovoytova

1946 – 1998

Gustav von Ewers

1781 – 1830

Henry Chilton

1877 – 1954

James H. Billington

1929 – 2018

John Redcliffe-Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud

1906 – 1982

Klaus Praefcke

1933 – 2013

Mary L. Good

1931 – 2019

Mustafa Topchubashov

1895 – 1981

Rudolf Havenstein

1857 – 1923

Víctor Hipólito Martínez

1924 – 2017

Wakatsuki Reijirō

1866 – 1949

Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli

1908 – 1954

Aleksey Ignatyev

1877 – 1954

Alessandro Ghigi

1875 – 1970

Alexander Moyzes

1906 – 1984

Alexander Ostrowski

1893 – 1986

Aman Tuleyev

1944 – 2023

Anti Liiv

1946 – 2025

Baghdasar Arzoumanian

1916 – 2001

Benedetto Croce

1866 – 1952

Bertha Lamme

1869 – 1943

Božidar Jakac

1899 – 1989

Cassie Mackin

1939 – 1982

Celso Furtado

1920 – 2004

Charles Schuchert

1858 – 1942

Charlie Hall

1930 – 2014

Christopher Hatton

1540 – 1591

Claes Annerstedt

1839 – 1927

David Dacko

1930 – 2003

David O'Brien Martin

1944 – 2012

Edwin Grant Conklin

1863 – 1952

Edwin Russell Durno

1899 – 1976

Eimuntas Nekrošius

1952 – 2018

Erwin Stresemann

1889 – 1972

Farkas Bolyai

1775 – 1856

Ferry Sonneville

1931 – 2003

Francis Moore

1558 – 1621

Francisco Franco

1892 – 1975

Franciszek Strynkiewicz

1893 – 1996

Frederick Smith

1790 – 1874

George Yeh

1904 – 1981

Gervase Helwys

1561 – 1615

Gianni Bisiach

1927 – 2022

Grigory Sivkov

1921 – 2009

Han Pao-teh

1934 – 2014

Helen Boyle

1869 – 1957

Henri de Genouillac

1881 – 1940

Henry Metzger

1932 – 2018

Hong Xuezhi

1913 – 2006

Irinej

1930 – 2020

István Konkoly

1930 – 2017

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

1811 – 1863

Jan Machulski

1928 – 2008

Janine Haines

1945 – 2004

Jean-Jacques Willmar

1792 – 1866

Jodi Rell

1946 – 2024

John A. Samford

1905 – 1968

John Archer Lejeune

1867 – 1942

José Antonio Primo de Rivera

1903 – 1936

Knud Ejler Løgstrup

1905 – 1981

Konstantinos Stephanopoulos

1926 – 2016

Lars Johan Hierta

1801 – 1872

Lee Pressman

1906 – 1969

Likhit Dhiravegin

1941 – 2016

Louis-Albert Necker

1786 – 1861

Ludwik Birkenmajer

1855 – 1929

Luigi Palma di Cesnola

1832 – 1904

Léon Cogniet

1794 – 1880

Malcolm Chisholm

1945 – 2015

Martin Wilhelm Mandt

1799 – 1858

Martina Lubyová

1967 – 2023

Max Feldbauer

1869 – 1948

Michel Fourquet

1914 – 1992

Mikito Takayasu

1860 – 1938

Muhammad Said al-Attar

1927 – 2005

Petru Pascari

1929 – 2025

Philippe Kieffer

1899 – 1962

Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi

1945 – 2017

Robert Emmet Callan

1864 – 1936

Roy Bailey

1935 – 2018

Shen Zemin

1900 – 1933

Sir Arthur Charles

1839 – 1921

Stephanie B. Alexander

1941 – 2023

Svetlana Pletnyova

1926 – 2008

Thomas Fowler

1832 – 1904

Tsuneari Fukuda

1912 – 1994

Tyra Lundgren

1897 – 1979

Violet Alva

1908 – 1969

William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield

1883 – 1969

Yamada Yoshio

1875 – 1958

Ülo Lumiste

1929 – 2017

Abraham Davenport

1715 – 1789

Agnes Neuhaus

1854 – 1944

Alexandra of Denmark

1844 – 1925

Alfons Shanyavsky

1837 – 1905

Alfonso López Pumarejo

1886 – 1959

Allan Sherman

1924 – 1973

Amory Kinney

1791 – 1859

Andrew de Durisdeer

1401 – 1473

Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria

1818 – 1874

August Ahlqvist

1826 – 1889

Augustine B. Kelley

1883 – 1957

Augustine Birrell

1850 – 1933

Basil Davey

1897 – 1959

Bishop Perkins

1787 – 1866

Bob Short

1917 – 1982

Carlo Vittadini

1800 – 1865

Casimir Funk

1884 – 1967

Cecil Weld-Forester, 5th Baron Forester

1842 – 1917

Celso Pitta

1946 – 2009

Cesare Beccaria

1738 – 1794

Chad Posthumus

1991 – 2024

Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

1844 – 1894

Charles Cox

1863 – 1944

Charles Hale Hoyt

1859 – 1900

Charles Yorke

1790 – 1880

Christian Goldbach

1690 – 1764

Clement Walker Andrews

1858 – 1930

Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey

1872 – 1956

Cyril Belshaw

1921 – 2018

Daniel Clasen

1622 – 1678

Daniel Sysoev

1974 – 2009

David C. Copley

1952 – 2012

David Messas

1934 – 2011

David Zvi Hoffmann

1843 – 1921

Deb Price

1958 – 2020

Dieter Hildebrandt

1927 – 2013

Dinesh Chandra Sen

1866 – 1939

Don Grimes

1937 – 2021

Dora Hitz

1856 – 1924

Edith Cummings

1899 – 1984

Edward Gowen Budd Sr.

1870 – 1946

Elisabeth Paul Edouard Rossel

1765 – 1829

Elisabeth Söderström

1927 – 2009

Ellen Swepson Jackson

1935 – 2005

Emile Kopp

1817 – 1875

Erkki Pullinen

1871 – 1934

Ernesto Garzón Valdés

1927 – 2023

Ernő Mihályfi

1898 – 1972

Esto Bates Broughton

1890 – 1956

Eugenia Umińska

1910 – 1980

Eugenie Eboue-Tell

1891 – 1972

F. Tulga Ocak

1946 – 2019

Fabio Brulart de Sillery

1655 – 1714

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

1911 – 1984

Ferdinand J. Chesarek

1914 – 1993

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

1770 – 1843

Flaviano Melo

1949 – 2024

Francis Bowditch Wilby

1883 – 1965

Francis Mowatt

1837 – 1919

Francis V, Duke of Modena

1819 – 1875

Frank Park

1864 – 1925

Gaston Redon

1853 – 1921

Gene Guarilia

1937 – 2016

Georg Kolbe

1877 – 1947

George Hohman

1932 – 2006

Gerard Swope

1872 – 1957

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi

1931 – 2009

Giorgio de Chirico

1888 – 1978

Gulian Verplanck

1751 – 1799

Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

1928 – 2022

Gustav Hartlaub

1814 – 1900

H. C. Robbins Landon

1926 – 2009

Harold Leventhal

1915 – 1979

Harry Lawton

1927 – 2005

Helga Hahnemann

1937 – 1991

Henry Draper

1837 – 1882

Henry F. French

1813 – 1885

Henry W. King

1815 – 1857

Herbert Kegel

1920 – 1990

Hiltgunt Zassenhaus

1916 – 2004

Honoré Muraire

1750 – 1837

Hugh Dow

1886 – 1978

Hugh Smith Thompson

1836 – 1904

Humphrey Humphreys

1648 – 1712

Ian Douglas Smith

1919 – 2007

Irlo Bronson, Jr.

1936 – 2017

István Almási

1944 – 2017

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

1882 – 1935

Jabez G. Sutherland

1825 – 1902

Jackson Morton

1794 – 1874

Jacob Thorkelson

1876 – 1945

James Hewitt, 4th Viscount Lifford

1811 – 1887

James Johnson

1811 – 1891

James Stewart Martin

1826 – 1907

Jan Morris

1926 – 2020

Janusz Wójcik

1953 – 2017